SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS Spend a Summer Immersed in MARITIME HISTORY at MYSTIC SEAPORT' S Munson Institute
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ing organizations from Europe, Russia, Bermuda, and Canada have formed Sail Training International. T he organization publishes a magazine, Tall Ships and Sail Training, and is organizing and managing the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races in the summer of 2003. T he fleet will assem ble in G dynia, Poland, to race to Turku, Finland, on 22 July, fo llowed by a cruise-incompany to Riga, Latvia, and a second race from Riga to reach Li.ibeck-Travemi.inde, Germany, by 2 1 August. (STI, Hortensiastraat 11, 2020 Anrwerpen 2, Belgium; web site: www.sa iltraininginternational .org) ;~ In August the National U ndersea Research Program of the National Oceanic andAtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) confirmed the final resting place of New England's most sought after and mysterious shipwreck, the steamer Portland, in NOAA' s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. All 192 passengers and crew aboard the Portland were lost in a storm on 27 November 1898. (NOAA, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
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An Irish Wanderer Arrives in US Ports After years of financial difficulties, the recreated Irish immigrant ship Jeanie Joh nston has reached American shores. The 123-foot three-masted bark was built in Tralee, Co un ty Kerry, Ireland , to celebrate the courage and success of the men and wo men who left Jeanie Johnsto n offthe coast ofIreland Ireland during rhe fai:nine of t~e 1840s an~ to commemorate Insh-Amencan contnburions to North Ame rica. Her builders came from North America, E urope and Ireland, North and South. Denis Reen, chiefexecutive of the Jeanie Johnsto n Co mpany, notes she "is an international monument to collaboration." T he original JeanieJohnston was built in Quebec in 1847 and carried more than 2,500 people to new lives in America, sailing to Quebec, Baltimore and New York. Although many of her compatriots were known as coffi n ships, the Jeanie Johnston made sixteen voyages wi thou r losing anyo ne to disease at sea. Even when she sank in mid-Atlantic in 1858, carrying a cargo of timber, everyone on board was rescued by a passing Dutch ship. T he ship's remaining ports-of-call on the Atlantic coast of North America are: Baltimore MD 3-9 June New Yo rk NY 3-14 July Philadelphia PA 12-23 June Port Jefferso n NY 14-1 7 July Trento n NJ 23-26 June Providence RI 18-21 July 26-30 June Boston MA 24 July-2 August Bristol PA As of press time, dares for additional visits had not been announced, but the vessel will proceed north to Canada before returning to Tralee in October. You can keep up with her travels on-line at www.jeaniejohnston.ie.
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