Roseway (schooner)

The "Roseway" is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on November 24, 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. She is now restored and listed as a National Historic Landmark.

She is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational organization based in Camden, Maine.

= History ="Roseway" was built for Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts at the John F. James & Son shipyard in Essex. Hathaway's intention was to build a boat which might best the Canadians in the international fisherman's races popular at that time; to that end, "Roseway" was impeccably maintained and used only occasionally as a fishing boat. [http://www.worldoceanschool.org/roseway_history.htm |accessdate=2008-03-25]

In 1941, "Roseway" was purchased by the Boston Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for Boston Harbor. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor later that year, mines and anti-submarine netting were installed to protect the Port of Boston, and all lighted navigational aids were extinguished. "Roseway" was fitted with a .50 caliber machine gun and continued her piloting duties in this challenging environment, for which service her pilots were awarded a bronze plaque from the Coast Guard at the end of the war. [http://www.worldoceanschool.org/roseway_history.htm accessdate=2008-03-25] "Roseway" continued to serve as a pilot vessel until the early 1970s, at which point she and San Francisco's "Zodiac" were the only pilot schooners still in service in the United States. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=VNsGi3nmuaQC&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=zodiac+pilot-schooner&source=web&ots=tqR3Rmr2sv&sig=D4eG08-n2m8WlNo7O7R9oAvFqOg&hl=en#PPA137,M1 Tom Cunliffe & Adrian Osler (2001). "Pilots. The World of Pilotage under Sail and Oar. Vol. 1. Pilot Schooners of North America and Great Britain." Wooden Boat Publications.] ISBN 978-0937822692 (p. 137)] [http://www.worldoceanschool.org/roseway_history.htm |accessdate=2008-03-25] She was then sold and converted into a passenger vessel for the tourist trade. "Roseway" changed hands several times in the ensuing decades, operating primarily out of Camden, Maine and the US Virgin Islands. In 1997, she was listed as a National Historic Landmark. "Roseway", at that time, retained between eighty and ninety percent of her original hull fabric and was badly in need of repairs.cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=921373059&ResourceType=Structure
title=ROSEWAY (schooner) |accessdate=2008-03-25|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service] She remained docked in Rockland, Maine until she was repossessed by the First National Bank of Damariscotta, which in 2002 donated the vessel to the newly founded World Ocean School.

Following two years of restoration in Boothbay Harbor, "Roseway" again set sail in 2005. She currently serves as the platform for the World Ocean School, which offers various educational programs in St. Croix and the northeastern United States.

ee also

*Historic preservation
*National Historic Landmark
*History of Full Rigged Ships

References

External links

* [http://www.worldoceanschool.org World Ocean School]
* [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=921373059&ResourceType=Structure National Historic Landmark listing for the schooner Roseway]
* [http://www.bostonpilots.com/ Boston Pilots' Association]