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By Ambrose Clancy

Built as a fishing boat, the 130-year old Ernestina-Morrisey has explored the Arctic, served in World War II, shuttled immigrants to the US and now acts as a working classroom at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. (Jeremy Garretson photo)

Ambrose Clancy

Ambrose Clancy has been the editor of the Shelter Island Reporter since 2012. He’s worked as a staff reporter for The North Shore Sun, the Southampton Press and was associate editor of the Riverhead News-Review and an editor at Long Island Business News.

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