could scan and photograph the hull. The resulting documentation was converted to a 3-D model to aid in the vessel’s restoration. Work on the hull began in autumn 2016; a new bottom was built from the nine logs and attached to her existing frames and topsides; she was also fitted with new masts, rigging, and sails. The Edna E. Lockwood had her first sail since the restoration on 2 November and will embark on a heritage tour throughout the Chesapeake Bay in 2019. A registered National Historic Landmark, Edna E. Lockwood was the last bugeye to carry out oyster dredging in the Chesapeake Bay and is the last remaining log-bottomed bugeye ketch still in those waters. With the restoration completed, the museum was left with some extra loblolly pine logs. The museum is putting the wood to good use, constructing a new log canoe in the shipyard for a private commission. The Tilghman Island style five-log canoe will be approximately 32 feet long, with a beam of 6 feet. Milling of the logs began in September, and the hull shaping will take place into early 2019. “We’ve put a lot of effort into research and practice with the Chesapeake style of building,” said shipyard manager Michael Gorman. “I’m glad others find interest in the construction and stories of these boats.” In 42
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Edna E. Lockwood relaunch at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in October.
major wars including the American and French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic conflicts. The project is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the UK National Archives. Professor Dagmar Freist of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany, leads the effort to catalogue and digitize the documents and add metadata, which will culminate in a freely accessible database. The Prize Papers Project is funded by the Academies’ Program of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities through the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen. Partnering in the endeavor are the UK National Archives and the German Historical Institute London. (www.prizepapers.de; The National Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov. uk) ... The City of Buffalo, New York, has been given a piece of its naval namesake. The control panel of the inactivated nuclear-powered submarine, USS Buffalo (SSN-715), was delivered to the Buffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park in October, having been driven across the country by a former crewmember, who volunteered to transport the 1,200-pound instrument panel to save it from being scrapped. US Navy veteran Daniel Markeson served in USS Buffalo in the 1980s and was eager to help save a piece of history. usn photo by p.o. 1st class amanda gray
October the shipyard also began work on a full stem-to-stern restoration of the 1912 river tug Delaware, a project expected to take two years. Built in Bethel, Delaware, by William H. Smith, the tug was donated to the museum by Bailey Marine Construction, Inc., in 1991. In August, CBMM announced it had been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Maryland Heritage Areas Program to support the restoration project. (CBMM, (213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, MD; www.cbmm.org) ... The Prize Papers database, an ambitious 20year project, began in January this year to digitize a collection of papers that has been stored, essentially untouched, in the National Archives of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises the
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The shipyard at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has been keeping busy. At the CBMM Oysterfest on 27 October, the 1889 bugeye Edna E. Lockwood was relaunched after a two-year restoration project. The hunt for logs of the correct length and width needed to replace the nine-log bottom of the 55-footlong oyster dredger began in 2014, and in 2015 the vessel was hauled so that the National Park Service HABS/HAER program
Many of the Prize Papers letters are still in their original bundles in mail sacks. documents and personal effects taken when a ship was seized and its capture declared before the Prize or Admiralty Court between 1664 and 1817. Approximately 160,000 undelivered letters, many of them still unopened, have been stored in the High Court of Admiralty (HCA) collection at the National Archives, Kew, London. Archivists have so far found journals, sheet music, drawings, poems, and small artifacts (seeds, glass beads and keys), all tucked in with communications between women, men, children, families, friends, religious communities, and business partners across the globe. The correspondence documents the experiences of ordinary people during
USS Buffalo arriving at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton on 26 May 2017. Plans are underway to turn the panel into an interactive exhibit. USS Buffalo, a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, was launched in May 1982 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. in Virginia. Commissioned on 5 November 1983, the submarine was the third US Navy ship to be named for Buffalo, New York. After 33 years of service with the US Pacific Fleet, the Buffalo was officially inactivated in July and will be decommissioned SEA HISTORY 165, WINTER 2018–19