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returned 34, 000 to the United States. The ship was decommissioned in November 19 19 and turned over to the ~r Department. In 1921 she returned to commercial service as a passenger liner under the American flag for ten years. In 1941 she was briefly p ut back into naval service as USS Carlin (AP- 19) and operated as a British and US civilianmanned transport through 1942. The ship was then refitted with new oil-fired boilers to improve her performance and was again put in service as an Army Transport beginning in April 1943. Laid up in 1947, she was sold for scrap in 1951 . (Source: Naval H istorical Cen ter; www. history. navy. mil) Giving Credit Where Credit is DueECU's Frank Cantelas Dr. Bill Still's article o n the Maritime Studies Program at East Carolina University provided an ourline fo r the development of the program , of whi ch I am proud to have been a part. Such a quick overview, of course, cannot detail some of the factors that make a uni versity program succeed . In this case, I'd like to bring attentio n to m aritime archaeologist Frank Cantelas, who has recently left ECU afte r more than a decade of service to accept a new pos ition as Nautical Archaeologist/Scientist for N OAA's Office of Ocean Exploration . The O ffice of Ocean Exploration is probably best known to those involved in maritime archaeology because of their grants program. Each year, several million dollars in grant fundin g are awa rded to research and educati on projects that range from coastal sites to the deep sea. Fran k Cantelas and I collabo rated o n behalf of the ECU Maritime Studies Program on several successful Ocea n Exploratio n grant proposals. Amo ng these was the Ocracoke Shipwreck Survey, where 2, 000 shipwrecks were identified in the area between Cape H atteras and Cape Lookout, NC. Frank organized rem ote sensing expeditions that located som e of these sires. Frank was Principal Inves tigator on the 2004 expedi tion to Kodiak, Alaska, to identi fy what was identi fied as rhe Russian-American Company ship, Kad'yak, lost in 1870. H is re mote sensing skills proved invaluable to the joint project involving ECU, rhe O ffi ce of Naval Research , the NOAA Na tio nal M arine
Sanctuaries Program, rhe US Navy Subm arine Fleer Atlantic, and others, to search for rhe Navy's first submarine, USS Alligator, lose off Cape H atteras. As a graduate student, Frank directed the investigation of rhe C ivil War vessel Maple Leaf char sank near Jacksonville, Florida, and helped es tablish rhe program's reputation fo r rhe quality of its wo rk in black water. Designated a Natio nal Landmark, th e Maple Leaf wreck site yielded
approxi mately 30,000 artifacts for Flo rida museums-all recovered from a zero-visibili ty sire. Frank has used his scientific diving skills to dive to USS Mo nitor (240 ft. below the surface) and deep wrecks within the Thunder Bay National M arine San ctuary. His work o n an early schooner fo und in the U pper Peninsula of M ichigan contri buted to a national award by the American Associatio n fo r Stare and Local Histo ry. As a m ember of an academic program , perhaps Frank's greatest contribution was to rhe students. As staff archaeologist from 1995 to 2006, he provided behind-rhescenes support and instruction to countless graduate students in their research and in archaeological inves tigations for student thes is proj ects. While I served as director of the Program , there was a constant stream of students coming upstairs in Eller H ouse to see if Frank was in. No ne can rem ember him saying anything bur, "sure, I can help yo u."
SEA Hl STORY 117, WINTER 2006-07