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The use of wind-powered ships is not over yet! In Japan a 1600-ton coastal tanker is being built as a sailing ship with auxiliary engine to get past calm spots. The owners al so plan a 1400-ton sailing barge to deliver building supplies in Tok yo-Yokohama area. Jn England, Windrose Ltd . plans to build a 5-masted bark of about 1200 dwt tons to tran sport wool from Au stralia back to England-the most traditional design of variou s ships that are planned. Jn the US, the oil rig Rowan Louisiana may now hold the record for setting the largest sa il ever cut. In March 1978 the ri g was towed across the Gulf of Mexico , assisted by a huge roller-furling jib I 70 ' on the luff, 72 ' on the foot, some 5600 sq . ft. in area. The sail saved abo ut $2400 a day during the tow . Another " return to the past" item is the seriou s consideration of the use of coal as fuel for ocean-going ships. Firemen will not have to work in 120 ° boiler room s of yore - mechanical stoking equipment tak es th eir place. Pulverized coal is being used on some ships and it is being considered for many more. Tim Severin, who sailed across the Atlanti c in a re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage in a cowhide curragh , plans another voyage- to follow the ancient trade route from Oman to China in a reconstruction of an Arab dhow. Hi s vessel Sohar, named for Sinbad's birthplace, has been under con struction since January; it is hoped that the voyage will begin this fall. The 140-ton wooden hull is 80 ' long, lashed together with coconut fiber ropes and rigged with the same material.
UNITED STATES The American Sail Training Association will hold it s 8th Annual Sail Training Conference, October 23-4, at the Philadelphia Maritime Museum . These broad-gauge conferences have become a valued fixture, touching on public programs, museum work, hi stori c preservation as well as the gut and technical issues of the sail training movement. AST A , Ei senhower House, Fort Adam s State Park, Newport RI 02840. The National Maritime Historical Society ha s schedu led a Ship Trust Forum for November 9-IO, at the National Maritime Mu seum, San Francisco. NMHS, 2 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11201. San Jose State University and the National Archives are co-sponsoring a Maritime History Conference on the westward movement by sea during the Gold Rush, November 7-8, at the University, San Jose CA 95192. Maritime Folklife Resources: A Directory and Index is now available from the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Designed for the serious researcher the 'g uide covers more than 170 mu seums, archives and libraries which have significant maritime holdings. Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.
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Log Chips Supplement #2 has been completed by editor Norman Brouwer and is now avai lable from the Society for$ I. It contains the li st of British-built ships built in 1874 and it picks up Sailing Ship News where John Lyman left off in 1959 . NMHS , 2 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11201 .
EAST COAST Maine Maritime Museum is comp letely rebuilding the wooden tug Seguin of 1883 at their Percy & Small Shipyard faci lity. She is being joined on the ways by the former Arctic exploration schooner Bowdoin, which is to be thoroughly rebuilt with the support of a grant from the fnterior Department' s Maritime Heritage Fund of 1979. Work on Bowdoin will take at least a year, longer for Seguin: both are on ex hibit during reconstruction. Museum, 963 Washington St ., Bath ME 04530; Bowdoin , 39 High St., Camden ME 04643. The Piscataqua Gundalow Project of Portsmouth , NH is continuing to coll ect material and fund s for construction of the gundalow Captain Adams, aiming for launch in fa ll of 1981. Gundalow Project, Box 1303 , Portsmouth NH 03801. The 75' steam launch Calliope, powered by a 3-cylinder , 80 hp steam engine built in Onta rio , Canada in 1906, now makes tours in
Boston H a rbor. Stops include Museum of Transporta tion and USS Constitution. Congress Street & Atlantic Steamship Co., 300 Congress Street, Boston MA 02210. USS Constitution Museum has opened a new exhibit, "The Building of Old Ironsides," composed of three parts: a simulated saw pit, showing how large timbers were cut before powered machines; a full- size reproduction of the frig a te 's stru cture, including keel and frames, thin gs not visible to vi sitors on the ship; a fully rigged mod el of the ship , including sail s , whi ch had been used as a teaching a id during the da ys of wind-powered ship s . C on stitution Mu seum , Box 1812, Boston MA 02129. The New Bedford Whaling Museum has taken on a I 9th-century whaleboat salvaged from the wrec k of the steam whaler Balaena in 190 I. It had been used by local Es kimos for shore whaling until about 1930 when it was put in storage. The Arctic climate preserved the boat to thi s time. Museum , 19 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford MA 02740 . Frigate Rose, a 1970 reproduction of the ship of 1757 (SH 17 :26, SH 16:36) has found a new hom e in New Bedford where her owners, the Colonial Ship Mu seum , plan to rebui ld topside pl a nking a nd mak e other needed repairs.
SEA HISTORY, FALL 1980