Item 12592 - Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925
- Item 12592 - Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925
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Image Info Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan is shown here onboard his schooner Bowdoin in 1925 departing for an Arctic voyage.
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MacMillan named his vessel Bowdoin, to honor his alma mater. He taught school for a few years before being recruited as an assistant by Admiral Robert E. Peary to sail on a 1908 Arctic expedition.
