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Historic schooners that graced a state quarter now rest at bottom of a Brooklyn canal

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For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet just off New York City’s famously polluted Gowanus Canal could be their final port of call. The boats — now owned by a company that turns historic vessels into floating bars and restaurants — sank there in early July while docked on the Brooklyn waterfront. Now many in the maritime community are calling on the company to do what it can to save them — and to account for how they sank in the first place. The 121-foot Pilot, which is a little more than a century old, and the 128-foot Victory Chimes, which dates to 1900 and is the ship that graces the 2003 Maine quarter, are owned by New York City-based company Crew. Both schooners sank around the time of strong squalls, though the exact cause of the sinkings has not been fully determined. Crew is workin

First report: Schooners that graced a Maine-themed quarter or hosted Cousteau rest at the bottom of a NYC canal — clickondetroit.com, 13d