SHIPNOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS out of Erie, Pennsylvania, is looking for crew in all positions for a six-month working and sailing touroflakes Ontario, Erie, Huron and Michigan. (Brig Niagara, 164 E. Front Street, Erie PA 16507) Tall ship highlights this year will be Toronto Harborfest, expected to attract over 25 North American and international vessels, and Tall Ships Erie '94, both to be held in July .
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Ultimately, a sailor must have hi s vessel; in the case of well-known historic ship master Daniel Moreland, it must also be the ultimate vessel. In May, Moreland and a cadre of friends traveled to the small island ofKarm!lly, Norway, to take possesion of Do/mar, formerly the North Sea steam trawler Picton Castle, which also served as a mineswe~per in WWII. The steel-hulled vessel measures 299 gross tons, 142-ft overall, and, in Moreland 's opinion, "is an excellent seagoing ship, and will make an outstanding bark." Moreland plans to make a deep-sea sailing vessel out of Do/mar. In June, she underwent a major hull and engine overhaul at the Thomsen and Thomsen Shipyard in Marstal, Denmark, and then departed for Ipswich, England. Moreland will shortly press on from Ipswich to New York before departing for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where he plans to set up the Windward Isles Rigging School, taking on apprentice riggers to join his crew and rig the Do/mar into a
Dolrnar in Karm¢y,N01way, before refitting.
lofty bark. (Windward Isles Sailing Ship Company, 5 Old Field Place, Rowayton CT 06853; 203 838-7894)
Defense Department Fleet Plan Alarms Merchant Marine Congressional maritime leaders believe a "quiet revolution" is going on behind closed doors in the Defense Department that, according to Tony Beargie, writing in American Shipper, would all but kill the national security justification for maintaining a US-flag merchant fleet. In late-July, the Navy announced over $1 billion in contracts to two US shipyards to convert five former Danish Maersk Line containerships into roll-on/roll-off vessels. The purchase is an exception to the long-standing policy of commercial sealift under which the Navy relies on US-flag ships to transport cargo to support military missions. Beargie writes that the new tone of the DOD portends trouble for current efforts to forge a new national maritime program. The article claims the DOD
The 127-year-old sail steamship Hansteen steamed again for the first time in 43 years on Trondheimsfjord late this summer.Built in 1866 of wrought iron by Ny lands Verksted in Oslo , Hansteen is 102 feet in length, has a 125hpsteam engine and a schooner rig that carries 7 sails. She retains 80 per cent of her original steel hull and wooden interior. Resto- Hansteen steaming the Trondheimsfjord in August. ration was spearheaded by veteran ship restorer Olaf Engvig, who describes Hansteen as the world's only operating steam vessel remaining from the sail and steam era of the mid-19th century. She is currently operated out of Trondheim on day cruises for up to 100 passengers and can accommodate 12 overnight. (OlafEngvig, 2145 Franklin #1, San Francisco CA 94109) SEA HISTORY 68, WINTER 1993-94
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