[Launching of the Doris Hamlin, Harrington, Maine 1919]

Date1919

Can DescriptionsNITRATE // Footage of the four-masted schooner Doris Hamlin being launched at the Frye-Flynn boatyard in Harrington. The ship is eased into the water from a ramp at the boatyard. Scenes of the crew on board the ship and a man climbing the rigging and closeups of the boat's sponsor, Doris Hamlin, along with her husband and the boat's owner and operator. The boatyard's manager and owner, E.M. Frye is also shown in closeup with his son George W. Frye, 'the youngest shipbuilder in the world.' Opening intertitle reads: 'The beautiful four master Doris Hamlin makes a pretty ship at the Frye-Flynn yard, Harrington, Me.' - RN // Last inspected, Spring 2005. // 16mm reduction negative and print were created at John E. Allen, Inc., paid for by Meserve and White.

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsBaltimore Sun, Vane, a waterfront mainstay Business: Vane Brothers Co. began as a ships' chandlery 100 years ago. December 05, 1998|By Frederick N. Rasmussen Vane Brothers Co., a former ships' chandlery, has been one of the most familiar businesses in continuous operation on the Baltimore waterfront since its founding in 1898 by Capt. William Burke Vane. ... Charles F. Hughes Jr., 71, who lives in Roland Park, went to work for Vane Brothers in 1951 after earning his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is the Vane Brothers' chairman of the board. He remembers as a child playing aboard the four-masted schooners that called at the shipyard, including the famed Doris Hamlin, once owned by W.B. Vane, and one of the last of the old sailing vessels to call at Baltimore. "She was at least 200 feet long and was under the command of Capt. George Hopkins. I remember her sailing to Haiti for a load of logwood that was later delivered to J.S. Young on Boston Street in Canton. We sold her into the coal trade and she was later lost at sea in 1940," he said. http://antidianetics.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/who-was-l-ron-hubbard-part-two/ Biography of L. Ron Hubbard [founder of Scientology] More in character, in June 1932 he headed the “Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition”, a college expedition of fifty students on the Doris Hamlin, a four-masted schooner based in Baltimore, which had been chartered for the purpose of making a film about Caribbean pirates, directed by Hubbard himself. They made only three of their sixteen planned landings: Bermuda, Martinique and Puerto Rico, before returning prematurely to Baltimore. The Captain, F.E. Garfield, said it was the worst trip he had ever made.