Nathan Lipfert - Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding

TWO CENTURIES OF MAINE SHIPBUILDING

W. G. Randall notebook, MI23-2, George J. Mitchell, Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.

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In memory of my parents,
Donald Ernest Lipfert, who introduced me to the dramatic and lovably technical world of maritime history, and Roberta Joan Lipfert, who taught me to love books and language.

S ince I worked at Maine Maritime Museum for forty-six years, in various curatorial and library positions, I have done historical research most of my life. But my writing has never approached a work of this length before, and I am very appreciative of the many people who helped me through this.

Mentors and friends answered questions, offered advice, and solved problems in the course of preparing this book, or provided general inspiration in the past: William H. Bunting, Charles E. Burden, Ben Fuller, Ron Haug, Douglas K. and Linda J. Lee, Kenneth R. Martin, John Pennell, Winn Price, and Ralph Linwood Snow.

My friends and colleagues at Maine Maritime Museum have been of immeasurable help: Amy Lent, former executive director; Lincoln Paine, trustee and chair of the Collections & Publications Committee; Elizabeth Beaudoin, Libby Meier, Kelly Page, Jill Piekut, Chris Timm, and Anne Witty of the curatorial department (the last group in alphabetical order, so dont try to read anything into the order). Special thanks to Chris Timm, who drafted the glossary and performed many other tasks, including giving good advice.

People who helped with research and photographs, either as a representative of an institution or shipyard, or as an individual: Leanne Hayden of the Brick Store Museum; Michael Crowley; Barbara Rumsey and Margaret Tew of the Boothbay Region Historical Society; Roberta B. Schwartz of the Bowdoin College Library; Tim Spahr of the Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance; Holly Hurd of the Freeport Historical Society; Donna E. Russo of Historic New England; Audrey Hodgdon of Hodgdon Yachts; Lynn Weinstein and Mutahara Mobashar of the Library of Congress; Mackenzie Lyman of Lyman-Morse; Jon Johansen of Maine Coastal News; Sofia Yalouris and Nicholas Noyes of the Maine Historical Society; Natalie Liberace of the Maine State Museum; Maribeth Bielinski and Paul OPecko of Mystic Seaport Museum; Robin Haynes of the Patten Free Library; Kevin Johnson and Cipperly Good of the Penobscot Marine Museum; Joseph J. Gluckert of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard; Ron Lisnet of the University of Maine; and Katie Worthing of the Yarmouth Historical Society.

There are mentors and friends no longer with us, who inspired and educated, and were thought of many times in the last eighteen months: William A. Baker, Francis E. Bowker, Samuel F. Manning, Charles S. Morgan, Paul C. Morris, Andrew Nesdall, W. J. Lewis Parker, and Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. They all supported and affected me and Maine Maritime Museum in their own way.

Although a different kind of book, William H. Thiesens Industrializing American Ship-buildingwas a significant influence here.