
USER INSTRUCTIONS:
ANTIQUE TRANSPORTATION SCREEN SAVER: TALL SHIPS Vol.1

Your screen saver program has been installed into the Windows(tm) 
Desktop of the Control Panel. BE CERTAIN YOUR MONITOR IS SET TO
256 COLOR PALETTE. If you have an old generic VGA monitor which
can only display 16 colors, I'm afraid these images will look
terrible. Sorry. 
Accessing your screen saver is easy and requires only three steps:

  I.   Load the Control Panel
  II.  Run the Desktop option
  III. Select your screen saver

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I.   Load the Control Panel

The Control Panel is generally found in the MAIN group of your Program 
Manager. Execute the Control Panel by double clicking the Control Panel 
icon.

If you cannot find the MAIN group or the Control Panel icon, you can run 
the control panel from the File Manager by double clicking CONTROL.EXE in 
your main Windows directory (usually called WINDOWS).

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II.  Run the Desktop option

To run the Desktop option of the control panel, double click the Desktop 
icon in the Control Panel.

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III. Select your screen saver

Use the 'Screen Saver' area of your Desktop screen to select your screen 
saver. You may use the Test button to preview your screen saver and the 
Setup button to assign a password and activate/deactivate your mouse.

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1. 3schoon2.tif - Laid up at Philadelphia, PA, three four
                  masted schooners wait out their last days (date
                  unknown). From left to right, they are the
                  Francis J. McDonald, the Marie F. Cummins and
                  an unknown ship.
                                                             
2. 6mast2.tif - The launch of a huge six masted schooner is
                seen here at a locality that suggests Rockland,
                Maine.

3. bisbee2.tif - The William S. Bisbee was a three masted schooner
                 built at Rockland, Maine, in 1902. She had a
                 tonnage of 309, was 133' long, with a beam of 31.2' 
                 and a depth of 9.3'.

4. brig1-2.tif - The Carl Vinnen is a four masted brig seen
                 here leaving the Philadelphia, PA, harbor in
                 1937.       

5. brig2-2.tif - The Dirigo was a steel hulled, four masted brig 
                 built at Bath, Maine in 1894. She had a tonnage 
                 of 3005 with a length of 312', a beam of 45' and 
                 a depth of 25.6'. She was designed by J.F.
                 Waddington originally of Liverpool, England and 
                 she was typically British. Her only American touch 
                 was in her rig - single topgallants, royals and
                 skysails. She sailed the Pacific for many
                 years with cargo runs to Japan, Hawaii and
                 Australia. Sold to a transportation company in
                 Anchorage, Kentucky (!) in 1916, the Dirigo
                 was then based in Pensacola, Florida. Sometime
                 after 6AM on the morning of May 31, 1917, she
                 was sunk by a German submarine in the English
                 Channel.

6. brown2.tif - This fine photo shows the launching of the Dean
                E. Brown, a four masted schooner, at the Cobb,
                Butler & Co. yard on October 23, 1907. No
                direct information exists as to the location of
                this shipyard but several tall ships with the
                surname Brown were built in Bath, Maine and the
                Cobb and Butler surnames are common in Thomaston,
                Maine. Ceremonial flags fly from the masts and 
                many men and women  are visible.        

7. cooper2.tif - This is an extraordinary photograph of cooper at
                work on the dock surrounded by large barrels with
                several schooners and brigs visible in the
                background. The locality is unknown.

8. denson2.tif - The Thomas S. Dennison is a three masted bark.
                 This picture was likely taken off mid-coast, Maine.

9. evadne2.tif - The three masted schooner Evadne loaded with
                 lumber is seen here at a dock in Bath, Maine,
                 September 25, 1906.

10. glouc2.tif - Perhaps the gem of our sailing ship
                 collection, this panorama of the Gloucester,
                 Massachusetts, harbor likely dates from the 
                 third quarter of the 19th century. A 3 masted
                 brig is tied up at a lumber wharf. A seine
                 loft is clearly visible as are many other
                 buildings, ships and horse drawn wagons.

11. kingswy2.tif - The launch of the four masted schooner Kingsway 
                   is seen here at Mystic Connecticut in 1918
                   in a marvelous panoramic photo that shows
                   another schooner under construction and a
                   many visitors who arrived in automobiles.
                   The building of great wooden sailing ships had
                   nearly ceased by this date. Mystic Connecticut
                   now boasts a world famous historic seaport
                   which allows visitors to experience the
                   waterfront of a 19th century whaling port.
          
    kingwy2a.tif* - Nag Screen
    
12. little2.tif - In the early 1950's the Luther Little (seen
                  here) and the Hesper were towed to Wiscasset, 
                  Maine by a group intending upon restoring them
                  for use as a tourist attraction. The group
                  failed to raise the necessary funds and the two
                  four masted schooners were left at dockside
                  to slowly disintegrate. This photograph
                  probably dates from the early years of their
                  residence in Wiscasset. These two schooners
                  are still there, the Hesper nearly
                  unrecognizable while the hull and two masts of
                  the Luther Little are still intact. 


13. machias2.tif - A three masted schooner is seen here at anchor
                   in the harbor of Machiasport, Maine sometime 
                   before 1909. Notice the unusual small steam
                   boat.


14. palmer2.tif - In the twilight of the great shipbuilding
                  era, William F. Palmer of Boston commissioned
                  shipyards in Bath and Waldoboro, Maine, to
                  build a fleet of 12 five masted schooners.
                  The George L Welt yard in Waldoboro (our home
                  town) built six of these schooners between 1900 
                  and 1904. The launching of the Paul Palmer is 
                  seen here in a remarkable photo taken on the 
                  shore of the Medomak River in 1902. She was 276' 
                  feet in length with a gross tonnage of 2193. 
                  The Paul Palmer was lost in a fire off Cape Cod,
                  Massachusetts, June 15, 1913.
           
15. stoning2.tif - A three masted schooner is seen here at the dock 
                   of the Stonington Fuel and Lumber Co. whose
                   coastline suggests Maine. Many buildings are visible 
                   in this nice harbor scene.

    
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