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STUDENTS ONBOARD THE 200-foot-tall SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, Rhode Island's official sailing-education vessel, which has released its 2018 program schedule, featuring a full year of travel with stops in Charleston, S.C., St. Petersburg, Fla., Cuba and Jamaica. / COURTESY MARK RUSSELL

Tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry releases 2018 program schedule

Nonprofit 01/19/2018

NEWPORT – The 200-foot-tall SSV Oliver Hazard Perry tall ship is prepared for a full year of travel including stops in Charleston, S.C., St....

OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide educational experiences at sea, says Executive Director Jessica Wurzbacher. The 200-foot, oceangoing ship was completed in 2015, with a permanent home of Fort Adams in Newport. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Effective leadership on land echoes it at sea

Nonprofit 09/01/2017

Jessica Wurzbacher | Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island executive director Executing on a mission as ambitious as ours requires meeting a number of challenges, and...

Is tall ship sticking to mission?

Government 09/23/2016

(Updated 10:58 a.m. with Dunbar comment) The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, named for the 19th-century Rhode Islander and U.S. Navy commodore, was always envisioned as...

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