.SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS SPUN YARN In January 2005, the famous New York Fulton Fish Market is leaving South Street in Manhattan and moving to the Bronx. South Street Seaport Museum is conducting guided tours with the Market's unofficial artist Naima Rauam.
Catch it before it's too late! Tour includes a tour of Rauam's studio and breakfast at an authentic fish marker diner. Wear sturdy shoes and clothes that can get dirry. South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front St., New York, NY 10038; 212 748-8600; web site: www.southstreetseaportmuseum. org. • .. Artist and singer Tony Bennett has donated to The Mariners' Museum a recently completed watercolor of the Battle of Hampton Roads between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virgi.nia. Bennett presented his painting at ceremonies at the Museum on 1 September. The artist began formal instruction as a young art student at the School oflndustrial Arts (now known as rhe School of Art and Design) in New York Ciry and continued his studies over the years with private studios and teachers. (The Mariners' Museum, 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606; 757 596-2222 or 800 581-7245; web site: www.mariner.org) ... In September, the Peabody Essex Museum suspendedpublication of The American Neptune for a period ofsix months. Productions costs ourweighed income from subscribers resulting in the museum having to subsidize its publication. The administration is using this period to explore options in either "reinvent[ing]" the journal and/or engaging other museums or organizations in taking over publication. (Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970; 978 745-9500; web site: www.pem.org) . . . SeaBritain2005 and the National Maritime Museum (UK) has created Connecting with 34
Schools, an innovative online resource to help maritime organizations develop high-quality, curriculum-relevant educational material. SeaBritain2005 wi ll be organizing the Trafalgar Festival next summer and fall (2005) ro mark the bicentenary of Nelson's death and the Batcle of Trafalgar. A toolkit is available on line. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE109NF; 020 8312-6545; web sites: www.nmm.ac.uk and www.seabritain2005.com) . . . Clearing out your basement, attic, or bookshelves? Three organizations are looking for items for their collections. Sailors Snug Harbor is looking for artifacts, photographs, and personal stories from former residents or relatives of those who lived or worked there to add ro rheir collection. The Noble Maritime Co llection will provide a questionnaire to help you organize your thoughts and answer any questions. (The Noble Maritime Collection, Museum and Research Center, 1000 Richmond Trace, Bldg. D, Staten Island, NY 10301; 7 18 447-6490; web site: www.noblemaritime. org). Also, a new research collection of the Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve was established in 2003 with contributions of some 1,500 bound volumes of Great Lakes history, 50 linear feet of manuscript material, 60,000 ship photographs, and extensive files on ships, pons, cargoes, and maritime technology. The SancL MARI NE tuary is looking for a NATIONA SANCTUARI ES ™ d- Underwater ""1nwfull (or nearly full) set TH UNDER BAY of Sea History for donation to this collection . Interested parties should contact Marlo Broad at 989 3566188, ext. 17; e-mail: tbrc@northland .lib. mi.us; web site: www.thunderbay.noaa. gov. Finally, the Glencannon Collection is shy of two volumes to complete their Glencannon Series. Anyone willing to part with their copy of Scotch and mtter and Three Sheets to the Wind should contact The G lencannon Sociery, POB 633, Benecia, CA 94510; 800 711-8985; web site: www.glencannon.com. . . . A new version of the www.Jamestown2007.org web site, originally launched in 1999, debuted in August. The redesigned site reAects current 2007 program initiatives,
including proposed signature events, sponsorship and partnership opportunities, the statewide Communiry Program, and che 2007 Ambassador Speakers Bureau. • .. USS Oriskany (CVA34) has been donated by the Navy to the State of Florida to be made into an artificial reef off the coast of Pensacola. The ship is the first of the ships offered to coastal states for this purpose in lieu of scrapping them. "Three
USS Oriskany, 1959
other carriers, eleven destroyers, five cruisers, rwo frigates, a dock landing ship, a patrol gunboat, and a combat stores ship wi ll also be tendered as part of the program. • • • The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York has given up stewardship of USS Edson (00946) in favor of a project to acquire a battleship or a cruiser. The Museum hauled out the ship and performed hull repairs before returning her to the Navy's Inactive Fleet faciliry in Philadelphia. All Edson artifacts and memorabili a are currently stored o n board Intrepid until another approved organization obtains USS Edson. If the ship is not donated, the items will be returned to the organizations or individuals who loaned or donated them. . . • Another Basque galleon has been found near Red Bay in southern Labrador. Parks Canada divers were checking on the condition of ocher previously-located wrecks when they spotted the ship's timbers, which were exposed when a cruise ship anchored close by. The wreck is preserved in the mud below the seabed. 'Th e Basques established whaling camps in Newfound land and Labrador during rhe 16th century. The wreck is the fourth Basque ship discovered in the region. The first was fo und near Red Bay in 1978, and two more were discovered in the 1980s. Parks Ca nada: web site: www. pc.gc.ca. . • . This summer, the schooner yacht Coronet became the first vessel in Rhode Island named to the National SEA HISTORY I 09, WINTER 2004-2005