Maritime History of the Great Lakes

ERIN and MAGGIE in port with a three-masted schooner

Description
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Media Type
Image
Item Type
Photographs
Description
Photograph of the Steam barge ERIN, the schooner MAGGIE and a three-masted schooner. Large quantities of lumber lie on the wharf to their sterns. It appears that fish nets are drying in the right foreground. The crews and possibly other spectators are lined up for the camera.
Notes
A schooner MAGGIE (possibly not this one) was wrecked on Lake Erie in November, 1883. The ERIN was launched in July 1881.
Date of Original
c1881-83
Subject(s)
Schooners
Erin (steamboat)
Maggie (schooner)
Collection
Port Dover Museum
Language of Item
English
Copyright Statement
Public domain: Copyright has expired according to the applicable Canadian or American laws. No restrictions on use.
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ERIN and MAGGIE in port with a three-masted schooner


Photograph of the Steam barge ERIN, the schooner MAGGIE and a three-masted schooner. Large quantities of lumber lie on the wharf to their sterns. It appears that fish nets are drying in the right foreground. The crews and possibly other spectators are lined up for the camera.