Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering by Martin, Kenneth R.

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Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering

In the years following the American Civil War, Yankee sailing ships and shipyards were threatened by foreign competition and modernizing technology. Despite decades of stiff competition, a few builders in Bath, Maine, the "City of Ships," persisted in building wooden schooners, modifying and enlarging them to meet the changing times. Gardiner G. Deering (1833-1921) was one of these diehards. Genial and unaffected but driven to succeed, he started at the bottom of the trade and worked himself to the top, building ninety-nine vessels over his long life, dozens of which he personally managed. The history of Deering's fleet mixes traditional New England values, sharp business sense, occupational dangers, and outright disasters, including the mystery of the schooner "Carroll A. Deering", whose bizarre demise has never been fully explained.