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he Gloucester fishing schooners of the 18th and 19th centuries were vessels of legend, plying the stormy Grand Banks then racing home, holds full of cod. The original, wooden 141ft (43m) of 1923 was lost. This steel replica was built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group in

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