agreement in September 2002 with the US company Odyssey Marine Exploration to conduct archaeological exploration on the Mediterranean Sea shipwreck believed to be the Sussex. The 80-gun English warship, lost in a storm near the Straits of Gibraltar in 1694, is a potentially lucrative find because research suggests that she was carrying coins, probably gold, for the Duke of Savoy to persuade him to continue to fight France in the War of the League of Augsburg. (Ministry of Defence web site: www.nds.coi.gov.uk/coi/coipress .nsf; Odyssey Marine Exploration, PO Box 320057, TampaFL33679-2057; 813 8761776; web sire: shipwreck.net/index.html) 11f Archaeologists have discovered evidence that England's Poole harbor was a working harbor as early as 250 BC, indicating that the Romans did not establish the harbor, but rather rook over an already flourishing one. Divers have traced two jetties dating to the Iron Age, one more than 80 meters (262.5') long; both were reinforced with oak tree trunks sharpened at one end and driven into the sea bed. (Poole Maritime Trust, 6 Wes tern Road, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset BH13 7BN, UK; 011 +44 (1202) 707 867; web site: www.poole maritime.org) 11f The Karl Kortum Endowment for Maritime History announced its fourth call for submissions of research in selected fields of the maritime history of the West Coast of the United States. The recipient of the $1,000 Award will be announced in February 2004. The deadline for submissions is 12 September 2003. For further information, write: David Hull, Chairman, Karl Kortum Endowment for Maritime History, Library, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Building E, Fort Mason, San Francisco CA 94123, or e-mail: mark_goldstein@n ps. gov. 1<1' The National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded the Naval Historical Center its National Preservation Award, commending the Center's public and private partnering to raise the confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship . (NHC, Washington Navy Yard, 805 Kidder Breese South, SE, Washington DC 20374-5060; web site: www.history.navy.mil) 11f A project to restore the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland I of 190 l , has won Britain's premier conservation prize. Con-
servaror Ian Clark and the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport were awarded the Pilgrim Trust Award for Conservation 2002 for "placing conservation at the very heart of the museum. " The award carries a prize of £15,000 ($23,700). Holland I was built in 190l ;in 1913 shewas sold for scrap but sank under row and was not salvaged until 1982. (RNSM , Haslar Jetty Road, Gosport, Hampshire P012 2AS, UK; 011 +44 (23) 9252 9217; web site: www.rnsub BritainsHollandI mus.co.uk) ""i°'lf The Universiry of Kent at Canterbury Arts & Humanities Research Board is giving a £364,780 ($575,000) research grant to "The Ocean Steamship: A Cultural History of Victorian Maritime Power 1850-1900," a proj ect investigating the emergence of long-distance steamship lines, steamship co mmunities, and the ways in which they transformed the world by 1900. (UKC, T he Registry, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, UK; 011 +44 (1227) 764 000) 7"'<: The 2002 recipients of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Awards, which recognize outstanding books on the maritime and naval history of North America, are: CANADIAN NAVAL AND MARITIME HI STORY: Robert Malcomson, Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834 (Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press); US MARITIME HISTORY: Nicholas Dean, Snow Squall: The LastAmerican Clipper Ship (Bath ME: Tilbury House and Maine Maritime Museum); US NAVAL HISTORY: Kathleen Broome Williams, Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the US Navy in World War II (Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press); SCIEN CE AND TECHNOLOGY: Gary E. Weir, An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists and the Ocean Environment (College Station TX: TexasA&M Universiry Press); BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: John H. Schroeder, Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat (Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press). (NASOH, PO Box 18108, Washington D C 20036; web site: www.ecu.edu/nasoh)
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