SEA HISTORY No. 13

ISSN 0146-9312

WINTER 1979

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE WORLD SHIP TRUST PROJECT

EDITOR'S LOG 4 LETTERS 9 EAST RIVER: OF TIME AND TIDE, Peter Stanford 12

A DREAM OF TALL SHIPS IN SOUTH STREET

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THE SCHOONER BERTA PUTS TO SEA, Francis Bowker

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THE URBAN WATERFRONT, Anthony Gliedman

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THE EAST RIVER RENNAISSANCE

19 SHIP TRUST: PROJECT SEA WITCH, Melbourne Smith 22

TOWARD A WORLD SHIP TRUST, Frank Carr

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LAUNCHING THE SHIP TRUST, Irving Johnson

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NEEDED ON THE VOYAGE, John Ewald

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NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; THE FIFTH STAGE, George Bass

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SKILLS TRANSFER, Lance Lee

34 SAIL TRAINING 38 HISTORIC SHIPS IN SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS, Norman Brouwer 43 SHIP NOTES: THE ELISSA LEAVES PIRAEUS, Michael Creamer 50 MARINE ART: ANTON OTTO FISCHER, Alex Hurst 54

ASMA NEWS

56 BOOKS: THE BOOK LOCKER, Alfred Hill 63 ON THE FULTON FERRY, Walt Whitman

SEA HISTORY is the journal of the National Maritime Historical Society, an educational, tax-exempt membership organization devoted to furthering the understanding of our maritime heritage. Copyright © -1979 by the National Maritime Historical Society. OFFICE: 2 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. MEMBERSHIP is invited and should be sent to the Brooklyn office: Sponsor, $1 ,000; Patron, $100; Family, $15; Regular, $10; Student or Retired, $5. CONTRIBUTIONS may be made for any recognized project. Make out checks' 'NMHSShip Trust," indicating on the check the project to which _you wish support to be directed. OFFICES & TRUSTEES are Chairman: Admiral John M. Will, USN (ret.); President: Peter Stanford; Vice Presidents: Karl Kortum, John Thurman; Secretary: Alan G. Choate; Trustees: Frank 0. Braynard, Norman J. Brouwer, Robert Carl, Alan G. Choate, F. Briggs Dalzell, Harold D. Huycke, Barbara Johnson, Karl Kortum, Edward J. Pierson, Kenneth D. Reynard, Walter F. Schlech, .Jr., Howard Slotnick, Peter Stanford, John N. Thurman, Shannon Wall, Barclay H. Warburton III, John M. Will, Charles Wittholz; President Emeritus: Alan D. Hutchinson.

ADVISORY COUNCIL: Chairman: Frank 0. Braynard, New York Harbor Festival; George Campbell, American Museum of Natural History; Frank G. G. Carr, Cutty Sark Society; Harry Dring, National Maritime Museum at San Francisco; Richard Goold-Adams, Great Britain Restoration; Robert G. Herbert; Melvin H. Jackson, R. C. Jefferson; John Kemble, Pomona College; Rick Miller; Conrad Milster, Pratt Institute, NY; Robert Murphy; John Noble, artist; Capt. David E. Perkins, USCG (ret.); Ralph L. Snow, Bath Marine Museum; John Stobart, artist; Albert Swanson, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Peter Throckmorton; Alan Villier' , seaman author; Alen York, Antique Boat & Yacht Club. SHIP TRUST COMMITTEE: International Chairman, Frank Carr; Chairman, Peter Stanford; George Bass; Karl Kortum; Barclay H. Warburton, III; Senior Advisor, Irving M. Johnson. SEA HISTORY STAFF Editor, Peter Stanford; Managing Editor, Norma Stanford; Associate Editors, Norman J . Brouwer, Francis J. Duffy, Beth Haskell, Ray Heitzmann, Albert Swanson; Advertising Sales, Cindy Goulder; Circulation, Jo Meisner; Membership, Marie Lore.

Above is the inside of NMHS headquarters on the Brooklyn waterfront in New York. Here, Trustee Norman Brouwer, at left, has given a manuscript for your editor to ponder, while associate Editor Ted Miles (now working aboard Moshulu in Philadelphia) looks for answers to a question in some slides. Brouwer's Falkland Islands Expedition report appears on pages 38-42 in this issue. In our next will appear his report on another hulk in the tide of time, an 18th century ship uncovered in the cellar of the building next door to where he works, as historian at South Street Seaport Museum. We are also coming back for a further look at New York in our next. Opposite the opening of the East River story on page 9 appears an ad that carries the message we get from the river we work by . Not by sheer accident, in that ad Mr. DiMaggio is standing before the river, on the NMHS pier. The ships of South Street can be seen behind him . Inspired by this kind of thing, we offer our plan for the river on page 16-a scheme knit up of heady dreaming and hard work by citizens on both banks of the river whose traffics built the New World's greatest city. PS

COVER: "Towing Out-End of Sail in the East River," by John A. Noble, who this year celebrates his fiftieth anniversary as artist of New York harbor, shows a schooner on her final departure in 1939. "You poor vessel passing under the bridge with your tattered foreign crew are the end of American sail, " notes the artist. From the collection of Herbert Tucker of Bayonne, New Jersey.

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