Around 1900, a summer Sunday sailing party gathered on a large yacht near Whaleship Wharf, where Eliza (Mrs. Sol) Holbrook, Nina Rundlett, and Fred Lennox sat on the deck, Helen McLaughlin and Mamie Baylor Hubbard stood behind them, and Elizabeth Neal Tucker and Joe Tucker sat in the stern. Docked behind them was a ship from the Eastern Steamship Co., part of a line that made regular trips between Boston, Wiscasset, Bath, Boothbay, and other coastal points for about 40 years and became the preferred way to travel for many city dwellers who summered here. Whaleship Wharf had been built in 1834 for the Wiscasset Whale Fishing Company, which sent the ship Wiscasset, commanded by Captain Richard Macy of Nantucket, on two successful voyages to the Pacific. In 1848, that same ship, under different ownership, carried Andrew Carnegie and his family from Glasgow, Scotland, to New York City as they traveled to a new life in Pennsylvania. The waterfront remains a working one, hosting concerts, ending the Fourth of July parade with fireworks, and continuing to be a place where yachting parties cross the river on sunny Sundays.