SHIP NOTES,
SEAPORT,
&
(continued from page 44) soon as possible. The Boothbay Region www.maritimelibraryfriends.org. For more Land Trust has set up the Washburn & information, e-mail Mark_Goldstein@nps. Doughty Employee Fund to help with tran- gov) . . . The USCG International Ice sition and other expenses for the employees. Patrol issued its last daily warnings to Contributions are being accepted at the mariners for the 2008 iceberg season on Washb urn & Doughty Employee Fund, c/o 15 July. Formed after the tragic sinking of First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. of Bath, POB 26, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 or to the Boothbay Region Land Trust, POB 183, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538. . . . The Karl Kortum Endowment for Maritime History has announced its 6th call for submission of research in selected fields of Maritime History of the West Coast of the United States. The recipient of the $1,000 award will be announced in February 2009 . Submission deadline is 12 September. RMS Titanic in April of 1912, the Interna(For guidelines, see "Endowment Funds" at tional Ice Patrol monitors iceberg danger near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and provides the limits of all known ice to NMHS Rodney N. Houghton Award the maritime community. USCG ComPresented at the NMHS Annual Meeting, 3 1 May 2008 mander Scott Rogerson noted that the 2008 iceberg season was very active, with Thomas F. Daly, a close friend and law partner of former trustee Rodney Houghton 1,000 icebergs crossing 48 approximately (1938-2007) gave an eloquent presentation of the first NMHS Rodney N. Houghdegrees north, the largest number in the ton Award For Best Feature Article in Sea History to novelist Bill White for "In the es timated to be similar to the last decade, Wake of Bounty: A Voyage of Recovery," which appeared in Sea History 121 . Mr. Daly amount present in 1912. Rogerson also described Rodney Houghton's love noted that this season , the geographic disof historic sea stories and his admitribution of icebergs was unusual. After a ration for Captain James Cook and shift in environmental conditions in May, then introduced Bill White as the many icebergs were driven down the N ewfirst recipient of this new award, crefoundland coast and then south and west as ated in honor of Hough ton's passion far as the Laurentian Channel. Tens of for maritime history and his apprethousands of icebergs calve from the glaciation of those whose work brings ciers of Greenland every year, creating a us those stories. In his presentation, constant threat to shipping in the Labrador Daly reminded us of Bill White's Baffin Bay. The cold Labrador curSea and service in the US Navy and his dediNMHS Chairman Ronald Oswald congraturent carries a small percentage of these icecation to preserving our maritime lates William H. White on his receiving the first bergs south to the vicinity of the Grand heritage through his work as a trustee NMHS Rodney N Houghton Award Banks and into the great circle shipping of several maritime institutions, his lanes between Europe and the major ports appearances on the History Channel, and, of course, as an author of naval ficcion of the United States and Canada. The iceand non-fiction. Mr. White is an active member of the NMHS board of trustees and berg season typically begins in February a frequent contributor to Sea History. There was no more perfect candidate for the and ends mid-summer as temperatures first-ever presentation of this award. warm up. . . . Jerry Ostermiller, past It was especially meaningful to return to the NMHS offices after the dedication president of the Council of American to receive a letter and financial gift from John]. Lombard Jr., who had also been Mr. Maritime Museums, has announced his Houghton's friend and law partner at McCarter & English, LLP. He wrote, "Rodney retirement as president of the Columbia and I, as close friends , sai led and fished in many places in the Western Hemisphere River Maritime Museum, effective at the over the last several decades. Rodney was a keen adherent to the principle that 'A day end of 2008. C RMM was found ed in on the water is never wasted, and anything else that comes is a bonus .' His love of the 1962 and was the first museum in Oregon sea and boats remained with him all his life. I appreciate the opportunity of making to meet national accreditation standards this modest gift in Rodney's memory as I know how much the National Maritime and has been designated the official state Historical Society meant to him." maritime museum. The museum preserves With thanks, Mr. Lombard. And he to us. and interprets the rich maritime history of
collection of Fresnel lenses on public display in the US. (MLM, One Park Drive, POB F, Rockland, ME 04841 ; Ph. 207 594-3301 ; e-mail: info@mainelighthouse museum.org; www.mai nelighthousemuseum.com) . . . Washburn & Doughty Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine, was destroyed by fire on 11 July, but the yard's management has sworn to rebuild. The shipyard has been a mainstay of the midcoast community, providing year-round employment for more than 80 people in an area heavily dependent upon summer tourism. Two tugs, tools (many of them personally owned by the yard workers) , materials, and the building itself were completely destroyed. Local, state, and federal governments have pledged their support to get them back in business as
46
SEA HISTORY 124, AUTUMN 2008