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schooner launched on 24 November 1925 in

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. She is currently operated by World Ocean School, a non-profit educational organization based in

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, and is normally operated out of

, Massachusetts and

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. She was designated a

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in 1997 as the only known surviving example of a fishing schooner built specifically with racing competition as an objective. In 1941, ''Roseway'' was purchased by the

Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for

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, as a replacement for the pilot-boat ''Northern Light,'' which was sold to the

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for war service.

History

''Roseway'' was built in 1925 for Harold Hathaway of

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at the John F. James & Son shipyard in Essex. Hathaway's intention was to build a boat that might beat the

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in the international fisherman's races popular at that time; to that end, ''Roseway'' was impeccably maintained and used only occasionally as a fishing boat. ''Roseway'' sank at

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, on 14 September 1926, but she was raised and repaired. In 1941, ''Roseway'' was purchased by the

Pilot's Association to serve as a pilot boat for

, as a replacement for the pilot-boat ''Northern Light, No. 3,'' which was sold to the

for war service. Following the

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later that year, mines and anti-submarine netting were installed to protect the

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, and all lighted navigational aids were extinguished. ''Roseway'' was fitted with a

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for service with the Coast Guard Reserve as patrol vessel as CGR-812. She continued her piloting duties in this challenging environment, for which service her pilots were awarded a bronze plaque from the

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at the end of the war. ''Roseway'' continued to serve as a pilot vessel until the early 1970s, at which point she and

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's ''

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'' were the only pilot schooners still in service in the

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. She was then sold and converted into a passenger vessel for the tourist trade. ''Roseway'' changed hands several times in the ensuing decades, operating primarily out of Camden,

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and the

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. In 1997, she was listed as a

. ''Roseway'', at that time, retained between eighty and ninety percent of her original hull fabric and was badly in need of repairs. She remained docked in Rockland, Maine until she was repossessed by the First National Bank of Damariscotta, which in 2002 donated the vessel to the newly founded World Ocean School. Following two years of restoration in Boothbay Harbor, ''Roseway'' again set sail in 2005. She currently serves as the platform for the World Ocean School, which offers various educational programs in

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and the northeastern United States.

References

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External links

World Ocean SchoolNational Historic Landmark listing for the schooner ''Roseway''Boston Pilots' Association
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History

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