LOBSTERMAN MIKE LEWIS helps to pull the Linda Moran tug from the reach of the flames that reached 2,000 degrees.                         Staff Photo/Kevin Burnham

FIRETRUCKS FROM TWENTY-EIGHT DEPARTMENTS responded to the blaze. Smoke from the fire was visible from as far away as Portland, Augusta and Monhegan.                                               Staff Photo/John Edwards

A fire for the ages
 
By KEVIN BURNHAM
Editor
    Indelible images.
    Watching Washburn & Doughty burn to the pilings on Friday, July 11 brought back memories – albeit much happier ones -- of another shipyard event in the same general area in East Boothbay just over four decades ago – the launching of the replica of the famous schooner, America, at Goudy & Stevens in May 1967. Hundreds gathered along the shoreline to watch the painted and polished 130-foot ship slide down the ways. (Click here for entire story)

Aid rises from the ashes

By LISA KRISTOFF
Staff Reporter
    On the afternoon of the fire, Senator Susan Collins released this statement:
“I am so saddened to learn about the loss of this facility and the many workers and their families who will be hurt by this devastating event. My office has been in touch with the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency and the Town Manager to offer assistance. We have also contacted the U.S. Department of Labor to notify them about the large number of employees whose jobs will be affected. It is my hope that Washburn & Doughty can rebuild as quickly as possible, and I stand ready to assist in this effort.” (Click here for entire story)

Shipbuilding has deep roots at Washburn & Doughty

By SUE MELLO
Staff Reporter
The site of the Washburn & Doughty Shipyard has been important to shipbuilding for centuries. As local historian Barbara Rumsey has noted, “There’s an unbroken thread of shipbuilding that reaches back centuries in East Boothbay. There were vessels built here in the 1700s and maybe in the 1600s, but the unstoppable stream of launchings started in the 1820s.” (Click here for complete story)

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