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The Dolly Madison made her first trips on the Connecticut River in 1964, after having spent two years on the Potomac River as an excursion boat from Washington, D.C., to Mount Vernon, Virginia. Together with her sister ship , the Martha Washington,…

The "Oliver Cromwell", 80 feet keel, 27 feet beam, 12 feet depth of hold, was ordered built at Saybrook (Essex) by the General Assembly on January 31st, 1776, and was the largest full rigged ship constructed for the state under the general direction…