• VA Loans • FHA Loans • USDA Loans ...and more! • Mobile Home • Land • Construction Own It! With PeoplesChoice Mortgages More Loans. More Choices! Call our mortgage team (207) 282-4156 NMLS #449242 PeoplesChoiceME.org We have a variety of loans available to qualified applicants. O c t o b e r 2 0 1 7 4 5 Chairman for the Johns-Manville Corpo- ration. Dubbed “the asbestos king” (Johns- Manville produced the material), he was uncle to socialite Tommy Manville, who married 13 different times and once held the Guinness Book of World Records title for the shortest marriage. After one divorce, Tommy lamented to the press, “She cried, and the judged wiped away her tears with my check book.” Designed by Henry J. Gielow and chris- tened the Hi-Esmaro, yachting enthusiasts dubbed Manville’s strikingly handsome new boat the most beautiful on the seas. Anticipating that Manville’s daughter, Es- telle, would use the Hi-Esmaro, Bath arti- sans created replicas of the Swedish crown emblazoned over the stateroom beds–Es- telle had just married Count Folke Berna- dotte of the Swedish royal family. The yacht was launched by Mrs. Manville in June of 1929 in the presence of almost the entire population of Bath. During the 1930s, the Vanda and Hi-Es- maro were a familiar sight at the nation’s great yachting races and cruising the coast of Maine. These large yachts would each employ a crew of 50 to 60 members, some- times even carrying a surgeon and barber, and a large number these crewmen hailed from Deer Isle. CORSAIR IV When Corsair IV slithered down the greased ways of Bath Iron Works on April 10, 1930, John Pierpont Morgan’s black-hulled yacht launched a career as the biggest and most elegantly appointed private yacht ev- er built in the USA. She was the fourth Cor- sair to fly the Morgan colors–each yacht a little bigger, faster, and more comfortable than the last. The Corsair IV generated ma- Bath artisans created replicas of the Swedish crown emblazoned over the stateroom beds– Estelle had just married into the Swedish Royal family. courtesy Michael L. Grace