Sea History 137 - Winter 2011-2012

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hull may also help identify th e types of trees used to build the ship and where they came from . Accordi ng to the University of Manchester's Dr. H annah Cobb, co-director of the project, "Such burials were reserved for high-status individuals. H e may have been a chieftain, a famous navigator, or renowned for his wisdom, bur this man was clearly special to his people." The ATP brings together studen ts and academics from several unive rsi ties wo rking w ith CFA Archaeology and Archaeology Scotland. They plan to return for another field season on the sire in summer 201 2. (www.arrs.manches rer. ac. uk/ archaeology/ research/ ardnam urchan /) .. . The US Coast Guard's Barque Eagle began a 3-month quadrennial drydock and maintenance period on 5 October at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, MD. The $5 million work package includes overhauls of the main

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her class. She h as a cruising range of 4 ,500 nautical miles. For 40 yea rs, Greenpeace has sailed the world's oceans, often in old, rusting, borrowed, or repurposed ships; the n ew Rainbow warrior replaces Rainbow warrior IL which was retired from service in August and will now serve as a Ba ngladesh hospital ship. The original Rainbow warrior was a trawler bui lt in Aberdeen, Sco tland, in 1955 and was blown up in New Z ealand m as t and bowsprit, as well as renewal of in 1985. (For more info rmation and a propeller shaft and rudder bearings . virtual tour of rhe new Rainbow warrior, Woodcarver J.P. Uranker has set up shop visit http ://anewwarrior. greenpeace.org) The Herreshoff Marine Museum/ at the Coast Guard Yard to repair and regild Eagle's mahogany figurehead and America's Cup Hall of Fame has been stern boards. Eagle was lifted out of the awarded a $10,000 matching grant water on 11 October and is scheduled to from the Collectors Foundation of Trabe re-Boated in mid-December. (Yo u can verse City, Ml, to run an after-school fo llow the USCGC Eagle both on the program teaching classic boat repair hard and once sh e is back in the water by and maintenance. 111e program began "friending" the US Coast Guard Bargue this fall in the same complex of l 9rhEagle on Facebook at www.facebook. cenrury buildings where, between 19 14 com.) .. . Greenpeace launched a new and 1939, the HerreshoffManufacturing purpose-built flagship, Rainbow war- Company desigmed and buil t the boats rior Ill, from a Berne-Motzen shipyard used in the mus;eum's sailing program .

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