Pride of Baltimore
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| Name: | Pride of Baltimore |
| Owner: | City of Baltimore |
| Builder: | Melbourne Smith/International Historical Watercraft Society |
| Laid down: | April 1976 |
| Launched: | February 27, 1977 |
| Commissioned: | May 1, 1977 |
| Homeport: | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Fate: | Sunk, May 14, 1986 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Topsail schooner |
| Displacement: | 129 long tons (131 t) |
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| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
| Sail plan: | 9,327 sq ft (866.5 m2) sail area |
| Crew: | 12 |
Pride of Baltimore II at OpSail 2000
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| Name: | Pride of Baltimore II |
| Owner: | Pride of Baltimore, Inc. |
| Operator: | Pride of Baltimore, Inc. |
| Port of registry: | U.S.A. |
| Builder: | G. Peter Boudreau |
| Launched: | April 30, 1988 |
| Commissioned: | October 23, 1988 |
| Maiden voyage: | October 23, 1988 |
| Homeport: | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Identification: | MMSI number: 303615000 |
| Nickname(s): | "America's Star-Spangled Ambassador" |
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| Type: | Topsail schooner |
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| Beam: | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Height: | 107 ft (33 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Propulsion: | two 160 horsepower diesel |
| Sail plan: | 9,018 sq ft (837.8 m2) sail area |
| Speed: | Up to 13 knots |
| Crew: | 12 |
The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider and small but nimble warship in the War of 1812 against British merchant shipping and a vastly superior Royal Navy. Commissioned in an elaborate public ceremony in the historic Inner Harbor adjacent to downtown city skyscrapers, watched by thousands of Baltimoreans and Marylanders on May 1, 1977, by Mayor William Donald Schaefer of Baltimore City and the State of Maryland, she spent nine years at sea logging over 150,000 miles, equivalent to six times around the globe. On May 14 1986, the first Pride of Baltimore was lost at sea in the Caribbean Sea, and her Captain and three of the crew perished.
The Pride of Baltimore II was commissioned as the successor and memorial to the Pride in 1988, sailing in the same Goodwill Ambassador role for the City of Baltimore, but now expanded to also representing the State of Maryland and the "Land of Pleasant Living" in the Chesapeake Bay region. Pride II has sailed nearly 200,000 miles and visited over 200 ports in 40 countries in its now near three decades of voyages.
The Pride of Baltimore was built as an authentic reproduction of an early nineteenth-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner. She was not patterned after any particular vessel, but was rather designed as a typical "Baltimore Clipper" of the type in its heyday. She was indirectly named for the Baltimore-built topsail schooner Chasseur sailed by the privateer captain Thomas Boyle - Chasseur was known as the "Pride of Baltimore" and participated in the War of 1812.
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