"The nearly completed fishing trawler Sea Bird is still on the ways in the South Portland yard in 1919. She will be launched shortly after a few last-minute adjustments are finished. The 163-foot trawler weighed 383 gross tons and was built for the East Coast Fisheries Company of Portland, Maine." Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. p. 59.