NEWS in tum, will make them eligible for such benefits as the use of Veterans' Administration hospitals. An estimated 250,000 men served in the merchant marine during World War II, although no one knows how many are still alive today. The merchant marine sustained a higher rate of losses than any branch of the armed forces but the US Marine Corps. The Kootenay Lake Historical Society of Kaslo, British Columbia, is raising $150,000 to qualify for a matching grant from the Canadian government to preserve the steam sternwheeler Moyie of 1898. The Kootenay region was first opened up by American miners in search of gold in the late nineteenth century, and the Moyie was brought into service to carry rri.ineral riches to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, the railhead for ore processors in the United States . Although the Moyie never was on the Bonners Ferry run, she carried ore, freight and passengers between mining communities on Kootenay Lake and, as part of the Canadian Pacific Railroad's fleet, had a part in the fierce rivalry for transportation supremacy between the CPR and the Great Northern Railway . The relatively modest goal of $150,000 cannot be expected to come from local sources only; the former boomfown of Kaslo has a modem-day population of only 800. (Mrs. Martin Lynch, SS Moyie Preservation Fund, PO Box 537, Kaslo, BC, VOG lMO; 604 353-2525) The Hawaii Maritime Center has received a matching grant of $25,000 from the Institute for Museum Services for the restoration of the focsle head deck of the 4-masted ship F a/,/s of Clyde. Work on the ship is to be completed by the summer of 1988. In addition, the center has received a grant from the Hawaii Hotel Association which will enable school children to visit the ship free of charge. Construction of the Kalakaua Boat House, the center's shoreside museum facility, is also proceeding on schedule and should be open to the public by the summer. (Tony Crabbe, Hawaii Maritime Center, Pier Seven, Honolulu Harbor, Honolulu, HI 96815; 808 523-6151) ''The rejuvenation of docklands and inland waterways" is the theme of Watersite 2000, an international congress on waterfront development convening in Bristol, England, 13-15 April. The primary concern of the congress is to deal with abandoned dock warehouses and docklands whose use has been superseded by the development of downstream container ports. Bristol was chosen as the meeting SEA HISTORY , WINTER 1987-88
of its Floating Harbour, which became obsolete for modem shipping in the mid1960s. The restoration of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's great iron ship, Great Britain, launched in 1843 at Bristol's Great Western Dock and returned there for restoration and preservation in 1970, has contributed much to the recovery of this depressed district. (Peter Arbury, CCWT, 15 Colston St., Bristol BS 1 SAP England; 0272 277-492)
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After seven years of planning, the Swedish government has announced plans to construct a new facility to house the seventeenth-century warship Vasa in Stockholm. The Vasa , which sank on its maiden voyage in 1625, was raised from the bottom of Stockholm Harbor in 1961 and has been on view at the Vasa Dockyard since 1962. The museum , designed by Stockholm architects Ove Hidemark and Goran Mansson, will cost an estimated $16 million and is to open in 1990. (Vasa Museum/Sjohistoriska Museet, S-115 27 Stockholm, Sweden) Artifacts recovered from the so-called Kas wreck off the coast of Southern Turkey have been dated to around 1350Bc, according to published reports quoting George Bass of the American Institute for Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University. The wreck has so far yielded artifacts from seven or eight Eastern Mediterranean cultures of the period. The diverse objects recovered from the wreck include an amulet in the shape of a beetle and bearing the name of Queen Nefertiti . Excavation of the wreck will probably continue for another two or three years. A detailed account of the work to date has been published in the December issue of National Geographic. (AINA, College Station, TX 77840; 409 845-6695) Norman Brouwer, curator of ships at the South Street Seaport Museum, has issued the second supplement to his International Register of Historic Ships . The Update is proof positive-if any were needed-that the maritime preservation movement is alive and well. In 19 pages of descriptive notes, Brouwer records 110 vessels for which information has come to light since the book appeared in 1985 . Perhaps the best news is that he records the demise of only three vessels . Brouwer also notes changes of status for sixteen vessels, and he lists an additional twenty-seven vessels whose inclusion in the Register is pending. The IRHS Update is available from Sea History Press for $3.50. (Sea History Press, NMHS, 132 Maple St., Croton-onHudson, NY 10520; 914 271-2177) .t
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Fitzroy Mercurial Barometer 45" long x 9" x 3" Our reproduction is made of solid Honduras mahogany with solid wood inlay. The glass mercury filled tube, glass atmospheric storm tube and alcohol thermometer are all mounted on a heautifully reproduced gold and black chart. Kit includes all components to build the Fitzroy Barometer as shown.
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