of the historic and operational manne railway ($50,000); Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum in Greenport, New York, to preserve the hull of the decommissioned Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) fire boat, now serving as a Boating museum ($80,875); Battleship North Carolina Commission to m ake critical repairs to the ship's hull ($200,000); Oklahoma Historical Society to develop an exhibit and education prog ram o n western steamboat travel and the histo ry, discovery, and excavation of a western river steamboat ($25, 000); Columbia River M aritime Museum in Oregon to

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purchase cantilevered racks and moveable cradles for boats up to 50 feet in length as par t of the conversion of a recently purchased former hardware store and lumber warehouse into a state-ofthe-art collections storage facility ($33,549); Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia to make critical repairs on USS Olympia ($169,850); Institute of Nautical Archaeology to document and assess the hull of the 1832 steamboat Winooski, a wreck near the Vermont shore of Lake Champlain ($29,953); Center for Wooden Boats in Washington State to fund a program in

which volunteer skippers take the public out in historic sailboats, a wood-powered steamboat, an electric launch, and paddled skin-on-frame boats called Umiaks ($28,000); and University of WisconsinSuperior to scan and create proper storage for large drawings and 35mm negatives that document the technological advances achieved at Fraser Shipyards, a major Great Lakes shipyard ($49,984). (The open period to apply for the 2015 Maritim e Heritage grants is now! Completed applications must be submitted by 3 August. Education projects are eligible to request $25,000 -5 0,000 ; preservation

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