Steamboat company officials, town and county officers of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, together with numerous representative men from the Islands and the mainland, were guests of the New Bedford
Steamships And Ferries
May 11, 1928
Vineyard Gazette
Christened with a smile, by Miss Alice C. Seaver, the New Bedford, the latest addition to the fleet of the N. B., M. V. and N. Steamboat Co., took to the water Saturday.
March 30, 1928
Vineyard Gazette
From this day forth the Islander and the Nobska are but names, not boats. The Islander becomes the Martha’s Vineyard, the Nobska the Nantucket.
March 27, 1925
Vineyard Gazette
In just four and one-half months from the time her keel was stretched on Nov.
July 3, 1924
Vineyard Gazette
The burning of the steamer Sankaty at her wharf in New Bedford on Monday evening of this week, has been the most thrilling event in this section this week.
March 30, 1922
Vineyard Gazette
Crashing together in the dense fog Monday morning the steamers Miramar and Gay Head sustained serious damage. The collision came off Mosher’s Ledge, outside New Bedford harbor.
February 9, 1911
Vineyard Gazette
Bearing the name of the famous Sankaty head of Nantucket, which was bestowed upon her by a New Bedford girl, the steamboat Sankaty was launched from the Fore River yards at 12:05 Thursday, Feb.
June 26, 1902
Vineyard Gazette
The new steamer, which has been building at Wilmington, Del., for the N. B., M. V. & N. Steamboat Co., was launched yesterday afternoon and named “Uncatena.” Mrs. C. G.
October 17, 1890
Vineyard Gazette
The Pusey & Jones Co., of Wilmington, Del., the builders of steamer Nantucket, have contracted to have another steamer ready to go on the line June 1st, 1891, and from the description which has
July 16, 1886
Vineyard Gazette
The new steamer Nantucket is about completed, and will come on the route about the 22nd of the present month. Capt. Charles C.
April 2, 1886
Vineyard Gazette
The new New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Company consolidated from the New Bedford, Vineyard & Nantucket and the Nantucket & Cape Cod Steamboat Companies, was organized in New Bedford Thursday, 25th ult.
July 28, 1871
Vineyard Gazette
The new steamboat just built for the New Bedford and Vineyard Steamboat Company arrived here Monday night on her first trip, having made excellent time.
