SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS Gold Rush Celebrations & West Coast Happenings T h e California Gold Rush conjured new Bear. (NHS, 1064 CaLLe Negocio Unit B, continue at the maritime museum with expectations of the American Dream in San Clemente CA 92673; 949 369-6773; their annual Festival of the Sea, 25-26 1849, enticing men and women, young fax: 949 369-6892; web site: www Sep tember, with hands-on activi ties, multiand old, westward, some to sink their lives .californian.org;ASTA, PO Box 1459, New- cultural performances, music and refreshinto the search for riches, others to capital- port RI 02840; 401 846-1775; fax: 401 ments. (SFMNHP, PO Box 4703 10, San ize on the exponentially expanding market 849-5400; e-mail: asta@sailtraining.org; Francisco CA 94147-031 O; 415 561-6662; fax: 4 15 561-6660; e-mail: sfnmma@ for supplies the 'Forty-niners required and web site: www.taLLships.sailtraining.org) for th e luxury goods the lucky ones eagerly A Gold Rush Cargo aol. com) Endeavour on the West Coast acquired. If events find you shorebo und, stick to th e Hundreds ofvessels arrived in San Fran- waterfront and head to the Maritime Na- If you see a lone sailing shi p off the Coast cisco carrying prospectors, only to be aban- tional Historical Park at Fisherman's Wharf. this spring and summer, it may not be a do ned by their crews, who also heard the refugee from the Gold Rush Race. The siren call of easy go ld. This summ er, the splendid replica of Captain James Cook's Endeavour, now in San Diego for a refit, sesquicentennial of the Gold Rush will bring new adventurers to America's West will wend her way north from San Diego to British Columbia between April an d OctoCoast. Mervyn's California ber, stopping in 15 ports along the way, before co ntinuing on her circum navigaGold Rush Race 1999 tion. Don't miss your chance to step aboard T he Nau tical Heritage Society, operator of this historic replica-you may even want the replica revenue cutter Californian, is to sail as crew! (HM Bark Endeavour Founorganizing a series of off-shore and port events in July of this year. The program is This tiny filigree dragon, barely an inch Long, dation, PO Box 7 186, San Diego CA 92167; being organized for th e California Sesqui- was part ofthe cargo heading for San Fran- 619 223-9477;fax: 619 223-9437; e-mail: centennial Foundation and will visit the cisco aboard the Frolic in 1850. (Courtesy, hmbark@ibm.net; web site: www. bark endeavour. com. au) seaports of San Francisco , Long Beach and SFMNHP) San Diego, with sponsorship from Mervyn' s department stores. The events kick off Among the many maritime pl easures to be The replica Endeavour underfuLLsaiL. (Courwith a maritime parade into San Francisco sampled there, yo u will find an exhibit on tesy, the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation) harbor on Friday, 2 July, honoring the the discovery and reco very of artifacts from arrival of the clipper ships th at brought the Frolic, a ship carrying a cargo of Chiprospectors to California. The Am erican nese goods to San Francisco. She ran Sail Training Association is organizing the aground on the Mendocino coast in 185 0, race that fo llows from San Francisco south under the command of Edward Horatio to Long Beach , with a start on 5 July and an Faucon, made famous in Richard H enry arrival deadline of 9 July. The fleet will stay Dana, Jr. ' s Two Years before the Mast. T he until 12 July and then cruise in co mpany to ship's history, and cargo, were recovered San D iego, arriving on the 13th. Off-shore when an archaeologist found unexpected activities, shoreside events, festivals and pieces of Chinese porcelain in a Pomo public visitation will bring crowds down to Indian house site. "Found! The Wreck of the waterfronts, recreating the hust!e-and- the Frolic-A Gold Rush Cargo for San busd e of the historic seaports. Francisco" runs through 3 October 1999 As of January a number of American and focuses on the dive rsity of people who and international sail training vessels and contributed to the story of the Frolic-the other ships had committed to joining the native Americans who salvaged much of fleet for all or part of the events. America's the cargo, the Chinese who manufactured tall ship USCG Bark Eagle, Japan 's Kaiwo it, and the American businessmen who Maru , Canada's HMCS Oriole, C lass chose what would sell best in Gold RushAfloat's Concordia, Ecuador's Guayas and era San Francisco. The cargo itself was a Tell Us What Is Going On! her sister ship Gloria of Colombia, the treasure trove of artifacts revealing new Nadezhda and the PaLLada from Russia, information about North Coast history Please let us know about other maritime and, of course, San D iego's own Star of and the beginnings of California's trade projects and programs commemorating the India will be among the sailing partici- with China. T h e exhibit includes gold fi li- Sesquicentennial of the Gold Rush, so we pants. In the steaming category, visitors gree jewelry, Chin ese suspender clips, a can tell our members. (Sea History, PO Box will see the WWII-vintage SS Lane Victory carved ivory fan, a silver scallop-shell tin- 68, PeekskiLL NY 10566; 914 737-7878; fax: 914 73 7-7816,¡ e-mail: nmhs@sea and SS Jeremiah O 'Brien as well as the der box, and horn checkers. California Maritime Academy's TS Golden The celebration of the Gold Rush will history.org)
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