April of 2009, and the unfo lding events and dramatic rescue of the captain and crew by the US Navy were followed in real time by a wo rldwide audience. Academy award-winning actor Tom Hanks plays the role of Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (known for t he Jason Bourne action movies) directed, and the screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Billy Ray. (Moviegoers can catch the film's opening in the USA on 11 O ctober 2013. You can view the trailer online on Yo uT ube.com, IMDb.com, and many other websites that post movie trailers.) Marine Art of Yesterday and Today, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings, sculptures, ship models, and scrimshaw, is now on display at the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, CT, through September. The gallery exhibits works by today's leading m arine ar tists, including many fam iliar to Sea History's readers: A. D. Blake, Christopher Blossom, James Butterworth, Frederic Cozzens, Roy Cross, Donald D emers, Paul Garnett, William Gilkerson, Antonio Jacobsen, Russ Kramer, Ian Marshall, John Mecray, Patrick O 'Brien, Marek Sarba, John Stobart, and T im Thompson, among others. (1899 Bronson Road, Fairfield, CT, Ph. 203 259-8753; www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com) . . . Fire Fighter, the 1938 fireboat that served the New York City Fire Department for more than seven decades before being decommissioned in 2010, has recently found a new home in Greenport, NY, where she is open to the public as a fully operational museum and memorial. The vessel made the trip from Brooklyn to G reenport in early February under her own power. H er crew for the transit was made up of both for mer and ac tive FDNY Marine U nit firefighters and volunteers, under the ve teran command of a retired FDNY pilot. Heading up the group that took ownership of the fireboat this winter is C harlie Ritchie. The 134-ft. Fire Fighter is a National Historic Landmark, and the new museum's volunteer personnel are worki ng hard to restore h er, while keeping her open on weekends to the public. They will also be developing programs that balance preserving the vessel itself, honoring the memory of her service and those who served in her, and allow for
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