Lot Essay
Built in 1908 at the Adams Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine, as Tourist, the steamboat, This small, shallow draft vessel was ideally suited to Maine's often shoal conditions as her subsequent service on the Kennebec River and Casco Bay over a 50-year working life proved. Sabino was removed from service and laid up in 1958. Eventually she was donated to Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, and restored to active use in a five-year restoration program. She is the only operating example of the little steamers which once serviced Maine's coastal communities.