On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1898, at least 68 crew members and 130 passengers boarded the SS Portland in Boston and headed for Portland. They never reached their destination.
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 1898, at least 68 crew members and 130 passengers boarded the SS Portland in Boston and headed for Portland. They never reached their destination.
In Portland s historical Abyssinian Meeting House, 198 names were read aloud Saturday remembering those who perished 125 years ago in New England s worst maritime disaster.
A recent $1.7 million federal budget allocation should make it possible to complete the decades-long project well before the building's 200th anniversary.