Bagheera, Historic schooner at Maine State Pier, Portland, United States

Bagheera is a 72-foot wooden-hulled auxiliary schooner with a 55-foot deck, a 14-foot-2-inch beam and a 7-foot-6-inch draft, normally berthed at the Maine State Pier in Portland. Its frame is white oak, its planking, flooring and ceilings are pine, its rails are mahogany, and its bowsprit and spars are Sitka spruce. The deck is fiberglass laid on oak beams, the hull is painted black, and the rig is gaff rigging.

Naval architect John Alden designed this two-masted schooner in 1924 as part of a new generation of working sailing vessels. The ship later saw competitive racing on the Great Lakes before being repositioned as an educational and tourism vessel in Maine waters.

Bagheera's name comes from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, given by Robert Benedict after he bought the schooner in 1928 and moved her to Chicago. Since then she has carried students and professors of Saint Joseph's College's Environmental Science Semester, who live and work aboard for two weeks Downeast, studying climate change, glacial geology, field methods, marine ecology and oceanography.

Visitors can join sailing tours departing from the Old Port, typically available from late spring through early fall. The vessel is easily accessible and tours accommodate different experience levels.

Each autumn the schooner becomes a two-week floating laboratory for Saint Joseph's College's Environmental Science Semester, carrying students and professors Downeast to study climate change, glacial geology, field methods, marine ecology and oceanography. The 1924 Malabar schooner, longer and wider than most of her class, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 4 November 2009.