NMHSNEWS The National Maritime Historical Society has announced that at its last two meetings six new Trustees have been elected to the Board. Captain Frederick L. Sabel, a retired captain in sail and steam, was Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to the Communist takeover. He is an old friend of KAIULANI; he prepared the rigging specifications when the first attempts were made to bring KAIULANI home. Others elected were: Charles Wittholz, a Washington naval architect; Edward Sette, Director of the United Seamen's Service in New York; Robert Bruce lnverarity, Director of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum; Karl Kortum, Director of the San Francisco Maritime Museum; and Henry A. Newbold. The Society has announced ambitious new plans for KAIULANI. She is to be restored as a national symbol of our maritime heritage and a keystone of our nation's Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. She will then sail the Atlantic coast visiting all the major ports as America's newest sail training ship. Her home port will be the South Street Seaport Museum.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Kicks Off Extensive Building Campaign The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, situated on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is a living testimony to the maritime history of an area which includes Virginia, Maryland, and parts of Delaware. Dedicated to preserve the types of vessels indigenous to the region, its exhibitions include a 19th century gaff rigged cargo or oyster sloop, a log bugeye, a power oyster boat, and the original Hooper Strait cottage-type Screw Pile Lighthouse. The unusual lighthouse is wooden and octagonal in shape. In order to better exhibit the growing collections, the Museum has recently announced an extensive building campaign to enlarge its quarters and to renovate the nineteenth-century waterfront houses already in its possession. A model of the proposed additions is below. Besides its ships, the Chesapeake Museum has a large collection of models, prints, photos, engravings and artifacts housed in its three original 19th century residences. The present site is land originally owned by the first purser of a United States Naval Squadron, Samuel Hambleton. It was he who named the site "Navy Point."
BUTCHER BOY To Be Restored By San Diego Maritime Museum Captain Kenneth Reynard of the San Diego Maritime Museum has taken the helm again. This time it is not the STAR OF INDIA but the 29 foot sloop BUTCHER BOY. After lengthy searching ¡ by Joe Jessop, past president of the Maritime Association, the Last surviving sloop of the San Diego fishing fleet has been returned
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