Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats

Catalogue #:
1000.212.1260
Title:
Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats
Subject:
Description:
Ship hardware. Collection of four large brass/metal artifacts recovered by Wesley Bracy Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior:) from local waters while scuba diving 1970-1980s. Items were either loaned or donated to GCIHS in 2000. (A): Artifact, letter "A" metal plate, from tug Astro an ocean-going tug towing a barge that ran ashore on Mt. Desert Rock 1902. Astro sank but barge okay. (B): Bow bit from the Ara, Deane's ocean-going private yacht that sank 1926 off Little Duck Island; (C): cleat; (D:) fire nozzle possibly from Deane's yacht. (See also 2015.310.2070 digital slides, and DVD interview made in 2003 (2013.265.1998).)
Date:
1970
Materials:
Metal

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“Metal bow bit, cleat, nozzle, and "A" from various boats,” Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, accessed January 31, 2025, https://gcihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/1271.Catalogue # 1000.212.1260

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