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The Pride of Baltimore ll Clipper ship
The Pride was originally built as an authentic reproduction of a 19th-century Baltimore clipper schooner. She was not patterned after any particular vessel, but rather she was designed as a typical Baltimore Clipper as they were in their heyday. She was named, in a round-about way, for the legendary Baltimore-built topsail schooner Chasseur sailed by the privateer Thomas Boyle: The Chasseur was known as the "Pride of Baltimore" and participated in the War of 1812.
One of the most famous of the American privateers, Captain Thomas Boyle sailed his Baltimore clipper, Chasseur, out of Fells Point, where she had been launched from Thomas Kemp's shipyard in 1812. On his first voyage as master of Chasseur in 1814, Boyle sailed east to the British Isles, where he harassed the British merchant fleet and sent a notice to George III, by way of a captured merchant vessel, declaring that the entire British Isles were under naval blockade by Chasseur alone! Despite its implausibility, this caused the British Admiralty to call vessels home from the American war to guard merchant ships sailing in convoys. Chasseur captured or sank 17 vessels before returning home to Baltimore on 25 March 1815. Perhaps her most famous accomplishment was the capture of the schooner HMS St Lawrence. On her return to Baltimore, the Niles Weekly Register dubbed the Chasseur, her captain, and crew the "pride of Baltimore" for their achievement.

*** note on The first Pride Of Baltimore

Sinking
On May 14, 1986, returning from the Caribbean, what the United States Coast Guard later described as a microburst squall, possibly a white squall, 250 nautical miles (463 km) north of Puerto Rico struck the Pride. Winds of 80 knots (150 km/h; 92 mph) hit the vessel, capsizing and sinking her. Her captain and three crew were lost; the remaining eight crewmembers floated in a partially inflated life-raft for four days and seven hours with little food or water until the Norwegian tanker Toro came upon them and rescued them.
A memorial on Rash Field in Baltimore's Inner Harbor memorializes the Pride's lost captain and crewmembers (Armin Elsaesser 42, Captain; Vincent Lazarro, 27, Engineer; Barry Duckworth, 29, Carpenter; and Nina Schack, 23, Seaman).

 

Good Sailing so far . Here are a couple of old Phoenician coins from Lebanon.
Charles

 

Outta all of them, it's the '63 Monitor! Quite nice!

 

Country: NETHERLANDS (Utrecht)
Type: 6 Stuivers (Scheepjesschelling) Date: 1748
Certification: NGC #3067480-006 Grade: MS 63
Coin Information:
Design: OBVERSE: An East Indiaman ship sailing right on the seas. Legend: "CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRES****" - Translates "With Unity Small Things Increase" ~ REVERSE: Crowned arms divide value, date above crown with Legend: “MO:NO:ARG:ORDIN:TRAIECT•” – Translates “Gold Money of the Province of Utrecht”
Mint: Utrecht
Mintage: Unknown
References: KM #101a / Delmonte #987 (Rarity Scale = R.1-R.2 - Rare to Very Rare)
Specifications: Diameter – 27.0 mm
Weight – 7.000 g. @ 0.9170 Gold = .1463 oz AGW
Acquired: Northeast Numismatics – September 2008
Providence: None
Notes:
➢ This coin is also referred to as a "Scheepjesschelling" and a “escalin au navire” – (Delmonte)
➢ This coin’s weight is equal to 2 ducats.
➢ An East Indiaman ship was a large heavily armed merchant sailing vessel of the type built from the 16th to the 19th century for the trade between Europe and East Indies/Southern Asia. The first were Portuguese and Dutch with English Indiamen appearing late in the 16th century. The ships varied in size from about 400 to 1,500 tons and more; often they were larger than contemporary men-of-war. They were three-masted and invariably well armed for protection against piracy. They were mainly operated by The East India Company. The stately magnificent ships were considered to be the “Lords of the Ocean”.

 

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