Richardson Maritime Museum Celebrates Return of the Perigrine

(CAMBRIDGE, Md) – Boaters and watermen came together at the Richardson Maritime Museum on the shores of the Choptank River to welcome back The Perigrine. An oyster fishing boat built in the early 1970s, finally coming home to Dorchester County.

Richardson Director of Education, David Williams tells us, “We’re just really excited about this opportunity and it’s a full circle. It was built here and went off and lived all, all around. It originally went up to Philadelphia. It was run on the sea, on the ocean, and now it’s come all the way back.”

Robert Joyce and Criag Haney have worked on maintaining the Perigrine in the decades since.

Joyce tells us what it means to him to see his hard work being preserved.

He says, “It means a lot, you know, because it won’t go to waste, after you done put all your hard labor into it. Some people, let them go down, you know, don’t do nothing with it.”

Haney was the previous owner of the Perigrine and he’s happy to see it come back to the waters where she was built, and will stay.

“It’s the cycle, you know, everything goes in a circle, as far as you know. You hear it all the time and here we are. Yeah, right back where it started. It’s great. It’s fantastic. It’s the absolutely perfect place for it to end up,” says Haney.

The Richardson Maritime Museum will restore the Perigrine to its original glory now that it’s back in Dorchester County.