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SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & National Maritime Historical Society News ... Sail training programs aboard the Chesapeake Bay skipjack Mamie A . Mister and the sloop Francy are being conducted by Captain Neal Parker this summer, under the auspices of the Society, the vessels sailing from the Society's pier at Fulton Ferry Landing .... The Society's summer schedule was launched on Saturday May 22 with SEA DAY-the annual waterfront maritime heritage festival . Pete Seeger joined a host of musicians, boatbuilders, model builders and education groups to celebrate the public waterfront-and to call on New Yorkers to keep it public! . .. Walking tours will be sponsored by the Society throughout the summer. Society, 2 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11201.
models and lumber for outfitting the new shop. The Museum is also the new home of the Titanic Historical Society's archives. Museum, 321 Chestnut St., Philadelphia PA 19106-2779. Society, P .O. Box 53, Indian Orchard MA 01151. A campaign is underway to raise $250,000 for the restoration of the US Coast Guard ice breaker cutter Mohawk, which fought in the
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Sotheby Park Bernet, auction house, hosted a preview in December of the world's largest private whaling collection, the Barbara. Johnson Whaling Collection, to benefit the NMHS. Over the past 20 years Ms. Johnson, an NMHS trustee, acquired Jogs, journals, tools and gear, ornamental pieces, paintings, photographs and scrimshaw, including two of the famed "Susan's Teeth." The benefit, which netted nearly $4,000 for the Society was held prior to Sotheby's first auction of the collection. The second of three sales will be held Sept. 24-25. Further information: Ms. Druckman or Mr. Stahl, Sotheby's, 1334 York Ave., New York, NY 10021.
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Eleven thousand people turned out on a cold, wet Sunday afternoon February 28, to glimpse the hull of an armed sailing ship buried in landfill on New York's Water Street-around 1750! Developer Howard Ronson, digging the foundations for a 30-story office building in the Lower Manhattan financial district, financed archaeological exploration of the site resulting in the recovery of some 150,000 artifacts, and in the uncovering of the ship. The bow section and samples from other parts are to be saved. Inquiries: Ship Trust, NMHS.
-:....., Battle of the North Atlantic. She will be a Wilmington Waterfront attraction, a training center; a living museum and memorial to all those who participated in engagements in the North Atlantic. A volunteer crew maintains the vessel and is preparing her for use. Tax deductible contributions to Wilmington Waterways, Inc., Mohawk, 901 Washington St., Wilmington DE 19801. Lots of good news comes our way through the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's newsletter Weather Gauge. With attendance of 82,000 in 1981, the Museum's next project is an exhibition building devoted to the history of mechanical power on the Bay-from the first steam-powered vessel on the Bay, Pocahantas, in 1813, to the adoption of the internal combustion engine and present-day technology. Board member William Combs donated to the Museum his 51 ' buy boat, Mister Jim, built by Dorchester boatbuilder Jim Richardson. Museum, Navy Pt., St. Michael's MD 21663. Calvert Marine Museum has been officially accredited by the American Association of Museums. They are the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a Patuxent River Folklife and Oral History Project, focussing on commercial fisheries in the area. Construction of a boat basin, marsh habitat and relocation of the small craft shed are on the schedule for completion by fall. Museum, PO Box 97, Solomons MD 20688.
Canal Society of New Jersey offers monthly meetngs, lectures, tours, and a fine newsletter On the Level to its members-many of whom are active in restoration and research. A Canal Study Tour to England will take place in June at which time the Society will present a contribution to the Trent and Mersey Canal Society for restoration of one of the cast iron mileposts that line that Canal. Society, P.O. Box 737, Morristown NJ 07960.
Hampton Mariners Museum was host to the 1982 Museum Small Craft Conference, May 7-9, which featured small craft of the Southeastern United States with speakers from the Coastal Heritage Society, naval architects, boatbuilders, etc. The Museum's curator has been researching small craft of North Carolina under an Institute for Museum Services grant, and in view of threatened cutbacks is seeking contributions to continue this work. Museum, 120 Turner St., Beaufort NC 28516.
The barge Maple, now converted to a Workshop on the Water is among the new educational and library facilities at the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, which seeks old or new tools, equipment, engines, plans,
Key West Maritime Historical Society for the Florida Keys is developing as a three-pronged organization: maritime museum, preservation society and educational facility. Hoping to acquire an 1852 brick Coast Guard base building
SEA HISTORY, SUMMER 1982