CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy’s training ship is arriving home after 60 days at sea for the school’s annual training cruise.

The State of Maine was due to arrive this evening at its home port of Castine.

For the cruise, the ship carried 55 crew members and 230 students and visited Marseille, France; Gibraltar; Kiel, Germany; and Portsmouth, England. It then stopped in Portland and Rockland before the final leg to Castine.

In all, the ship sailed 11,000 nautical miles.


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