Early in the morning Amistad moved for a few hours to a lock closing the entrance to Docklands from Thames River. The ship and the crew is getting ready for a long passage to Lisbon in Portugal.  Amistad needed a visit to a gas station or, as they say in England a petrol station... Actually Amistad's two trustworthy Caterpillar engines are using diesel as fuel. It was delivered by a truck straight to the wharf.  For safety reasons this operation could not be done on a posh wharf where Amistad moors in London.  After refuelling the ship get back to her birth and the students departed to Greenwich Museum under the guidance of Amistad's Director of Education - Dwayne Williams.

 

Students posing in front of old ships' figureheads depicting Polyphemus and Neptune displayed in the Greenwich Maritime museum.

from left Skylar, Molly, Haley, Lesandra, Dustin, Paula, Dominic   (photo by Dwayne Williams )

 

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