SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS EVENTS Aug. 14-16: 350th Anniversary Celebration of Kent Island, site of first permanent English settlement in Maryland. Aug. 29-Sept. 7: 4th Annual Long Island Sound America '81 Summer Festival; Headquarters, Bridgeport Area Chamber of Commerce, 180 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport CT06604. Sept. 11-13: Wooden Boat Festival; Sept. 14-18 Wooden Boat Symposium at Wooden Boat Foundation, 633 Water St., Port Townsend WA 98368, tel: 206-385-3628 . Sept. 19: Oyster Festival, Lighthouse Pt. Park, New Haven CT. Sept. 25-26: Schooner Race; Mystic Seaport. Sept. 26: "To The Sea in Ships: a conference on maritime history:" Prof. Karen Markoe, SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, NY 10465 October 1-2: The 5th Naval History Symposium, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402. October 10 or 17: Mayor's Cup Schooner Race; P ioneer Marine School, South Street Seaport Museum, 203 Front St., NY,NY 10038. October 15-16: American Sail Training Association Conference at US Merchant Marine Academy, King's Point NY. ASTA, Ft. Adams State Park, Newport RI 02840. October 17: Whaling Symposium; Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon MA 02067.
INTERNATIONAL 1981 is the Year of the Disabled . In England, plans have been announced to build a 135 ' bark, provisionally known as Jubilee, due to be launched in 1982, Maritime England Year. The idea for the ship, which will accommodate 30 trainees, including up to 8 who may be in wheelchairs was proposed by a Sussex teacher and sailing instructor, and received its initial grant from the Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal Fund. Handicapped Boaters Association publishes a bimonthly journal, Boating World Unlimited, which focuses on ways disabled boaters have developed to deal with their handicaps on the water. Handicapped Boaters Association, P. 0. Box 1134, Ansonia Station, NY, NY 10023 . The Norwegian full-rigged ship Sorlandet owned and recently refitted by the town of Kristiansand will be visiting the States during July and August. She will be picking up American sail trainees to add to her Norwegian crew, making 2 transatlantic passages and 2 roundtrip Boston / Bermuda voyages. Trainees age 16-25 should contact: New England Historic Seaport, 164 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210. Mariners International reports that they will be booking trainees to sail aboard 2 full rigged ships in Europe this summer. China Cloud (exbark Marques) is now re-rigged as a clipper with 30 sails including stuns'ls. The 120' vessel was built in 1917 in Spain as a trading schooner. Her sister, the 124 ' White Witch, a former Mallor-
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can schooner built in 1858 (ex-Cuidad de Inca and Inca), claims to be the oldest square rigger still sailing. Mariners International, 58 Woodville Rd ., New Barnet, Herts, ENS 5EG, England. From June 12 to 25, 1982 a Maritime Ipswich 82 International Rally of traditional sailing ships will be held in the Wet Dock, Ipswich on the East Coast of England. Every type of sailing vessel from square rigger to smallest traditional fishing craft or gaff yachts are very welcome. Ipswich Lock is 17 'deep and can take vessels up to 260 ' long. The Ipswich Wet Dock, built in 1841, has one Tudor (16 century) warehouse and many 19th century warehouses and mills and a very attractive Victorian Customs House. Shore events June 19-24 include a civic reception and party at the local breweries, maritime exhibitions and other attractions in the town . For information: Robert Simper, Sluice Cottage, Ramsholt, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3AD, Tel.: Shottisham 411273.
Oscar Huber, built in Germany in DuisburgRuhrort on the Rhine in 1922 as a paddletug, is now owned by that town's council who bought
her in 1971. She was towed back from Cologne in 1973, where she was in a yard, ready to be scrapped. Sunk in 1945 and raised in 1946, Oscar Huber was rebuilt from a coal-steamer to an oil-fired steamer in 1954. Now anchored near the Schifferborse, she is open to the public as a museum at no charge. Oscar Huber, Duisburg-Ruhrort, W . Germany. In 1975, Danish shipowner Per Henriksen acquired one of the few remaining Danish-built wooden vessels, Talata. Completely restored during 1975-77 in the J. Ring-Andersen shipyard in Svendborg, where she was originally built, and renamed Mercantic II, this tops' ) schooner now sails in Scandanavian waters. Volunteers welcome. Mercandia, 49 Bredgade, DK-1260, Copenhagen K, Denmark. The Tami Canoe Voyage Expedition is in the process of constructing and doing the traditional carvings on a Papua-New Guinean outrigger sailing canoe which they plan to sail on a 4000 mile round-trip voyage to the New Hebrides for the 1983 South Pacific Festival of the Arts. Only four or five elders are still alive who know how to build and carve these canoes . Expedition leader Terry Linehan, who first encountered Tami Island as a Young Explorer on Operation Drake (see Sh 10:21, 15:26, 20:34), plans to permanently record every step of canoe construction and simultaneously instruct the young villagers who will crew during the voyage. Contributions welcome. Tami Canoe Voyage, Rte. 5, River Falls, WI 54022. The latest report from the Sultanate of Oman indicates that the 80' dhow Sohar sailed by ex-
plorer Tim Severin with an Omani crew, scientific and film teams, is now on her way from Singapore to her final destination, Canton. Severin, who sailed trans-Atlantic to renact the voyage of St. Brendan in a cowhide curragh, left Muscat Harbor in Oman to follow the ancient silk and spice route to the Orient. (See SH 18:42.) The Sultanate of Oman, 2342 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC 20008. The Queensland Museum has recently been appointed administrator of Historic Wrecks Act in Queensland Waters and has set up a new Maritime Archaeology section to undertake research and fieldwork in this area. To date over 1500 wrecks are recorded off the coast including historic vessels such as HMS Pandora, and Mermaid. In its effort to locate and identify wreck sites for a comprehensive wreck register, the Museum would welcome the opportunity to copy or receive donations of records, research material, photographs, etc. Ron Coleman, Queensland Museum, Gregory Terr., Fortitude Valley, Old 4006 Australia.
GREAT BRITAIN Traditional Ship Association, an organization which was formed out of chairman Robin Davies' ¡ concern about the preservation and renovation of actual working ships, now has 20 owning and operating members. Always on the look out for work such as film charters, Davies reports that "the Association . .. produces liaison amongst various owners and has improved standards, rates, special discounts on insurance, etc." In addition, Davies and his brother/ partner Anthony, run Square Sail, a company which rebuilds, renovates and operates traditional ships. Currently, the brothers own the 145 ' brigantine Soren Larsen and the JOO' steel ketch Highland Prince. Subscription to T .S.A.: £ 15/ year. 8 Middleborough Co.1chester, Essex COi, !QT. The brigantine Luna, en route from Great Yarmouth to Amsterdam encountered heavy seas and malfunctioning pumps and decided to return to Yarmouth. In a series of unfortunate events including the breakdown of hand pumps, non-functioning flares, shifting winds which caused the anchor to drag, she was washed aground and ransacked by locals. In a few days she was nearly entirely broken up . HMS Warrior, the 9,210-ton iron warship Napoleon III called' 'the black snake among the rabbits" when she was completed in 1861 (SH 16: 12-15) is undergoing restoration at Hartlepool, under the aegis of the Maritime Trust. Personal recollections, photos, and other materials of the Royal Navy in Victoria's time are sought by Captain John G. Wells, RN, Research Director HMS Warrior, High Firs House, Liss, Hamphire GU33 7NJ.
CANADA Bluenose II, the 143 'replica of Canada's most famous and beloved sailing vessel wintered at the Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. Built in 1963 at Smith & Ruhland, the same yard as her predecessor, by
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