Rice Brothers Corporation was a shipyard located in East Boothbay, Maine that operated from 1892 until 1956.
[1] They built numerous types of small ships (schooners, catboats, yachts, yawls, sloops, ketches, fishing trawlers, motorboats) for private owners as well as ships for the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S.
[1] In 1924 and 1925, they built ten 75-foot patrol boats for the U.S. Coast Guard (numbered CG-170 through CG-179) which were used during Prohibition to intercept rumrunners.
[1] Between 1921 and 1950, they built four lightships: Poe (LV-99) in 1921; Cornfield (LV-118) in 1938; and Columbia (WAL-604) and Overfalls (WAL-605) in 1950.
[3] The site is now part of the Washburn & Doughty shipyard.