the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was launched in Essex, Massachusetts, as the Effie. M. Morrissey to operate as a Grand Banks dory fishing schooner. She subsequently made twenty voyages as an Arctic explorat ion vessel under the legendary Captain Bob Bartlett. The schooner was later purchased by Captain Henrique Mendes, who changed her name to Ernestina and used her as a rransAtlantic and inter island Cape Verde packer. She was
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reb uilt and gifted back to the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by rhe Republic of Cape Verde in 1976 as a living symbol of the connections between the two countries. H er restoration was completed in the US, headed up by Captain Daniel D. Moreland. In the 198 0s and early 1990s, Ernestina was sailed regularly our of New Bedford as an ambassador for the Commonwealth, a sail training vessel and sea-based classroom before becoming a static exhibit along the New Bedford waterfro nt, once her physical conditio n kept her from putting to sea with students. Upon completion of the most recent renovation, currently underway in Boothbay Harbor, Ma ine, the hull will meet Coast Guard standards for an Ocean License, a requirement which will allow the vessel to be added to the Beer at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, along the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. Anyone interested in helping SEMA meet the march should contact Mary Anne McQuillan at maryanne@ernestina.org or visit www.ernesrina.org. ... In 2020 , Plymouth University, along with autonomous marine vessel company MSubs and award-winning yacht design firm Shuttleworth Design, will mark the 400rh anniversary of the hisroric Mayflower voyages with a historic voyage of a different SEA HISTORY 158, SPRING 20 17
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