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A New Baltimore Clipper is Born


Balto Harbor In spring 1976, America's Bicentennial year, an unassuming, open-air "Clipper Shipyard" was erected along the west shore of the Inner Harbor, just north of the newly completed Maryland Science Center. In May 1976, the keel for the vessel was carved out of a thousand year old piece of Central American hardwood, a species called Cortez from Belize. The adventure of recreating the first Baltimore Clipper to be built in 150 years was begun.


That adventure came to fruition on May 1, 1977 when she was commissioned in the Inner Harbor by Mayor William Donald Schaefer amid the tooting of horns, the ringing of bells, the spray of the fire boats, and a cannon salute from the USF Constellation. The adventure of embodying the pride and spirit of the citizens of Baltimore and Maryland and representing that pride and spirit to the peoples and nations of the world had just begun.

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