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| x Barquentine California | Barquentine |
The Barquentine California was a barquentine ship measuring 83 feet. It was designed by Al Mason in 1927 while he was still in high school.
During World War II, it was a Navy vessel in the South Pacific. After sailing around the world in the late...
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| x USS Eagle | Schooner |
The first USS Eagle, a schooner, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and commissioned in the Revenue Cutter Service under the command of Captain H. G. Campbell, USRCS. She was transferred to the Navy in July 1798 for service in the...
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| x USCGC Eagle |
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Barque | 44.9 |
The USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) (ex-Horst Wessel) is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She and the USS Constitution are the only active commissioned sailing vessels in American...
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| x USS Eagle | Sloop |
The second USS Eagle, a sloop, was a merchant ship purchased at Vergennes, Vermont on Lake Champlain in 1812 and fitted for naval service. She cruised on the lake under the command of Sailing Master J. Loomis as a member of Commodore Thomas...
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| x HMS Investigator | Sloop |
HMS Investigator was a survey sloop of the Royal Navy. She was purchased in 1823 for service in Indian waters. Her fate is unknown.
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| x USS Eagle | Brig |
The third USS Eagle, a brig, was launched 11 August 1814 as Surprise at Vergennes, Vermont, by Adam and Noah Brown. She was renamed Eagle 6 September and placed under the command of Lieutenant R. Henley.
Finished in bare time to participate in the...
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| x USS Lawrence |
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Snow |
The first USS Lawrence was one of two 493-ton Niagara-class brigs (more correctly: snows) built at Erie, Pennsylvania, by Adam and Noah Brown under the supervision of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins and Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, for...
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| x USS Niagara |
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Snow |
The first USS Niagara, also known as US Brig Niagara, was a brig (more correctly a snow) in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Niagara was built at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, along with her sister ship, the Lawrence, by Adam and Noah...
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| x USS Peacock | Sloop-of-war |
The first USS Peacock was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Peacock was authorized by Act of Congress 3 March 1813; laid down 9 July 1813 by Adam & Noah Brown at the New York Navy Yard; and launched 19 September 1813....
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| x Texan sloop-of-war Austin |
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Sloop-of-war |
The Texan sloop-of-war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840-1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla in the capture of Villahermosa in 1840. After a period of inaction in port, Austin participated in...
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| x USS Constitution |
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Sailing Frigate |
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world....
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| x French ship Sans Pareil |
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Ship of the line |
The Sans Pareil ("Non Such") was an 80-gun Tonnant class ship of the line of the French Navy.
She took part in the Glorious First of June, where she was totally dismasted by HMS Royal George, and eventually captured. She was converted into a sheer...
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| x HMS Ajax |
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Ship of the line | William Bateley |
HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 December 1767 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship built to her draught.
She saw extensive action in the War of...
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| x HMS Queen | Ship of the line | William Bateley |
HMS Queen was a three-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 September 1769 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship built to her draught. Her armament was increased to 98...
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| x HMS Suffolk | William Bateley |
HMS Suffolk was a 74-gun Third Rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 February 1765 at Rotherhithe. She was designed by William Bateley, based on the principles of his earlier HMS Fame, and was the only ship built to her draught.
On...
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| x HMS Fame | Ship of the line | William Bateley |
HMS Fame was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 January 1759. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship ever built to her draught.
In 1762, while in company with Lion, she captured the...
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| x USS Constellation |
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Sloop-of-war |
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war, and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry, the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853, in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk,...
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| x General Grant |
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Barque |
The General Grant was a 1,005-ton three-masted barque carrying 58 passengers and 25 crew, and bound from Melbourne to London in May 1866. She was named after Ulysses S. Grant, who later became 18th President of the United States.
It is remembered...
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| x USRC Rush |
The United States Revenue Cutter Rush was one of 13 cutters of the Morris-Taney Class to be launched. Named after Secretaries of the Treasury and Presidents of the United States, these cutters were the backbone of the Service for more than a decade....
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| x French ship Agréable |
The Agréable ("pleasant") was a 56-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She was built in 1670 as Glorieux ("Glorious") and renamed to Agréable in January 1675.
In 1700, she departed France for India in order to ferry a load of gold back to...
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| x French ship Artésien |
The Artésien (“Artesian”) was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
She was built in 1765 as a part of a series of 12 ships of the line began by Choiseul to compensate for the losses endured by the French Royal Navy...
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| x French ship Protecteur |
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The Protecteur was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, the only to have borne the name.
She was laid down in 1757 and launched in 1760.
