(continued from page 49) Friendship, the National Park Service’s replica of a 1797 East Indiaman, has returned to her homeport in Salem, Massachusetts, after an unanticipated extended shipyard period. The ship was hauled out in 2016 for routine inspection and repairs, but the expected four-month stint in Gloucester Marine Railways for
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Friendship in dry dock in 2016 hull work, engine maintenance, and mast seating repairs drew out as new problems were discovered, particularly below the waterline. In the end, the price tag for work done over more than two years out of the water amounted to $1.5 million. There is still much to be done—a complete deck replacement is planned for this fall/winter—but the people of Salem were thrilled to welcome home their tall ship to Derby Wharf. The original Friendship made fifteen voyages during her career to Batavia, India, China, South America, the Caribbean, England, Germany, the Mediterranean, and Russia. Built for the Salem mercantile firm Waite and Peirce in the South River shipyard of Enos Briggs, she ended her career as an American merchant ship when she was captured as a prize of war by the British Sloop of War HMS Rosamond in September 1812. The current iteration was built at Scarano Boat Building in Albany, New York, and arrived at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in September 1998; further work on the ship continued, including stepping masts and installing rigging, through 2000. Friendship is part of the National Park Service’s Salem Maritime National Historic Site, sailing occasionally as Essex County’s flagship,
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