USS SLATER The only restored WWII Destroyer Escort afloat in America. On the Hudson River in Albany, New York.
"History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. "
www.ussslater.org · · · - - - · · · 518-431-1943
COME SAIL WITH US
At a time when a number of historic ships are either in dire need of a new home/owner or funds for restoration, the storied 45,000-ton battleship USS Iowa is being fought over between two non-profit groups in California, each seeking to acquire the ship for use as a floating museum. The Pacific Bat tl eship Center has submitted a proposa l to rhe US Navy to bring rhe warship to Sa n Pedro; rhe Hi storic Ships Memoria l at Pacific Squ a re organ ization is hoping rhe navy will transfer ownership ro t hem so they can bring the famou s battl es hip to Mare Island in Vallejo. USS Iowa (BB -61) was decommissioned fo r th e las t
Manhattan • Newport • sail-keywest.com Key West sail-nyc.com sail-newport.com
Classic Harbor Line
SCARANO BOAT BUILDING Designing and Building Tradition Since 1976 Albany, N. Y. www.scaranoboat.com 518 463-3401 42
rime twenty years ago and has been mothba lled nor far from Va ll ejo in Suisun Bay, CA. In their proposa ls, each group cl aims they have th e fin a ncia l bac kin g to properly rake over stewa rdshi p of the vessel. Any decommissio ned naval ship tra nsferred to a civi lia n gro up must demon strate that they have the resources to transport the vessel and pay for conversio n to a museum ship and ongoing maintenance. So far, the US Navy has donated 47 ships to non-profit grou ps. USS Iowa was built in 1943 at the New York Navy Ya rd in Brooklyn, NY. . . . Applications for the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Summer Workshop for community college faculty are being accepted right now. "United by W ater: Explorin g America n History through the Shipwrecks and Marit ime Landscapes of the Grear Lakes," a NEH Landmarks of American History and C ulture Workshop in Alpena , M ichigan, w ill be taught by Cathy Green from NOAA's Thunder Bay Na tiona l Marine Sanctuary and Dr. John Jensen, a maritime s tudies professo r with Sea Education Associat ion. Two one-week works hops, 17-23 July and 24-30 July 2011 , will
SEA HISTORY 134, SPRING 20 11