SHIP NOTES the fleet included seven schooners, one lighthouse lenses, lighthouse yawl, and rwo square-rigged barques. artifacts, and Coast Guard This year's Rolex Transatlantic C hallenge memorabilia in the country. was open to monohull sailing vessels, 70 The collecrion was formerly feet LOD (length on deck) and longer displayed at the Shore Village with the goal of breaking the wo rld's old- Museum until its closing in est ocean-racing record. Organized by the October 2004. (One Park New York Yacht C lub, with the coopera- Dr., POB F, Rockland, ME tion of the Royal Yach t Squadro n, the 04841; Ph. 207 594-3301; 3,000-mile race started in New York on www.mainelighthousemuseMay 22nd and finished off the Lizard in um.com) . . . By the time of England, covering the same racecourse this printing, Ocean Classfo llowed by the competitors 100 years room Foundation, in conRear Adm. Robert C Olsen, Jr., (left) handed command ago. . • • Speakin g of high-tech equip- junction with NMHS and of the Coast Guard Academy over to Rear Adm. James ment for boats, NOAA's Office of Coast Hurricane Island Outward C van Sice in a formal ceremony. Coast Guard ComSurvey has made available free elec- Bound School, will have mandant Admiral Thomas H. Collins presided over the tronic navigational charts (ENCs) of completed their fust Oceanevent. Congressman Rob Simmons made a presentation US waters at http://chartmaker.ncd. Bound for History Produring Rear Adm. Olsen's retirement ceremony following noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm. Be- gram. Twenty-four middle the change ofcommand. ware-these EN Cs are useless without the and high school history teachappropriate sofrware. While yo u are visit- ers sailed aboard schooner Westward for a Rear Adm. Robert C. Olsen, Jr., handed ing their web site, check out their "His- week in early August. The goal of the pro- command of the US Coast Guard Acadtoric Map and Chart Collection," which gram is to immerse history teachers in emy over to Rear Adm. James C. Van contains over 20,000 maps and charts maritime studies and ship operations to Sice in a formal ceremony in May. Rear from the late 1700s to present day. The encourage them to include a maritime his- Adm. Van Sice assumed duties as the 38th Collection includes some of the nation's tory component in their classroom during Superintendent of the Academy. Rear earliest nautical charts, hydrographic sur- the school year and guide them in creating Adm. O lsen will retire and has accepted the position as President of The Webb Inveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle m aps. stitute in Long Island, NY. . . . The American Lighthouse Foundation reThe Historical Map & C hart Project scans each map or chart and offers the images cently appointed Bob Trapani, Jr., as its first executive director. The Foundation free to the public via the Coast Survey web site. The Project is managed by the Cartoconducted a yearlong search to run the graphic & Geospatial Technology Program eleven-year old organization. ALF runs the of the Coast Survey Development LaboraMuseum of Lighthouse Histo ry in Wells, tory. •.. In association with the National Maine, and has eighteen lighthouses under its care. (ALP, Ph: 207 646-0245; Maritime M useum in London, the National Historic Ships Committee has www.lighthousefoundation.org) . . . The launched a new, re-designed web site John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, has launched its listing UK historic ships. The web site Archive of Early American Images, open features over 1,200 vessels currently listed to the general public. The Archive is an on the National Register of Historic Vessels. The National Register provides inforonline database made up entirely of immation on the more important vessels in their curricula. (OCF, 23 Bay St., Watch ages of North and South America found the UK's historic ship fleet, the larges t col- Hill, RI 02891; Ph. 800 724-7245; WWW. in o bscure books and maps printed before lection of historic vessels in the wo rld. The oceanclassroom.org; e-mail : mail@ocean- 1825. W hen comp leted, the database will Register helps public and private owners, classroom .org) . . . The USS Constella- include approximately 6,000 images, covgovernment departments, and funding tion Museum in Baltimore has an- ering the entire territory from Hudson's bodies with information and guidance on nounced plans for a new Heritage Bay to Tierra de Fuego. Currently, there preservation priorities and gives earl y Center to be built on the adjacent pier to are just over 2,500 images online. All imwarning of any vessels "at risk." (www. the ship. The Center will house exhibits ages are from works in the library's collecnhsc.org.uk) . . . In June, the Maine and include space for lectures and special tion and contain descriptive information Lighthouse Museum opened to the pub- events. (USS Constellation, Pier 1, 301 E. abo ut the images and full bibliographical lic in Rockland, Maine. The museum is Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 2 1202; Ph. 410 records concerning rhe books in which home to one of the largest collection of 539- 1797; www.constellation.org) the images are locared. (JCBL, POB 40
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