CNHS - Bluenose - Lunenburg, NS
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jiggs11
N 44° 22.547 W 064° 18.673
20T E 395539 N 4914447
Original home of the Bluenose, Canada's most iconic schooner, and the summer berth of the replica Bluenose II.
Waymark Code: WMPM8Q
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 09/19/2015
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Bluenose was a fishing schooner built in Lunenburg in 1921. For many years she held the record for the fastest schooner to sail. In 1937, she was featured on the back of the newly designed Canadian 10 cent piece, where she is still featured, 81 years later.
The Bluenose was sunk off the coast of Haiti in 1946.
In 1963 the Oland Brewery commissioned an exact replica to be made as a floating ambassador for the brewery. The Bluenose II is visually exact in virtually every way, however modern technology and materials have overtaken much of the original components.
In 1971 the ship was sold to the Nova Scotia government for $1. She now travels around the Maritimes as Nova Scotia's floating ambassador. She summers in Lunenburg, when not away. During the winter she is kept under cover at the Nova Scotia Maritime Museum in Halifax.
We were fortunate to tour the decks barely 2 weeks after the ship had returned to Lunenburg from a five year refit, completed in 2014.
Admission to the decks is free. Short excursions are available at a reasonable cost, but most are sold out well in advance.
The Bluenose was recognized as an historic site in 1952.
The CNHS plaque reads:
"The Bluenose, "queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleet", was a schooner of 285 tons, designed by W.J. Roue of Halifax and built of Nova Scotian materials by Smith and Rhuland at Lunenburg. Launched in 1921, she won, in that same year, the Herald trophy, emblematic of the sailing championship of the international fishing fleet. Never defeated in her native waters, she successfully defended her championship in 1922, 1923, 1931, and in 1938. A successful working schooner, she also holds the record for the largest single catch of fish ever brought into Lunenburg by a sailing vessel. She was wrecked and lost off Haiti in 1946."
Classification: National Historic Site
Province or Territory: Nova Scotia
Location - City name/Town name: Lunenburg
Link to Parks Canada entry (must be on www.pc.gc.ca): [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca: [Web Link]
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