Navy flotation tests of 40’ Utility Boat, MK3. Entire deck awash, fully submerged. Three metal barrels on bow, one being lowered onto stern. Four men observe from dock above in top right corner. Two in rowboat at stern. Maine Queen and Gary Alan in background. The Charles Butt Collection
Stamped in purple in lower right corner:
“40 Foot Utility Boat - Mark 3
Cont. No. N00024 - 67C - 0408
Hull 40UB671 - Feb. 1, ‘68
Webber’s Cove Boat Yard, Inc.
East Blue Hill, Maine
With Entire Deck Awash
Southwest Harbor,
W. H. Ballard, “Webber’s Cove Boat Yard,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed April 24, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/6655.Item 7021
