SMITHSONIAN OFFERS $5000 PRIZE FOR KAIULANI MODEL CONTEST Other prizes being sought by NMHS Smithsonian Institution wants a model of KAIULANI for their permanent collection and for display in the new Hall of American Maritime Enterprise, to open for the American Revolution Bicentennial in 1976. The National Maritime Historical Society proposes a nation-wide model building contest with First Prize of $5,000 for a model acceptable to the Museum. Other prizes are being sought to permit awards for wooden hulled models (Class B) and for models made by school children (Class C). Ship model clubs are to be encouraged to enter Class A. The Smithsonian's statement reads as follows: .... Some Notes respecting the Participation of the National Museum of History and Technology in the NMHS KAIULANI Ship Model Building Contest. The Section of Marine Transportation of the National Museum of History and Technology is planning to contract for a complete set of plans of the bark KAIULANI to be made up from data in the possession of the National Maritime Historical Society. The NMHS was appointed trustee for the bark KAIULANI by President Johnson in 1964 after the vessel was given to the American people by President Macapagal of the Phillipines. The KAIULANI is of interest to the museum as a representative steel square-rigged ocean carrier of the turn of the century and because she symbolizes the close of the age of sail for the American merchant marine and the American ship building industry. The plans to be made of the KAIULANI will be deposited in the Howard I. Chapelle Plan Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology. The acquisition of a model of the vessel is planned for the museum's new Hall of American Maritime Enterprise, the completion date of which is scheduled for 1976. The National Maritime Historical Society desiring to bring before the American public the plight of the KAIULANI, presently lying at Subic Bay, The Phillipines, and in enlisting public aid in the salvage, restoration and preservation of the vessel as a Bicentenary monument to America and the age of merchant sail, is planning to inaugurate a nation-wide ship model building contest. The contest is designed to appeal to model builders of varying skills with suitable prizes to be awarded to various skill levels. (Details of NMHS contest to be developed.) Because of the coincidence of interests in acquiring models of the KAIULANI, the National Museum of History and Technology will offer to registered contestants comolete and detailed olans of the vessel at reproduction costs. NMHS on its part will make available sets of photos of the KAIULANI under sail to supplement the plans. &
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