Famous Ships in New London Harbor

The Norwich Line's steamboat City of Worcester, shown here from lower State Street, took passengers from Norwich to New York in the 1880s.  Click on this link for more information.

City of Worcester (from the Harold J. Cone Collection)

Information about the City of Worcester photograph written on the back

The U S Sabine at anchor - late summer 1862 (from the Harold J. Cone Collection). For more information about her interesting history see this Wikipedia link.  

Aboard the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan in 1941.

Information written on the back of the Morgan photograph

Old Ironsides, aka the USS Constitution, shown here during a visit to New London in 1931. For more information about the Constitution and the visit see our exhibition Constitution Comes to New London.

The 4-masted Spanish schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano visited New London in the 1960s.  For more information about this ship click on this link.