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"Thank you for all 33 trips.  What joy, what beauty, what kindness "

- Ray W., New Hampshire

A Schooner is Born

Launching: June 2, 1930
Gloucester, Mass.

"Standing at her bow, arms laden with flowers, and grasping a bottle of something we used to see much of before Prohibition, Miss Rosalie Murphy, daughter of Captain Patrick Murphy, who will command the craft, smashed the bottle on the shoe of the schooner as she started..."

- Gloucester Daily Times

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June 2, 1930: Launched as the Andrew & Rosalie, last fishing schooner built in Gloucester

June 26, 1930: She leaves on her first fishing trip

May 5, 1941: renamed American Eagle by then owner Capt. Ben Pine 


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August, 1983: made last fishing trip


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October, 1984: made it to Rockland, ME, for rebuilding
        

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When the American Eagle tied up at our North End Shipyard in 1984, 53 years of hard fishing really showed. From then until the spring of 1986, great efforts went into her reconstruction. The ingenuity and expertise of Captain Foss and five other schooner captains completed her restoration.     

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April, 1986: relaunched after complete rebuild
        

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June, 1986: sailing the coast of Maine
July, 1986: in Parade of Sail, New York, for Statue of Liberty rededication
1991: designated a National Historic Landmark
1992: Sail Boston
1994: first trip to Canada since her fishing days
2000: Sail Boston
2000: Opsail Maine

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Today the American Eagle looks and feels like a new boat. Her fair lines, solid timber and tarred rigging are as they were three generations ago when she first went to work in the waters off New England. She was recently designated a National Historic Landmark, and is one of very few sailing vessels licensed for international voyages.