BALTIMORE (AP) - Gov. Larry Hogan says the state will begin a new partnership with Pride of Baltimore II, using the schooner to promote economic development opportunities for Maryland.
Hogan, a Republican, said in a news release Monday that the state will commit $1.5 million to the nonprofit that owns and operates the Pride over the next three years.
The Pride of Baltimore II was launched in 1988. It is a topsail schooner that is a replica of the Baltimore clippers that were built in the city more than 200 years ago. It has traveled to ports around the U.S. and in 40 countries.
Its predecessor, Pride of Baltimore, sank in a squall off Puerto Rico in 1986.
