PROMISED LAND FISH PRODUCTS SHIP

PROMISED LAND

OLD FISH PRODUCTS VESSEL

TO GO TO

SNOW HILL, MARYLAND SEA SCOUTS.

Baltimore Evening Sun , Tuesday, May 21, 1968

Twenty one Sea Scouts of Snow Hill , Maryland have taken a

giveaway fishing ship, a 180 ton, a 125 foot sea going vessel, the

stripped down wooden hull thereof, to be their meeting place and

training center of Sea Scout Ship 155.

It is one of fifteen outmoded fishing ships given away by the Fish

Products company of Lewes according to Bob Kennedy, company

comptroller. They were replaced by more up to date steel hull ships.

Other ships were given to Ocean City to become a reef to aid vacationing anglers. One became a waterborne restaurant on the

Naticoke River in Seaford,, the Chestertowm Methodist Church camp got one.

A New Jersey beach home owner took on an used it as a sunken

bulk head. The Baltimore Seaman Union made one of several they took to use as a museum.

These ships were known as “Purse Seiners” and stripped of engines and other gear. Promised Land, the sea scouts boat, was built in 1938, 125feet long, 21 feet wide, has crew quarters and mess that will keep 29

boys comfortable. It came to Snow Hill on the Wicomico and Pocomoke

Rivers, under the low level bridge at Pocomoke by tug.

Promised Land is a mess now but there are great plans for it, most of it's equipment was stripped, the wheel and navigational gear was stolen

from the pilot house by vandals The scouts intend to redeck, repaint,

and 'fitted out' for the scouts unit.. No engine but she will be shipshape

again. The deck to be used for seamanship training, and, open air

dances. The quarters and mess will hold over night meetings and affairs,

the pilot house will have a wheel and navigation gear for training.

Abstract: 11/24/18 by Harrison H., from May 21, Tuesday,

1968, Baltimore Sun written by Frank Megargee of the Eastern Shore

Bureau.