Stories from the Maine coast: skippers, ships and storms

Skippers.

The Lane family: a tradition of seafarers

The coastal trader: Henry Lufkin of Deer Isle

The sailing master: Edward Nicholas of Searsport

The PT boat commander: Francis McAdoo

Steam boats and smithy boats.

Island steamboats in lore and war

In search of the smithy boat: a maritime detective story

Sloops and schooners.

The professor builds a sloop

The Rhodes 19 story

The coaling schooner: Wyoming

The arctic schooner: Bowdoin

Storms and shipwrecks.

Hurricanes in Maine

The burning of royal tar

The wreck of Castine

Hit by lightning: a true story.