“Last of the Maine Central’s fleet, built in 1913. Bath built and almost the twin of “Moosehead.” Had a single 1200 triple expansion engine in place of “Moosehead’s” twins. WWI conditions and tourist traffic by auto sent the “Rangeley” to New York in April, 1925. Hudson River Dayliner, renamed the “Chauncey M. DePew.” In 1941 she was under lease to the Government. Released from that lease, she went to Boston and sailed for the Nantasket Steamboat Co.’s Provincetown Service, still as the “Depew.” Since then she was on the Block Island run, the New York Harbor service, spent 1949 on the Tolchester Line, and was sold to Bermuda as a tender to cruise ships too large to dock at Hamilton and St. George. She made the trip from Baltimore to Bermuda under her own power.” – Eleanor Mayo’s notes for this photograph.
"Rangeley was built at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in 1913. She had a steel hull, was 185.1’ x 35.6’ (molded 30.5’) x 13.5’ (overall, 194’11” x 34’4”, 11’7” draft, loated, aft) 652 gross, 282 net tons. She carried a triple expansion Bath Iron Works engine. Cylinders, 16”, 26”, 30” x 2’ – 1 boiler – 1198 hp." - “Hudson River Day Line: The Story of a Great American Steamboat Company” by Donald C. Ringwald, published by Howell-North Books, Berkeley, California, 1965, p. 158-161, 213.
"Rangeley's" service for the Maine Central Railroad was to carry passengers from the Mount Desert Ferry terminal to various towns on Mount Desert Island.
