SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS INTERNATIONAL On December 13, 1980, 2 years and 2 months after her departure from Plymouth Harbor , the brigantine Eye of the Wind, flagship of Operation Drake, the round-the-world sailing and scientific expedition involving over 400 young people from 28 countries, sailed through an opened Tower Bridge in London, past thousands of spectators to a berth at the historic St. Katherine's Dock where Lt. Colonel John Blashford-Snell reported the expedition complete. The ship and an Operation Drake exhibition were open to the public where Young Explorers shared with visitors their experiences doing projects in marine biology, pollution studies, marine archaeology, tropical ecology and community assistance. Prince Charles, patron of the expedition, urged them to share and use their experiences with others, in the spirit of adventure , and of international cooperation. An Operation Drake Fellowship has been formed to continue projects started on the expedition. (See SH 10:21, 15:26.) Operation Drake, Room 5B, Old War Office Bldg., Whitehall Place, London SW!, UK .
museums, historic places of interest, shi pyards and crafts people in Scandinavia where traditions of the seafaring heritage are carried on today as they have been for centuries . In October she' ll depart for Austral ia. Anyone interested in joining the ship as crew on a share-expense basis, for any part of this itinerary including all or part of her voyage to Australia, may write Naomi Person, NMHS, 2 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11201. Maritime Ipswich 82 International Rally of traditional sailing sh ips will be held in the Wet Dock, Ipswich, on the East Coast from June 12 to 24, 1982. Square riggers, traditional fi shing craft and gaff yachts are welcome. Shore events, June 19-24, will include a civic reception and party at the local breweries, maritime exhibitions and other attractions in the town. Ipswich Lock is 17' deep and can take vessels up to 160' long. The Ipswich Wet Dock, built in 1841, has one Tudor (16th century) warehouse and many 19th century warehouses and mills and an attractive Victorian Customs House. For information: Robert Simper, Sluice Cottage, Ramsholt, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3AD,UK. Tel.: Shottisham 411273.
Denny and retired from service in Scotland in 1974. The former coal-fired Humber ferry Lin-
coin Castle is to be towed from Hull fi sh dock to a new berth at the foot of Humber Bridge in April. Built in 1940, she went out of service in 1978 and wi ll now become a resta urant/ museum . Her elder sister Tallershal/ Castle, moored fo r 5 years in the Thames, has not succeeded as a community center and is up for sa le. Waverley, last operating paddler, will be back
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Golden Hind Re1urns to Plymouth, 1581. Pain ting by Mark Myers, RSMA. FIASMA. Prints may be ordered from Manuscript Ltd., Moorswaler, Liskeard, Cornwall.
The Golden Hinde, a 60' reproduction of Sir Francis Drake's flagship, sailed into Plymouth Harbor, this past September, after completing a 30,000 mile 6-year circumnavigation, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Drake's own "Circumnavigation of the Globe." Launched in 1973 at the 130-year old Hinks' shipyard in Appledore, Devon, the Hinde, built under the sponsorship of Crowley Maritime Corp., San Francisco, sailed out fromPlymouth in 1974 to San Francisco where she spend 5 years. In 1979 she voyaged from California to Yokohama, Japan for the filming of the movie "Shogun," thence back to England, where she is now open to the public in Poole, on the south coast of Dorset. It' s hoped to sail her round Britain during this summer. Gold en Hinde, c/o Poole Harbor Commission, Poole, Dorset, UK. The brigantine Eye of the Wind, (see SH 10:21; 13 :35; 15:26) her circumnavigation for Operation Drake ended, is back in waters where she sailed seventy years ago as a Baltic trader. During the spring she' ll visit the isles of Scotland, exp loring places access ible on ly by sea, including wi ldli fe sanctuaries. Later in the summer, she'll sai l through the fjord s of Norway to Sweden and Denmark for a Maritime History and Ship Lore Cru ise-v isiting maritime
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The four-masted carrack Mary Rose, of 1509, forerunner of Drake's galleo ns and lineal fore bear of all big-gun, broadside fi ghting ships, capsized off Portsmouth in a brush with the French on July 19, 1545. Badly overloaded with men, perhaps also with armament, she sa nk in a gust which caught her with gunports open. Since discovery of the hulk , half buried in So lent mud, in 1967 , a careful marine archaeological effort has recovered man y artifacts yielding new insight into Tudor life. This effort moves into high gear this year, and next
in se rvice thi s summer with new boiler. Schedule: Thames, April 30-May 5; Humber , May 7-12; Tees/ T yne, May 14-26; Forth, May 28-June 2; Moray Firth, June 6-10, Belfast Lough, June 14-19 (Waverley Terminal, 54 Stobcross Ba y, Glasgow: 041-221-8152). The 180-year old lifeboat Zetland may be moved from a museum at Redcar on the Northeast Coast to Kirkleat ham 3 miles inland-but not if 5,000 people who signed a pet ition protesting this removal have their way!
year the Mary Rose Trust, (whose President, Prince Charles, has dived twice on the wreck), hope to lift the shi p and make her the centerpiece of a new museum, not far from where her descendant HMS Victory, only 216 years old, lies in drydock. Mary Rose Trust, 48 Warblington St., Portsmouth, Hants POI 2ET . Paddle Stea mer Notes: Old Caledonia, the float ing steamer restaurant which caught fire on the Thames last summer , has been sold for scrap. She may be replaced by the turbine steamer King George Vbuilt in 1926 by William
The Inland Waterways Association Annual Festival wi ll be held on August 15-16 on the River Aire and the Canal Basin in the center of Leeds. A number of historic cra ft will be on display.
Traditional Sailing Review, a new quarterly publication devoted to the restoration, maintenance and sailing of gaff yachts, smacks, bawleys, local coasting craft, barges, wherries, keels, ga ll easses and square-rigged sa il-training vessels, is offered for 5 (plus postage). Roger Beckett, 28 Spital Road, Maldon, Essex CM9 6EB. Maritime England Year will open on Trafalgar Day, October 21. World Ship Trust exhibitions are planned in the US, and a Humberside exhibition on American maritime museums is planned. US museums are invited to send posters, book lets, and li sts of book s or so uvenirs for sale to Barry Beadle, Hon. Ship Trust Correspondent, 39 New land Ave., Hull HUS 3BE, UK. SEA HISTORY , SPR ING 1981