LETTERS NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS & TRUSTEES: Chairman, Howard Slocnick; Vice Chairmen, Richardo R. Lopes, Edward G . Zel insky; Executive Vice President, Burchenal G reen; Treasurer, William H. White; Secretary, Marshall Streibert; Trustees, Donald M. Birney, Walter R. Brown, Sabata Catucci, Richard T. du Moulin, D avid S. Fowler, Jack Gaffney, Virginia Steele Grubb, Rodney N . Houghton , Steven W. Jones, Richard M. Larrabee, Warren G. Le back, Guy E. C. Maitland, Karen E. Markoe, Michael R. McKay, James J. McNamara, DavidA. O'Nei l, RonaldL. Oswald, David Platcner, Bradford D. Smith, David B. Vietor,Alexander E. Zagoreos; ChairmenEmeriti, Alan G . Choate, Guy E. C. Maitland, C raig A. C. Reynolds; PresidentEmeritus, Peter Stanford FOUNDER: Karl Kortum (1917-1996)
broke her moorings, probably in a storm, and drifted ashore in Whalebone Cove where she has lain ever since. (Incidently, the Cove is where the old battleship Canopus was grounded in December 1914 and fired the first shots at Admiral Graf von Spee's fleet, leading to the German loss to Admiral Sturdee.) The Lady Elizabeth is highly prized by the Falklanders, and it is unfortunate that the funds for her restoration are not available. For many years Isam bard Brunel's marvelous Great Britain languished and weathered in Stanley harbor. Built at Bristol, England, in 1843, she was the first oceangoing iron ship, and the first with a screw
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The mainmast of the Great Britain propeller. She was large, 322 feet long compared to the 240-foot length (between perpendiculars) of the largest British naval screw ship of the line in 1848 . Her enormous two-cylinder steam engine had an 88-inch bore and 72-inch stroke. Stripped of her engines and hull sheathed in wood, she was condemned at Stanley in February 1886, then used for coal and wood storage for 47 years and abandoned. In April 1970, when the Great Britain was towed to England for restoration, not quite all was removed. The mizzenmast was left behind and is now on display in front of the Upland Goose Hotel. GENE CANFIELD
Jamestown, New York
Commending the USCG Auxiliary The National Maritime Historical Society's recognition at its Annual Dinner of the US Coast G uard's work in New York harbor after September 11th was befitting the enormity of the task they faced. Your members should know that much of the manpower and many of the vessels used in the effort came from the civilian volunteers of the Coast Guard Auxi li ary. In recognition of the Coast Guard Auxiliary' s post-9/11 support throughout the United States, the Commandant of the Auxiliary
awarded all the members of the Coast Guard unit a commendation with the urnt operational distinguishing device. H ERBERT L. JENSEN CG Auxiliary, 14th District Hilo, Hawaii Information on the US Coast GuardAuxiliary can be found online at www. cgaux. org or at the Chief Director's web site at www. USCG . millhqlgo!Cgaux/ocxindix. html. ERRATA
The short report, "NMHS Commemorates Naval Battle of the American Revolution" in Sea History 103 refers to the "replica British frigate HMS Bounty." However, the replica is of the armed transport HMS Bounty. A frigate is a rated vessel commanded by a post captain. HMS Bounty was not rated and her commander, William Bligh, was a Lieutenant Commander referred to as "Captain" only as a courtesy tide as the commanding officer. Bounty, a 230-ton merchant vessel of 1783 originally named Bethia, was purchased into the Royal Navy and fitted out as an armed transport for her voyage to Tahiti for bread-fruit trees which were to be transplanted in the West Indies. MIKE FLANNERY
Syracuse, New York
In publishing the above photograph from the NMHS Annual Dinner in SH I 03, p5, we neglected to name Capt. Craig E. Bone, Captain of the Port, USCG Activities NY (second from the right). And Norman Brouwer of South Street Seaport, who took the photo at right (SHJ 03, p2), notes that the man standing fourth .from the left on artist john Noble's studio barge was misidentified; he is Bill Lacy. Joe Farr, by the way, who was mentioned in the articles on john Noble, is reflected in the window on the top left. - ED.
SEA HISTORY 104, SPRING/SUMMER 2003