On Saturday May 24th, the  Southstreet Seaport Museum in New York will celebrate the 125th birthdays of two fine ladies,  the full rigged ship Wavertree and the schooner Pioneer.

Built in 1885 in Southampton, England, the Wavertree was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron.   Also in 1885 the cargo sloop Pioneer, built in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, was the first of only two American cargo sloops ever built with a wrought iron hull.  Ten years later she was rerigged as a schooner.  The Pioneer regulatory sails from the South Street Seaport.