Mystic Seaport shipwright Jamie Kirschner paints the scrollwork on the bow of the Emma C. Berry, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 at the H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The Berry, one of the oldest surviving commercial vessels in America and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994, slid down the ways in June 1866 into the Mystic River at Noank, two miles south of Mystic at the mouth of the river. Built at the R & J Palmer Shipyard by James A. Latham, the Berry was designed to the specifications of a Noank "smack"– an able craft well-known from Maine to the Caribbean. The Berry is out of the water for regular hull maintenance this fall in preparation for its 150th anniversary next year. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Mystic Seaport shipwright Jamie Kirschner paints the scrollwork on the bow of the Emma C. Berry, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 at the H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The Berry, one of the oldest surviving commercial vessels in America and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994, slid down the ways in June 1866 into the Mystic River at Noank, two miles south of Mystic at the mouth of the river. Built at the R & J Palmer Shipyard by James A. Latham, the Berry was designed to the specifications of a Noank "smack"– an able craft well-known from Maine to the Caribbean. The Berry is out of the water for regular hull maintenance this fall in preparation for its 150th anniversary next year. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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