Stril Explorer, the team lowered remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to the wreck sites and generated images using photogrammetry, a process of taking extensive measurements and high-resolution photos, which are then combined for detailed images of the sires. (www.blackseamap.com) .. . A recent survey of the 1934 ocean liner Queen Mary reveals the shipturned-hotel is in dire need of major restoration work to prevent Hooding or internal structural components from collapsing. The former Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary, which captured the Blue Riband in her first year of operations, has been a dominant fixture on the Long Beach, California, waterfront since 1967, where she was converted and has served as a popular hotel and event venue ever since. The ship, owned by the city of Long Beach and leased to outside companies, has weathered major challenges before, and is currently open for business. Urban Commons LLC, a real estate company based in Los Queen Mary
Save the Date! - 26 October 2017 NMHS Annual Awards Dinner at the New York Yacht Club The 2017 NMHS Annual Awards Dinner chairman George Carmany III and vice chairman Chris Culver invite you to join us Thursday, 26 October, at the New York Yacht Club in New York Ciry. We are honored to present the NMHS Distinguished Service Award to American shipbuilder and preservationist Brian Brian D'Isernia, who built a steel hull replica of Columbia, the historic 141-foor Gloucester fishing schooner built in 1923 at the A. D. Story shipyard of Essex, Massachusetts, and designed by William Starling Burgess. The 24th Commandant of the US Coast Guard, Admiral Robert Papp Jr., will present the award. We are honored to present our Distinguished Service . . Award to Bert Rogers, Executive Director of Tall Ships Amenca. Sea History editor Deirdre O'Regan will make the presentation. We are excited to recognize NMHS overseer and the fo undi ng chairman of the National Maritime Awards Dinner, Philip Webster, with the David A. O'Neil Sheet Anchor Award. Richard du Moulin will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
Angeles, took over the lease in 2016. The company has submitted ambitious plans to the city to restore the ship and make it the focal point of a new complex called Queen Mary Island, which would include an outdoor amphitheater and an indoor adventure park, plus 700,000 square feet of retail space, a refurbished hotel, a halfmile bayfront boardwalk, and more. But first they need to deal with the imminent problem of a seriously deteriorating ship after many decades of deferred maintenance and neglect. The engineering study, which was started in October 2015 and released to the public in March 2017, recommends immediate repairs to the hull and interior spaces to the tune of $235-3 00 million. According to a recent series of reports in the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the survey warns that the ship is in danger of "approach ing the point of no return," with 75 SEA HISTORY 159, SUMMER2017
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