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Marker detail: the <i>Palestine</i> & the <i>Horatio</i>
Photographer: Photos courtesy of the Port Jefferson Village Archive
Caption: Marker detail: the Palestine & the Horatio
Additional Description: The schooner Palestine under construction at the Bayles Shipyard. The yacht slid down the well-worn ways in 1904.

The Horatio was one of two whaling ships built at the Bayles Shipyard. Launched in 1877, it was wrecked on a coral reef near the Caroline Islands in the Pacific in 1899.
Submitted: March 8, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p418513
File Size: 2.509 Megabytes

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