Hey, Joey,
This may be of interest to some of your older readers and to all my Cape Ann Dahlmer relatives.
The picture if of my grandfather’s (Capt.John A. Dahlmer) 124′ dragger Superior at the Gloucester Machine shop pier off Duncan Street ready for her first trip after 3 years Naval Service in 1945. The other picture is grandfather on the deck of the Superior in 1932 after her launching as she was being fitted out in Glouceser.
Launched by Arthur D Story in 1932, The US Navy requisitioned her a few months after WWII in 1942. She was attached to the North Atlantic Sea Defense Command and spent a year on anti-submarine patrol. Then, she was used by the Navy to deliver gasoline, food and other supplies to allied weather stations on the coasts of Newfoundland and Greenland. She did her war duty without payment and was returned to grandfather with a certificate of meritorious service during the war. It’s taken me two years to pry the picture loose from the Navy and I’m still searching for a copy of the certificate.
Regards,
Bill Hubbard
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Good Morning Gloucester 
I remember that wharf. My dad tied up there back in the fifties before Urban Renewal. The round dome shaped building in the back ground on the left were old gas storage tanks. The building on the right was a grocery store. I remember the sawdust on the floor and the butcher’s block as if it were yesterday.
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Thomas Sale Loft was right there as well.
and Booth Fisheres just to the left.
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