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Launching & Commissioning
Pride of Baltimore II was hoisted aloft and launched from her Inner Harbor
birthplace on April 30, 1988.
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After being fitted out and rigged, she was commissioned on October 23, 1988, at Brown's Wharf in Fells Point, just blocks from the shipyard where Chasseur, the original "Pride of Baltimore," had been built in 1812. She left immediately for Bermuda on the shake down leg of her maiden voyage. On this leg, she was captained by her shipwright, Peter Boudreau, and crewed primarily by her builders. In Bermuda, Pride, Inc.’s first full-time Captain, Jan Miles, who was a veteran of the original Pride, took command with a permanent crew. During that winter of 1988-89, Captain Miles joyfully showed off the new Pride to friends in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the East Coast of the United States. With that successful maiden voyage under her keel, Pride of Baltimore II returned home ready to embark on her mission as Goodwill Ambassador to the world from the Port of Baltimore and the State of Maryland. |
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