No community was more at the heart of the New England fishing industry during the nineteenth and early twentieth century than Gloucester, Massachusetts. These photographs from the collections of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, capture the flavor of the city that was — and still is, actually — home to “They That Go Down To the Sea in Ships.”
EMILY H.- from Block Island. Powered schooner rigged for swordfishing. Nest of dories on deck.
Photos of Gloucester: The Town That Went to Sea
EMILY H.- from Block Island. Powered schooner rigged for swordfishing. Nest of dories on deck.
