The Bluenose II
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/bluenose/index.htm
Bluenose was a famous fishing and racing schooner designed by William J. Roué, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and launched in 1921.
Each summer, Bluenose II - Nova Scotia's Sailing Ambassador -gives public cruises and travels to special events near and far proudly personifying "History under sail!"
Stories of Lunenburg's Original Bluenose and Captain Angus Walters have enthralled generations of Atlantic Canadians. As the undefeated Queen of the North Atlantic, she was the world's most famous Nova Scotian fishing schooner earning a place of legend in our hearts and history books.
Her remarkable voyage began with her launching from Lunenburg's Smith & Rhuland boatyard on March 26, 1921. It tragically ended a quarter century later.
In 1963, Bluenose II was launched from the same shipyard, built by many of the men who had worked on the Original Bluenose.
Bluenose II is operated by the Lunenburg Marine Museum Society on behalf of the Province of Nova Scotia.
One of our members, Keith MacLaren, has written a book about the Bluenose titled “ A Race for Real Sailors”. For more information on this book, please visit this link: http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/9781553651611
The Sherman Zwicker
http://www.schoonermuseum.org/today.html
The Sherman Zwicker is a wooden, auxiliary fishing schooner, built in 1942 at the Smith and Rhuland Shipyard, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The vessel was among the last of her type to be built. She is a slightly modified traditional Banks schooner design with a large marine diesel engine fitted as a prime mover. The hull and lower mast rig owe more to the sailing era than to contemporary powered fishing vessel design.
Vessels of her type were used in the Grand Banks dory fisheries out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and other ports until the mid-sixties; the Sherman Zwicker made her last trip to the Banks in the early sixties. As a museum the schooner represents scores of sister vessels which sailed to the Banks in the salt fish trade. The Sherman Zwicker represents, in a meaningful manner, the fishermen and their trade.
Today the Sherman Zwicker sails the Atlantic waters of the Northeastern United States and Canada to ports such as Lunenburg and Halifax, Nova Scotia, various ports along the south coast of Newfoundland and American ports such as Boston, New York and her home port of Boothbay Harbor, Maine. She is cared for by the Grand Banks Schooner Museum Trust.
The Theresa E. Connor
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fma/tec.html
The last of the saltbank schooners to operate from the port of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the Theresa E. Connor represents a way of life for generations of fishermen along the Atlantic coast. She is now the flagship for the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg.
The Theresa E. Connor is an authentic reminder of an age of schooner fishing that lasted for almost one hundred years in Atlantic Canada. The schooner was launched in Lunenburg on December 14, 1938 at the Smith and Rhuland Shipyard, the same yard that built the Bluenose. A sister ship, the schooner Lilla B. Boutilier, was launched in October of that year. The Theresa E. Connor was originally owned by Maritime National Fish Company, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Captain Clarence Knickle was the first master of the schooner. In 1952, Maritime National sold the vessel to Zwicker and Company Limited, Lunenburg.
The Lunenburg Marine Museum Society purchased the Theresa E. Connor and opened the vessel to the public in 1967. Mrs. Roland Hurst, daughter of Mrs. Theresa Eleanor Connor, officially opened the Museum on July 23.
As a Museum vessel, the Theresa E. Connor has undergone extensive restoration work, with few physical changes to accommodate visitors. The fish hold has experienced the greatest change since the days when it was filled with the catch.
