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2007 - Mistress In Photos



2007 - MWC New Webpage for Ship's Store



2007 - July - GB Wins Coaster Class in Race



2007 - Maine Windjammer Cruises Publishes Cookbook



2007 - Grace Bailey History - 125th Birthday - Part II



2007 - Grace Bailey History - 125th Birthday - Part I



2007 - Mattie's Lifelong Passion For Windjammers Part II



2007 - Mattie's Lifelong Passion For Windjammers Part I



2006 - Photographer Frederick J. LeBlance records History



2006 - Musicians On Board the Grace Bailey



2006 - MWC Celebrates 70th - Williamsons 20 yrs as Owners



2005 - July - GB Wins Great Schooner Race - Coaster Class



2005 - Travel Channel features the Grace Bailey



2004 - Captain J.R. Braugh



2004 - July - GB Wins Great Schooner Race - Coaster Class



2004 - Grace Bailey used as Expedition Schooner



2004 - MWC Starts First Enewsletter



2004 - Letter from Williamson with Pictures



1991 - Billings reunite on Mercantile - ancestors built.



1990 - Updated History of the Grace Bailey



1978 - Mercantile History - Pictures of Billings-Part II



1978 - Mercantile History - Pictures of Billings-Part I



1939 - Schooner Mattie to 1990



1938 - Mercantile ~ owners ~ ports ~ masters ~ to 2003



1936 - Capt. Frank Swift trades cargo for passengers



1916 - Mercantile built by Billings in Little Deer Isle



1882 - Grace Bailey - built in Patchogue, NY ~ History



1881 - Schooner Mabel



1938 - Mercantile ~ owners ~ ports ~ masters ~ to 2003



Owners and Masters of the Mercantile after Pearl F. Billings
[Researched by J.W. Sims in 1978]

OWNERS

1916-1938 Pearl F. Billings, Little Deer Isle & Rockland, Me.
1938-1940 Walter D. Billings, Little Deer Isle & Stonington, Me.
1940-1943 Arthur Billings, Little Deer Isle & Stonington, Me.
1943-1945 Charles D. O’Connor, Warwick, R.I.
1945-1961 Frank Swift, Camden, Me.
1961-1969 Jim Nisbet, Camden, Me.
1969-1985 Leslie E. Bex, Jr., Camden, Me.
1985-present Capt. Ray & Ann Williamson, Camden, Me.

HAILING PORTS

1916-1925 Little Deer Isle, Me.
1925-1943 Rockland, Me.
1943-1945 Providence, R.I.
1945-present Camden, Me.

MASTERS

1916-1919 Pearl F. Billings
1919-1920 Arthur Billings
1920-1931 Pearl F. Billings
1934-1943 Walter D. Billings
1943 Andrew J. Scott
1943 Charles D. O’Connor
1943-1945 Harold E. Barlow
1945 Converse F. Grant
1945 Frank Swift
1945-1956 Montford C. Haskell
1956-1957 William E. Johnson
1957-1958 Walter T. Hutchinson
1958-1959 William E. Johnson
1959-1961 Fremont J. Cotton
1961 Jim Nisbet
1961 Fred C. Morey
1962-1964 Walter T. Hutchinson
1964-1965 Jim Nisbet
1965-1972 Edward A. Marshall
1972-1978 Leslie E. Bex, Jr.
1979-1980 John Worth
1981-1983 Bill Brown
1984-1989 Ray Williamson
1990-1992 Rick McDonough
1993 Roger Bottoms
1994 Wythe Ingebritson
1994-1995 Steve Pixley
1996-1996 Twain Braden
1997-1998 Steve Pixley
1999 Steve Pixley
1999 Mike Hagadorn
2000 Steve Pixley
2000 Chris Richmond
2001 Kerry D. Phillips
2001-2003 Joseph D. Leidenfrost

Relief captains for many years(2003):
Thomas R. Thompson
Douglas A. Nemeth



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