& MUSEUM NEWS Canadian Nautical Research Society. The theme of the meeting will be the maritime and naval hi story of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Abstracts of papers and curricu la vitae will be welcome before I January 1987. (Prof. Barry M. Gough, Hi story Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont. , N2L 3C5, Canada.) Between December 1986 and February 1987, volunteers from the non-profit research group Eai1hwatch will help survey the East lndiaman Edwin Fox (Brouwer, ppl52-3) currently aground near Picton , New Zealand. Emhwatch, which has been invited to support this project by Paul Hundley of the Western Australia Maritime Museum , has previously recru ited volunteers for preservation projects in the Falkland Islands. Built by native shipwrights in Sukeali , Bengal , the 800-ton Edwin Fox is probably the last surviving vessel built for the British East India Company anywhere in the world. Constructed in 1853, she served first as a British troopship in the Crimea and India , and later as an emigrant sh ip to Australia and New Zealand. On one voyage, she carried con-
victs being deported to the Antipodes from Eng land . In later years she was outfitted as a floating freezer plant in New Zealand , and finally as a coal barge. Volunteers wi ll survey the ship ' s deck plans and make a detai led record of the shi p's planking and framing. (Dr. Pau l S. Hundley , Western Australia Maritime Museum , C liff St. , Freman tie, W. Aus. 6 160, Australia; 09 335 -82 11. )
The Mediterranean section of the French Commission of Maritime History at Toulon is holding a conference entitled "War and Commerce in the Mediterranean," 2 1-23 May 1987. Those interested in submitting a paper or attending the conference should add ress correspondence to Commissaire general de la Marine (CR) de Saint Steban, 729 Avenue General Wegand , 83220 Le Pradet, France .
Last winter , two members of Kibbutz Gi nnosar on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee came across the remains of a vessel which dates from the time of Chri st. Initial investigation of the des ign and constru cti on techniques indicated that the beamy 25ft vessel is about 2,000 years o ld , and this has been confirmed by carbon dating. The first vessel of such antiq uity to be discovered on any inland sea, the Galilee Boat, as it is known, is being conserved at a site only 400m from where it was origi nall y fo und. Work is being directed by Shelley Wachsmann, Inspector of Underwater Antiqu ities at the Department of Antiquities. (M ini stry of Education and C ulture , Shivtei Israel 34, Jerusalem, Israel.)
The Mary Rose exhibition currentl y touring the United States (see SH37) will be at the Museum of Florida History (R. A. Gray Building, Tall ahassee, FL 3230 1; 904 488- 1484) until 25 January 1987. It will open again at the Vancouver Maritime Museum ( 1095 Ogden Ave., Vancouver, BC V6J IA3; 604 736-443 1) 15 February and be on view there through 1 May. " Magnificent Voyagers: The US Exploring Expedition , 1838-1842" (see SH38) wi ll be on exhi bit at the Indiana State Museum from 7 February to 3 May (202 North Alabama St., Indianapolis, IN 46204; 3 17 232- 1637).
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