WORLD SHIP TRUST REPORT Last yea r 's preliminary survey of the last A me rican clippe r Snow Squall in the Falklands, a jo int effo rt o f the Wo rld Ship Trust and the South Portland-Cape Eli zabeth Histo ri cal Society, has now led to wh at is the s ixth Ship Trust e xpeditio n since 1976 , this time with Harvard U ni versity and the Peabody Museum joined in as sponsors. Led by Dr. Fred Yalouris o f Ha rvard , a six-pe rson team left England January 3 1 to d ig out and co nserve the Snow Squall remains, and to measure the iron bark Lady Elizabeth for plans to ad apt he r as the Islanders ' own museum ship . The Wo rld Ship Trust-O xford -Pale rmo U nivers ity expedition to the M edite rranean , led by O xford 's Mensun Bound a nd Prof. G . Falsone of Pale rmo , repo rts a successful season , first in excavating ancho rs and othe r remains o f a n old Phoeni c ian ha rbo r at Marsala , at the weste rn tip o f Sic ily , and second , moving on analys is o f items looted by skindi vers twe nty yea rs ago , apparently discovered (o r re di scovered) the remains of a n Etru scan ship from the first quarte r of the 6th centu ry BC- when this little- know n people do minated the weste rn M edite rranean . The p roject to resto re the 4 ,500-yea rs o ld Cheops shi p in Egypt moved fo rward as Swedish expe rts were reta ined as reco mme nded by the WST to meas ure the ship a nd 5 ton s of silica gel was do nated by Joseph Crosfi e ld & So ns to stabilize the atmosphe re a round he r. The g reat iron ship Wave rtree in New Yo rk H arbor co ntinued he r restorati o n unde r the direction of an A me ri can Ship Trust Committee chaired by Jakob l sbrandtsen and the late Allen S . Rupl ey and the Tami Canoe voyage pa rty we nt to the New Guinea isla nd whe re a traditi o nal sailing canoe is be ing built to jo in in a Pacific he ritage festi va l in the New H ebrides next yea r-an eve nt she ' ll sa il 2 ,000 miles to attend . Back in Engla nd , F ra nk Ca rr , cha irman of the Trust , has a nno unced th e appo intme nt of Sir Pete r Scott as v ice pres ident , and reg retfull y repo rts that he is e nding his boating ca ree r , w hi ch has brought suc h j oy to us a ll si nce its beginning in April 191 8 in a ski ff dinghy o n the PS Ri ver Cam .
Frank and Ruth Carr in the cabin oftheir 1:5-ton ketch Dawn, on the Orwell, Sept. 2, 1982.
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SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT Brilliant, I'd get as close as I could and point and say , ' I used to sail on one of those.' "
You can learn to cook over an open fire these days , at Mystic .. . th is and myriad other acti vities , including such specialities as a barbershop quartet cruise aboard the steamer Sabino, are set out for the year ahead in an invaluable activities calendar, which can be had by writing the Museum , Mystic CT 06355.
memo rial' ' as a center for maritime training and other activities , and as a waterfront attraction . Mohawk, 901 Washington St. , Wilmington DE 19801. On the West Coast, a life-and-death strugg le co ntinues to save the historic steam schooner
Full Sea, a nonprofit educational outfi t in Long Island believes that the heritage of wooden sailing vessels on Long Island Sound should be preserved in lively fashion . Founded three years ago as a floating museum , it restores and sails such classics as a New York 30 built in 1905 , and a flotill a of other vessels including a Cape Cod catboat built in 1880. Volunteer learning skills are a welco me part of the project. Full Sea , 256 Sea Cliff Ave. , Sea Cliff NY 11579. Congressman Mario Biaggi leads a ca mpaign to have the Liberty Ship John W. Brown turned over to a group dedicated to preserving the ship as a public educational memori al to the merchant seamen of World War II . The ship served until recently as a New York City maritime trades schoolship , and has been a fa miliar landmark at her Morton Street pier in Manhattan. Labor union and other interests have rallied to this cause , which is supported by the National Society' s Project Liberty Committee, and donations to build up th e budget and volunteer time are welcomed. John W. Brown Preservation Project, I 05 Washington St. , 2nd Floor, New York NY 10006. The Snug Harbor Cultural Center, installed in the classic building erected 150 years ago on Staten Island fo r aged sai lors, runs a program of exhibits and other educational acti vities in the elegant ground s; a schedul e is avai lable from Center, 9 14 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island NY I 030 I . "New Jersey Under Sail ," an exhibit of photographs, models, sail plans and drawings collected by the late Way ne B. Yarnall , centers on the Delaware Bay oystermen who worked under sail until 1945. It 's open th rough November at the New Jersey Histo rical Society. Regional museums keep springi ng up. The ones that last and come to fl ower do so th rough grit and adaptability .. . li ke the Wilmington Steamboat Foundation, which started life as a co mmittee to save the steamer State of Pennsylvania and has go ne on to become the nu cleus of a museum devoted to Delaware (and other) steamboat history. They get out a fin e newsletter. Dues are $ 10, payable to the Foundation, PO Box 903 , Wilmington DE 19899. Also at Wilmington, the USCG Cutter Mohawk, launched in 1934 fo r ice patrol in the North Atlantic, has become " a useful
Wapama, of the era of Cappy Ricks . Built in Oregon in 1915 , she was on exhibit at the National Maritime Museum until haul ed out in 1979 with serious rot conditions and a broken back. National Maritime Museum , SF , Foot of Polk St ., San Francisco CA 94109.
The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, fo rmed to keep in being the traditional skills of the boatbuilder, launched its fir st vessel, a I 8ft hard-chine tug christened Charity Ann. Her owner Bruce Gag non plans to use her in sal vage work . School, 330 10th St. , Port Townsend WA 98368.
A collection of over 11,000 blueprints and many other items from the collection of the naval architect H. C. Hanson, covering the period 1914-70, has been donated by the Hanson Family and Northwest Seaport to the Whatcom Museum of History & Art in the tow n of Belli ngham, north of Seattle. Museum , 121 Pros pect St. , Bellingham WA 98225. " It wi ll happen," says Kenneth F. Brown, trustee of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii , who heads up the dri ve to keep the fo ur-masted ship Falls of Clyde in Honolulu Harbor. The Museum fo und itself unable to meet the $50 ,000 operating deficit. A Friends of the Falls of Clyde has been formed and plans to mee t the ship 's defi cit fo r five years, at which poirnt income from a prospective Aloha Tower Redlevelopment project may meet the upkeep of tthe ship . SEA HISTORY, SPRING 1983