Lobstering Tours Eagle Island State Park Private Charters - Special Event SeacoastToursME.com 207-798-2001 Book Online Today Book Online Today J u ly / A u g u s t 2 0 1 8 1 0 5 9500 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Museum Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed on Mondays and national holidays 207-725-3416 • bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum Ron “Qay” Apangalook, Walrus Shaman, Alaska, walrus ivory and pigment. PM Arctic Museum Ad 4.75x4.875.indd 1 6/6/18 10:18 AM Blackout orders required residents to cov- er windows, car headlights–even light- houses–at night. Disgruntled lobstermen endured the bisecting of their fishing grounds by submarine nets. Petroleum rationing allowed more tankers to convoy across the Atlantic and supply the Allied effort. Thousands of workers in the South Portland shipyards churned out Liberty Ships as fast as they could. A Daring Quartet The four captains of the Portland Pilot As- sociation–Captains Lubee, McLain, Dors- ey, and Martin–considered these “the terri- ble times when the military ran the harbor” during World War II. The military handed out radios to fishermen. The Coast Guard commissioned yachts, fishing boats, and sailboats to fortify coastal patrols. Ferries were commandeered to shuttle personnel between mainland and island military res- ervations. Each Portland harbor pilot was given the honorary commission of Lieuten- ant Commander (a “two-and-a-half strip- er”). The glossy black Portland Pilot with a red bottom was painted wartime gray and worked double duty–shuttling pilots and patrolling the harbor. Even in normal times, “these were rug- ged Maine characters,” Captain Walker says. Harbor pilots worked year round–all hours, all weather, and always clad in white shirts and ties. They stationed themselves 10 miles offshore at a “lightship”–think floating lighthouse–to rendezvous with ships scheduled to sail into Portland. Deadly Ice, Slapping Waves A pilot, a bowman, and a sternman would climb from Portland Pilot into their dory. “In the winter,” Walker explains, “they’d IcecoatsthehullsofbothPortlandPilotandherdoryin thewinterof1933.Later,herbowspritwasaddedandthe mainsailwasgaffrigged.