SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT AND MUSEUM NEWS In January, the New Bedford Whaling Museum started restoration work on their half-scale fully-rigged model of the whaling ship Lagoda. The barque dominates a large gallery at the museum, with its sails set and whaling gear ri gged . Estimated cost of the repairs will be $2 50,000 and th e museum is seekin g donations m help fund the proj ect. While the sh ip is being resmred , the Bourne Building, which houses the model, is also being repaired and rep ainted. When both projects
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Gunboat Mound City. A reader submitted the pho m above in hopes that someone mi ght recognize it and be able m shed some light o n mo re of its hismry. Here's what we have been ab le m co me up with so far. Mound City, an armored gunboat, was the first of seven gunboats off the Mound C ity, Illin ois, ways in 1861. The most famou s of that class was USS Cairo-troops called them "Pook Turtles ." After she was fined out, she was assigned to Augustus Kil ty, and it was fro m "U ncle G us" that the phom was inherited by the M acsherry fa mil y of Baltim o re. The Navy ho nored Rear Admiral Kil ty with a destroyer escort named for him , launched aro und 1923. USS Kilty was refi tted fo r WWII and wo n eleve n battle stars in the Pacific theatre. Mound City ultimately survived rhe Civil War, bur, in 1862 o n th e W hite River, Arkansas, Kil ty had gotten her imo hot action when hidden Co nfererate artill ery on the ri ver banks began bombarding the boat and its crew. A lucky shot blew the boiler, whi ch immediately exploded, and Kil ty lost his left arm. H e somehow managed m get the boa r downriver and out of harm's way, bur the loss of life was considerable (mostly fro m the men who jumped overboard and we re shoe in the wa ter), a m eal of 125 men killed. She was decommissioned when the war was over, was sold in November 1865, and broken up in 1866. If yo u recognize the phom or any piece of this smry and can share mo re derails, we'd love m hear from you. (E- mai l: ed irorial@seahismry.o rg; Sea H istory edimrial offi ce: 7 T imberknoll Rd. , Pocasset, MA 02559)
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New Bedfo rd Whaling Museum's halfscale model, Lagoda are co mpl eted , Lagoda will be moored underneath a ceili ng paimed m represent the night sky. (NBWM, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bed fo rd, MA 02740; Ph. 508 9970046; www.w halingmuseum.org) The listserv, H -Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, has announced the new list, H-Maritime, a listserv specifically for maritime historians. HM aritime is fo r scholars interested in marmme hism ry, archaeology, literature, policy, and sundry other areas of i nves tigatio n m discuss research inrerests, teaching methods, and the state of maritime affairs. As an inrernati o nal electronic discussion group focused on scholarly mpics, H M aritime is especially interes ted in methods of teachin g m college srndem s in diverse senings . H-Maritime is currently edited by Thomas Goetz and T im othy Lynch. Logs and more information can also be located at: http://www.h-net.org/ ~ maritime . To join H-Maritime, send a m essage from the accoum whe re yo u wish m receive ma il, to : listserv@h-net.msu. edu (with onlly this text: sub H-Maritime firstn ame lastrname, instirution- i.e.: sub H -M aritim e ]Les Jones, Pacifi c State U).
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