Deck Log NMHS Launches New Website and Online Index I couldn’t begin to calculate the hundreds of hours we have pawed through past issues of Sea History looking for information that we were “pretty sure” was in this issue—well, maybe that issue. I am over the moon to announce that we have launched our new completely updated website, www.seahistory.org, including online access to full issues of Sea History magazine, a new kids’ section, and a hyperlinked index to over 35,000 terms found in all issues dating back to 1972 and Sea History #1! Funded in part by a National Maritime Heritage Grant, this project makes accessible an extraordinary resource, encouraging students, professionals, and enthusiasts alike to study and promote our maritime heritage. SEA HISTORY No. 124
NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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THE ART, LITERATURE, ADVENTURE, LORE & LEARNING OF THE SEA
photo by joseph rudinec
Romance UndeR Sail A Tale of Two Shipwrecks John Falkinburg: at Sea in USS Iroquois, 1867 Lancing, a Ship for the Record Sea History for Kids
Each issue of the magazine has been digitized and all back issues of Sea History are accessible and searchable online; current NMHS members will be provided access to the most recent eight issues, while the entire collection beyond those is available to anyone who visits the website. Interested in learning more about the subjects featured in this issue, for example? We’ve been covering Roseway (“Historic Ships on a Lee Shore,” p. 22) since Sea History 40 in 1986! In this issue, one of our favorite marine artists, Len Tantillo, takes readers through the process of how he researches and produces a painting of a historic vessel at a specific location and time; you can view more of Len’s work in Sea History 87 (on the sloop Experiment) or more recently in Sea History 155. We are so excited about making this treasure trove of maritime information and images public and hope you will visit our website and give it a test drive. Young people can access research tools, a section on maritime careers, and interactive games in the new Sea History for Kids section. Interested in a sailing experience at a maritime museum in your region? You can now sort our museum map to find just the place you’re looking for. In “News & Events,” you can register for NMHS events; here, other maritime organizations and professionals can post their events so that readers across the country and internationally can see what’s happening in the maritime world at museums and events near them. The guide to additional online resources includes links to sites where you can research a vessel (and stay informed on historic ships and preservation efforts), explore genealogy, and view online archives and collections. We’ve made it easier than ever to join, renew, donate, register for an event, and shop our Ship’s Store for marine art, books, apparel, nautical gifts, and more. We are enormously grateful to our development director, Jessica MacFarlane, for finally bringing this project to fruition—not only getting the grant to fund it, but also meticulously supervising the whole project. We encourage you to sign up for events and news at www.seahistory.org/signup, and we’ll notify you as we add features and content to the website that enrich NMHS Development Director your NMHS and Sea History experience! Jessica MacFarlane —Burchenal Green, NMHS President 4
NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLISHER’S CIRCLE: Peter Aron, Guy E. C. Maitland, Ronald L. Oswald OFFICERS & TRUSTEES: Chairman, Ronald L. Oswald; Vice Chairman, Richardo R. Lopes; President, Burchenal Green; Vice Presidents: Deirdre O’Regan, Wendy Paggiotta, Nancy Schnaars; Treasurer, Howard Slotnick; Secretary, Jean Wort; Trustees: Charles B. Anderson; Walter R. Brown; Christopher J. Culver; William S. Dudley; David S. Fowler; William Jackson Green; Karen Helmerson; Richard M. Larrabee; Guy E. C. Maitland; Capt. Brian McAllister; CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath, USN (Ret.); Michael W. Morrow; CAPT James A. Noone, USN (Ret.); Richard Patrick O’Leary; Erik K. Olstein; ADM Robert J. Papp Jr., USCG (Ret.); Timothy J. Runyan; Richard Scarano; Philip J. Shapiro; Capt. Cesare Sorio; William H. White; Chairmen Emeriti: Walter R. Brown, Alan G. Choate, Guy E. C. Maitland, Howard Slotnick FOUNDER: Karl Kortum (1917–1996) PRESIDENT EMERITUS: Peter Stanford (1927–2016) OVERSEERS: Chairman, RADM David C. Brown, USMS (Ret.); RADM Joseph F. Callo, USN (Ret.); George W. Carmany III; James J. Coleman Jr.; Clive Cussler; Richard du Moulin; Alan D. Hutchison; Jakob Isbrandtsen; Gary Jobson; Sir Robin Knox-Johnston; John Lehman; Capt. James J. McNamara; H. C. Bowen Smith; John Stobart; Philip J. Webster; Roberta Weisbrod NMHS ADVISORS: George Bass, Francis Duffy, John Ewald, Timothy Foote, Steven A. Hyman, J. Russell Jinishian, Gunnar Lundeberg, Conrad Milster, William G. Muller, Stuart Parnes, Nancy Hughes Richardson, Bert Rogers, Joyce Huber SEA HISTORY EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Chairman, Timothy Runyan; Norman Brouwer, Robert Browning, William Dudley, Daniel Finamore, Kevin Foster, John Jensen, Joseph Meany, Lisa Norling, Carla Rahn Phillips, Walter Rybka, Quentin Snediker, William H. White NMHS STAFF: Executive Director, Burchenal Green; Membership Director, Nancy Schnaars; Membership Coordinator, Jean Marie Trick; Marketing Director, Steve Lovass-Nagy; Comptroller, Anjoeline Osuyah; Staff Writer, Shelley Reid; Director of Development, Jessica MacFarlane; Membership Assistant, Irene Eisenfeld SEA HISTORY: Editor, Deirdre O’Regan; Advertising, Wendy Paggiotta Sea History is printed by The Lane Press, South Burlington, Vermont, USA.
SEA HISTORY 163, SUMMER 2018