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Taken at the Festival of Sail, 2011 in San Diego, California.

American Pride - USA Length: 130’ Beam: 22’ Draft: 10’ Sail Area: 4,900 sq. ft. Rig: Schooner, three masted Built: 1941 Brooklyn, New York Home Port: Long Beach, California

American Pride was originally launched as a two masted “schooner-dragger” and named the Virginia. Her first forty years were spent commercially fishing the Grand Banks and George’s Banks, searching the New England coasts for cod, haddock, flounder and ocean perch. Her second name change was the Lady in Blue, named after a prayer and was run by the Frontiero family who were Gloucester fishermen. In 1986, she was completely rebuilt for charter operations, a third mast was added and she was renamed the Natalie Todd. Ten years later she was purchased by the American Heritage Marine Institute, renamed the American Pride and sailed through the Panama Canal to reach her new home in Long Beach where she now operates as a private charter for the general public and school groups for the Children’s Maritime Foundation.

Californian - USA Length Overall: 145' Beam: 24' Draft: 9' 6" Sail Area: 7,000 sq.ft. Rig: Tops'l Schooner Built: 1984 San Diego Home Port: San Diego, California

Californian joined the historic fleet of ships at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in 2002. She is the Official Tall Ship of the State of California, and helps carry out the educational missions of the Maritime Museum by hosting hundreds of students year round in a variety of American Revolutionary history, sail training, and Youth-At-Risk programs. The general public has the chance to sail her weekends or to Catalina on adventure sail expeditions. She was designed as a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence and constructed locally at Spanish Landing by many San Diego members and volunteers of the Nautical Heritage Society. Built long and lean, capable of great speeds off the wind, the Revenue Service’s cutters patrolled the Californian coast during the Gold Rush Era and were a precursor to today's Coast Guard.