shipyard has completed the frames and is currently installing the keelson, stringers, and clamp. O ld-growth fir from Vancouver has been ordered for the deck. The restoration plan aims to return the vessel to her original fa ir lines and meet modern safety standards. Phase I should be completed by the end of2017. The schooner's future includes moving back to Massachusetts and returning to ocean sail training and h istoric interpretation for both the publ ic at large and for cadet training with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, MA. The Schooner Ernesti na-Morrissey Association announced in Jan uary that it received a $375,000 challenge grant from the Manton Foundation to support the fina l stage of the restoration. Other funding for the $6-plus million effort comes fro m the Commonwealth of Massachuserrs and private donors dedicated to the cause. Donations to help with the matching grant are welcome. (www.ernestina.org) ... The Mariners' Museum and Park recently announced the discovery of the first maker's mark found on the turret from USS Monitor. Last August (2016), the conservation staff at the USS Monitor Center began using dry-ice blast-
ing technology to remove co rrosion on many of the large wro ught-iron artifacts within the Monitor collect ion. Among the cleaned artifacts were engine room structural bulkheads, gun slides, and the forward and aft diagonal support braces from the ironclad's turret. During the cleaning of the aft diagonal brace, as the corrosion Baked off, a maker's m ark was found stamped into the iron spelling "ULSTER." Research indicates that U lster Iron Works was located in the town of Saugerties in U lster County, New York, about 100 miles north of New York C ity on the Hudson River. Ulster Iron Works was built in 1827 and produced an annual capacity of 6,700 net tons of iron products. During the Civil War, one of the primary sources of its
income came from US Navy contracts. While this firm was never mentioned as a supplier during the Monitor's construction at Continental Iron Works, it is now believed that U lster provided materials for modifications to the ship while it was undergoing sea trials at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The museum staff is still working on deciphering the lineage of the company. The Mari ners' Museum is home to the USS Monitor Center in Newport News, Virginia. (100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA; Ph. 757 596-2222; www.marinersmuseum.org) ... The 1908 steamboat Sabino will resume operations on the Mystic River in July, after a 2 1/z-year restoration effort at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard at Mystic Seaport. The Sabino is the oldest wooden, coal-fired steamboat in reg ular operation in the United States. She was built in East Boothbay, Maine, and spent most of her working li fe ferrying passengers and cargo between Maine towns and islands. She has been at Mystic Seaport since 1974 and runs to urs down the Mystic River from the museum in the summer months. The vessel was hauled late in 20 14 so that a number of maintenance issues could be addressed ,
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