Woods Hole vessels such as the Cap’n Bill II unloaded at Cahoon’s Harborside Fish Market, a wharf-side business that stood near the terminus of the railroad that serviced Woods Hole from 1872 until 1965.

The building in the background is the Steamship Authority ferry terminal.

The Cap’n Bill II was owned and operated by Henry Klimm, Jr., a local fisherman who was still going out to catch squid for the Marine Biological Laboratory in 2003 at the age of 89. Cahoon’s market was owned by Sam Cahoon and his son from 1915 until it closed in 1966. In the 1940s and 50s Cahoon’s market was the largest employer in Woods Hole.