(continued from page 4, Charles Point Council Lecture Series) 26 September, Saturday, 10:30 AM-Presentation: "Research Vessels: Geophysical Expeditions to Antarctica and Mapping 160 Miles of the Hudson" with Dr. Robin Bell-Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. Dr. Robin Bell has worked for over 20 years at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory coordinating nine major aero-geophysical expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland in order to study polar ice sheet collapse. Closer to home, since 1998 she has also led the Hudson River Estuary Project team, mapping over 160 miles of the Hudson _ River from Staten Island to Albany and discovering dozens of sunken ships and historical artifacts along the way. 14 November, Saturday, 10:30AM-Presentation: "Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings" with Craig L. Symonds-Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. Join nationally renowned CRAIG l . SYMONDS author and scholar Craig Symonds, winner of the Commodore Dudley W Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award, as he presents his book on the Normandy landings of the Allied ~ """' "'" invasion during World War II (code-named Operation Neptune). The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation was the culmination of years of planning and debate. Symonds presents the complete story of the Herculean effort, involving transports, escorts, gunfire support ships, and landing craft of every possible size and function.
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5 December, Saturday, 10:30 AM-Holiday Potluck and Presentation: "Trade, Wealth, Innovation & Adventure in the Age of Exploration" with Captain Lada SimekCortlandt Yacht Club, Montrose, NY. Join the eclectic former chemistry teacher, parachuting instructor, dive boat operator, wreck researcher, marine educator, writer, master scuba diver trainer, USCG master and senior director at Beneath the Sea for a varied discussion on the Age of Exploration-from Magellan and Cook to scurvy. Stay for the potluck! Bring a dish, drink or dessert that serves six to eight.
2015 lectures we have enjoyed so far 14 February, Saturday, 10:30 AM-Presentation: "The British Raid on Essex: The Forgotten Battle of the War of 1812" with Jerry Roberts-Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. The British Raid on Essex, the new book by Jerry Roberts, presents the dramatic history of the largest single maritime loss of the War of 181 2, which has been virtually left out of rhe history books.
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28 February, Saturday, 10:30 AM-Presentation: "Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea'' with Tim McGrath-Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY. Author and historian Tim McGrath takes us back to 1775 with America on the verge of revolution and disastrous defeat in Give Me a Fast Ship, the epic tale of war on the high seas and the definitive history of the fledgling American Navy.
training under sail alone in many cases, and experiences for a lifetime. No, they do not carry fish to market or cordwood to town, or coal to Iqueque-they carry people. And give them a precious experience unavailable anywhere else in the world. Sea History gives many worthy column inches good-heartedly to struggling historic vessels and even some dubious 'rebuilds' and wrecks of ships long past their 'use-by date,' languishing, often in museums, in the hopes of helping somehow. A spread celebrating the remarkable story of savvy and nimble marine success in these classic vessels might be a welcome breath of fresh air in addition to the mix of all that is fascinating between the pages of Sea History. The last wooden engineless sailing ships built in America number in this fleer too. And if they are commercially operated and thus not non-profit, well, all the better! Apart from naval installations, maritime museums around the world are nothing more, nor anything less, than monuments to commercial enterprise and capitalism under sail. All of them-every single one-Charles W
Morgan, Elissa, Pommern, Cutty Sark, Falls of Clyde, Balclutha, Star ofIndia, Passat, Peking, W'avertree, L. A. Dunton and all the rest, were built and operated to make money for their owners. That the remarkable and powerful schooner Ernestina (ex-Effie M Morrissey) made money for her owners from 1894 to 197 4 was amazing. That there is a fleet of kindred vessels doing the same thing today along the coast of New England from Maine to Martha's Vineyard is astounding-and worthy of note to the members of NMHS and the Sea History readership. We celebrate marine artists in Sea History routinely, why not the subjects of their art as well? We have just sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and from Cape Town in the Picton Castle, bound for St. Helena on this our sixth world voyage. We have a good gang aboard with crew from Canada, the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Australia, Tonga, Fiji, Grenada and even Latvia. DANIEL D. MORELAND
Master, Barque Picton Castle, at sea You can learn more about the Maine Windjammer fleet by visiting Maine Windjamer Cruises at www.mainewindjammercruises. com and the Maine Windjammer Association at www.sailmainecoast.com. SEA HISTORY 150, SPRING 2015