"The winter of 1904-1905 was a real cold one. Ice in upper Penobscot Bay, Belfast to Rockland, was so thick it stopped all maritime commerce. The bay was frozen from February 5 to March 28 and the Revenue Cutter Levi Woodbury was doing it's best to keep the harbors and channels open. Shown here is a photograph taken around February 23, when men from Belfast, armed with horse-drawn saws cut a channel into Belfast. The Woodbury would back up, ram the ice, then repeat the process until the ice cracked. The thickness of the ice from Islesboro to Belfast measured 15" thick in most places!"