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Boston Tea Party ship ready for launch

The new Boston Tea Party Museum reaches a major milestone this week with the launch of a replica of one of the three tall ships involved in the 1773 event, which helped spark the American Revolution.

Boston Tea Party ship restored

GLOUCESTER, Mass., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Officials with the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum in Massachusetts said work on a 90-foot-long replica of one the ships has been completed.

Talk of the Times: Tea Party ship ready for Monday launch here

There will be a changing of the guard, so to speak, for the tall ships of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum — and it will be in Gloucester on Monday morning. After months of undergoing restoration at Gloucester Marine Railways on Rocky Neck, the tall ship Beaver will be launched from the railways Monday at high tide, pegged for between 11 and 11:30 a.m.

Replica Tea Party cargo ship ‘Beaver’ launched in Gloucester Harbor

GLOUCESTER - The ship is a drab yellow, 90 feet long and from a distance looks like any other vessel bobbing up and down in Gloucester Harbor. To maritime preservationists, though, the vessel – a 1908 Denmark cargo ship now being renovated to resemble one of three whaling vessels that were boarded during the 1773 Boston Tea Party - is nothing short of a miracle. Early this morning, the replica ...