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What is special about Ernestina?
Only surviving
19th century
Essex-built
Grand Banks fishing schooner		 Only surviving
sailing transatlantic
packet schooner
to carry immigrants to America
Set farthest north record
for any wooden
sailing vessel in 1940		 Named  in
New Bedford Whaling
National Historical Park enabling legislation		 One of two
remaining sailing Arctic
exploration vessels		 
Schooner Ernestina is...
 
Owned
by the people of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and placed in the
Department of Conservation and Recreation
 1894 Photo 
Recognized
as a
National Historic Landmark
by the
Department of Interior
with award winning restoration
 
Inspected
by the U.S. Coast Guard as a Sailing School Vessel (1986)
& Passenger Vessel (1994)
   

1994 Photo
 
 

Copyright 1997-2006
Schooner Ernestina
P.O. Box 2010, New Bedford, MA 02741-2010
phone 508.992.4900 -- fax 508.984.7719
www.ernestina.org