The new Boston Tea Party Museum in Boston will reach a major milestone this week with the launch of a replica of one of the three tall ships involved in the 1773 event, which helped spark the American Revolution.

The Beaver is scheduled to be launched Monday in Gloucester after a major rebuilding effort that included new frames, hull planks, deck, bow and stern.

The other two ships, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, are awaiting renovations.

The museum, including the ships, is scheduled to open in June in the Fort Point Channel in Boston, not far from Griffin’s Wharf – the original site of the December 1773 tea party, when colonists dumped tea in the harbor to protest British taxes.

An earlier museum at the site burned in 2001 after a lightning strike. (AP)