A foggy gallery of dramatic images from the maiden voyage of the reconstructed
tall ship Friendship by photographer Shelly Britton.
Portsmouth Harbor, August 2004
We like to get out and personally greet all the tall ships entering Portsmouth
Harbor, but we missed the August 2004 arrival of the Friendship out of Salem,
MA. The fog was so thick that the boatl parade had to be canceled It was, after
all, Friday the 13th.
Luckily Shelly Britton was on the scene. A veterinarian technician and now a
trained photographer, Shelly had planed to be on the Portsmouth Harbor Cruise
ship as the Friendship appeared in port. Instead, she captured the arrival of
the ship by land, first as it came out of the fog near Peirce Island, then as
the ghostly vessel moved under the Memorial Bridge towards its berth at the state pier.
Even when docked, the Friendship appeared to hang in separate dimension, a historic
ship just out of time and place. Friendship is a brand new reconstruction of a
1797 East Indian ship that made 15 trips around the globe in search of exotic
spices, coffee and sugar. When in its home port Friendship is open to visitors
in Salem. The visit was sponsored by the Portsmouth Maritime Commission (PMC)
in an ongoing effort to celebrate the Piscataqua heritage of wooden ship building.
:Like its sister port at Salem, this region was famous for its locally-made ships
in the Age of Sail, starting as early as 1690. Unlike Salem, however, Portsmouth,
currently, has no reconstructed vessel to call its own.
Digital images copyright (c) 2004 by Shelly Britton.
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