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Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925

Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925

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Wiscasset was the setting for many farewell ceremonies for MacMillan and the homeport of his personal sailing vessel, the schooner Bowdoin, which he had built in 1921 especially for Arctic waters.


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