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wrights at work building authentic, wooden Chesapeake boats and restoring the historic skipjack Rosie Parks. Visitors can also take a river cruise on the buyboat Mister Jim. To receive free admission, active-duty military personnel and their families need to show a military ID upon entry to CBMM. (2 13 N . Talbot Sr., Sr. Michaels, MD 2 1663; Ph. 4 10 745-2916; www.cbmm.org) The Hong Kong M aritime Museum (HKMM) reopen ed in February in a new facility on Pier 8 in th e Central district, on the Victoria Harbor waterfront. The new building provides more than five times the space and houses rwo times the amo unt of exhibits than the previous quarters allowed. Developmenr of rhe museum was made
possible through a partnership between the Hong Kong government and companies and individuals in the shipping industry. In addirion co paying for converting the pier and preparing the physical structure, more than $11 million in priva te donations was spent on acquiring new artifacts and exhibit items, along with establishing an endowment. Exhibits, including more than fifty interactive couch screens, include text in both Chinese and English. (HKMM, Central Ferry Pier No. 8, Hong Kong; www.hkmaritimemuseum. org) Columbia Pictures recently announced an October release date for Captain Phillips, the Hollywood fil m
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Captain Phi llips, in theaters this October. based on t h e book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard P hillips and Stephan Talty. Captain Richard Phillips and his crew aboard the 14,000-ton container ship Maersk Alabama were seized by Somali pirates in
(left) The Chinese Junk Keying, c.1847 (gouache on buff paper) at the newly reopened Hong Kong Maritime Museum. 1he Keying left Ho ng Kong in December 1846 and dropped anchor in New York the following July, where she remained for several months as a popular tourist attraction before continuing on to Boston in November 1847 and then to England, arriving there in March 1848.
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