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Shearwater (schooner), United States

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The Shearwater is an 81.5-foot (24.8 m) wooden schooner docked in Lower Manhattan in New York City in the U.S. state of New York. The schooner was designed by Theodore Donald Wells and built by the Rice Brothers Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine in 1929. During World War II, it was requisitioned into the United States Coast Guard to patrol for German U-boats. The Shearwater completed a circumnavigation of the world in the early-1980s and later worked as a research laboratory for the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Environmental Medicine. Docked about 200 yards (180 m) west of the site of the World Trade Center, it is operated by Manhattan by Sail, which gives 90-minute-long tours of New York Harbor, and is licensed to carry 48 passengers. The schooner was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
^ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved August 5, 2011. 
^ "About the Shearwater Classic Schooner". Manhattan by Sail. Retrieved July 28, 2011. 
^ Critchell, David (September 2008). "Shearwater, schooner". National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 28, 2011.  Accompanying 3 photos from 2008'

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