Under M. de Grasse-Limermont, the Protecteur took part in the American revolutionary war, notably the...
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| x USS Maria J. Carlton |
USS Maria J. Carlton (1861) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a mortar schooner after being outfitted with a mortar and howitzers which could fire a projectile up-and-over...
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| x USS Reprisal |
Reprisal, 18, was the first ship of what was to become the United States Navy to be given the name promising hostile action in response to an offence. Originally the merchantman brig Molly, she was purchased by the Marine Committee of the...
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| x Pretoria |
The American ship Pretoria was one of the largest wooden ships ever constructed. The Pretoria was a schooner-barge, and 103 meters (338 ft) long, 13.4 meters (44 ft) wide and 7 meters (23 ft) in depth.
It was a barge built for use on the Great Lakes...
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| x Mercantile |
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The two-masted schooner Mercantile is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
The boat became a landmark in 1991.
Mercantile was built in 1916 and served as a coastal trading vessel until 1943, at which point she entered the tourist trade in Maine.
She...
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| x Essex |
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Whaler |
The Essex was an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was 87 feet (27 m) long, measured 238 tons, and was captained by the 28-year-old George Pollard, Jr.. She is best known for being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the...
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| x Thomas W. Lawson |
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Schooner | Bowdoin B. Crowninshield |
The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being...
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| x Adventuress |
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Schooner | Bowdoin B. Crowninshield |
Adventuress is a 133-foot gaff-rigged schooner launched in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine. She has since been restored, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
Adventuress is currently operated by Sound Experience, a non-profit organization...
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| x USS Zahma | Ketch | Bowdoin B. Crowninshield |
USS Zahma (IX-63), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be given that name. A wooden-hulled ketch with an auxiliary engine, she was designed by B. B. Crowninshield and completed in 1915 at Neponset,...
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| x International 420 Class Dinghy |
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The International 420 Class Dinghy is a monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting. It is designed for a crew of two. The name describes the overall length of the boat in centimeters (the boat is exactly 4.2 meters...
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| x Shenandoah |
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Schooner |
The Shenandoah is a 108-foot (33 m) square topsail schooner that is operating as a cruise ship in the waters of Vineyard Haven Harbor, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The Shenandoah is the only vessel of her size and rig, without an engine,...
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| x Kruzenshtern |
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Barque |
The Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern (Russian: Барк «Крузенштерн») is a Russian four masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 in Bremerhaven-Wesermünde, Germany, as shipyard number "S408" under the name Padua (named after the eponymous Italian...
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| x USS Vesuvius |
USS Vesuvius was a bomb ketch and the first ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano.
Vesuvius was built by Jacob Coffin at Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was launched on 31 May 1806 and commissioned in or before September 1806...
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| x USS Boston |
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Sailing Frigate |
The second USS Boston was a 24-gun frigate, launched 3 June 1776 by Stephen and Ralph Cross, Newburyport, Massachusetts, and completed the following year with Captain Hector McNeill in command.
On 21 May 1777, Boston sailed in company with Hancock...
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| x USS Dolphin | Brig |
The third USS Dolphin was a brig in the United States Navy. Her plans were the basis of other brigs of that time. She was named for the aquatic mammal.
She was launched on 17 June 1836 at New York Navy Yard, and commissioned on 6 September 1836. She...
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| x USS Bourbon | Sailing Frigate |
USS Bourbon was a frigate in the Continental Navy, named for the House of Bourbon.
During the American Revolutionary War, Bourbon was authorized as a 28-gun frigate by the Continental Congress 23 January 1777 and built at Chatham, Connecticut, under...
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| x USS Columbus |
The first USS Columbus was a ship in the Continental Navy. Built at Philadelphia in 1774 as Sally, she was purchased for the Continental Navy in November 1775, Captain Abraham Whipple in command.
Between 17 February and 8 April 1776, in company with...
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| x USS Yorktown | Sloop-of-war |
The first USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the U.S. Navy.
She was laid down in 1838 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, launched in 1839, and commissioned on 15 November 1840, Commander John H. Aulick in command.
Yorktown departed Hampton Roads on 13...
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| x USS Bainbridge |
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Brig |
The first USS Bainbridge was a brig in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for William Bainbridge.
Bainbridge was launched 26 April 1842 by Boston Navy Yard and commissioned 16 December 1842, Commander Z. F. Johnston...
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| x USS Marion | Sloop-of-war |
USS Marion was a sloop-of-war of the third rate in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Marion was launched at the Boston Navy Yard on 24 April 1839. On 10 November 1839, she departed Boston on her first cruise, to Brazil. Sunk when...
