AMERICAN PRIDE
AMERICAN PRIDE ARRIVING AT HER NEW HOME
The graceful three-masted schooner American Pride was built in 1941, originally as a two-masted
"schooner-dragger" and launched as the "Virginia". She spent over forty years commercially fishing
the Grand Banks and George's Banks. Her career spanned the New
England ports of New Bedford and Gloucester in Massachusetts,
Rockland in Maine. She was a working fishing boat, spending weeks at
sea in search of Cod, Haddock, Flounder, and Ocean Perch. From 1968 to
1986 she was know as the "Lady in Blue", named after a
prayer, and was captained by Sam and Paul Frontiero, father &
son who fished out of Gloucester. In 1986,
she was completely rebuilt in Thomaston, Maine, and certified
by the United States Coast Guard. The restoration included adding a
third mast, watertight bulkheads, new deck, bulwarks, interior, rigging,
machinery, etc. She was renamed the "Natalie Todd", and operated as
a charter boat out of Bar Harbor, Maine. In October of 1996, she was
purchased by the American Heritage Marine Institute, and began her
historic 7500 mile sail through the Panama Canal to her new home in
Rainbow Harbor, Long Beach,
California.
The once successful
fishing schooner now majestically sails the waters of Southern
California. Her huge tan-bark colored sails are very visible as she gracefully shares the
adventure and the romance of a "tallship" with all who come aboard
the AMERICAN
PRIDE.
WELCOME ABOARD FROM THE CAPTAIN AND
CREW OF
AMERICAN PRIDE
SPECIFICATIONS
- Length
overall--130'
- Length on
deck--101'
- Displacement--200
tons
- Sail Area--4900
sq.ft.
- Beam--22'
- Draft--10'
- Propulsion--Sail
& Diesel
PASSENGER
CAPACITY
- Coast Guard certified
Maximum 100
OVERNIGHT
CAPACITY
- Coast Guard certified
Maximum 49
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