SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS
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NAUTICAL BOOKS, FILMS, MODELS, RECORDS ON OCEAN LINERS AND AIRSHIPS: Complete catalog of items: 50¢ in Coin or Stamps. Order from: 7 C'S PRESS, INC. P.O. BOX 57, DEPT. SH RIVERSIDE, CT. 06878 USA
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The South Street Seaport Museum in New York has aquired the pilot house from the harbortug New York Central 31. The tug, built in Brooklyn in 1923, was owned by the railroad for her entire career. After being refurbished the pi lot house will be used as an information booth for the Museum's fleet of historic ships berthed on Piers 15 and 16 on the East River. SSSM, 203 Front St., New York NY 10038. The Calvert Marine Museum has begun a second season of scenic cruises on the Patuxent in the bugeye William B. Tennison, built in 1899. She is the oldest Coast Guard licensed passenger vessel on the Chesapeake. Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons Md 20588.
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10 Fulton Street , New York. N.Y. 10038 South Street Seaport & Fulton Fish Market (212) 344-2262
ship demonstrations, speakers, films, music and marine art. Center, 2770 W. Lake Ave. N., Seattle WA 98109.
LAKES & RIVERS Work has begun on a new River Center for Mississippi River history at Winona, Minn. The $5 million facility, cantilevered over the city's riverfront drive, will include as a dryland exhib it the 1898 wooden-hulled sternwheel steamboat Julius C. Wilkie. A fu nding drive is underway to complete the project by 1983. River Center, 160 Johnson Street, Winona MI 55987. Restoration of the Viking, a Viking ship reproduction sailed over for the Columbia Exposition of 1893, is underway in Chicago. America's oldest historic reproduction, and a worthy voyager in herself, this ship is plan ned for a major exhibition center where people can "hear the roar of the sea, the flap of a sail, and see sunrise on a Nordic horizon ten centuries ago." Viking, 518 Davis St., Evanston IL 60201.
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All Nautical Subjects The Mariners Museum of Newport News, VA. celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with a special exhibit: "To Make America Sea Oriented; Fifty Years of the Mariners Museum," June-October 1980. Museum, Newport News VA 23606.
WEST COAST T he National Park Service reports that the National Maritime Museum, San Francisco and its fleet of historic ships was visited by 737 ,000 people last year. The Golden Gate Recreation Area of which the museum is a part is the fastest growing facility in the Natonal Park System. The Museum has announced plans to acquire the Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, including log books, whaling harpoons and tools, scrimshaw a nd other items related to the 19th century whale fishery. San Francisco was a major center for whaling during the late 19th century, but until now no major collection on this trade existed on the West Coast. Also in San Francisco, the construction of a new office building for the Levi-Strauss Corporation has uncovered a 1849 Gold Rush Era Ship. She appeared to be largely intact and well preserved, and architects Ray Aker and William A. Baker were able to make some studies of exposed portions in a dig organized by historian Roger Olmstead before the ship was reburied-to be resurrected one day, it is hoped!
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Piscataqua Region, 1630-1800." Founded in 1975, the purpose of the museum is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit important artifacts, documents, research materials, and buildings of historic concern to southern Maine. Toward that end, the museum has aggressively undertaken two systematic archaeological survey programs, one on land, the other offshore, to identify, research , and preserve the area ' s valuable historical resources. The Kittery Historical and Naval Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 PM, and is located on Rogers Road, next to the Town Hall. Admission is free .
T he Center fo r Wooden Boats will hold its 4th Annual Boat Show July 4-6 at the Naval Reserve Base on Lake Union, Seattle. This gathering, which attracts over 10,000 people each year, includes boat building and seaman-
JULIAN BURNETT BOOKS P.O. Box 229, Al t lanta, GA 30301
ORIGINS, ORIENT AND ORIANA by Charles F. Morris A rare eve nt in marit ime publi shin g is thi s uniqu e blend of hi story, th e economi c a nd techni ca l developm e nt of pa sse nge r ship ope ra tion a nd the de sign and con stru cti o n o f th e last grea t lin e r. Co pi o usly il lustrated w ith photo gra ph s a nd diagra ms, th is big, hand so me vo lume was wr itte n by the fo rm e r Chi ef Arch it ec t of th e famous Orient lin e. He traces the growth of ocea n lin e rs from sa il to th e gia nt stea m-drive n lu xury vesse ls of tod ay a nd describes, in em in e ntl y rea dable tex t, the deve lopments in speed , size, sa fe ty and co mfort a nd th e ir int e rrelation ships. He brings a ll th ese factors togeth e r in a de ta iled account of th e des ign a nd buildin g of ORIANA, demonstrat in g how a ll of th e confl ictin g de ma nd s are bro ught togeth e r to produ ce th e ult ima te lin e r. Over 500 pages; 7V2' x 9V2'; buc kram bi nding; 220 illus., incl. 9 co lor pl ates a nd 30 diagrams. ORDE R NOW FOR JU LY SHIPM ENT AT TH E SPEC IAL PR E-PU BLICAT ION PRI CE OF $46.00 (incl udes postage) . After 15 July, the
price will be $56.00. Enclose c hec k or money orde r made o ut to:
McCARTAN & ROOT, PUBLI SHERS Dept. L 325 E. 57th Street # 7A New York , N.Y. 10022
SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1980