Got a good picture of the wild or workin' Bay? A vessel ported in, working in, or otherwise in the waters of Penboscot bay or its many harbor? An amazing piece of the ecology, or a pollution outrage?
It could be right here:

* C/V Irving Arctic off Northport in western Penobscot Bay

A Canadian oil tanker that runs the Atlantic Canada - Northern New England route.

* Allied Whale response workers keep a pilot whale that beached
at Fort Point Cove in Stockton Springs wet. (BDN Photo)

The marine mammal beached there on Wednesday afternoon.
Read the Bangor Daily News story. Bangor Daily News photo by Bob Delong

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* Despite heroic efforts by the crew of an inshore scallop vessel to tow it to safety,

a storm drove this boat onto the jetty next to Sandy Beach on Rockland's South End around sunset, March 23rd.

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* Polluted clamflats, Stockton Harbor.
Bauxite tailings dumped on the shore of Kidder Point in the 1960's and 1970's General Alum's predecessor on Kidder Point, Delta Chemical, have begun to slump into what was once Penobscot Bay's best clamflats. The Harbor's clam's vanished right around the time this material began entering the flats

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C/V Rockland Gulf

A wooden-decked, wooden-hulled oil tanker, built in 1933, that services islanders and island communities around Penboscot Bay. 56 feet long, 39 gross tons. Homeport. Rockland.

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NOAA Oceanography vessel Rude

NOAA Oceanography vessel Rude (Pronounced "Rudy") tied up in Belfast Harbor, Summer, 1999. RUDE conducts hydrographic surveys along the northeast coast of the U.S. RUDE specializes in locating submerged wrecks and obstructions to navigation.

* Purseboat from F/V Starlight.

"Purse boat" from the F/V Starlight, a 78 foot herring seiner. Homeport: Vinalhaven, Maine.

The Bay from Above High altitude aerial photographs of Penobscot Bay . Click on your part of the bay to see a closer-in picture. Pictures are black and white.

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