Length: 130’
Beam: 22’
Draft: 10’
Sail Area: 4,900 sq. ft.
Rig: Schooner, three masted
Built: 1941 Brooklyn, New York
Home Port: Long Beach, California

American Pride was originally launched as a two masted “schooner-dragger” and named the Virginia. Her first forty years were spent commercially fishing the Grand Banks and George’s Banks, searching the New England coasts for cod, haddock, flounder and ocean perch. Her second name change was the Lady in Blue, named after a prayer and was run by the Frontiero family who were Gloucester fishermen. In 1986, she was completely rebuilt for charter operations, a third mast was added and she was renamed the Natalie Todd. Ten years later she was purchased by the American Heritage Marine Institute, renamed the American Pride and sailed through the Panama Canal to reach her new home in Long Beach where she now operates as a private charter for the general public and school groups for the Children’s Maritime Foundation.