Address Restricted, Gloucester, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 13, 2005. NRIS 04001473.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
PS Portland was a large side-wheel paddle steamer, an ocean-going steamship with side-mounted paddlewheels. She was built in 1889 for passenger service between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. She is best known as the namesake of the infamous Portland Gale of 1898, a massive blizzard that struck coastal New England, claiming the lives of over 400 people and more than 150 vessels.
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