Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — The Ship-Building State. [ARTICLE]

The Ship-Building State.

Augusta Journal. Maine can once again be called with propriety ‘the shipbuilding State.’ During 1881 her yards resounded with the music of hammiers and adzes, and many a stately vessel was launched along the coast. The outlook is even brighter than it was a year ago. There will probably be built in Maine in 1882 something like the following: West of Portland none, unless a schooner or two may be built at Kennebunk; at Deering, two barks and perhaps two or three schooners; at Yarmouth, two barks; Freeport and Brunswick none; at Bath, five or six ships, a steam whaler, and probably as many or more schooners and barken tines as this year; at Phipsburg, a ship of 1,600 or 1,700 tons; Waldoboro, not known, probably two or three schooners and possibly a bark; at Damariscotta, a ship of 1,800 tons; a at Thomaston, one ship, perhaps two, and two or three schoonersand barkentines; at Hockland, a three-masted schooner with auxiliary steam power, and one or two other schooners; at Rockport, one bark; at Camden, probably two schooners; at Belfast, three schooners, and perhaps one o.’ two more; at Sears-, port, Bucksport and Bangor, probably a schooner or two at »*ach place; east of the Penobscot, probably but .very little will be dorfe.” 4— An opera audience sat with umbrellas up, at Marshall, Mich,, because the roof leaked.