SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS history of that community will soon be available. Suffolk Marine Museum, Montauk Highway, West Sayville NY 11796.
children's programs are scheduled throughout the summer. Hudson River Maritime Center, 41 Broadway (mail to 13 Fair St.), Kingston NY 12401, 914-338-0071.
The Whaling Museum has just mounted a new exhibit of photographs, taken by Dr. Robert Cushman when he served aboard the whaling brig Daisy in 1912-13, which features the whaleboat that the Museum owns, presently undergoing restoration. The Museum is also planning a joint exhibit with the Black History Museum in Hempstead, Long Island, exploring the role of black men and women in our country's growth as amaritime power. The Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724.
"New Jersey Under Sail," a new exhibit at the New Jersey Historical Society's Lehmann Gallery, looks at the wide variety of New Jersey sailing vessels, from the sailing oyster fleet to pleasure yachts-from earliest traders to modern times. The exhibit features photographs, ship models, sail plans and drawings from the Wayne B. Yarnall Maritime Collection and photographs by Graham Scofield of the Bridgeton Evening News. New Jersey Historical Society, 230 Broadway, Newark, NJ.
Summertime has brought a slew of ships to the "street of ships"-the South Street Seaport Museum-including the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, the sail training vessel Young America, the research vessel Westward from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Lenie Marie from San Francisco, and the Danish sail training vessel Danmark. Temporarily absent from the Museum's pier is the Cape Horn sailing ship
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..S Cl;~ Wavertree, which was towed to the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Hoboken, New Jersey where work on the hull is being done in the initial stage of her restoration program sponsored by the Museum and the World Ship Trust. A full summer program at the Museum, including walking wours, workshop, concerts and harbor tours aboard the schooner Pioneer was launched with Tug Week in May. James P . McAllister, whose family's firm has operated tugs in New York Harbor for 117 years gave a special lecture, and two historic vessels still in operation, the 1887 HayDee (ex-New York Central No. 13) and the 1929 52' W{loden W. 0. Decker were open to the public. South Street Seaport Museum, 203 Front St., New York NY 10038.
The Hudson River Maritime Center celebrated its first birthday on July 4th. Festivities included a book signing for Museum Director Art Adams, "The Hudson: A Guidebook to the River" (see Book Reviews). Talks, films and
Expansion and renovation of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum include adding two stories to the Museum, more exhibition space, a nautical library, a collection area open to the public, and participation exhibits. A 100' lighter barge, Maple, is being converted with the help of many volunteers including the folks from the Heritage Ship Guild of the Port of Philadelphia, into a "Workshop on the Water," where students may learn boatbuilding techniques. The Workshop will house the Museum's small craft collection including four new acquisitions they have received as a result of a cooperative association with the Down Jersey Marine Historical Society: a 16' Barnegat Bay sneakbox; a 14' railbird skiff; an 1895 Delaware ducker; and an Applegarth crabbing skiff, which by prior arrangement is being traded with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum at Michael's Md., for a Delaware River gillnetter. Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 321 Chestnut St., Philadelphia PA 19106. Heritage Ship Guild of the Port of Philadelphia, NE Corner Third & Chestnut St., Phila. PA 19106.
The Hampton Mariners Museum, through a grant from the Institute of Museum Services (HEW) has undertaken a comprehensive research project to locate, study and record the history of small craft in North Carolina. Any info, artifacts, please contact: Michael B. Alford, Curator of Research, Hampton Mariners Museum, 120 Turner St., Beaufort NC 28576.
GULF COAST The work crew restoring the 1877 iron bark Elissa reports completed sandblasting and priming of her hold, deck beams, bulwarks, and is continuing this work on her topsides. Elissa's main, after and poop decks have been laid from
23,000 board feet of prime Douglas Fir from Oregon, and caulking of the maindeck is complete. The rigging crew is preparing more than 2
The I0 I' 1949 schooner, Shirley Blanche called into Fells Pt., Baltimore en route from Newfoundland to San Francisco via the Panama Canal, and was spotted by Society member Bill Eggert, who sent us this photo. The schooner,
which originally carried dories for fishing off the Grand Banks is skippered by Captain Rutherford Ross, who first went to sea on a small Greek freighter out of the port of Baltimore forty years ago, with his wife and two small sons. Shirley Blanche lost her anchor and fifty fathoms of chain during her transit in the Delaware Bay and had the starboard screw fouled by the everpresent Chesapeake crab pot. Bill Eggert, 21 Bidefort Ct., Bait. MD 21234. East Carolina University offers a history degree program with a focus on nautical archaeology
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which grew out of the school's summer field programs co-sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History and the Institute of Applied History. Last summer's field school in Edenton, North Carolina uncovered a 67' early 19th century schooner, a 100' 17th century French sailing ship which they believe is from Marseilles, and the remains of a 19th century shipyard. Dr. Wm. Still, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27834.
miles of standing rigging; both wooden and steel spars have arrived from Oregon and Houston respectively; and her lower foremast will be stepped on July 11. According to restoration director, Walter Rybka, she will be hauled later in the summer for bottom painting. Bulwarks have been rivetted to the sheer strake and work is beginning on the teak main and t'gallant rails. Her wooden blocks (some 300 of them) have been sent from Dauphinee & Sons, a Nova Scotian ship hardware firm that is also supplying the deadeyes. One of Elissa's volunteers is duplicating the missing brass hardware on the ship's skylight and companionway . Steady as she goes! Elissa, Galveston Historical Foundation, PO Box 802, Galveston TX 77553. (See SH 15:19-23.)
SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1981