Biography

Hamlin - Cyrus N. Hamlin (1918-2017)

Father: Marston Lovell Hamlin (1887-1968) – a chemist Mother: Charlotte Cecille Marie Verlage (1888-1976) Birth Date: July 14, 1918 Born at: Orange, New Jersey

Significant Relatives: Great Grandson of (1811-1900) – American Congregational and Educator Grandson of Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1855-1926) – American architect and Professor at Columbia School of Engineering First Cousin Three Times Removed to (1809-1891) – 18th Vice President of the under Abraham Lincoln and 26th Governor of

Significant Education: While at Bowdoin, Class of 1834, Cyrus Hamlin established himself as a radical scientific and social thinker and built the first steam engine seen in Maine, which is preserved at the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Rockland, Maine.

Spouse Name: Else Jenny Junker Wedding Date: July 11, 1942 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine

2nd Spouse Name: Jean B. Barkley (1921-1990) 2nd Wedding Date: c. 1949 2nd Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor, Maine

Occupation – Naval Architect – See below

Worked for Southwest Boat Corporation Resigned 1962

From the early 1970's Mr. Hamlin worked for the United Nations, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the World Bank, and the fisheries departments of various countries on fishing vessel development. He worked on every continent except Antarctica.

Taught naval architecture at The Landing School, Arundel, Maine from at least 1978.

Home: 1940 – Boarded with: Stanley – Merrill Elmer Stanley Sr. (1894-1970) SWH – 082 Clark Point Road Amos H. Bracy House

1953-1965 – Owned: MAN – 130 Shore Road – Smith 130 Shore Road, Manset, Maine Frank L. Smith House Henry R. Hinckley Company

Designed: Dragger Bonaventure - 1942 Pleasure Cruiser Marmac II - 1939 Car Ferry Vinalhaven II - 1943 Pleasure Cruiser Aquarelle II - for his uncle, Hamlin - Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1889-1956) in 1949 Sloop Kittiwake - 1951 – for Mount Desert Yacht Yard

See: "The Commercial Fisheries of Maine" by Cyrus Hamlin and John R. Ordway, Maine Sea Grant Bulletin 5, designed by Ocean Research Corporation, Kennebunk, Maine, courtesy of National Marine Fisheries Service, c.1974.

"Preliminary Design of Boats and Ships" by Cyrus Hamlin, Cornell Maritime Press, Centreville, Maryland, c.1989.

"He began his career in 1936 as an apprenticed draftsman and boat builder at the Mill River Boat Works, Oceanside, New York. In 1939, he moved to Maine where he was jointly employed by the Henry R. Hinckley Co. and the Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor, Maine. His designs included several draggers, including the 97' Bonaventure, the 65' ferry, Vinalhaven II, and 30' W.S. Army mine yawls. His work also included supervision of a program to build six 44' sailing yawls for the U.S. Naval Academy.

Following the war, he was offered the first one-year work-study Fellowship ever given by the Experimental Towing Tank of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Cy established his own designing and marine survey office in 1956. Among his designs was a 27' cruising sloop of which 26 eventually were built in Yugoslavia for the U.S. market, and many more sail and power yachts from 21' and 45' in length." – From an article by Cynthia Hooper Wallace that appeared in the Friendship Sloop Society 1972 Yearbook.