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Following Old Ironsides and the schooner America, the third ship to enter was the Danmark, which flew most of its sails as it entered the harbor. Crew members were standing on the masts high above the deck of the Danish ship as it cruised past awed spectators...
...schooner Larinda, an 86-foot long ship out of Cape Cod, was one of the most exotic ships in the parade. The Larinda, which features distinctive battened lug sails, was built as a replica of a colonial Boston schooner...
...cured cheese 2. Antiquing agent 3. Who -- Turn To 4. Winds up 5. Defeat soundly 6. __ up (angry) 7. Psyche parts 8. Ho-hum 9. Puppeteer Rufus, whose family is in a custody battle for Howdy Doody 10. State with conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall St. debut...
...past two years, shipwrights at the Mystic Seaport have been busily hammering together a $3.1 million re-creation of the Amistad, an otherwise unremarkable schooner that figured in a remarkable page in American history. In 1839 the ship was making a slave run in Cuban waters when the 53 kidnapped Africans it was carrying rose up in revolt. The mutiny was ultimately put down when the remaining crew secretly steered the boat to Montauk, N.Y., and the Africans were taken into custody. They eventually went free when the U.S. Supreme Court declared their enslavement illegal. More than a century...
...Navy had a fourth ship by the name Enterprise, a 194-ton schooner...