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lighters, and barges from all the major maritime transport companies of the East Coast. As a full-service shipyard with its own machine shops, pipe shops, and all the trades necessary to repair vessels, Caddell has operated under the same family for three generations, constructing and servicing thousands of vessels, and repairing or restoring historical vessels including the US Coast Guard barque Eagle, Gazela Primeiro of Philadelphia, “HMS” Rose, the replica of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon, and the historic windjammers Wavertree and Peking, to name a few. “When somebody throws a Wavertree or an old wooden tugboat at [us], I get more involved, because it’s interesting. It’s a challenge to find talent to work on old craft; we bring people from all over to do the work. On the Wavertree, I met a whole new group of people from the West Coast who knew how to do rigging. I love this job. I have been here 46 years. I enjoy it. It’s a good reason to get up every morning.” Steve Kalil out in the yard at Caddell Dry Dock & Repair Co. Kalil has served as board chair of the Noble Maritime Collection and as past president of the Maritime Association of the Port of NY/NJ. He has delivered extraordinary service to the maritime heritage community and the larger shipping industry, impressively managing the oldest, largest, and one of the most technologically advanced shipyards in the New York Metropolitan Area.
CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath, USN (Ret.) and RADM Joseph Callo, USN (Ret.) “What NMHS is doing is keeping history alive.”
CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath, USN (Ret.), formerly a corporate executive, served in the Navy Reserve for 27 years, and more recently, was director of the USS New York (LPD-21) Commissioning Committee. She has been a communications strategist, specializing in crisis, strategic, and marketing communications in the oil, airline, publishing, and energy industries. She retired as a senior vice president for Aquila Energy, a Fortune 100 company. In addition to her service as a long-time trustee of the National Maritime Historical Society, today CAPT McElwreath serves on the boards of the US Naval Service Personnel Supplemental Educational Assistance Fund, and is a founding member, along with her husband, RADM Callo, of the American Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, whose goal is to enhance the special relationship between the US and UK and their navies. She is on the Advisory Committee of the New York Council of the Navy League and is a co-founder of the US Naval Personnel Educational Assistance Program, which, during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided laptop computers to children of USS New York crew members who had to attend school remotely.
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CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath, USN (Ret.) and RADM Joseph Callo, USN (Ret.) will be the first couple to receive the NMHS David A. O’Neil Sheet Anchor Award. They are extraordinary ambassadors for the Society, extending its outreach globally. Their support has been invaluable, inviting NMHS to represent the United States, along with the American Friends of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, at events in Portsmouth, England. There, the Society was introduced to Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, whom NMHS subsequently honored with the Distinguished Service Award in 2015. Additionally, they have engaged the Society’s support with Pickle Night dinners, which honor Lord Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, and arranged for Society representation at countless maritime events, including Navy League Dinners and Fleet Week receptions.
CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath as a young naval officer. 12
SEA HISTORY 176, AUTUMN 2021