Sea History 062 - Summer 1992

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South Street Seaport,

July6 Manhattan's historic South Street, once famous round the world as "the Street ofShips," is once again a forest of masts, playing host to the USCG Eagle (foreground) and beyond her the brig Niagara from Lake Erie and the Norwegian full-rigged ship Christian Radich . To the left is the British frigate replica "HMS" Rose, whose crew is aloft furling .

PHOTOBYWILLIAME. BURGESS

NMHS members watch the fleet from the Staten Island ferry John F. Kennedy .

New York to Boston, July 10 The speedy new brig Fryderyk Chopin plunges ahead under a press of canvas, bound from New York to Boston. Chopin and her forty Scottish sail training cadets joined 200 other ships and 7,000 cadets and crewfor Sail Boston ' 92,July11-16, the last American port of call for the Grand Regatta. (Photo by Rob Arra, Over Narragansett Bay, Bowen's Wha1f, Newport RI 02840) SEA HISTORY 62, SUMMER 1992

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