Please join us as we chart a new course and create another new chapter in the history of this venerable vessel.

Sailing vessel ernestina. CLASSIC SAILING NEWS December 20. Morrissey was used in the Cape Verde Packet trade that carried goods and Cape Verdeans from the islands and the United States. According to its history Ernestina was the last sailing vessel to provide regular service for immigrants looking to cross the Atlantic to the United States.

Owned by the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and placed in the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association Inc. For those who know about the history of these vessels the Ernestina is one of those.

She reached within 600 miles of the North Pole. Furthermore you can also identify sailing ships that you have seen or photographed by certain very simple characteristics. A vessel that has lived many lives the Ernestina-Morrisey was originally a fishing schooner built for Captain William E.

Morrissey she has sailed on through the century to become one of six remaining Essex-built schooners. However the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association a. SEMA is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation with the purpose of raising funds to provide for the maintenance equipment manning programming and operation of the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey as a sail training vessel school ship and educational enterprise.

The idea is that this is a 19th century sailing vessel which is going to be asked to perform under 21st century rules and regulations Short said. Coast Guard as a Sailing School Vessel 1986 Passenger Vessel 1994. Per An Act to Preserve the Schooner Ernestina Morrissey S2328 as of October 6 2020 the Schooner Ernestina Commission has been reconstituted into the Schooner Ernestina Morrissey Advisory Board reporting to the President of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Future meeting notices and other information will. Morrisey in 1894 then known as Morrisey. Massachusetts The states official sailing vessel is getting a sprucing up.