& MUSEUM NEWS fishing schooner L.A. Dunton is next up, for a thorough rebuilding of the after end and refastening the keel. On another front , Mystic announces a 56-minute film on the America's Cup, "To Win At All Costs," has been added to its library of some 60 maritime historical films avai lable fo r sale or rental. Seaport, Mystic CT 06355. The annual Wooden Boat Rendezvous is set for June 23 at Seawhanka Corinthian Yacht C lub in Oyster Bay, Long Island ... and on September 14-16, the Connecticut River Foundation in Essex wi ll hold their Ninth Annual Traditional Vessel Weeke.nd , with races on the River and in the Sound , with The Museum maintained by the Foundation in an 1878 steamboat warehouse servi ng as headquarters. Foundation , PO 261, Essex CT 06426. South Street Seaport Museum offers a workin-progress tour of the Wavertree, which the National Society's Ship Trust is helping to restore, and a 50-minute tour of the historic district. Sailor's work songs and sailor's arts are presented in special programs. Museum , 2ITT Front St., New York 10038... .Across the East River, the National Society's Fulton Ferry Landing Museum, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, has had a well received exhibition on fireboats in the harbor, and , may shortly welcome some historic craft for harbor tours and sail training activities. Museum, 2 Fulton St ., Brooklyn NY 11201. The Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild reports good progress in refitting the wooden barkentine Gaz.ela Primeiro for her proposed voyage
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to Quebec in June. Their informative newsletter describes the "continuous effort" of staff and an energetic volunteer crew. Guild , Delaware & Spruce, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia PA 19106....South in the Chesapoeake, Bugeye Times, newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum, reports that their 6Ift buy-boat l#n. B. Tennison , which started life in 1883 as a nine-log canoe, began public cruises this year May I. A major new exhibit, "Seasons of Abundance, Seasons of Want," opens June 30. Museum , PO CJ"/, Solomons MD 20688. Hampton Mariners Museum in the old fi shing town of Beaufort , inside Cape Hatteras, announces the building of a ship's boat of the type used in exploration of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, a project that will be on view
this summer, with launch in September. Their Tenth Annual Traditional Wooden Boat Show will be September 29-30. Museum, 120 Turner St., Beaufort NC 28516. On the West Coast, another Melbourne Smith traditional ship, the Revenue Cutter Californian, will slip into the water in Southern California on Memorial Day (see pp. 32-3) .... In San Francisco, the Friends of Historic Ships newsletter Bow 1-Jiuch reports that this great gang of volunteer ship people have gone to work on the stranded steam schooner l#ipama , not waiting for the Federal aid help the ship desperately needs and deserved as a National Landmark. Friends, 680 Beach St. , #330, San Francisco CA 94109. The Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien steams from her Fort Mason berth to Sausalito, May 26, returning May 29-another vessel largely saved and kept steaming by ski lled (and dedicated) volunteers. O'Brien, Fort Mason , Bldg. A, San Francisco 94123 .... And in Washington , the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding offers a full program of progessional training in building and maintenance. School, 25 1 Otto St. Glen Cove Industrial Park, Port Townsend WA 98368. On lakes and ri vers we have the good news that the 1914 steamer Katahdin on Moosehead Lake, Maine, offers cruises again thi s summer thanks to the efforts of the Moosehead Marine Museum in Greenvill e, reviving a tradition begun as early as 1835 with th e first steamboa t on th e lake ... .while in New York the 1896 pad dlewheeler Mark Twain, which operated on the Miss issi ppi the first 65 yea rs of her li fe, languishes at the lntrepid's pier on the West Side of Manhattan , unable to secure community approval to open as a floating restaurant. . .The schooner Richard Robbins Sr., bui lt for the Delaware Bay oyster trade in 1902 , which had worked as a crui se boat first in Maine and then on Lake Champlain, is being refitted in Newburgh on the Hudson for service this summer out of Alpine NJ, fu rth er down the river opposi te Yonkers . ...On June 16-17 the Great Hudson River Revival , spo nsored by the Hudso n River Sloop Clearwater, will take place at Croton-on-Hudson , with the big sloop Clearwater in attendance along with the small ferry sloops Woody Guthrie and Sojourner Truth and other vessels, workshops and singing ashore. Clearwater Revival , 112 Market St., Poughkeepsie NY 12601 ....Clearwater is a lso among the organizations playing a part in the programs of the Hudson River Maritime Center, halfway between New York and Albany at the old steamboat port of Kingston. Their well illustrated newsletter Focs 'le News reports acqui s ition of th e Rondout Lighthouse at the entry to the Rondout Creek, and the opening of an extensive exhibit on Hudson River ferries in the exhibit hall , renovated by volunteers over the wi nter. Center, I Rondout Landing, Kingston NY 12401.
The Thousand Islands Shipyard Museum offers the Third Annual Scale Model Competition May 26-27, open to professional and amateur modelers of all ages. The Museum houses a unique co llection of freshwater boats, on the St. Lawrence waterfront. Museum, 750 Mary St., C layton NY 13624.
NITTES & QUERIES I am writing a book about the action between the Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins and the German raider Stier in World War II (SH29:43), and would li ke to hear from anyone who built or sai led in the ship, or from next of kin. Ian A. Millar, Founder, Sons and Daughters of US Merchant Marine Veterans of World War 2 , 1806 Bantry Trai l, Kernersville, NC lli87. For a book about the March 14, ICJ70 mutiny aboard the Columbia Eagle, a Victory type steamship chartered by the US Government (MSTS) during the Vietnam War to carry napalm , I wou ld appreciate hearing from former crew members, and from anyone else who has any information at all about the incident. Also, I wou ld li ke to hear from anyone with information regarding the defunct Columbia Steamship Co. , Inc., of Portland , Oregon, former owners of the Eagle. Richard Linnell , 16 East I05th St. #17, New York NY 10029. Former crew members of the US. Navy Armed Guard gun crews of WWII are invited to a reunion , June 8-10, in Austin , Texas. Write Charl es A. Lloyd , 5712 Partridge Lane, Raleigh NC 27609. A call is out for interesting vessels which " might be lured into Lake Erie to visit Buffalo" after th e Quebec 450th A nni versary and the Toronto/ Rochester celeb rations, we learn . For further information: Captain J. Edmund de Castro, Jr., USN, 132 Lexington Ave., Buffalo NY 14222 . Racine celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and seeks to know more of Captain Gilbert Knapp, born at Barnstable or Chatham , Massachu setts, December 3, 1798. Knapp had much to do with the early history of the town and sailed in the vessels Leo, A.I. Dallas, Floyd, Morris, Sherman, Benjamin Rush , and lastly, the Fessenden of Detroit. "U nfortunately the Captain neglected to tell anyone about himself or where he had lived,'' notes historian AlvinJ. Pietkivitch of "Old Racine," 3422 North Green Bay Road , Racine WI 53404. I want to get into communication with other enthu siasts interested in deep water sailing ships of the period 1880-1958 with a view to exchanging photographs and technical and genera l information. Chief Steward J6rgen LOnn , Borgmiistargatan 7, S-116 29 Stockholm , Sweden . U,
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