SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS annual Marion Brewington Essay Prize of $ 1,000 fo r the best manuscript on th e histo ry of seafaring, fisheries, commerce, warfa re, or recreation on Chesapeake Bay or its tributari es. Manuscripts of no more th an 30 double-spaced rypewrinen pages (two hard copies and a flopp y disk) should be submitted by 3 1 D ecember to : Maritime C urato r, Maryland Historical Society, 201 Wesr Mo nument Street, Baltimore MD 21201. . . . T he Natio nal Park Service web sire (www.cr.nps.gov/ nr/rwhp) provides materials fo r teachers fo r the following N ari onal Register ofHisto ric Pl aces maritime sites: T he Chesapeake & Ohi o Canal; Fo rts of Old San] uan; Early Settlers off the Rock-Bound Coast of M aine; Commodore Stephen Decatur's Home in W as hingto n D C; T he Battle of M obile Bay in 1864; T he USS Arizona Mem o rial; and Little Kinnakeer Lifesaving Station . . .. During this summer's expedirio n to the remains of USS Monitor off the coast of No rth Carolina, the ream raised Monitor's engine, now at The Mariners' Museum for conservati on. The Monitor 2001 Expeditions are part of an ongoing project led by T he Mariners' Museum, the US N avy and rhe National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Monitor s engine is raisedfrom the deep (US Navy photo) Administration to protect and preserve the iro nclad. They expect to recover the turret next year. (TMM, 100 Museum Drive, Newport N ews VA 23606-3759; 757 5962222; web sire: www.mariner.org) ... Two of Wisconsin's historic shipwrecks in Lake Michigan have been declared eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The 95-foor luxury yacht Rosinco
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ofl91 6, whi ch sank in 1928, incorporated "several miles ton es in ship construction , including ea rl y di esel technology and the use of steel as a primary building material for yachts, " said Jeff G ray, state underwater archaeologist at the Wisconsin Histori cal Society. T he l 32-fo or, three-mas ted schooner Fleetwing was a working cargo schooner of 1867 that struck a rocky beach in rhe fall of 1888 . (WHS, 8 16 State Street, Madison WI 53706; 608 264-6400; web sire: www.seagrant. wisc. edu/ shipwrecks) . .. Govern or Angus King of Maine has signed legislation making the third week in June Lighthouse Week in Maine .. .. St. Clements Hundred, dedi cated to rhe preservation of th e island where rhe firsr Maryland colonists landed in 1634, intends to rebuild the Blackistone Island Lighthouse of1851 , which burned in 1956. (SCH , PO Box 53, Bushwood MD 20618) ,t
Full information on these and other stories are in the bimonthly Sea History Gazette, March!April-Mayl]une 2001. To subscribe for one year, send $18.75 (+$1 Ofer.foreignpostage) to NMHS, PO Box 68, Peekskill NY 10566. For credit card orders, call800221-NMHS (6647), xO.
CALENDAR Festivals, Events, Lectures, Etc.
Exhibits
• Lake Superior Marine Museum Association: 10 November 2001 , Gales of Nove mber ... 14 th Annual Shipwreck and Diving Program in Duluth M N (Box 177, Duluth M N 55801 ; 2 18 727-2497; e-mail: ln fo @LSMMA .co m: web sire: www.LSMMA. co m) • Patrick O'Brian Seminar: 3 Nove mber 2001 (Redwood Library andArhenaeum, 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport RI 02840; 401 847-8206; web sire: www. redwoodlibrary.org/ obrian.hrm) • San Francisco Maritime Park: 2-3 November 200 I, T he Moby Dick Festival; I D ecember 200 1, Christmas at Sea; 8 D ecember 2001 , A Day in rhe Life: 1901 : "O ld-Time Ma ri time Christmas" (PO Box 4703 10, San Francisco CA 94 147-0 3 10; 4 15 56 1-6662; e- ma il : in fo@maririme.org; web sire: www.maririme.o rg) •Texas Maritime Museum: 10- 11 Nove mber 2001 , M usic of rhe Sea Fes ti val (1202 Nav iga ti on C ircle, Rockport TX 78382; 36 1 729- 127 1; e-ma il: rmm @2fo rds. net; web sire: www.rexasmaririm emuseum .org)
•Australian National Maritime Museum: 12 April 2001 -2 1 April 2002, "Go ld Rush - The Australian Experi ence" (G PO 513 1, Sydney NSA, Australi a 1042; (2) 9298 3644; fax: (2) 9298 3660; web site: www.anmm.gov.au) • Calvert Marine Museum: J anuary-December 2001 , "Outboard Mo rorin g in America: The First 50 Yea rs" (PO Box 97, Solomons MD 20688; 4 10 326-2042; web sire: www .calvenmarinemuse um .co m) • DenverArtMuseum: 18November- 6January 2002, "Sunken T reas ures: Min g Dynas ty Ceramics from a C hin ese Shipwreck" (1 3rh Avenue & Aco ma, D enve r CO ; 720 8655000; web site: www. denve rarrmuse umorg) • Independence Seaport Museum: from 19 O crober 2001 , "Olympia," a new perm anent exhibit (2 11 South Columbus Blvd. & Walnut Stree t, Philadelphi a PA 19 106-3 199; 2 15 925-5439; we b sire: sea porr. philly.co m) • Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University: 11 September 2001- May 2002, 'Tempest Tossed, the Life of Sterlin g Hayden: Author, Adventurer, Acro r" (77 1 Commonwealrh Ave., Bosron MA 022 15; 6 17 353-3696; e-mail: speccol@bu.edu; web site: www.bu.edu/speccol) •Naval Undersea Museum : fro m 22 Janu ary 2001 , "U nd erwa ter Range Technology, " a
Conferences • Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, 9-12Janu ary2002, in MobileAL (Socieryfor HisroricalArchaeology, POB 30446, T ucso n AZ 8575 1; web sire: www.sha.org)
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new perm anent ex hibit (610 Dowell Stree t, PO Box 408, Key port WA 98345; 360 3964 148; web sire: num.kpr.nuwc.n avy. mil) •Naval War College Museum: 7 Jun e-Fall 2001 , ''To rpedo Ran ge" Island: An Exhibit of Go uld Island , Na rraganserr Bay, th e Navy's Principal To rpedo Test-Firin g Site in Wo rld Wa r II (686 C ushing Road, Newport RI 02841- 1207; 401 84 1- 13 17; web sire: www .visimewporr. co m/buspages/ navy) • San Diego Maritime Museum: from 4 Nove mber 2001 , "Treas ures of th e Manil a Gall eons" (1492 No rth H arbor Dri ve, Sa n Diego CA 92 101 ; 6 19 234-91 53; web site: www.sdm ar irim e.co m) • South Street Seaport Museum : from late Jul y2 001 , "The G rear Liners" (207 Fro nt Sr., New Yo rk NY 10038; 2 12 748-8600; web sire: www.so urhsrsea porr.org) •The Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum : th ro ugh December 2001 , "Admiral Fa rragut" (734 Marin Stree t, Va llejo CA 94590; 707 643-0077; e- mail: valmuse@pac bell.net; web sire: www.vallejomuse um .org) •Ventura County Maritime Museum : 1 Ocro ber-3 1 D ece mber 2001 , "Hisro ry of Spanish Ca lifornia, 1542-1848 " (273 J S. Vicro ri a Ave nue, O xnard CA 93055 ; 805 984-6260; e- mail: vcmm@aol.co m)
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