Stanley, Ralph

Descriptions of ships

Individual typewritten descriptions and histories of 8 schooners: IRENE AND MYRTLE, ABRAHAM RICHARDSON, CATHERINE, POLLY, A.T. HAYNES, BLOOMER, E.T. HAMOR, HARRY A. BERWIND. Nomenclature: Specification

Rum Running

Essay by Ralph Stanley on rum running on MDI. Undated. Nomenclature: Essay

Preservation of the Art of Traditional Wooden Boat Building

Essay by Ralph Stanley on the preservation of wooden boat building. Undated. Nomenclature: Essay

The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building

Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s.

Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island by Ralph Stanley

Ships. Copies of three manuscripts by Ralph W. Stanley. (A & B:) Two xerox copies of "Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island: Notes Collected by Ralph Stanley Boatbuilder, S.W. Harbor, Me" as handed to Bruce Komusin by Ralph Stanley at …

Letter from Stanley to Virginia Somes Sanderson

Handwritten letter from the MDI Historical Society thanking Virginia Somes Sanderson for her donation of funds for construction of a bridge over Somes Brook in Somesville between two MDI Historical Society buildings. Details of the bridge …

Boat Building during World War II

Document, "Boatbuilding During World War II, M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill" by Ralph W. Stanley, 12 pages. Ralph was 12 years old on 7 Dec 1941, and gives his personal reminiscences of that period and the war effort. He menti…