St. Mary's (motorboat)
''St. Mary's'' was a forty-nine foot motorboat, part of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police, Maryland State Fishery Force, owned by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Conservation Commission of Maryland operating out of Wynne, MarylandWynne
is a location on the Potomac river south of the St. Mary's river between Point Lookout and St. Mary's City. in the charge of Deputy Commander A. P. Cullinson. The boat was built in 1912 by Ruark of Hooper's Island, Maryland for the Commission. The Navy approached the Conservation Commission shortly after the nation's entry into World War I proposing the Commission's boats be used to maintain constant local patrols. The state legislature agreed that ...
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Hooper's Island
Hoopers Island is a chain of two islands in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Upper Hoopers Island and Lower Hoopers Island are surrounded by water with the Chesapeake Bay on the left side and the Honga River on the right side. The remote set of islands has much wildlife and is well known for sport fishing and crabbing industries. Hoopers Island was issued one of the earliest land grants in Dorchester County, Maryland. Geography Hoopers Island is located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The islands are situated on the south-west shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County. Hoopers Island is roughly long and consists of three small islands. The islands are very narrow in many places and one can easily see water, the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River, on both sides of Maryland Route 335 which travels through the islands.Cronin, William B. The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 2005. p. 87 Upper Hoopers islan ...
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