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New York City Pickle Night Dinner 8 November 2019
This year marks the 214th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and the 15th New York City Pickle Night Dinner will mark this history-shaping event on Friday, 8 November at HMS Pickle the New York Yacht Club. Those who appreciate the historical significance of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and the lore associated with his life are invited to attend this special event. The dinner is named for HMS Pickle, the little schooner which participated in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and which carried the news back to Great to Britain of Nelson’s victory and death in the battle. This event has been a perennial success, with guests from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and elsewhere. The keynote speaker is a senior Royal Navy officer who will be announced soon. Space is limited. For reservations: contact Sally McElwreath Callo, SallyMC79@verizon.net. Ph. 212 972-8667.
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(particularly species that were used in Maine’s historic shipbuilding tradition), 2,078 native shrubs and 1,446 native Maine perennials and grasses are planned. A boardwalk along the riverbank will provide views of the coastal wetlands, and a special garden honoring Navy families will complement the exhibit BIW: Building America’s Navy. The museum will remain open to visitors for the duration of the project, expected to be completed in spring 2020 in time for Maine’s bicentennial celebrations. First Impressions follows several other significant projects for the museum, including construction of the Kenneth D. Kramer Blacksmith Shop in 2014 and the introduction of the newly restored 1906 schooner Mary E. to its collection last year. (MMM, 243 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530; Ph. 207 443-1316; www.mainemari timemuseum.org) … The Door County Maritime Museum (DCMM) celebrated the 100 th birthday of the tug John Purves on 1 May. The 1919 tug began as the Butterfield, a floating US Naval radio station in the Caribbean, and went on to perform many different tasks for different masters, including towing barges on Lake Superior, towing and salvage on
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the Great Lakes, and supplying US Army garrisons in World War II. She was donated to the museum in 2003 and restored to her 1960s-era appearance, when she was in the service of the Roen Steamship Company. The museum is marking the Purves’s centennial with a limited number of special “Nuts and Bolts” tours this season, allowing guests a peek at parts of the tug normally omitted from standard tours. (Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society, 120 N. Madison Ave., Sturgeon Bay WI; Ph. 920 743-5958; www.dcmm.org) SEA HISTORY 167, SUMMER 2019