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spring of 2017, Mary E arrived at Maine Maritime Museum, where an extensive restoration took place in the museum’s historic shipyard. Mary E was relaunched in the Kennebec River in spring 2018, and spent that summer and fall alongside the dock, serving as a floating exhibit. For the 2019 sailing season, the museum began offering evening cruises aboard Mary E, giving visitors the unique opportunity to sail aboard the historic vessel. (243 Washington St., Bath, ME; Ph. 207 443-1316; www.mainemaritimemuseum.org) ...
same category as finger tattoos. No tattoos are authorized on the thumbs. •A single tattoo per hand no larger than one inch in any dimension is authorized on the hand between the wrist and the first knuckle closest to the wrist. No tattoos are authorized on the palms of hands. •In total, one hand tattoo and one finger or ring tattoo are allowed per hand. The rules governing piercings and other body modifications have not changed from the previous policy. (To read the new policy in its entirety, go to www.dcms.uscg. mil/Tattoo/.) ... The schooner Mary E, Maine Maritime Museum’s flagship, was entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on 30 September. Built in Bath, Maine, in 1906 as a fishing schooner, Mary E also worked as a cargo carrier and windjammer, and is rumored to have been a rum-runner during Prohibition. After a long career fishing off Block Island, Mary E was eventually abandoned in 1960, and later sank during a 1963 hurricane in Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts. Two years later, William R. Donnell II of Bath purchased and raised the vessel, brought her to Bath, and embarked on a two-year restoration of the vessel on the grounds of what is now the Maine Maritime Museum campus. Back at sea, Mary E served as a passenger vessel for many years. In 2016, the museum purchased Mary E from her then-owner Matt Culen, who had been running sailing trips out of the Connecticut River Museum. In SEA HISTORY 169, WINTER 2019–20
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