The Gazela, a wooden square-rigger built in Portugal in 1883, is scheduled to tie up at Pier 11 (Pioneer and Conover Streets) on Wednesday, August 18, for a six-night stay. According to PortSide New York,

Gazela sailed from Lisbon across the Atlantic over 100 times during 70 years of hard work fishing the Grand Banks off Canada. Visiting the Gazela is a way to learn about life in the age of sail and about an environmental story: the once bountiful cod, the fishery of the Grand Banks and how it was decimated. Cod changed history, and for 1,000 years was live gold, as author Mark Kurlansky illuminated in his 1997 book “Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.” It was the Gazela’s job to bring in this cod and feed a European appetite for a fish that goes back to the Viking period.

The ship will be open for tours on August 19, 20, 22, and 23, and the traveling vaudeville performers of Cabaret Red Light will stage a production of “The Seven Deadly Seas” (rated PG-13 for mild adult content, or so we’re told) each night from the 19th to the 22nd.

Learn more about the Gazela and its visit at PortSide New York.