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(MNMS, PO Box 147 , Rescue VA 23424) A Manila galleon, the San Diego, has been found in 178 feet of water off Fortune Island in the Philippines by a Frenchman. Recoveries are being made in conjunction with the National Museum of the Philippines. Some 28,000 items, including Ming Dynasty porcelain, Japanese swords and European astrolabes, have been catalogued from the site. The wreck of the Spanish ship El Cazador, lost in 1784, was discovered in late August by fishermen 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 300 feet of water. The ship's manifest lists 450,000 Mexican pesos picked up in Vera Cruz and bound for Spanish territory in Louisiana. The fishing vessel owner, David Horan of Alabama, has hired the salvage company Marex International of Memphis to make recoveries from the site. Museum News The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, is the beneficiary of £750,000 from the estate of the late hotelier and restaurateur Leopold Muller. The funds will be used to build a new education complex. The Leopold Muller Education Centre will house classrooms and seminar rooms with modem audiovisual equipment for the 70,000 schoolchildren welcomed by the museum's Education Department each year. (NMM, Greenwich, London SElO 9NF) The South Street Seaport's major winter exhibit "Twelve Ties to Tradition: Model Making in New York City," examines in detail the creative processes, motivations and influences involved in this traditional art form. the exhibit, funded by a $200,000 grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, is open to the public through 6 March, 1994. It will also travel to museums across the country. (SSSM, 207 Front Street, New York NY I 0038) The Michigan Maritime Museum has expanded its space for collections storage and curation into a former South Haven lighthouse keeper's residence. The two-story building, which has been well-maintained, was built in the early 1870s, abandoned by the US Coast Guard in 1990 and subsequently leased by the City of South Haven. The city has sublet the property to the museum for a minimum of four years. (MMM, PO Box 534, South Haven MI 49090)
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Capt. Russell Kneeland (1933-1993) Russ Kneeland, who built and sailed the 86-ft schooner Kaiulani , to honor the memory of the Bath-built bark of I 899 which NMHS was founded to save, died last August in Hawaii on the first leg of a South Pacific voyage_ An appreciation of his indomitable character, written by his friend Joseph Ditler of San Diego, may be found in Sea History Gazette, November 1993. Edouard A. Stackpole (1903-1993) Eddie Stackpole, island historian of Nantucket, was a gentle, warm-hearted, brilliantly successful man-successful as few people are privileged to be, in conveying his life interests and enthusiasms to others. When I last saw him a few years ago in his native Nantucket, he was full of the connection between his sea-girt plot of sand and the distant island of Pitcairn in the South Pacific, where the Bounty mutineers ended up. My earliest meeting with him was a good 60 years earlier, when my father sailed his Nova Scotia schooner Tom Cod into Nantucket, and Ed Stackpole, then about 30, already a respected historian and author of children's adventure stories-You Fight for Treasure and the rest, a whole series it was, of young Americans seeking distant horizons in the early days of the Republic--came out to go for an afternoon ' s sail with us. I seem to remember his lanky appearance, his awkward but very real enthusiasm even from that distant summer of 1933 or '34. He was not the kind of person you forget-and he loved telling stories to children. Between these two meetings lay a life full of accomplishment, but never at the cost of family, a wide arch of friends, and his enduring interest in encouraging young minds and spirits. A descendant of whalers , he took quiet pride in his family lineage_ From 1924 to 1951 he worked for the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror , as a reporter and then associate editor. In 1951 he went to work for Carl Cutler as curator of Mystic Seaport, a position he held for fifteen years. Returning to Nantucket, he went on to serve as director of the Peter Foulger Museum, 1969-1986. He remained actively involved in affairs maritime, always eager to help a visitor get his bearings in island history, and, SEAHISTORY68, WINTER 1993-1994