& MUSEUM NEWS The schooner Bowdoin arrived in Boston this winter, followin g her long rebuild at the Percy & Small Yard of the Maine Maritime Mu seum. She'll begin the season carrying school groups around Boston Harbor for the Boston Globe Foundation . US Navy ships again have mess decks and gal leys, as of January I, following Secretary of the Navy John Lehman's orders to reinstate nautical terms for the land bound terms ("enlisted dining facility ") that had crept into use during the 1970s.
EXPERIENCE THE THRILL
~ail into Living History
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of square rig and 7000 ft . of sail. Weekly cruises in the warm waters of Southern New Eng Iand between Long Island and Nantucket aboard 108' square topsail clipper Schooner
on t he Famous F ishing Schooner s out of Gloucester Schooner ADVENTURE immortalized in J oe Garland's new book Queen. of the Windjammers (send for book information). Schooner ROSEWAY, last sailing pilot vessel.
Schooners ADVENTURE & ROSEWAY Box 696SH • Camden, ME 04843 • 207-236-4449 Largest windjammers in the Camden fl eet.
"SHENANDOAH" For color folder & complete information write:
THE COASTWISE PACKET CO., Box 4295
The sail training ship Danmark will visit Washington, DC, April 19- 22 , celebrating the 45th anniversary of her wartime service in US waters . .. this and other ship and museum news will be more fully reported in our next. CONFERENCES: North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History, April 24-26, at Peabody Museum of Salem (Archibald Lewis, Peabody Museum , East India Sq. , Salem MA 01970); Maine Maritime Museum Symposium, May 3-5 (Museum, 963 Washington St. , Bath ME 04530) ; Brendan Conference, September 8-14, Trinity College, Dublin (Brendan, c/o Boole, PO 5, 51 Sandycove Rd. , Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin , Ireland) ; Association for the History ·:of.the Northern Seas, September 16-20 (Sec'y, Dept. of Economic History, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon , EX4 4RJ, UK .
QUERIES Information on the experiences and subsequent histories of people emigrating through the Port of Liverpool to the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is needed for a new Museum of Emigration being set up as part of the waterfront maritime museum. Richard Foster, Merseyside County Museums, William Brown St. , L iverpool L3 SEN , UK. Survivors of the steamer Robert E. Lee, sunk by U-boat in the Gu lf of Mex ico on July 30, 1942 , and information on U-boat operations generally in the Gul f are sought by Capt. James E . Wise , Jr., USN (ret.), 6118 Redwood Lane, Alexandria VA 22310. Information on the sinking of the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins in the South Atlantic in 1942 (seep. 22) is sought by the daughter of First Ass't Engineer Charles Fitzgerald , who went down with the ship. Jean D. Carlisle, 121 Varennes Alley, Apt. 2R , San Francisco CA 94133.
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Summer months the ship cruises the Maine coas t out of Rockland . .. winter months in the Virgin Islands fr<2.m Charlotte Amalie. Enjoy a week under sail . .. make new fri ends ... relish hearty meals . . . return relaxed, filled with happy memories. Write or phone-
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OWN AND SAIL A SCHOONER Beautifu l o n th e wat er or o n t he ma n tl e, th is scale mo del com es co mpl ete, includ in g, t wo channel radio transmitter a nd servos , read y to sa il. Yo ur ch o ice of sa il colors and hull co lo rs . Built o f stron g fiberg lass with wo o d irim · foam filled , virtuall y unsinkab le.
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In the last century, the Liverpool firm Sandbach Tinne & Co. owned a fleet of sailing ships which voyaged to India and the West Indies in the coolie trades , returning to England with sugar from plantations owned or operated by the Tinne family in Demerrara. Information on these operations, particularly in Demerrara, is sought by Capt. P.M.C. Tinne, 23 Marlborough C lose, Elmfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight P033 !AP, UK .
One of the finest marine antique collections available. Specialists in navigation instruments, w h aling artifacts, ship models, sailors work, telescopes, and the only 19th and early 20th century Marine Art Galle ry on the West Coast .
Hard hat diving helmet aficianados are invited to exchange notes with Ed Fogderud , 75 Monterey Lane, Sierra Madre, CA 91024; tel.: 818 355-1347.
1610 West Coast Highway Newport Beach, CA 92663 Tel: 714-642-7945
SEA HISTORY, SPRING 1985
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