BUY TICKETS TO JOIN US AS THE BRITISH TAKE THE BEACH!
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE RE-ENACTMENT, PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL BATTLE REENACTMENT WEBSITE HERE
Stage Fort Park in Gloucester is transformed to the Charlestown neck and hills of 1775 for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. Witness the reenactment of this historic day from the rails of the assaulting vessels.
The actual battle events as portrayed at Stage Fort Park during the Landing reenactment:
"As the battle looms, the waters around Charlestown neck" fill with Royal Navy vessels, sent to bombard the fortifications into submission and land troops for the eventual assault.
General Gage forms British soldiers from the Boston garrison to land on the tip of the "Charlestown Peninsula" and form for a plan to drive the American’s from their fortifications on the Hill. As the British soldiers land, sharpshooters from Charlestown take pot shots at them. In response British soldiers set fire to Charlestown to drive off the sharpshooters, additionally using the smoke to mask their movements."
JUNE21&222025
Your Front Row to History awaits
aboard the HMS LIVELY (Schooner Ardelle)
SCHEDULE of Maritime Events (repeated each day):
Departing Maritime Gloucester (23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester)
8:15am - passengers arrive at MG for check-in and boarding
8:30am - Departs Docks
9:00am - Arrives off "Charlestown" (Half Moon Beach) and sets anchor
9:30am - Captain Francis Wyatt (Harold Burnham) of the H.M.S. Lively discovers the presence of a group of colonialist fortifying a redoubt on Breed's Hill and begins to shell them. The First Cannon fires and the battle and landing begins
9:45am - Long boats and rowers from "Boston" (Cressy's Beach) row past Her Majesty's Fleet toward "Charlestown" staging an assault
10:00am - The Landing on "Charlestown" Beach happens as the British fleet continues their cannon assault.
11:15am - Fleet departs for Maritime Gloucester when the battle ends
11:30am - Docking and disembark at MG
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150 US dollars
Nearby Parking:
24 Harbor Loop, Gloucester
65 Rogers St, Gloucester
Vessel Boarding:
Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester
Contact Us At: Schooner@MaritimeGloucester.org
This ticketing site is hosted by Maritime Gloucester on behalf of Essex National Heritage Area.