SUPER DETAILED SHIP MODELS UNBELIEVABLY DETAILED METAL WATERLINE MODELS FROM EUROPE. anniversary of Cabot's voyages, NMHS might consider a study voyage to the "edges" of Atlantic Canada. RENNY STACKPOLE, Director Penobscot Marine Museum
the rest of the book is more accurate. MICHAEL COHN New York, New York The book has this right.-Eo.
In "Shipnotes," page 36ofSea Hist01y63, Correcting a Rescue I always look forward to some fine reading and viewing when Sea History arrives. Page 22, Winter 1992-93 shows David Blanchett's "Rescue from the Thistlemore" on Peaked Hill Bar. I recognized the scene right away, for my father had a photo of the rescue hanging in our front hall. I believe the correct date for the grounding was 1922, and not 1892. Father was working for the T . A. Scott Co. at the time and his diary entry for February 8, 1922, reads: "Guardsman proceeded to Peaked Hill Bar with Str. Addie to assist Br. SIS Thistlemore ashore on the beach inside bar." Also, in the photo the Lyle gun is aimed for the deck area where the ones to be rescued could retrieve the line, not ahead of the bow as in the painting. Perhaps the artist sacrificed a good aim in favor of the vanishing point. ELIZABETH BEATTIE Belfast, Maine William P. Quinn of Orleans, Mass., also wrote to correct the date to 1922, pointing out that in 1892 Captain Gracie and his crew would have belonged to the US Life Saving Service, as the Coast Guard was not organized until 1915.-ED.
A Sea Gift for the Young Living only one block from our beautiful Pacific, I would like to send a subscription for our new Carlsbad High School Library. I am certain that many of the students will find valuable information and much joy in the issues. KAY CHRISTIANSEN Carlsbad, California It is a goal of NMHS' s Maritime Education Initiative to make our maritime heritage more accessible to schools. Thanks to Ms. Christiansen and others, over 250 gift memberships have been given so far this year.-Eo. ERRATA
Regarding Dr. Dunne 's review of Mutiny, I don ' t know who made the mistake, but Lord Howe (Black Dick) is a different man from John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent. Lord Howe was well beloved by the fleet 's enlisted men for hi s humane viewpoint while John Jervis was known as a strict disciplinarian. Hope SEA HISTORY 65 , SPRING 1993
we referred to Sir Walter Raleigh's failed settlement at Roanoke , Virginiawhereas, of course, it was at Roanoke Island, in Croatan Sound, some 250 miles away in North Carolina. Warren Moorman of Salem, Virginia, in pointing this out, adds that Captain Christopher Newport's relief voyage was to Jamestown in 1608, with follow-up voyages in 1610 and 1611 , in appreciation of which the colonists named today 's city of Newport News, at the mouth of the James Ri ver, after him. In "Steam and Speed, Part I," our author said the big ships of the final epoch of deepwater sail " made it a rule to stay 300 miles offshore" to avoid being caught on a lee shore. Andrew J. Nesdall ofWaban, Massachusetts, acknowledging the desirability of a good offing- particularly from such dangerous comers as Cape Hom-doubts there was such a 300mile rule. Wecan 'tfind 300milesspelled out anywhere but offer this from Irving Johnson 's Peking Battles Cape Horn: "The next day we got within one hundred and twenty-five miles of Spain, and the captain thought this was too close. So we turned and headed back toward England to get more sea-room." Also in " Steam and Speed," our author committed the solecism of referring to the "Pacific & Oriental Steam Navigation Company." Albert Charles Rees of Lafayette, Louisiana, points out: "The famous steamship company with service between England and the Iberian Peninsula and thence to the Near East was and still is the ' Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company."' QUERIES
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