Save the Date! National Maritime Awards Dinner 21 April 2016 • Washington, DC
D
inner co-chairmen Dr. Timothy Runyan and CAPT Jim Noone, USNR (Rec.), are pleased to invite you to the National Maritime Awards Dinner, to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on 1hursday, 21 April 2016. NMHS will be hosting this event together with the Naval Historical Foundation. Gary Jobson , world-class sailor, television commentator, author, past president of US Sailing and vice pres ident of the International Sailing Federation, will be Master of Ceremonies. NMHS will present its Distinguished Service Award to Steve Phillips, owner of Phillips Seafood, a Chesapeake Bay business icon, restaurant operator/seafood producer, and sustainable world fishing industry advocate. Mr. Phillips, an ardent conservationist and a world leader in seafood sustainability, has created and enforced international sustainability measures that protect and preserve both the environment and the continuation of the oyster industry. An NMHS Distinguished Service Award will be Steve Phillips presented to Charles A. Robertson, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of American Cruise Lines, Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corporation, and CEO of Pearl Seas C ruises. ACL is the leading small cruise line in the United States (river boats, paddlewheelers), operating seven ships for cruising along the Eastern Seaboard, Western Seaboard, and America's rivers. The line has a strong focus on history-oriented cruises such as its Lewis and C lark Voyage on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. The Naval Historical Foundation Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Andrew Taylor, executive chairman of Enterprise HoldCharles A. Robertson ings, Inc. His long-standing commitment to the US Navy and its heritage has been amply demonstrated through his support of USS Enterprise (CVN-65); his participation in events honoring USS Enterprise (CV-6) and her World War II veterans; and his support for the programs at the National Naval Aviation Museum, the US Naval Institute, and the Naval Historical Andrew Taylor Foundation. To learn more about these extraordinary individuals or for more information about the event, please visit our website at www.seahistory.org, call 914 737-7878, ext. 0, or email us at nmhs@seahistory.org. We have reserved a block of rooms at the J. W. Marriott Washington, DC, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW (next to the National Press Club). Standard guest rooms for single or double occupancy are $319 per night, plus applicable taxes. The room block is set aside until 23 March 2016, or until all the rooms have been reserved. Reservations can be made by calling 202 393-3900. Please identify yourself as part of the National Maritime Historical Society.
to donate exhibit materials to neighboring museums and historical organizations; the remainder will be sold. (Information on the disposition of its collections can be found on the "news" section of their website at www.jacksonvillemaritimeheriragecenter.org.) . . . In October, the 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayerwas towed to the Bay Ship & Yacht Co. in Alameda, California, for the penultimate step in what will have been a 13-year, $14-plus million restoration project by the National Park Service. Three 120-foot masts will be stepped in shipyard; rigging will be installed next spring. Sails will be made to her original configuration; a sailmaker has nor been named yet. C. A. 1hayer carried lumber down the West Coast from the Northwest to California until 1912, then carried on intermittently as a fishing schooner until retiring in 1950 as the last sailing commercial schooner on the West Coas t. C.A. Thayer
Once the mas ts, rigging, and sails are in place, rhe historic schooner would be "sail ready," bur plans for operation under sail have nor been announced. Ar the moment, the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park runs educational programs aboard the 1886 Balclutha, including the popular Ranger Aloft Program, and daysails aboard the 1892 scow schooner Alma. (www. nps.gov/safr/index.hrm) ... Mystic Seaport invites applications for the annual competition for the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship. The fellowships are offered to encourage research that considers the participation of Native and African Americans in the maritime ac tivities of New England, primarily its southeastern shores. Fellowships support research and writing, a portion of which should norm ally be carried out in the Mystic area. The fellowships of up to $2,400 are made (con tinued on page 52)
50
SEAHISTORY 153, WINTER2015-16