Schooner · United States
American Pride
A 1941 fishing schooner. Over forty years on the Grand Banks, today a teaching ship.
Technical data
- Rig
- Schooner
- Flag
- United States
- Home port
- Rainbow Harbor
- Built
- 1941
- Shipyard
- Muller Boat Works, Brooklyn, New York
- Hull material
- Wood
- Length
- 39.65 m
- Beam
- 6.7 m
- Sail area
- 471 m²
- Sailing area
- California coast
Built in 1941 as a two-masted schooner, she spent more than forty years fishing commercially on the Grand Banks and George's Banks.
In 1986 she was completely rebuilt at Thomaston, Maine, given a third mast and certificated by the US Coast Guard. As Natalie Todd she worked on charter out of Bar Harbor.
The American Heritage Marine Institute bought her in October 1996, and she sailed 7,500 nautical miles through the Panama Canal to Rainbow Harbor at Long Beach, California. The Children's Maritime Foundation then operated her as a platform for sail training and hands-on living history education.
In April 2017 she passed to the non-profit Giving Center, and since August 2018 she has belonged to the Los Angeles Maritime Institute.