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Join Us for our Annual Meeting and 50th Anniversary Celebration! The National Maritim e H istorical Society was founded in Washington, D C, fifty years ago, but its early home was in N ew York City, at South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Firehouse. For our gala 50'h anniversary celebration, there is no better place to meet than back in New York, which also gives us a chance to visit some of the city's many maritime heritage sites. We have an active three-day celebration planned, and we hope yo u will join us. Good friends of the Society have graciously offered to donate to our celebration on yo ur behalf to keep costs at a minimum. We ask you to let us know if you are thinking of attending, even if you can't commit immediately, so we can keep you updated as new opportunities or changes develop. Please check out www.seahistory.org for more information. Friday, May 17th: lOAM we will meer ar rhe Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum ar Pier 86 on the Hudson River at 12'h Ave nue & 46'" Street for guided tours ($22 charge per person). At noon, we'll walk to the next pier over to catch the New York Waterway Ferryboat, which will take us to visit the city's numerous historic ships by water. We'll srop at Pier 66 Maritime bar and grill (a.k.a. Krevey's), where we will have lunch on the barge and visit the fireboat john]. Harvey with a personal rour by director Huntley G ill , followed by a tour of the Frying Pan lightship. Back on board rhe ferry, we'll travel to Pier 25 to visit wi th tugboat captain and owner Pam Hepburn aboard the 1907 tug Pegasus, which was active in boch wo rld wars and represents the tugs that wem from sream to diesel propulsion and from rivered to welded construction. America's on ly sream -powered lighth ouse tender, the 1933 USCGC Lilac, will be open for NMHS members and we' ll get a first-hand look on deck and below guided by Gerry Weinstein, museum founder, and Mary H abstritt, museum director and president. Our ferry rour will take us pasr North Cove Marina, where we will view the sailing yacht Vti?ntura and schooner Shearwater, around ro Brooklyn, where we will view the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79 with commentary by David Sharps and the tanker Mary A. Whalen with com mentary by Carolina Salguero. We'll disembark at Pier 11 ar Wall Street at 4PM. Those who want ro continue on the ferryboat will go to Chelsea Piers to catch an evening sail aboard the motor yacht Manhattan or the sailing ships A New York Waterway ferryboat will take us from one mariAmerica 2.0 or Adirondack. (The cost per person for lunch, tours, and time site to another, giving us a mariner's view ofthe New York the NY Waterway Ferry boat is just $75.) City waterfront and shipping lanes. (left-right) USS Intrepid, 1931 fireboat, John]. Harvey, 19 07 tug Pegasus, and the ships of South Street, including the square-rigged ship Wavertree in the foreground and Peking, whose rig is visible off Wavertree's starboard bow. ~ ~
"8 i___.:;;.o;m~ An aircraft carrier, a fireboat, square-rigged sailing ships, a tugboat, a tanker, a lighthouse tender-we'll be visiting them all, plus a tour of the New York City waterfront by boat and personalized tours by the heads of maritime museums and historic sites. join us for this once-in-a-half-century opportunity to experience maritime New York in the company offellow maritime heritage professionals and enthusiasts.
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