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of San Francisco, there were the Burma Queen, built in Hamburg, Germany in 1927 as the steam police launch F-iafenpo/izei, from the San Francisco Maritime Museum, and the tug Panama, built in San Francisco in 1911 . Used as a yacht in 1970-72, the Panama sank at her moorings in the latter year (her fifth sinking) and was bought for $1 for service as a working tug owned by the Slackwater Towboat Company. Thus the crews of the Federal Historic Park, the private Museum, and a working tugboat company came together, with mu ch celebration among themselves and the people who flocked to the old river port to join them. The Eppleton Hall, Tyneside paddletug of 1914, whose steaming by volunteer crew was reported in our last, completed an epic cruise into the Delta, a mystic maze of waterways where lotuseaters keep their houseboats, in July. She also earned nearly half the cost of her next $5,000 haulout, making a television commercial. By actively engaging hundreds of volunteers, and by carrying a message of history throughout the Bay area, she, like the Alma, of course earns her keep many times over, building new constituencies for the work . Harry Dring, doughty keeper of the historic Ships of the Federal Maritime Historic Park, reports that the steam sc hoon er Wapama will at last be hauled for interim repairs to her ageing wooden hull. She came to the Hyde Street Pier with 16 inches of hog in her; ultimately she must be rebuilt from keelson up. The National Park Service, with its declared
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objective of "honoring and carrying out the founding vision" that brought the ships to San Francisco, is deep in plans to set up the fundamental establishment needed for the ships, and needed to capitalize full on the deep learning and fundamental form of recreation that they bring to the city they serve, and indeed to the nation.
Falkland Islands Research Project Earthwatch announces an arc heological research project to gat her data and accurate measurements of historic ships at the "most incredible accessible ship graveya rd in the world." Two teams of vo lunteers will assist in actual on-s ite excavations and archeo logica l research in the Falkland Islands. There, on these windswept, barren islands off the coast of so uthern Argen-
tina, sailing ships shattered by gales off Cape Horn put in for refuge, and the National Society has been involved in study of the hulk s of these ships, as reported in SH 4, 6, and 7, and in John Smith's booklet "Condemned at Stanley " (available from the National Society for $1.50 postpaid). Earthwatch is signi ng up contributing vo lunteers to a ugment an expedition financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, in two parties to go to the Falklands January 19-February 9, and February 19-March 2. Persons interested in sign ing on for eith er of these two working parties are invited to app ly to Earthwa tch , 10 Juniper Road , Belmont, Massachusetts 02178. Each participant is expected to contribute $850 toward the expenses of the expedit ion and to work on measurement s, artifact recovery and cataloging under the supervision of Norman Brouwer, Ship Historian of South Stree t Seaport Museum, and Peter Throckmorton, marine archeo logist. .t
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