Bowdoin

Built in 1921 at the Hodgdon Brothers shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine. Her design and construction were carefully thought through for her particular purpose: sailing in Arctic waters.

She first crossed the Arctic Circle on 23 August 1921 under the command of Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, and sailed north with him two dozen times, carrying scientists, adventurers and students. She wintered over three times in the far north, frozen into the ice, and continued in this work until 1954. During the Second World War she served the US Navy as a Greenland patrol vessel.

In June 1959 the Mystic Seaport museum acquired her. In 1986 she was honoured as Maine's official sailing vessel, and since 1988 she has been the flagship of the Maine Maritime Academy's sail training fleet, offering a broad range of programmes in seamanship, ocean studies and curriculum development. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

She visited Labrador in 1990 and sailed to Greenland in 1991 and 1994, her twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh crossings of the Arctic Circle. She cruised to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1999, 2005 and 2009, and took part in Tall Ships Norfolk in Virginia in 2007. Her deck was restored in 2015/2016 and her hull in 2018/2019.