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Abigail (Abby) Aldrich Rockefeller The August 16, 1918 Evening World notes Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Driving First Spike Into the Keel of the U. S. Trawler Fish Hawk. Though that photo/article was probably at the boat's launching, not keel laying. The June 15 issue of Shipping noted that Fish Hawk was nearly all planked out and that launching would likely be in a few weeks. The July issue of The Rudder notes that Fish Hawk is the second of six planned trawlers for the East Coast Fisheries Company built in Maine by the Portland Shipbuilding Company and that Fish Hawk is a sistership to the first, the Kingfisher. The Rudder article includes some good plan and profile drawings of the boats. In the September, 1919 issue of The American Marine Engineerwe learn that while Kingfisher was sunk by a U-Boat during the war, Fish Hawk and her sisterships were still bringing fish into New York and the 6th in the series was about to begin construction.

Some photos of the Fish Hawk from 1919: mainehistory.pastperfect-online.com/32314cgi/mweb.exe?req... Fish Hawk as a derelict vessel in Noank, CT: connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/search/%22fis...

Looks like she is enjoying herself.

It looks like this ship was actually the Albatross. This photo appears in a Rockefeller Foundation publication with the caption: "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller holds the hammer that she used to drive a bolt during construction of the “Albatross” in Portland, Maine, in mid August 1918." Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, New York City www.rockarch.org/publications/newsletter/nl2000.pdf at p. 11.

Albatross built at same shipyard as Fish Hawk: Portland SB, South Portland ME, O.N. 217411 Albatross East Coast Fisheries Co Trawler GT 384 Delivery1918 Wrecked Diamond Shoals 1940 www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/719thcentur... Wreck: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236463 about the loss cause lost: ran aground (wrecked) date lost: 21/02/1940

An article in the Feb. 23, 1918 Brooklyn Eagle describes the creation of the Ann Fulton House by the War Work Council of the YWCA at 115 Fulton in Manhattan, a clubhouse formed for the women who were working in Wall Street because of the war. The article quotes an insurance company manager who said he had 125 women working for him as opposed to 12 a year earlier. bklyn.newspapers.com/image/57092638/?terms=115%2Bfulton

over at shorpy, someone has colorized this photo: www.shorpy.com/node/11540?size=_original#caption

Thanks Art Siegel for the information about the Ann Fulton House. We will add some details to the image description. Interesting to see the colorized version of the related image too!