SEA HISTORY JULY 1976

No. 4

CONTENTS PRESIDENT'S REPORT ................. . .................. 1 LETTERS

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OPERATION SAIL 1976 ........ ................... ........ 10 by Peter Stanford I SAW THREE SHIPS ..................................... 14 E. M. Morrissey, by Charles F . Sayle, Sr. La Amistad, by Michael Clements Sebbe Als, by Lance Lee SAIL TRAINING, U.S.A. ......................... .. ........ 17 American Sail Training Ass'n, by Barclay Warburton, III Beyond the Spectacle, by C. E. Gallagher HISTORIC SHIPS IN THE U.S ............................... 19 Progress in N.Y. , by Peter Stanford, Norman Brouwer, Peter Throckmorton, et al. Opportunity in San Francisco, by Karl Kortum Galveston Takes On the Elissa, by Michael Creamer Saving the American Schooner, David Durrell Ship Notes THE AMERICAN HERITAGE IN THE FALKLANDS ..... .. ... 36 by Peter Throckmorton ACTIVITIES ... . ......................................... 42 Sea Day X Seamens Institute American Maritime Academy Three Luncheons ... THE LANGUAGE OF COMMAND IN SAIL .................. 44 by Stanley Gerr THE CHARLES COOPER SETS OUT FROM CALCUTTA, 1861 by Franklin Jordan .............. .... 48

COVER: U.S. Coast Guard bark Eagle, flagship of Operation Sail 1976, wallops into a rising sea, close-hauled under all plain sail. Built in Hamburg, Germany, forty years ago, she will be joined by German, Portuguese, Rumanian and Russian sisters built to her design as the tall ships of the world's sail training fleets gather here this summer-over 200 ships in allto honor the two hundredth anniversary of a republic born of the sea.

NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW YORK

WASHINGTON, D.C.

SAN FRANCISCO