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INVENI PORTAM Arnaldo J. Mendes, who died on 31 December at age 76, was one of the last captains to bring immigrants to the US under sail. As owners and captains of the Gloucester fish ing schooner Ernestina he and hi s father Henrique made several trips across the Atlantic carrying supplies to the Cape Verde Islands and bringing Cape Verdeans to Massachusetts in the 1940s and ' 50s. The ship , bui lt in 1894 as the Effie M . Morrissey, was given to the US by the people of the Cape Verdes and sails today on educational voyages out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The West Coast lost two members of the International Cape Homers Association last autumn . Both men sailed o ut of Puget Sound in Sewall ships (Raynaud in the Edward Sewall and Tweeddale in the William P. Frye) within two weeks of each other in the autumn of 1914, but did not meet until 1995. Capt. Adrian Raynaud died on 30 November, aged l 02. He first went to sea aboard the barkentineLahaina in 1909 and enlisted in the US Navy during WWI, after which he voyaged in steam and sail , as opportunity offered. After a stint during and after WWII as port captain for the Ameri can Mai l Line, he turned to ship surveying, in which trade he continued until hi s 90th birthday, when hi s wife pulled the plug on hi s electric typewriter. Capt. Duane S. Tweeddale, also a veteran of voyaging under sail, died at the age of 101 in San Francisco on 26 October 1997. Hi s career included command of a Liberty ship during WWII. HAROLD H YCKE Harry E. Morgan , the marine engineer who spearheaded the mechanical restoration of both the WWII Liberty ship SS Jeremiah O' Brien and the 1907 steam tug Hercules, died at the age of 83 on 18 Novem ber 1997. He embarked on a maritime career in the 1930s and sailed as chief engineer of five Liberty ships and a Victory ship during WWII. Hi s first hi storic vessel restoration project was the paddlewheel steamer Delta Queen of 1926.
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Naval architect Parker E. Marean III died unex pected ly at age 57 on 23 November 1997. In his profess ional career he dealt with the sailing passenger vessels of Maine 's windjammer fl eet. He also designed SEA 's brigantine Corwith Cramer and other sa il training vessels, and worked wi th Melbourne Smith on the US Brig Niagara. He worked with the Coast Guard to develop regulations for passenger sailing vessel stability and , in 1979 , he and hi s wife Clary carried out the survey of the Gold Rush-era bark Vicar of Bray in the Falkland Islands. NICHOLAS DEA
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On Sunday, 6 September 1998, crew and trainees from the schooner Harvey Gamage will celebrate the vessel's 25th birthday. The evening event follows the Great Schooner Race in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Everyo ne who has ever sailed aboard Gamage is invited to pai1ic ipate. Di stingui shed guests of honor wi ll include Capt. and Mrs. Eben Whitcomb. Built in South Bristol, Maine, in 1973, by master shipwright Harvey Gamage, the vessel has sailed the waters be- _H_ar_v_e.:_y_G_a_m_a..::.g_e_a_ts_e_a_ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ tween Canada and the Caribbean whil e hosting educational and recreational programs. In 1994 , she began ope ratin g Ocean Classroom , the nation 's only full y accredited semesterat-sea program for high school students. For more info rn1 ation on the vessel and to RSVP for the birthday event, contact them at Schooner Harvey Gamage Foundation, Inc. , PO Box 446, ComwaUNY12518; 1800724SAIL (7245). ,t SEA HISTORY 84, SPRING 1998