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If You Go: Memorial Service Saturday for Tall Ship that Sank during Sandy

It's part of a sailing-ship weekend on the Newburgh waterfront including the Nina and the Pinta!

A memorial service for the Bounty, which sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy, will take place at 1 p.m. July 19 on the waterfront in Newburgh, NY.

It's part of a weekend's worth of events at the city on the west bank of the Hudson River—there will be replicas of the Nina and the Pinta—two of three of Columbus's famous vessels—docked at the Riverfront Marina, 40 Front St., until their departure early Monday morning July 21. 

The Nina and the Pinta will be open for tours. 

The Bounty, a replica of the historic British naval vessel built for a 1960s Hollywood version of Mutiny on the Bounty, had struggled on the edge of the sailing-ship-replica world for decades. 

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 14 crew members as she sank. Two died. Her captain's decision to sail to Florida despite Sandy's approach was the main cause of the disaster, investigators ruled. 

Read the entire saga of the Bounty's ill-fated trip south into the teeth of the superstorm on outsideonline.com.


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