Lunenburg Museum Home of the Bluenose
Captain Mathew Mitchell Lunenburg's most knowledgeable person on its History
Lunenburg
"Lunenburg"
Home of the Bluenose Schooner
Bluenose, designed by Halifax
marine
architect William J. Roue, was built it
Smith & Rhuland Shipyard Lunenburg,
Nova Scotia and launched on March 26
1921. Her Master Captain Anjus J.
Walters of Lunenburg. A highliner
fisherman, she won the International
Fishermen's Trophy against the defender,
Elsie out of Gloucester Massachusetts
in 1921 and was undefeated through the
final series ill 1938. This Nova Scotian
legacy of excellence in ship design,
shipbuilding and seamanship continues
today in her replica, Bluenose II, built from
the same plans by some of the same men
and launched from the same yard on
July 24, 1963. Your purchases from the
Bluenose II Company Store will help
continue that legacy.
Bluenose Crows Nest
Take a cruse on the Bluenose
Bluenose at Port
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