The ship, captained by Hisao Ōnishi, headed for Hawaii on a planned 74-day voyage to train high school students who were interested in pursuing careers as fishermen.
Dr George Murray, Gregory's successor as chief scientist, was due to travel only as far as Australia (in fact he left the ship at Cape Town), using the voyage to train the scientists, but with no part to play in the detailed work of the expedition.
Or go the whole hog with a Tall Ships (02392 832055; tallships.org) sail training voyage, featuring day sails, European and UK coastal adventures and RYA practical courses on board the fleet of six vessels.
The Enterprise embarks on a three-week training voyage.
On 2 November, as part of the Second Battleship Division, the ships left the Boston Navy Yard for a training voyage to Europe, where they visited the Isle of Portland in the United Kingdom and Cherbourg in France.
She has also taught drawing and maritime literature on training voyages for Southampton College's Seamaster program.
My first destination was Tottenville at the southern end of Staten Island, both a ferry ride and a train voyage away.
The three-masted tall ship Picton Castle is a working vessel best known for its sail training voyages around the world.
The program begins at noon; among the films to be shown is Helke Misselwitz's 1988 "Winter Adé," a record of a train voyage across East Germany filmed in the last year of that nation's existence.
Tall ship Pelican, built as an Arctic fishing trawler in 1948, offers sail training voyages for youth.
