'She sails like a bird' ! - Replica French frigate to recreate Lafayette's voyage to US

[Surya Gayatri]

"The Hermione, the ship that reunited Lafayette and Washington and sealed our freedom, sails again for America..."




Some crew members wear 18th Century sailor's outfits

The project is the brainchild of a group of history and sailing enthusiasts who two decades ago embarked on the arduous task of recreating the vessel using only eighteenth-century shipbuilding techniques.



The frigate is scheduled to make more than 10 stops in the United States as it sails up the east coast, including in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.

Hermione will also sail into the bay of New York just in time for July 4 independence celebrations, with an expected escort of hundreds of local yachts.


Building the Hermione in Rochefort – history in the making

http://www.france24.com/en/20150418-hermione-lafayette-ship-history-france-revolutionary%20/

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Wish I could be there for her launch. She's setting sail from the island of Aix near Rochefort, Charente-Maritime on the Atlantic coast.

That's where the original Hermione was built and where she shipped anchor for the Revolutionary War.









Learn more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_%281779%29

http://www.the-french-atlantic-coast.com/what-to-see/visit-the-hermione-at-rochefort/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochefort,_Charente-Maritime

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-d%27Aix