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| x USS Cyane |
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Sloop-of-war |
The second USS Cyane was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War.
Cyane was launched 2 December 1837 by Boston Navy Yard. She was commissioned in May 1838, Commander J. Percival in command.
She sailed 24 June 1838...
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| x SV Estelle |
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S/v Estelle is a fair trade cargo sailboat that is currently Finland's biggest sailboat in use. It was originally built in Emden, Germany in 1922 as a 42-meter, steel-hulled ship for trawl fishing in the Baltic Sea. Estelle's hometown is Turku,...
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| x HMS Surprise |
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Full rigged ship |
HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada as Rose in 1970 to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th century British Admiralty drawings. She is a replica of HMS Rose, a sixth-rate frigate built in 1757.
The...
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| x Amerigo Vespucci |
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Full rigged ship |
The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is Livorno, Italy. As of 2008, she is still in use as a school ship.
In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two school ships to be built...
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| x Columbia Rediviva |
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Full rigged ship |
Columbia Rediviva (commonly known as the Columbia) was a privately owned ship under Captain Robert Gray, best known for going to the Pacific Northwest for the fur trade. The "Rediviva" (Latin "revived") was added to her name upon a rebuilding in...
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| x Christian Radich |
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Full rigged ship |
Christian Radich is a Norwegian full rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation...
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| x French ship Swiftsure | Ship of the line |
HMS Swiftsure, she was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford and launched on 4 April 1787.
She fought at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, and was captured by the French ships Indivisible and Dix-Août in the...
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| x Sloop Montgomery |
The Sloop Montgomery (1776) was an American privateer during the American Revolution. It was captained by William Rogers, who was succeed by William Mercier. It compiled a successful capture record during its service. It sailed in tandem with the...
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| x Sailing barge Thalatta |
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The Thalatta was a Thames sailing barge, built in Harwich, Essex, in 1906. She was 90 feet long and 26 feet across the widest part of the deck. Like all Thames barges, she was flat-bottomed and had leeboards instead of a keel. She spent some of her...
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| x Thistle |
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Thistle was the unsuccessful Scottish challenger of the seventh America's Cup in 1887 against American defender Volunteer.
The cutter Thistle was designed by George Lennox Watson and built by D. & W. Henderson & Company at Partick on the Clyde,...
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| x Volunteer |
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"Volunteer" was the victorious American defender of the seventh America's Cup race in 1887 against Scottish challenger "Thistle".
"Volunteer," a centerboard compromise sloop, was designed by Edward Burgess and built by Pusey & Jones Shipbuilding...
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| x Shamrock |
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Shamrock was the unsuccessful Irish challenger for the 10th America's Cup in 1899 against the United States defender, Columbia.
Shamrock was designed by third-generation Scottish boatbuilder, William Fife III, Jr., and built in 1898 by J....
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| x Islander |
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Yawl |
The Islander was the 34-foot yawl that Harry Pidgeon sailed around the world single-handed, becoming the second person to do so after Joshua Slocum.
The yawl was built along the lines of Sea Bird, a 25' V-bottom boat designed by Captain Thomas...
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| x USS Queen of France | Sailing Frigate |
USS Queen of France was a frigate in the Continental Navy. She was named for Marie Antoinette.
Queen of France was an old ship purchased in France in 1777 by American commissioners, Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, and fitted out as a 28-gun...
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| x USS Bowdoin | Schooner |
Bowdoin, a two-masted auxiliary schooner built in 1921 at East Boothbay, Maine, by Hodgdon Brothers was purchased by the United States Navy from Mr. Donald B. MacMillan of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on 22 May 1941; designated IX-50; and placed in...
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| x CSS Shenandoah |
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CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged vessel with auxiliary steam power, captained by Commander James Waddell, CSN, a North Carolinian with twenty years' service in the United States navy. Shenandoah fired...
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| x USS Nantucket |
USS Nantucket (PG-23/IX-18) was originially named USS Ranger. She was the fourth ship of the name Ranger. She was an iron-hulled steam-powered vessel, with a full-rig auxiliary sail, was laid down in 1873; launched in 1876 by Harlan and...
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| x USS James L. Davis |
USS James L. Davis (1861) was a bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
James L. Davis (also...
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| x USS Saluda |
USS Saluda (IX-87) was a wooden-hulled, yawl-rigged yacht of the of the United States Navy. Built in 1938 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., City Island, New York as the Odyssey, the yacht was acquired by the Navy on 31 July 1942 from Mrs. Barklie Henry of...
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