Captain Scott becomes Youth of Oman Launched in 1971, for Scottish youth training programs run by the Dulverton Trust, the 129-foot, 380-ton threemasted topsail schooner Captain Scott left the UK for Arabia in October. The English magazine Yachts and Yachting had this to report , according to our Advisor Frank Carr : Th e ship is now ca lled Youth of Oman a nd has a new fi gurehead to symboli se th e name. Youth of Oman is on her wa y to Muscat a nd is scheduled to a rri ve on November 18 which is Omani Day . The crew co nsists o f 18 Om a ni cadets and 3 pett y o ffi cers of the Omani Na vy, wo rkin g a longside 18 Briti sh Sea Cadet s a nd watch -keepin g o fficer s on loan from th e Royal Navy.
Giorgio Cini, ex-Fantome II, ex-Belem The graceful 611-ton bark Giorgio Cini is announced for sale in the November Mariner's Mirror (UK) . Built as the Belem in 1896 in Nantes, she traded to America until 1914, when she was converted to a yacht by the Duke of Westminster. In 1921 she was bought by Lord Guiness and renamed Fantome I!, and in 1950 Earl C ini bought her, giving her her present name, arid used her as a school ship attached to the Giorgio C ini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio off Venice . Thi s 168-foot steel vessel is now offered for sale by Cantieri Navali e Officine Mecca niche di Venizia, Castello Campo Celestia, 30122, in Venice, Italy .
Mystic Seaport Photo by Kenneth Mahler
The full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad has been hauled at the duPont Restoration Shipyard at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut for basic hull overhaul including bottom plate replacement (above). Meantime, across the country, the wooden steam schooner Wapama of the San Francisco Historic Ships Park, has been hauled for remedial work on her bottom; the fundamental job that is needed, as her master Harry Dring, keeper of the San Francisco ships, points out, cannot yet be undertaken .
SEA HISTORY, SPRING 1978
Oceans Week '78, sponsored by the American Oceanic Organization, will bring exhibits, debates, events and ships to Washington DC , April 19-23. Shipcarving and other marine crafts will be demonstrated on the waterfront, and among shoreside activities the National Society expects to sponsor a Marine Art Show . For information: Oce"TlS Week, 1000 Water Street SW , Washington DC 20024. Proceedings of the Maritime Preservation Conference held in Baltimore, June 24, 1977 are now available from the Nation Trust for Historic Preservation , 740 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC, for $4 postpaid. Waldo C. M. Johnston became Director Emeritus of Mystic Seaport last fall . After twelve epochal years as Director, he called for continuing dedication to the integrity of a world-renowned center that exists to help bring the citizen to a "realization that his people and his country possess a proud heritage, and a treasured nobility of spirit." Revell Carr, former Curator, is his successor as Director.
Hooting in the New Year The steam whistle is an almost vanished breed today. Many are preserved in museums but few visitors have any conception of the thrilling chords which these instruments were capable of producing. Steam will find a way! Each year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, some of these voices can be heard "singing" again at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, at the annual whistle welcome to the New Year. This year an even twenty whistles were sounded including those of steamship, ferry, tu g , railroad, and factory ancestry. This sight and sound spectacular (clouds of steam roll 5 and 6 stories into the air) attracted hundreds of people who come to photograph, record, or drink champagne toas ts to the New Year. CONRAD MILSTER The Shipcraft Guild This association of ship model builders and marine artists now meets regularly at the National Society's headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Regular membership is $10, associate (for those who can ' t attend meetings) is $8 . Members meet monthly to review their work, which is reported in the lively Binnacle. Write Abraham Taubman, Secretary, 11 College Drive, Jersey City, NJ 07306 .
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