Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Mystery solved. It’s Kent Narrows.<br />
See the new Mystery Photo on the back of WaterWays and submit your answer by e-mail to editor@cbmm.org.<br />
The photograph of Kent Narrows was taken by Arthur A. Moorshead aboard the pungy yacht Kessie C. Price,<br />
and it is part of the museum’s Frank A. Moorshead, Jr. collection of photographs.<br />
The spring <strong>2008</strong> mystery photo was trickier than<br />
some in the past. Only two members, Fred Hecklinger<br />
and John Ferman, correctly identified the location<br />
as Kent Narrows. Mr. Hecklinger’s response<br />
deserves to be quoted in full:<br />
1. “I believe that we are looking south through Kent<br />
Island Narrows very likely during the 1930s. It is<br />
before noon.<br />
“The M. D. & V. Railway [swing] Bridge can<br />
be seen in an open position. This railway used<br />
to run from the steamboat wharf at Love Point<br />
across the Shore to Lewes and Rehoboth, De. The<br />
open bascule bridge is for the highway that ran<br />
east from the ferry boat wharf at Matapeake. The<br />
photo was taken from a schooner that is bound<br />
north through the Narrows.<br />
Of the three vessels seen, two are large bugeyes<br />
and the third is a motorized sailing vessel, either a<br />
bugeye or a schooner. All have recently been active<br />
at carrying a heavy cargo to Baltimore, very likely<br />
grain. You can see the scum line at the load waterline<br />
left by the dirty Baltimore Harbor waters.”<br />
2. George Steele additionally pointed out the skiff tied<br />
outboard of the bugeyes, a double-ended skiff of<br />
the type used to trotline for crabs in the summer.<br />
3. John Ferman and Bob Lewis agreed on a date in<br />
the 1930s, pointing to the car. In fact, the photographer<br />
dated the negative 1939.<br />
As it turns out, the two sailing vessels are the Little<br />
Jennie and the Vaughn, both large bugeyes. The<br />
name on the motor vessel is just a little too grainy to<br />
make out, even from the original negative.