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MARYLAND, USA
State ship launched after three-year build Nearly three years after beginning the largest construction project they
maintained by the Historic St Mary’s City Commission. An earlier version
had ever taken on, shipwrights at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
of the ship, built in the 1970s by Cambridge’s Jim Richardson, was
watched the roughly 43-tonne Maryland Dove being craned into the
nearing the end of its useful life and decades of new research meant
Miles River on 28 March, the biggest vessel to have been launched in St
that a new ship could be designed to be a more historically accurate
Michaels since 1904. It’s a major milestone in the project, which is due
representation of the original Maryland Dove.
to be complete this spring. Maryland Dove, a two-masted vessel of 57ft
“I am incredibly proud of my team’s accomplishment” said CBMM’s
(17.4m) is a representation of the late-17th-century trading ship that
lead shipwright, Joe Connor, who has managed the build from the start.
accompanied the first European settlers to what is now Maryland. The
“We have assembled some of the most talented shipwrights I’ve ever
ship is owned by the state of Maryland and will be operated and
worked with, and we’re all looking forward to seeing the ship sail away.”
FALMOUTH, CORNWALL
Ben’s hattrick Contributor Nic Compton recently took this photo of all
three of Ben Harris’s newly-built boats under one roof. “Alva, NIC COMPTON, SALTY DOG MEDIA
Panacea and Constance are in
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the shed now and we have other boats being worked on too” said Ben. Alva is a 30ft (9.1m) Paul Gartside design; Panacea a 23ft (7m) Ed Burnett yacht; and Constance is a 34ft (10.4m) yacht from the lines of the famous Curlew.
