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With this bankroll, he was able to purchase and outfit a three-masted, coal-powered barkentine called Polaris from a Norwegian firm that specialized in polar vessels.

But now the exhibition space has reopened with a tidy display of artifacts that show visitors how the port shaped the city in the days when all hands knew the difference between a barkentine and a brigantine.

Later, it was rigged as a schooner, another type of tall ship that took fewer crew members to sail than the barkentine, Georgann Wachter said.

It began life as a barkentine, a type of tall ship plying the waters of the Great Lakes.

“The following vessels are now loading or are loaded and ready to sail: “Bark Columbia, for San Francisco, 700,000 feet; ship Aristomene, for Valparaiso, 1,450,000 feet; ship Earl Burgess, for Amsterdam, 1,250,000 feet; bark Mercury, for San Francisco, 1,000,000 feet; ship Corolla, for Valparaiso, 1,000,000 feet; barkentine Katie Flickinger, for Fiji Islands, 550,000 feet; bark Matilda, for Honolulu, 650,000 feet; bark E. Ramilla, for Valparaiso, 700,000 feet; ship Beechbank, for Valparaiso, 2,000,000 feet.