& MUSEUM NEWS now been withdrawn from service and is open to the public at Two Harbors, M innesota. The maritime museum aboard the Lake freighter Valley Camp at Sault Ste. Marie may be deciding shortly whe.ther to continue maintaining the 1919 Great Lakes Salvage vessel Favorite, acquired some years ago, but never opened to the public. If it is not feasible to save the whole ship, artifacts and portions of her will be incorporated into the existing museum.
Sailing Adventures aboard the SCHOONER HARVEY GAMAGE -a windjammer in true "down East" tradition. U.S. Coast Guard inspected 95' o.a. in length
CANADA An item in the Montreal Gazette notes the survival of the historic Polar exploration ship Maud as an abandoned hulk at Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories. Maud was built at Asker, Norway in 1917 for Amundsen's successful transit of the Northeast Passage around Russia, completed in July 1920. The 107-foot wooden vessel was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Co . in 1926, renamed Bay Maud and abandoned around 1938. The Kipawo Heritage Society of Wolfville, Nova Scotia has now retrieved the last ferry to operate between that port and Parrsboro NS acros Minas Basin, for use as a museum and community center. The vessel is the 113-foot, steel-hulled Kipawo built at St. John, New Brunswick in 1926. She served on the WolfvilleParrsboro run until 1978, when she was taken to Newfoundland for stationary use. For the last two years she had been lying beached and abandoned there. When the Society was unable to raise the $22,500 needed to have the Kipawo towed to Wolfville, the Canadian Coast Guard took on the job. One of the most remarkable conversions to sail in recent years, and one of the more improbable historic vessel resurrections, is the Canadian barkentine Onaygorah, which sailed from New York in late September bound for Panama and the Fiji Islands. She was built in Montreal in 1918 as a wartime experiment, a bluff-bowed 126-foot hull of reinforced concrete. The Canadian Coast Guard employed her as a lighthouse and buoy tender in the Gulf of St. Lawrence under the descriptive name Concretia. Around the late 1930s, her hull was sunk as a wharf near Kingston, Ontario, where she remained until refloated in 1979. Her mainmast is designed to take square yards, and she will ultimately be rigged as a bark. The main purpose of her voyage to the Fijii Islands is marine biological research. NORMAN BROUWER, Curator of Ships South Street Seaport Museum .J:,
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COLLEGE STUDENTS SEA QUARTER Plan a college semester aboard the SCHOONER HARVEY GAMAGE. Credits in arts and science you earn from Northeastern University, Marine Studies Department, may be transferred. Curriculum includes visits to many educational and historical places from Maine to the Virgin Islands. For curriculum, schedule and cost, write or phone-
Summer months the ship cruises the Maine coast out of Rockland ... winter months in the Virgin Islands from Charlotte Amalie. Enjoy a week under sail ... make new friends ... relish hearty meals ... return relaxed, filled with happy memories. Write or phone-
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