Friends of the Vinyard Shipyard

03/06/2020

The Friends of the Vinyard Shipyard are also friends to the Mispillion River and it's Blueway that runs out to the Delaware Bay at Slaughter Beach as it passes our shipyard.
The DNREC magazine Outdoor Delaware has a great article this season on the one of the special stories that highlights our place in a very delicate global ecosystem at the mouth of the Mispillion River.
This is an great article about our unique attachment to the Red Knot. Check it out!

03/04/2020

Milford was founded on the River and Shipbuilding was the predominant industry in town for decades surrounding the turn of the century to 1900 and onward. Look at this gorgeous ship built right in Downtown Milford on the banks of the Mispillion River.

On this date in 1942, the Albert Paul was torpedoed. The Albert Paul was the largest sailing vessel built on the Mispillion. It was launched with great fanfare in August 1917. She was sold in 1942 and on her first trip with the new owners, was struck by a German torpedo near Turk’s Island in the Bahamas. All hands were lost. This is a photo of the Albert Paul around 1930.

02/14/2020

We could not agree more! Thank you Mariah Calagione for your leadership in tourism in Delaware and for championing the richness of our communities and the authentic voice each town and village in Southern Delaware brings to the table.
Dogfish Head
Southern Delaware Tourism
Delaware Tourism Office - Industry
Downtown Milford, Inc.

The following address was given at the Southern Delaware Tourism Awards Luncheon, Dec. 11, 2019. Tourism is about more than a destination or an event, or even a coastline. Tourism starts with community. When visitors leave Southern...

01/30/2020

Milford Delaware is a Rivertown--born of water by shipbuilders and their families.

For 300 years, the history of Milford, Delaware was intimately tied to its shipbuilding industry. Once Milford boasted seven shipyards, employing three quarters…

01/24/2020

Both of these boats were built at the Vinyard Shipyard. Both were launched right in the center of downtown Milford. The Augusta (color photo) was lovingly restored and remains at dock in downtown Milford.
How cool is that?


Preservation Delaware

10/19/2019

10/18/2019

For the third Saturday of The Big Draw Delaware 2019, October 19 from 10 am-2pm, Mispillion Art League will be hosting free events for everyone, including:

Art in the Park- A Big Draw Delaware Free Saturday
Start at Mispillion Art League at 10:00AM and search for clues to sketch as you walk along the Riverwalk, ending at the Vinyard Shipyard.

Sketch at Vinyard Shipyard: Sketch boats and the historic shipyard with the Urban Sketchers Delaware.

The Friends of the Vinyard Shipyard will be there to talk about our work and mission to preserve the Shipyard as the last remaining operational wooden boat building yard in the nation.