SHIP NOTES INTREPID
After decades of worldwide service, this historical vessel now rests peacefully in New York harbor. Today, Intrepid no longer makes history. Instead, she is the storyteller for America's history and technology on the sea, in the air and out in space.
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West Coast Correspondent
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Briefly Noted Sea History Gazette , the NMHS bimonthly newsletter of maritime events, has been following the long struggle over the Nantucket Lightship 112, the US 's largest lightship, built by the British government as reparation for Nantucket Lightship 117, rammed and sunk by the ocean liner Olympic in 1934 (see p31). The vessel has now been returned to its "adoptive parents," Lightship Nantucket Inc., a Portland, Maine-based group of licensed captains, mates, engineers and volunteers. (LNI, Suite M, 465 Congress Street, Portland ME 04101 ; 207 775-1181)
Soundings magazine recently reported Mystic Seaport Museum 's windfall of live oak downed by Hurricane Hugo. Soundings staff writer Patty Koller recounted the use of live oak in shipbuilding (the wood of choice for early American shipbuilders and the secret of USS Constitution's tough hide) and the museum's delight to find "a new supply of prime wood that has not been available for years." The museum hauled some 130 tons north to the Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut. The 1894 blue water schooner Ernestina, from New Bedford, Massachusets, breaks into a new ocean when she begins an 8-month, 14,000-mile expedition to the South Pacific departing October 28. A crew is being sought to share the expense of a trip that follows the route of many New England vessels of yesteryear to the Galapagos and down the lonely Southeast Trades to Pitcairn Island, Tahiti and the Marquesas. Contact: Joseph Cardozo, Schooner Ernestina Commission, 30 Union Street, New Bedford MA 02740; 508 990-1493. '1> '1> '1>
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SEA HISTORY 54, SUMMER 1990