Ready for departure from Tisbury Wharf. Albert O. Fischer

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

After spending seven days at Tisbury Wharf, the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan left Vineyard Haven harbor Wednesday morning, bound for New Bedford.

Onlookers gathered at Tisbury Wharf and West Chop to get a glimpse of the last wooden whaling ship as she left Vineyard waters.

The ship was towed around West Chop and through Quick's Hole.  She arrived at State Pier in New Bedford at about 4 p.m.

The arrival in New Bedford was a homecoming of sorts for the Charles W. Morgan. She was built in 1841 at a New Bedford shipyard, and New Bedford was her main port for most of her 37 whaling voyages.

 

 

 

 

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