THE
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 Children's Maritime Foundation, 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.
The Children's
Maritime Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and we depend on the
generosity of our Donors who provide support to our annual operating costs.
Please join our Officers Club
with a donation. There are endless possibilities from which to choose how
you can contribute to the Children's Maritime Foundation in a meaningful way!
WELCOME ABOARD FROM THE CAPTAIN AND
CREW OF
AMERICAN PRIDE
SPECIFICATIONS
PASSENGER
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