Boston Tea Party Ships

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350-Ton Barge Makes a Splash in Quincy Shipyard
for Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Boston, Massachusetts… November 17, 2011: A momentous milestone for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum took place when a vital section of the Museum launched into the Fore River in [...]

BOSTON TEA PARTY SHIPS & MUSEUM UNVEILS NEW TOURISM INFORMATION CENTER
With The Freedom Trail Foundation, Friends of Fort Point Channel and the InterContinental Boston
BOSTON, Mass – July 6, 2011-The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum is holding a press conference with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, The Freedom Trail Foundation, Friends of Fort Point Channel, and [...]

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Important Dates in Boston Tea Party History:
December 16th, 1773 and April 19th, 1775

December 16th, 1773:
On the cold evening of December 16, 1773, a determined group of Patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians burst from the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts with the spirit of freedom burning [...]

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Leon Poindexter
Master Shipwright

Leon Poindexter is a master shipwright of several historic vessels and replicas and consultant to maritime museums. His craftsmanship builds, repairs and restores large traditionally built historic wooden sailing vessels and their rigs. Most of his client vessels are on the National Register [...]

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Sheila M. Green
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The Building of the Tea Party Ships
Beaver, Eleanor and Dartmouth

There were three colonial-built vessels that brought the infamous tea cargos to Boston late in 1773: the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth.

To fully tell the story of the Boston Tea Party, a flotilla of [...]

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EXPERIENCING the Boston Tea Party ShipsSM & Museum

On November 29th, 1773 a handbill, produced by the Sons of Liberty, was circulated among the citizens of Boston and its surrounding towns.  It called for a meeting to be held in Faneuil Hall to [...]

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The Boston Tea Party
An Eye Witness Account December 16th, 1773
By: George Hewes

The tea destroyed was contained in three ships, lying near each other at what was called at that time Griffin’s wharf, and were surrounded by armed ships of war, the commanders of which had [...]

Press Conference for the official Water/Ground Breaking for the
New Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
 
What: The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum is beginning construction with the historic water/ground breaking for this new interpretive museum. On April 19th we will celebrate a new state of the art facility that will tell the story of the [...]