Pioneer (Schooner) - New York, NY
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bluesnote
N 40° 42.282 W 074° 00.151
18T E 584264 N 4506455
One of a few ships on display at the South Street Seaport Museum, partially located on Pier 16 in the East River.
Waymark Code: WMT9XF
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/21/2016
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Pioneer is a restored nineteenth century schooner sailing out of South Street Seaport in New York, New York. Pioneer was built in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1885 as a cargo sloop. She was the first of only two American cargo sloops ever built with a wrought iron hull. After ten years of service in the Delaware Bay, she was re-rigged as a schooner for easier handling.
In 1930, the Pioneer was sold to a buyer in Massachusetts. By this point, she had been fitted with an engine and no longer being used as a sailing vessel. She was sold again in 1966 to Russell Grinnell, Jr. of Gloucester for use in his dock building business. Grinnell restored Pioneer's schooner rig and rebuilt her hull in steel plating, leaving the iron frame intact. Upon his death in 1970, he donated Pioneer to the South Street Seaport Museum."
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