Launching of ship FRANK CURLING, Thomaston, Maine, 1878

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Photograph in John F. Leavitt album #4, wooden ships (1976.1.181); launching of ship FRANK CURLING, October 28, 1878, Thomaston, Maine; starboard view of ship on the launching ways; horses, carriages, and spectators in foreground; (Launched October 28, 1878. Foundered June 28, 1879, on maiden voyage en route Liverpool to San Francisco with coal. Sank off Falkland Islands.)