SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS
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Souvenirs of the Great Gathering of Sailing Ships in the Year 2000
Our handsome Ts show four sailing sh ips passing Miss Liberty, sil k screened in blue, light blue and crimson . The official OpSail 2000 program has photos & stories of the ships and the people who sai l them . Both commemorate a great occasion on 4 July 2000! Shirt: $12.50 + $2.50 s/h; availab le in S, M, L, XL, XXL Program: $6 + $2 s/h
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trails and twelve sites over a five-state area (CBMM, PO Box 636, Mill Street, St. Michaels MD 2 1663; 410 745-2916; web site: www.cbmm .org; CBGN, Jonarhan Doherty, 800 YOUR-BAY) ... The New Jersey Museum of Boating, housed in Building 12 of the former Johnson Brothers Boat Works, once one of New Jersey's premier boatbuilding facili ties, opened 22 April. The institution wi ll provide the public with an overview of boating and boatbuilding in New Jersey, including a display of small boats common to New Jersey waters, a history oflocal boat builders, typical construction tools an d techniques and historic photographs. (NJBM, Building 12,Johnson Brothers Boat Works, 1800 Bay Avenue, Point Pleasant NJ 087 42; 732 295-2072) ... The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which sank USS Housatonic in 1864, was raised intact from the waters off Charleston, South Carolina, on 8 August 2000 and brought to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston, where sh e is lying in a 55 foot- long tank of cold water. The vessel and irs artifacts will be displayed at the Charleston M useum fo llowing conservation. Meanwhile, Friends of the Hunley, the non-profit organization spearheading the work, has an excellent web site for photographs and updates and a traveling exhibit including the submarine built for the TNT movie on the Hunley. (Friends of the Hunley, 255 King Street, C harleston SC 29401; web site: www.hunley.org) ... Archaeologists from Texas A&M U niversity's Institute of Nautical Archaeology recovered the connecting rod of the British paddle steamer Denbigh, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War, in Galveston Bay, Texas. (INA, PO Drawer HG, College Station TX 7784 1-5 137; 409 845-6694; web site: http: //nautarch .tamu.edu) .. . The eight-foot connecting rod recoveredfrom the British blockade runner Denbigh. (Photo: INA web site)
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's 1999 Lake Survey revealed W reek MM, a railroad drawboat, a heavy barge that served as a temporary bridge for trains to cross the lake. Wreck MM, possible the largest shipwreck in the lake, is 250 feet long, 34 feet wide, and stand s almost 8 feet off the lake bottom. T he. drawboat illusWreck MM (Sketch by Adam Kane)
trates the compromise between sailors who depended on the open passage of vessels and merchants whose goods were shipped overland by train and needed a safe lake channel crossing by rail. The drawboat co uld be maneuvered in and out of position, floating out of the way of lake traffic when not needed. (LCMM, 4472 Basin H arbor Road, Vergennes VT 05491; 802 475-2022; web site: www.lcmm.org) ... A provision added to the Interior Department appropriations bill at the end of the 1999 Congressional session calls for a study on the question of designating Midway Atoll a national memorial. The International M idway Memorial Foundation, Inc. has been meeting with the Fish and W ildlife Service to determine what steps must be raken to create and maintain Midway as a memorial. (IMMF, 11004 ArroyoDrive, Rockville MD 20852; 301 652-0677; web sire: www. immf-midway.org) ... T h e Naval Historical Foundation has published proceedings from two of its 1999 conferences: "Changing Tides: The History and Evolution of the Philadelphia Shipyard, 1801to1998 and Beyond" ($12) and "Pearl Harbor and the Kimmel Controversy: The Views Today" ($18) . (NHF, 1306 Dahlgren Avenue SE, Washington Navy Yard, Was hington DC 2 0374-5055; 202 678-4333; e-mail: nhfny@msn.com)
Full infonnation on these and other stories can be found in Sea History Gazette, July! August2000. To subscribe to the bi-monthly Gazettefor oneyear, send $18. 75 (add $10 for foreign postage) to NMHS, PO Box 68, Peekskill NY 10566. For credit card orders, call 1800221-NMHS (6647) or sign up on-line at www.seahistory.org.
SEA HISTORY 94, AUTUMN 2000