Maritime Life and Traditions #17

Be sure to select PRINT or DIGITAL when you order. FROM YARD TO SEA Including: Irving and Exy Johnson, Fame,Pommern; and news from around the world. SEA EDUCATION ABOARD SCHOONER WESTWARD In three decades the American organization,SEA, has introduced hundreds of college students to the practices of traditional seamanship aboard its classic schooners but, unlike other sail-training bodies, SEA is merely concerned with the fundamentals of sailing. The author joins the crew aboard Westward to revisit his own student days and to take part in the schooner's final sea education voyage. Matthew P. Murphy SNOW SQUALL-THE LAST AMERICAN CLIPPER SHIP A unique survivor from the age of sail, American clipper Snow Squall was rescued, in part, from her longtime resting place alongside the Falkland Islands Company wharf in Port Stanley. Today a large section of her hull is on display in the Maine Maritime Museum. The author tells the ship's history and gives a first-hand account of the trails involved in recovering her for posterity. Nicholas Dean THE TRADITIONAL CRAFT OF WALES The maritime tradition of Wales has long been passed over in favour of the heritage of its neighbors. Yet the maritime history of the principality is longer than that of England and the diversity of its types and uses of boats is enormous-from skin boats to planked ships. The author presents an overview of an oft-ignored but nevertheless impressive maritime past. Mike Smylie HMS FOUDROYANT AND THE IMMORTAL MEMORY Built in the late 1700s one-time flagship of Lord Nelson, had a long and chequered history. She saw action in the Mediterranean, was on the list of advanced ships for a further fifty years, and was only discharged from the Royal Navy 100 years after her launching. For a few years she was used as a sail-training ship before being lost on the sands of Blackpool. Her owner purchased a second ex-navy ship, the Trincomalee, and renamed her Foudroyant, creating almost a century of confusion for amateur maritime historians. With the restored Trincomalee ectering her second year as a maritime attraction in Hartlepool the author sets the record straight for both ships. Andrew Lambert PROFESSIONAL ROWING IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA There was a time in the 1870s when competitive rowing in the United States rivalled baseball in American popularity. By the turn of the century it had faded in importance but echoes of it were heard into the 1920s and '30s, long after amateurs had become the mainstream proponents of rowing. The author tells the short but fascination story of a forgotten period of American sport. Bill Pickelhaupt     ———————————————————— “Your downloads are ready” will be the subject line of an email you’ll receive from us—once we’ve processed your digital order. That email has the link to click, so you can then download the file. This isn't an "instant" process, so if we're asleep, you may need to wait for regular business hours for us to process the order. Although we are quite timely, we may not be processing on weekends & holidays.