Launched in 2001, the SEF’S namesake schooner SULTANA is a reproduction of a Boston-built merchant vessel that served for four years as the smallest schooner ever commissioned in the British Royal Navy. The modern SULTANA sails as a school ship, taking more than 4,500 students out onto the Chesapeake Bay each year for hands-on programs in environmental science and history. SULTANA sails with school systems around the Chesapeake, regularly sailing from ports including Chestertown, Annapolis, Baltimore, St. Michaels, Cambridge, Oxford, Solomons, and Crisfield.