November 1929- John Alden presents plans to Edward Brown for a 135(LoA) foot auxiliary schooner to be built at the Electric Boat Company in New London, Connecticut, still to this day a U.S. Navy Shipyard.

12^th August 1930- The contract for the construction of Puritan was signed. Due to the beginning of the Great Depression, Puritan was the only boat built by the Electric Boat Company in 1930-31. Not only did she receive notable attention during her construction, but she was built at the site where nuclear submarines would be built decades later.

25^th April 1931- Barbara L. Brown-Gray broke a bottle of champagne at 14:30 across the bow of Puritan officially Christening the ship and seeing her touch the waters for the very first time.

6^th June 1931- Puritan embarks on her maiden voyage from New London to Oyster Bay.

12^th April 1932- Four months after visiting Puritan for the very last time, Edward W. Brown dies. Soon after his passing the Executors of his Estate put Puritan up for sale.

1933- By the spring of 1933, Puritan was sold for $35, 000 to Harry Bauer, a Los Angeles lawyer and President of Southern California Edison. At the beginning of April, Mr. Brauer sails her to California. On board is a seventeen-year-old boy called Sterling Hayden who would later describe his journey through the Panama Canal and up the Californian coast in his biography Wanderer, 1963. Hayden was an actor best known in The Asphalt Jungle, Dr.Strangelove, and The Godfather.

7^th December 1941- Harry Bauer sells Puritan to the U.S. Navy for $1. She patrols a 200-mile area off the Mexican coast, south of San Diego. Soon after the war ended, Bauer reunites with Puritan and brings her back to her original standard of luxury.

1957- Bauer funds a three-month excursion in the Gulf of California and invites the American Museum of Natural History in New York to use Puritan as a base of operations.

1957- Bauer funds a three-month excursion in the Gulf of California and invites the American Museum of Natural History in New York to use Puritan as a base of operations.

1961- Harry Bauer dies. Two years later, Puritan is put up for auction.

1963- Doyle D.W. Downey, of Houston, buys Puritan for $90,300. Doyle had previously bought Satartia, another Alden design later known as Southwind, from Bauer and he wanted Puritan to join the charter trade in in the Virgin Islands.1967- The business was not successful so Mariano Prado-Sosa of Peru buys Puritan for $120,000. The Prado family was one of the wealthiest families in Peru. Not only did they control the country’s media, textiles, and banks, but they also had two Peruvian Presidents in the family: His great grand-father, General Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian President between 1865-68, during the war with Chile, and his uncle, Mariano Prado Ugarteche between 1956-1962.

Mariano fails in his attempt to charter Puritan between Miami and the Virgin Islands. When he sends her to Acapulco the Mexican Government seizes Puritan on behalf of the Peruvian Government, on suspicion the vessel was bought with Peruvian state funds. Velasco Alverado blamed the powerful Peruvian families for social inequalities, and so confiscated many of their possessions and businesses.

1970- Mariano leaves Peru and Puritan is left behind in the hands of the Peruvian army in Acapulco.

June 1971- After succeeding to get Puritan from Acapulco to Miami, the boat was in such bad shape that Mariano decides to sell her. He will later be sentenced to ten years in prison for embezzlement, during his Presidency of Peruvian based, Banco Popular.

1972- Bill and Patsy Bolling purchase Puritan with the intent of rescuing her after finding her, ‘sails hanging from her booms, hatches broken and weeds growing in the scuppers’. Seven months and twenty-two thousand man-hours later, they accomplished the most spectacular restoration.

29^th September 1973- Bill and Patsy Bolling bring Puritan back to Florida to be part of the Caribbean charter trade. On their way home, they take part in the sixth annual Mystic Seaport Invitational Schooner Race and in John Duffet’s words, ‘Puritan made a spectacular comeback by winning first in her class, and everybody knows that she is now very much around.’ (Schooners Rise Again)

Until 1978 Puritan sails around the Caribbean with regular stops in Port Antonio Jamaica, Key West, and The Bahamas. Cuba regrettably was never a destination.

1978- Oscar Schmidt purchases’ Puritan.

1980- Oscar Schmidt sails Puritan over the Atlantic for the America’s Cup races in Newport, Rhode Island Maine. During this period, Oscar Schmidt buys and sells Puritan a number of times, and within this time period she mainly sailed around the Bahamas and the wider Caribbean.

1989- Puritan returns from the Caribbean with notable stops along the way; Bermuda, the Azores and 4,683 miles from Antigua to the Argentario after experiencing the loss of the foremast during the crossing. The shipyard Cantieri dell’Argentario conducted the necessary refit and built a new mast and bowsprit. Puritan’s original bowsprit is now the foremast of “Zaca” a large wooden schooner formerly `owned by the famous Errol Flynn. Upon completion of the repairs, Puritan is sailed to Villefranche, France. Soon after her arrival in Europe she is sold to Arturo Ferruzzi, where he keeps her in Antibes, France.

2015- Puritan joins The Classic Yacht Experience fleet and undergoes a significant refit with Tecnomar in Fiumicino (Rome) where the masts, fixture, fittings, equipment, rig, works to the hull and retractable centre board are carried out. In 2016, the second phase of this significant refit was completed where further works were conducted on the hull, engine and propulsion as well as being fitted with a brand-new deck.