Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum catches fire.

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Replica Tea Party cargo ship ‘Beaver’ launched in Gloucester Harbor
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The Beaver was launched today in Gloucester. The ship will be one of three replicas at the new Boston Tea Party museum. The other two ships, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, are awaiting renovations and construction.

By Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff
Today in the Globe
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrod...kmZgdtlfL/index.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7

GLOUCESTER - The ship is a drab yellow, 90 feet long and from a distance looks like any other vessel bobbing up and down in Gloucester Harbor.

To maritime preservationists, though, the vessel -- a 1908 Denmark cargo ship now being renovated to resemble one of three whaling vessels that were boarded during the 1773 Boston Tea Party -- is nothing short of a miracle.

Early this morning, the replica of the Beaver was launched into the harbor – marking a new milestone for the ship’s future home, the planned $27 million Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum now under construction on Fort Point Channel in Boston. The new museum, which will open in June, will replace the old exhibit, which burned in 2001 after a nearby bridge was struck by lightning.

The new Tea Party museum will open with two replica vessels that will be towed from Gloucester to Boston in the spring. These days, workers are putting the finishing touches on replicas of the Beaver, and the Eleanor, which are being renovated at the Gloucester Marine Railways. The third Tea Party replica boat, Dartmouth, will be built from scratch, and is expected to be completed in about two years.

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with the permanent docking of the 3 "tallish" ships -- It's clearly time to dump the USPS and build a restaurant complex overlooking the Fort Point Channel on one end and redevelop / preserve the old Bridge on the other

Perhaps the BRA will have some vision to encourage the private sector -- this will make the Channel another anchor to the SPID
 
Oh my god. When I saw this title suddenly pop up in the list of new posts, I thought the museum burned down again! LOL
 
From the Gloucester Times
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The historic replica ship Beaver is afloat again.


Crews at the Gloucester Marine Railways and Rockport shipwright Leon Poindexter on Monday launched the Beaver, a ship they worked on for over a year.


The Beaver is one of two ships Poindexter and crews have rebuilt at the railways, both 80-foot-long replicas of ships boarded during the 1775 Boston Tea Party. They're rebuilding the ships for the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, which is set for a grand reopening June 25 off Boston's Congress Street Bridge.


Poindexter is working to restore and refit the Beaver and the Eleanor. Crews spent much of last summer rebuilding the Beaver, and did all the construction, down to driving 22,000 nails through 350 sheets of copper on the boat's bottom, by hand.


The work, said Poindexter, was done the way shipbuilders did it more than 200 years ago.


"We had to do everything old school," said Ed Wayman, foreman at the railways, who's worked with Poindexter on the project since the ships arrived.


Wayman said the construction requires attention to detail. The replicas have to be authentic in every aspect, because, he said, they're museum pieces.


Poindexter said he's even picked specific trees in Maine to be used for the masts, while crews in New Bedford are making the rigging.


The work on the ships is part of the Tea Party Museum's overall rebuilding effort. In 2001, museum caught fire and closed. It was torn down in 2007, but is now set to reopen at the start of summer.


While crews have some work left on both the Beaver and the Eleanor, Poindexter said the ships will head to Boston in April. Once there, Poindexter said, crews will set up the masts and rig the ships. They can't do remast the vessels on Cape Ann, he said, because they wouldn't be able to make it under at least one bridge to get to the museum site.


Crews will actually build the last replica of the three Tea Party ships, the Dartmouth, from the keel up, after the museum opens, Poindexter said.


Poindexter and others relished Monday's launch.


"It's always good to see (the ship) back in the water," he said.


The Beaver sat on a large cart on the railways' railway, with the cart hooked on a chain. Crews lowered the ship down the railway and into the water and then, with the help of a small Zodiac boat, pulled the 80-foot yellow vessel around the docks. The Beaver went into the water a little before 9 a.m. — two hours ahead of schedule and high tide.


Crews at the railways will adjust the cart and move the Eleanor up out of the water sometime later this week, said Poindexter.
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I walked by this today and it looks great. Glad to see it finished and open to the public. I had an idea a while ago for a "ship trail" as a companion to the Freedom trail. It would be a number of ships placed around the waterfront starting with the Constitution and the Cassin Young and maybe ending somewhere in South Boston. You could walk along the trail and see a number of historically important ships, including the tea party ships. Maybe get a reproduction Clippership, and the ship that brought Winthrop and the first settlers, and one or two others.
 
Joe_Schmoe said:
I walked by this today and it looks great. Glad to see it finished and open to the public. I had an idea a while ago for a "ship trail" as a companion to the Freedom trail. It would be a number of ships placed around the waterfront starting with the Constitution and the Cassin Young and maybe ending somewhere in South Boston. You could walk along the trail and see a number of historically important ships, including the tea party ships. Maybe get a reproduction Clippership, and the ship that brought Winthrop and the first settlers, and one or two others.
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Joe -- don't forget the Cruiser USS Salem in Quincy
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