A. J. Meerwald

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A. J. Meerwald
AJ Meerwald Cape May Harbor.jpg
History
United States
Owner: Bayshore Discovery Project
Ordered: 1928
Builder: Charles H. Stowman & Sons shipyard
Acquired: 1989
Fate: educational vessel
General characteristics
Type: two-masted gaff schooner
Tonnage: 57 tons
Length: 85 ft (26 m) on deck
Beam: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Height: 70 ft (21 m)
Draft: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion: sail; auxiliary engine
Sail plan:
  • mainsail, foresail, large jib
  • sail area: 3,562 square feet (330.9 m2)
Capacity: 44 passengers
Notes: oak hull

A.J. Meerwald is the state ship of New Jersey. She is a restored oyster dredging schooner, whose home port is in the Bivalve section of Commercial Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Launched in 1928, A.J. Meerwald was one of hundreds of schooners built along South Jersey's Delaware Bay shore before the decline of the shipbuilding industry which coincided with the Great Depression. Today, A.J. Meerwald is used by the Bayshore Discovery Project[3] for onboard educational programs in the Delaware Bay near Bivalve, and at other ports in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware region. A.J. Meerwald was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1995.[1] It became the state ship in 1998.[4]

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  4. ↑ SENATE, No. 485, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 208th LEGISLATURE
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