Rice Brothers

The Maine yard that built Adventuress — a boat that then spent thirty-five years working out of San Francisco.

Founded

Frank, William and Henry Rice began building in 1894; incorporated 1903; closed 1956

Site

Between what are now Washburn & Doughty and Hodgdon Yachts

Archive

Shipyard records at the Boothbay Region Historical Society

• 1913Adventuress — 85-ft schooner to B. B. Crowninshield's design; later a San Francisco bar pilot schooner
• 1915Grayling — sardine carrier
• 1917–1938Light vessels — for the US Lighthouse Service