Acquired 1968 Status Sea-going museum ship Beam 6.4 m | Refit 1993 Launched 1893 | |
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Namesake Lettie G. Howard Barron Owner South Street Seaport Museum Builder A.D. Story yard, Essex, MA Similar Roann, Forceful, L A Dunton, Joseph Conrad, Luna | ||
Sail training aboard the lettie g howard
Lettie G. Howard is a wooden Fredonia schooner built in 1893 in Essex, Massachusetts, USA. This type of craft was commonly used by American offshore fishermen. Lettie G. Howard spent a significant portion of her working life off the Yucatan Peninsula coast. In 1968, she was sold to the South Street Seaport Museum and refinished. She was restored in 1991 and is currently certified by the US Coast Guard as a Sailing School Vessel training and working museum ship.
She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
Based in New York, she currently sails along the Northeast seaboard. She underwent extensive shipyard repairs in Portland, Maine in the second half of 2013.
In 2014, the schooner received two awards relating to her programming and historic restoration efforts; the Tall Ships America 2014 Sail Training Vessel of the Year Award, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award.
In 2015, the vessel and crew took third place in the Gloucester Schooner Festival's Esperanto Cup.
