SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS sailed to Chicago in 1893 for the Columbian Exposition, is awaiting restoration at Lincoln Park .) Museum, 57th St. & Lake Shore Dr., Chicago IL 60637.
AUSTRALIA The Newsletter of the Australian Association for Maritime History reports that the wreck of Yongala, a 3664-ton liner of the Adelaide SS Co. which disappeared in a cyclone in March 1911 offTownsville, Queensland with 120 lost has been named "historic" under the Historic Shipwrecks Act of 1976. First located in 1947 and found again by divers in 1958, Yongala is within the Great Barrier Reef Region, soon to be declared a protected zone, permitting access but not salvaging or damage to the wreck or surrounding marine life. Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Queensland. Queensland Maritime Museum exhibits include ship models, artifacts from wrecks in the area, a reconstruction of the bridge of an early steamship Diamantha, and a WW II frigate installed in drydock so that restoration may be undertaken. Plans include a shore-based museum at the South Brisbane Dry Dock site, and preservation and operation of the coalfired steam tug Forceful. Museum, S. Brisbane Dry Dock, Brisbane, Queensland. The Maritime Services Board of New South Wales has established the Goat Island
Museum, in Sydney Harbor, in order to provide an historical survey of the Board's work, a history of the island, piloting and navigation, and the changing shape of the outports of the harbor. The Museum has acquired one of the whaleboats of the pilot vessel Captain Cook Ill. Museum, Goat Island, Sydney Harbor, New South Wales. An energetic group of volunteers keeps on top of maintenance aboard the 1885 iron bark Polly Woodside, permanently berthed in the Yarra River at the Melbourne Maritime Museum: such tasks as sandblasting, refurbishing the pinrails, making new blocks and building bunks . Built in the yard of Harland and Wolff, Queen's Island, Belfast and acquired by a New Zealand firm in 1903 (who named her Rona), she traded with other Pacific Islands until she hit a reef in Well. ington (NZ) harbor in 1921. The Adelaide Steamship Co. then brought her to Sydney for use as a coal lighter and dredge. In 1967, the National Trust of Australia was given the bark for restoration, which was substantially completed in 1980 with the crossing of the main royal yard. Polly Woodside, corner Normanby & Phayer St., S. Melbourne 3205, Victoria.
JAPAN Remains of72 hulls discovered underwater off Nagasaki are believed to be from Kublai Khan's fleet, sunk during an attempted inva-
sion 700 years ago. Kublai, Mongol founder of the Ming dynasty in China and grandson of Genghis Khan, failed in his first invasion attempt, 1274, and tried again in 1281, coming across in overwhelming force from China and Korea. But a typhoon arose and sank 1,000 of the 4,400 invading warships, giving rise to the kamikaze or "divine wind" tradition which inspired Japanese suicide pilots in World War II. Artifacts from the su nken hulls include pottery, weapons, and the personal seal of one of the Khan's generals-all to be donated to the local museum at Imari Bay. Dr. Torao Mozai, professor emeritus at Tokyo University, discovered the ships by following up on local rumor. He is working to protect the wrecks, and to build up the archaeological expertise and controls required to preserve this priceless find. We look forward to reporting further developments in this work, which is of vital interest to the worldwide historic community.(See 'Letters.')
IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM AVERY BAKER, Curator of MIT's Francis Russell Hart Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an historic naval architect of international renown, who was also a hero to aspiring scholars and boatbuilders, and a distinguished contributor to these pages, died September 8. An appreciation of his work will appear in a future issue. w
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