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The Welcome's First Time Out Of Traverse Bay In 15 Years For those who don't know me, I am Peggy and I photograph for the Maritime Heritage Alliance. The ship you are viewing in this Blog is called the Welcome. She is a replica of a 1774 British War Sloop. The Welcome has the distinction of being the first Sloop built in the Great Lakes and was originally used as a fur trading vessel. It was later bought by British and served as a supply ship durning the Revolutionary War. In 1871 she want aground in a winter storm and was salvaged out and lost in history. On July 4, 1973 the second Welcome's Keel was laid in the same location the first Welcome was built. She took Ten years to complete. 1994 Maritime Heritage Alliance took over her care and spent the next 15 years repairing her and sailing her in Grand Traverse Bay. This year thanks to the all volunteer crew, the Welcome received a new bow sprit, and new electrical wiring. June 1, Welcome was put into dry dock and ...
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I wanted to let everyone know if you get a comment in a foreign language take the time to do a Google translation http://translate.google.com/translate_t?sl=zh-CN&tl=en . I found six comments this morning on my space, all of which contained links to a sanitation company in china. I have a feeling those links might possibly lead you to places that install spy ware on your computer. So if you can't read, copy text and translate it before clicking on links.
