New Maryland Dove To Arrive at HSMC – The Southern Maryland Chronicle

The general public is invited to assist honor the arrival of the brand new Maryland Dove to St. Mary’s Metropolis, Maryland on August 27, 2022.  

Historic St. Mary’s Metropolis (HSMC) will open at 10 a.m. on August 27, 2022, with the ship scheduled to sail in between 10:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. (climate allowing). After the ship’s arrival, there might be an 11:30 a.m. commissioning ceremony on the Margaret Brent pavilion, the place the ship’s log will formally be given to the museum by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM). The day continues with a ribbon slicing down on the Maryland Dove dock, formally welcoming visitors aboard. Timed excursions of the brand new vessel will happen from 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. These excursions might be registered solely. 

At 2 p.m, Naval Architect Iver Franzen, CBMM Shipyard Lead Rigger Sam Hilgartner, and HSMC Captain Will Gates will lead a dialogue in regards to the design of the ship. This can happen contained in the HSMC Customer Middle auditorium. 

Go to the museum’s web site at www.HSMCdigsHistory.org for ticket hyperlinks and extra data on the day’s actions. 

Entrance to the museum and out of doors reveals (together with Maryland Dove) might be free for the occasion day. 

The celebration will proceed by the 12 months as the brand new Maryland Dove will embark on a tour of the Chesapeake Bay, sharing the exhibit with Marylanders at completely different ports of name. 

In 2018, HSMC introduced that CBMM had been chosen to construct a brand-new Maryland Dove for Historic St. Mary’s Metropolis. The ship, a illustration of the late Seventeenth-century buying and selling ship that accompanied the primary English settlers to what’s now Maryland, is owned by the state of Maryland and operated and maintained by the Historic St. Mary’s Metropolis Fee. An earlier model of the ship, constructed within the Seventies by Cambridge’s Jim Richardson, was nearing the top of its helpful life, and many years of latest analysis meant {that a} new ship may very well be designed to be a extra traditionally correct illustration of the unique Maryland Dove.