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Washington's Inaugural Barge On 23 Apri l 1798 , a week before hi s inauguration as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall , George Washington made the trip from Elizabeth Town , New Jersey , to Murray 's Wharf, near the foot of Wall Street in Manhattan . He was borne across the harbor in a spec ial barge that had been built to the order of the Marine Society of New York and rowed by twelve of its members. On 13 April 1987, at the 2 17th Annual Dinner of the Marine Society, Captai n Robert E. Hart , President of the Marine Index Bureau , ann ounced a project by Mel Hardin , curator of New York Harbor, to build a replica of Washington's inaugural barge and to row it across New York Harbor on the 200th anniversary of hi s first inauguration . The project was greeted with acclaim , and has become
an official project of the N ati ona l Maritime Histori cal Society, under the chairmanship of Nancy Pouch , Trustee . The Society plans extensive public ed ucational programs which will encourage Americans to understand the hopes and fears of their forebears as their first President assumed office . The Marine Society-without whose help neither the original nor replica could be built-was established by prominent ship masters and pilots of New York in 1770 for the purpose of charity and edu cation. Plans for the orig inal barge no longer ex ist (if they did) and drawings based on contemporary illustrations and written descriptions are be ing prepared by the naval architects of Sparkman & Stephens . Shown above is the barge as it might have appeared. <!.
The National Maritime Historical Society proudly joins hands with the Sailors' Union of the Pacific in offering the centennial history of the the Sailors' Union Brotherhood of The Sea Richly illustrated, and covering 100 years of struggle and progress in achieving West Coast seamen 's rights, w ith many first-hand accounts edited by Karl Kortum, Chief Curator of the National Maritime Museum, San Francisco, this work is essential reading, and exciting reading, for anyone who wants to understand the development of maritime labor since the days of blood boats, bucko mates and the Red Record. To NMHS members only: $45 plus $1. 19 shipping.
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Please rush m y copy of Brotherhood of the Sea to the address shown below. My check for $46.19 (which includes shipping) is enclosed.
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