Tugboats tie on to the schooner Adventuress after it ran aground Mondayat Orcas Island. No injuries were reported when the 95-year-old schooner ran aground at about noon in Wasp Passage in the San Juan Islands while sailing on a school trip. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

The Adventuress, an historic schooner scheduled to visit Tacoma next month for the Tall Ships 2008 festival, has run aground in Wasp Passage, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.

No injuries were reported and all passengers and crew were safely removed by the Washington State Ferry Sealth, and Vessel Assist, according to a Coast Guard press release issued this afternoon.

The cause of the grounding is unknown. No pollution was reported.

The nonprofit organization Sound Experience sails the 133-foot Adventuress as a training vessel.

It's one of three ships participating in Youth on Board, a project of Metro Parks Tacoma, Tall Ships Tacoma, Boys & Girls Club of South Puget Sound, and the Sea Scouts.

The 48 participants, all 14 to 17 years old, were scheduled leave Tacoma on June 29 for Vancouver Island.

UPDATE Here's more from The Associated Press.

“She’s a tough old ship,” said Catherine Collins, executive director of Sound Experience, the Port Townsend company that sails the two-masted schooner.

Collins said the sailboat had previously run aground in the 1960s and came out of the experience without a scratch.

“We’re not worried,” she said, adding that the ship was not taking on water. “As soon as the tide comes in, they’re going to float her.”
High tide was at 10:08 p.m. Monday.

The sailboat had 15 passengers and a crew of 12 on board when it went aground, Collins said.