June 27

Sailing Photo Of The Day- Pride of Baltimore II

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Pride of Baltimore II, originally uploaded by Glossyboy.

Pretty cool mosaicy thing.  Here's a blurb about the Baltimore from the original Flickr post

"The Pride of Baltimore II was commissioned in 1988 as a sailing memorial to her immediate predecessor, the original Pride of Baltimore, which was tragically sunk by a white squall off Puerto Rico in 1986, taking her captain and three crew members down with her. Both ships were built in the Inner Harbor as replicas of 1812-era topsail schooners, the type of vessels, called Baltimore Clippers, that helped America win the War of 1812 and finally secure its freedom"


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