Shipyard staff watch from the cradle holding the ship as the Mystic Seaport launches the historic whaleship Charles W. Morgan into the waters of the Mystic River Sunday July 21, 2013 at the seaport's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard in Stonington, Conn.. The launch takes place on the 172nd anniversary of the ship's original launch in 1841 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Morgan, the last remaining wooden whaling ship remaining and the oldest American commercial vessel still in existence as well as a National Historic Landmark, is slated to embark on its 38th voyage, a tour of historic New England ports, in the spring and summer of 2014. (AP Photo/The Day, Sean D. Elliot) Photo: Sean D. Elliot, Associated Press