Future Initiative efforts may result in an expanded national inventory of shipwrecks. Jim Delgado is pictured here diving on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, sunk at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
study the 30-odd vessels as yet unassessed. That study should then be expanded to lighthouses, significant sites ashore, and shipwrecks. Technical manuals and guides for maritime preservation, perhaps a manual to follow up on the Secretary's Standards, are needed. While a number of historic vessels and lighthouses have been exhaustively documented as part of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), that process, which has lagged from lack of community support, needs to
continue. Tax cr~dits and incentives similar to those in place for buildings, need to be expanded to ships. And the work to date needs to be reviewed and revised where needed in this sixth year of the program. I left the Initiative in April 1991 to pursue a career at ·a maritime museum where I could focus on a small group of ships, a collection and an institution. A new head of the Maritime Initiative will be taking on the job in early 1992. That person, as well as the National Park Service, needs to hear from the maritime preservation community. As an interested, centrally located office, the National Maritime Initiative has served as an effective clearinghouse and coordinator of efforts and information in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Maritime Alliance. Your thoughts, advice and criticism ensure that the job it does serves us all. D ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: So many people were involved in the National Maritime Initiative during my tenure that it would be impossible to acknowledge them all. However, I want to single out for thanks the two individuals who worked the longest and the hardest, Candy Clifford and Kevin Foster. Without their long hours and devotion to the cause, much of the work would not have been done.
Jim Delgado is now Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum in British Columbia.He recently co-authored with Candace Clifford the new PreservationPressbookGreatAmerican Ships, drawn from records at the National Maritime offices.
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enjoy "Last Departure" on board the clipper ship "Cutty Sark" opposite the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Contact the Artist direct for d e tails of paintings, commissions, and prints . Gordon Frickers, Lakeside Studio, 94 Radford Park Rd., Plymouth, Devon, PL9 9DX England Tel: (01144) 752-403344.
MARTIFACTS, INC. MARINE COLLECTIBLES from scrapped si'lips and SS. UNITED STATES. lamps. blocks. clocks. linen. etc Send $1 for brochure: MARTIFACTS, INC. P.O. Box 8604 Jacksonville. Fl 32239 Tel: 904-642-351 7
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