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Barkentine Information and Links (0 words) |
 | Barkentine barquentine barketeen-3 Masted with Sq rigged on fore mast only with the main and mizen being fore and aft rigged.It was used for coastal shipping of it's ability to go into the wind with the fore-aft sails, but still has the square sails to catch long wind currents. |
| She was built in 1883 in Portugal, and probably spent her first 17 years engaged in the coast wise freight trade in Europe. |
| In 1900 she was purchased by the Bensaude family and converted to a dory fisherman, the career in which she spent the next 70 years of her life.she is current owned and operated by Philadelphia Ship Presevation Guild a private non profit organization. |
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| A few minutes later the Alert's bowsprit fowled the fore rigging of the Barkentine and her anchor raked the starboard side of the Gardiner City cutting every shroud on the foremast. |
| The handsome 3 masted Barkentine Gardiner City was built by John Kruse in 1889. |
| She was built by John Kruse and launched in 1890; the Hume measured 183 on the keel, 202 overall and had the lines of the worlds finest clippers. |
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