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The Charles W. Morgan is the oldest fully functional and operating merchant ship in the world. It first set sail in 1841. It was a whaling ship which processed the whale oil on board (by fire!) and could hold 90,000 gallons of whale oil. It is currently moored at Mystic, CT and has made journeys to Boston and other New England cities. It is the last of a series of 2700 merchant ships
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