M/V Prudence was built in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in 1911 for the Prudence Island Navigation Company in Rhode Island . Hy-Line C ruises was founded as Hyannis H arbor Tours in 1962, when brothers Richard and Robert Scudder Prudence, 1928 t
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and Raymond Taylor bought the 150-passenger Prudence to offer tours from seaward to view the Kennedy Compound. The company is still owned and operated by the Scudder Family. You can rake a day cruise on Prudence and go ashore and learn more abo ut her history at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum. (HLC, 220 Ocean Street, Hyannis, MA 02601 ; Ph. 800 492-8082; www.hylinecruises.com; CCMM, 135 South Street, Hyannis MA 02601 ; Ph. 508 775- 1723; www.capecodmaririmemuseum.org) . . . The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, ME, has a new executive director. Elizabeth Lodge, the Director of Museum Programs at Plimorh Plantation in Plymouth, MA, for the las t 17 years, joined the museum in Maine on 28 M arch . Penobscot Marine Museum is Maine's oldest maritime museum and is celebrating its 75rh anniversary this year. (PMM, 5 C hurch Street, POB 498, Searsport, ME 04974; Ph. 207 548-2529; www.penobscormarinemuseum.org) . . . The Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island recently opened a new exhibition about the Bayonne Bridge entitled, Lifespan: 1he Bayonne Bridge in Transition. The economic livelihood of the m aritime industry in New York Harbor depends on
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clear passage down the Kill van Kull, one of the world's busies t waterways. The advent of the modern containership has necessitated raising the roadbed of the Bayonne Bridge because the huge ships could not pass beneath it-the exhibit seeks to explore the reasons for the expansion through the works of contemporary artists Bascove, Michael Falco, Dave "The Bridge Man" Frieder, Su-Li Hung, Ben Brock Johnson, D. B. Lampman, Bill Murphy, Michael McWeeney, Michael Ruffo, Scott Van Campen, and Vincent Verdi. The work ofJohn A. Noble (19131983) will also be fea tured. Lifespan is also acknowledges the career of engineer Orhmar Ammann (1879-1965), who designed and built the bridge. His portfolio of New York City masterworks includes
six bridges-the George Washington, the Triborough, the Throgs Neck, the Whitestone, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridges. The Bayonne Bridge is the only steel arch bridge in that gro up, and one in which Ammann rook particular pride. The exhibit is open to the public through 23 October 2011. The Noble Maritime Collection is a maritime museum and study center located in Building D, a National Historic Landm ark, on the gro unds of Snug Harbor C ultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301; Ph. 7 18 447-6490; www.noble maritime.erg) !,
Save the Date! New York City
Pickle Night Dinner 11 November 2011 at the New York Yacht Club
Those who appreciate the historical significance of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and the lore associated with his life are invited to attend this special event. The dinner is named for HMS Pickle, which was present at the Barrie of Trafalgar in 1805 and which broughL Lhe news back to Britain of Nelson's victory and death in the battle. Guests from the United States, Canada, England, France, Switzerland and the Bahamas will be attending Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB DL, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff and currently C hairman of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, wi ll be the principal speaker. Sir Jonathon Band also serves as C hairman of the 1805 C lub, an organization dedicated to the conservation of memorials to Georgian naval heroes. His distinguished seagoing career includes service during the Falklands campaign and NATO operations in Bosnia, as well as a tour with the US Navy in the guided missile destroyer USS Belknap. His last comma nd at sea was in the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. (The event is black tie or military equivalent; ticker price is $240 per person. Searing is lim ited; if you wish to reserve a place, please contact Sally McElwreath Callo, Ph. 212 972-8667 or e-mai l SallyMC79@verizon.net)
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