Roseway
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Roseway is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on 24 November 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. She is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is normally operated out of Boston, Massachusetts and Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997 as the only known surviving example of a fishing schooner built specifically with racing competition as an objective.[2] In 1941, Roseway was purchased by the Boston Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for Boston Harbor, as a replacement for the pilot-boat Northern Light, which was sold to the United States Army for war service.
Roseway under partial sail | |
History | |
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Name | Roseway |
Owner |
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Operator | World Ocean School |
Builder | John F. James & Son |
Launched | 24 November 1925 |
Homeport | Boston, MA and Christiansted, St Croix, USVI |
Identification |
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Name | CGR-812 |
Acquired | May 1942 |
Fate | Returned to Boston Pilots November 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Length |
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Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | Sail, 400 hp (300 kW) diesel engine |
Sail plan | Gaff-rigged schooner, 5,600 sq ft (520 m2) total sail |
Notes | Hull material: Wood (white oak, native pine, Douglas fir) |
Location | Seasonally Boston, Massachusetts or St. Croix, USVI |
Built | 1925 |
Architect | John F. James & Son |
Architectural style | Gaff-rigged wooden schooner |
NRHP reference No. | 97001278 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 25 September 1997 |
Designated NHL | 25 September 1997[1] |