Sardine carrier “Bessey L.” 36 hogsheads, 51’4” x 14’5” x 6’2” deep. She was built in 1905 at Lubec for Riviera Packing, Eastport, 27 GR T., 16 T NET. Call letters WC4221, Reg. #202066. She boated fish to the Holmes factories and in the late ‘40’s she worked herrin’ to the Maine Sardine Co. of Addison. She has been slowly dying in the Creek at Jonesport, Maine, since Skipper Adien Smith limped her in with a broken piston in April of 1973. She boated herrin’ for the Holmes factories at Robbinston and Eastport most of her life until the winter of ’72-’73 when she was rigged up for dragging scallops. When she was working the herrin’ she could carry 56 hogsheads… “Sardine Carriers and Seiners of the Maine Coast” compiled and written by Paul E. Bennett, The St. Pierre Doriman, p. 8, 12, 1992.
