Steven Lang

born 1939

American (New York, New York; Owls Head, Maine)

Steven (Steve) Lang was born in 1939 in New York City to Robert and Florence Lang. He grew up just outside of New York City and started sailing when he was young. He attended a university-level art school for two and a half years, before joining the merchant marines and spent three years in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, serving in the last boat battalion of the Army. After his stint in the Army, he was employed at the Patrick Ellam Yacht Delivery service, working his way from deckhand to master and became assistant manager. He was the owner of Tugboat Photos & Research and is a founding director of the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine, where he resides.