SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS In October, The National Oceanic and gov/pd fch a rrs /.) ... The Future Project of the Year award at the World ArchiAtmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it will cease printing tecture Festival has been given to the paper nautical charts but will continue National Maritime Museum of China, to provide them in other forms, such as proposed for the port city of Tianjin, print-on-demand and versions for elecChina, near Beijing, and designed by Cox Rayner Architects of Brisbane, tronic charting software programs. Since 1862, lithographic n autica l cha rts, Australia. The design includes a waterfront schem e with nve exhibit h a lls that available in marine supply stores, h ave radi ate out to the harbor, where a probeen printed by the US gove rnment and sold to the p ublic by comme rcial vendors. ~ posed m ari time park w ill include floatz ing exhibits and space for visiting ships. The decision to stop produc tio n is based o n several fac tors, including the declining available fo r free dow nload fro m the demand for lithographic ch a rts, the in- C oas t Survey website. For th e rhreecreasing use of digital and electronic mo nth trial period (22 O ctober through ch arts, and federal budget constraints. 22 January 2014), N OAA is providing N OAA will continue to create and m ain- about a 1,000 high-resolutio n p rintable tain other fo rms of nautica l ch a rts, in- nautical ch arrs-a lmosr rhe entire cluding the increasingly p o pula r Print- N OAA suite of charts- as PDF fil es. on-Dem and (POD) charts, updated The PDFs a re exact images of rhe tradipaper ch ar ts available fr om N O AA-certi- tional cha rrs currently printed by lithogArchitectural schematic of the proposed fied printers. N OAA electro nic naviga- ra phy. A r rhe end of t he tri al period , the National Maritime Museum of China tional charts (NOAA ENC ~) and ras ter Coas t Survey will then eva luate usage 0 n avigational charts (NOAA R NC ), used a nd user feedbac k to decide whether to The architectura l firm won the contract in a va riety of electronic ch a rring sys- continue rhe serv ice. (You can d ownload for the 80,000-squa re-foor museum las t tems, are a lso updated wee kly and are the charts at: www. nauricalcharrs.noaa. Ap ril a nd rhe museum is supposed to be completed by the end of 2015. Philip Cox also designed the Austra lian NaModel Ships by Ray Guinta tio nal Maritime Museum, which opened P.O.Box74 in 199 1. (www.worldarchirecrurefesrival. Leonia, NJ 07605 H.LeeWhite com ; C ox Rayner A rchitects, www.cox201-461-5729 Marine M useum a rchirecrure.com .au) General Dynam& Maritime Center ics Bath Iron Works successfully www.modelshipsbyrayguinta.com OSWEGO - "oldest U.S. freshwater port" launched the US Navy's first Zumwalte-mail: raymondguinta@aol.com Ope n Mon - Stm 1-5 pm class destroyer on 28 October in Bath, Experienced shi model maker, who July & Aug 10-5 pm Maine. USS Zumwalt (DD G 1000) w ill has been commissioned by the be the lead ship of the Navy's newest deational MaritimeHistorical Society West 1s t Street Pier, Oswego, NY stroyer class, designed fo r lit to ral operah.leewh.itemarinemuseum.com and the USS Intrepid Museum 315-342-0480 tions and land arrac k. The Zumwalt is in New York City.
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