.SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS Stolen Scrimshaw Alert! In April, two pieces of 19th-century scrimshaw were stolen from a museum exhib it at the Cape Cod National Seashore Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham, MA. The National Park Service is asking for collectors, sellers, and others who might come into contact with them to keep an eye out and report any information to Ch ief Ranger Bob Grant at (508) 957-0735. The first piece is a 22- in ch-long walrus tusk with the inscription "Ship. Wm. Thompson," and the second piece is a 3Y2-inch piece of
Save Our Seafarers (SOS), a campaign mounted by a group of international shipping associations, is asking the public to pressure their governments to address the Somali piracy problem in a more timely and effective way. Save Our Seafarers is seeking a "peaceful, lawful, and political solution to the scourge of piracy on the high seas ." They have set up a website at www.saveourseafarers.com, where people can learn more about the latest news on this topic, what the cam- island communities through photos, vidpaign is abo ut, and the groups involved. eos, and stories. Photographs by David The site also h as a form letter that website Harp and text by environmental writer visi tors can perso nalize and send to their Tom Horton combine to explore the culchosen government leaders. SOS is made tural and environmental changes of the up of the following organizations: the In- Ch esapeake Bay. New to the exhibit this walrus tusk carved into the shape of a wal- ternational Transport Workers' Fo unda- year are stories of the Smith Island Crabrus head. Both pieces are valuable histo ric tion (ITF), the International Chamber of meat Cooperative, a business enterprise artifacts and h ad been displayed at the Shipping (ICS), INTERTANKO (the In- of watermen's wives who pick and sell visitor center in a locked display case ternational Association of Independent meat from the crabs caught by their famsince 1989. The Cape Cod Tanker Owners) , INTERCARGO (Inter- ilies, and the story of a father-son crab National Seashore is a unit national Association of Dry Cargo Ship- potting team whose livelihoods have been of the National Park Ser- owners), and BIMCO (an international impacted by new crab h arvesting limi ts. vice (NPS); the stolen shipping association representing ship- (CBMM, POB 636, St. Michaels, MD items are the property of owners and other shipping industry 2 1663; Ph. 4 10 745-4960; cbmm .o rg) the United States govern- stakeholders) . ... The Chesapeake Bay .. . The 1877 Barque Elissa in Galvesment and are protected by Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Mi- ton, Texas, is scheduled for $2 million ap plicable state and federal chaels, Maryland, has expanded its ex- in repairs, after the Coast Guard idenlaws. The N PS has over 12 1 hibit, A Rising Tide in the Heart of the tified problem areas caused by corromillion items in its collections Chesapeake. The special exhibit runs sion in the hull during a drydock inacross the country, and accord- through 2012 and examines changing spection in March. These repairs must ing to George Price, the superin- forces in the Ch esapeake's low-lying be completed before she can resume tendent of the Cape Cod National Seash ore, incidents of theft are extremely rare. The museum will remain open during the investigation. (Park Headquarters, 99 Marconi Site Rd. , So uth Wellfleet, MA; www.nps.gov/caco/) ... On a hapIsland Art & Histor_y exhibitions: pier note, the Cape Cod National Seashore is celebrating its 50th anniversary We Are Marching Along: Martha !s Vineyard and the Civil War this year and is organizing an electronic Spatlight Exhibition - Your Town, Our Island - Eisenstadt and Us photo album project, sponsored by the Open Monda_y - Saturda_y IOam - 5pm Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Members of the public are invited '":!~ to share photos and stories of their experiGa_y Head Lighthouse: . - __ti-~'-¡ ences at the Natio nal Seashore from over Tue. - Sat. IOam - 5pm, Fri. & Sat. Sunsets the last 50 years. The website is open to new postings through September and Edgartown L ighthouse: Dail_y llam - 6pm then will be available for viewing though the rest of 20 11. Images sho uld contain people and a recognizable feature or sign that con nects the photo to the Cape Cod l National Seashore. (50th Anniversary Memories Album is at www.fccns.org)
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