Sultana Tour

by Brian Wallace

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Sultana Tour

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Brian Wallace

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Photograph - 2d Digital Image

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A new Sultana, launched in Chestertown, Maryland, in 2001, serves as an educational vessel for schoolchildren as it travels around the Chesapeake Bay. Each year there are public excursions out of Chestertown and other ports. "Downrigging Weekend" in Chestertown is always the first weekend in November. Replica sailing ships from all around the mid-Atlantic participate in sailing excursions and allow the public on board.

The replica vessel is not an exact reconstruction. It has a diesel auxiliary engine and otherwise conforms to Coast Guard regulations in order to carry passengers. The modern version is framed with osage orange and planked with oak; there is a lead ballast keel which the original did not have. She has only four guns, rather than the original eight. All work and can be fired. Within modern safety requirements, however, she was built following traditional methods as much as possible.

The original HMS Sultana was a small Royal Navy schooner that patrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772, preventing smuggling and collecting duties. She was retired and sold in 1773 when unrest in Britain's American colonies required larger, better armed patrol craft.

This image shows the Sultana replica with tourists aboard on the Chester River in an area of water designated, "Emory Hollow Reserve", as viewed near Conquest Beach on Maryland's Eastern Shore 6-16-18. I replaced a blank sky for composition improvement.

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June 17th, 2018

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