ROCKLAND, Maine — The 128-foot-long historic wooden schooner Victory Chimes, which was celebrated on the 2023 commemorative Maine quarter, has sunk in New York City.
Brad Vogel, who covers maritime happenings in Brooklyn, said the vessel sank sometime between Friday night and Sunday in the Henry Street Basin.
The Victory Chimes was towed out of Rockland Harbor in October 2023 with the plan to convert it into a restaurant. The vessel, however, had first been docked on the west side of Manhattan and over the winter was docked in the Henry Street basin in Brooklyn…