No.22

SEA HISTORY OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE WORLD SHIP TRUST

SEA HISTORY is the journal of the National Maritime Hi storical Society, an educational, tax-exempt membership organi zation devoted to furthering the understanding of our maritime heritage. Copyright © 198 1 by the National Maritime Historical Society. OFFICE : 2 Fulton St., Brookl yn, NY 11201. Telephone: 212-858-1348 . MEMBERSH IP is invited and should be sent to the Brooklyn office: Sponsor, $1 ,000; Patron , $ 100; Fami ly, $20; Regular, $15 ; Student or Retired, $7 .50. OVERSEAS: Outside North America, add $5 or subscribe via World Ship Tru st. CONTRIBUTIONS may be made for a ny recogn ized project. Make out check s " NM HSSh ip Tru st, " indicating on the check the project to wh ich yo u wish support to be d irected. OFFICERS & TRUSTEES are Chairman: Karl Kortum ; Vice Chairman: F. Briggs Dalzell; President: Peter Stanford ; Secretary: Alan G . Choate; Trustees: Norman J . Brouwer, John Bunker, A lan G . C hoate, F. Briggs Dalzell , Thomas Hale , Harold D. Huycke, Barbara Johnson, James F. Kirk , Karl Kortum, Robert J . Lowen, Edward J . Pierson, Richard Rath, Kenneth D. Reynard , Walter F. Sch lech, Jr., Howard Slotnick, Peter Stanford, John N . Thurman, Barclay H. Warburton Ill, Alen York . President Emeritus: Alan D. Hutchin son. ADV ISORS: Chairman: Frank 0. Braynard; Francis E. Bowker, Oswa ld L. Brett, George Campbell , Robert Carl, Frank G. G. Carr, Harry Dring, John Ewald , Joseph L. Farr, Timothy G. Foote, Richard Goold-Adams, Robert G. Herbert, Melvin H . Jac kson, R. C. Jefferson, Irving M. Johnson, John Kemble, Conrad Milster, William G. Muller , John Noble, Capt. David E. Perkins, USCG (ret.), Nancy Richardson, Ralph L. Snow, John Stobart , A lbert Swanson, Peter Throckmorton, Curator-at-Large, Alan Villiers, Shannon Wall, Robert A. Wein stein, T homas Wells, A IC H , Char les Witthol z. WORLD SHIP TRUST: Chairman, Frank G.G . Carr; Hon. Secretary, J .A . Forsythe; Hon. Treasurer, Philip S. Green; Erik C. Abranson ; Ma ldwin Drummond; Peter Stanford. Membership: $10 payable WST, c/ o Hon . Sec ., I 29a North Street, Burwell , Cambs. C BS OBB , England . Reg . Chari ty No. 277751 . AMER ICAN SH IP TRUST: International Chairman, Fra nk Carr; Chairman, Peter Sta nford; George Bass; Norman Brouwer; Karl Kortum ; Richard Rath ; Peter W. Rogers; Barclay H. Warburton, Ill ; Senior Advisor, Irving M. John son. SEA HISTORY STAFF: Editor, Peter Sta nford; Managing Editor, No rma Stanford; Associate Editors, Norman J. Brouwer, Naom i Person; Accounting, Jo Meisner; Membership, Ma rie Lore.

FALL 1981

CONTENTS 4 LETTERS 7 THE WAWONA IS WAITING: PART II, Captain Harold D. Huycke 18 SAILING IN THE LAST PACIFIC LUMBER SCHOONERS, Robert Burmeister Hope,

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23 FROM THE LAKES TO THE WORLD'S OCEANS, Peter W. Rogers 26 MY OWN NAVY, John Christopher McCormick THE WRECK OF THE BREADALBANE, Keith Miller 29 MARINE ART: AN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM ALEXANDER COULTER, Raymond D. White 33 SA IL TRAINING: DAY'S RUN , Report of the American Sail Training Association 34 HOW WE SAIL THE LIBERTAD, Captain Alberto Padillo 36 SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS 42 BOOKS 46 CAPPY RICKS: MATT PEASLEY REJECTS SOME CREDENTIALS, Peter B. Kyne

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YES COVER: The submarine that has ri sen from the ocean depths to splash the night sky with fire is American-built, on the Great La kes-and so, by a quirk of fate, is the Japanese frei ghter she is sinking. This is one of the stories of Grea t Lakes ships Peter Rogers tells by word a nd picture on pp. 23-25.

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