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Number 303 • fall 2017

PowerT h e M a g a z i n e o f E n g i n e -P o w e r e d V e s s e l s f r o m t hShips e S t e a m s h i p H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e t y o f A m e r i c a Might, Style & Splendor: Also in this issue Empress to 20 There’s Something About Mary 28 of Britain 10 Kate McCue’s Journey to the Bridge 40 S hip Research: The Basics 46

PowerShips303.indd 1 10/9/17 12:59 PM Thanks to All Who Continue to Support SSHSA October 2016 -October 2017 Fleet Admiral – $50,000+ Admiral – $20,000+ Maritime Heritage Grant Program The Dibner Charitable The Family of Helen & Posner, Jr. Trust of The Estate of Mr. Donald Stoltenberg Heritage Harbor Fdn.

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Mr. William F. Cosgrove Mr. John C. Gustafson Mr Kenneth Meaney Mr. Arnold Rathmann Contributor ($100+) Mr. Tom Creigh Mr. Doug Hart Mr. Wayne C. Miller Mr. Allan C. Reed Mr. Gregory E. Abbott Mr. Patrick Dacey Captain Brian H. Hope Mr. Jeffrey Miller Mr. Robert H. Savarese Mr. Robert K. Alspach Mr. David J. Davila Mr. Thomas Horsfall Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Morgan Mr. William O. Schlotter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Arini Mr. Douglas Dease Mr. Tom Jordens Mr. John A. Morgan Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Schoenwald Dr. John B. Arnold Mr. Christopher DeCamps Mr. Derek Kendall Mr. Lawrence Moss Mr. R. Norman Shaddick Mr. David C. Bailey, Jr. Mr. Thomas Diedrich Mr. Bruce Kendrick Rev. Bart R. Muller Mr. Mark Shumaker Mr. David A. Bavlitschko CAPT Robertson Dinsmore Mr. Robert Kessler Mr. William G. Muller Mr. Britton C. Smith Mr. Henry H. Baxter Ms. Marjorie Dovman Mr. Robert J. Kimtis Dr. and Mrs. William P. Murphy Mr. Mark G. Southern Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Beaulieu Mr. Steven Draper Mr. Alan G. Konzelman Ms. Nori Muster Mr. Tom Stone Mr. Steven Bienenfeld Ms. Astrid M. Drew Mr. Earl Krantz Mr. Linda L. Clark Mr. David Sylvestre Mr. Philip Blauvelt Mr. Michael Dugan Mr. Thomas Lavin Mr. Mark J. Nemergut CAPT Eric Takakjian Mr. John D. Brandner, Jr. Mr. Andrew W. Edmonds Dr. Peter J. Leahy Mr. William Nyberg Mr. Craig Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Matthew and Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards Mr. Clayton E. Leroue CW4 (Ret.) Samuel R. Ohmacht Mr. Douglas A. Tilden Tracey Brennan Ms. Kathy Farnsworth and Mr. Mr. Keith A. Lewis Mr. James Onions Mr. Stephen Weaver Mr. James G. Brown John Teichmoeller Mr. Bruce Lockhart Mr. Hollis S. Paige Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Weinbaum Mr. Todd Buckley CAPT George H. Fisher Mr Donald L. Luetje Mr. Peter Pare Mr. Richard Weiss Mr. Andrew J. Burger Mr. Michael Fisher Mr. Holger Lukas Mr. Frank H. Peacock Mr. Hubert Wicki CDR Andrew O. Coggins, Jr., Mr. Gregory C. Gettle Mr. Gary Maehl Mr. David L. Powers, Jr. Ms. Margaret Jean Wort USN (Ret.) Mr. Alan Gordon and Mrs. Julia Mr. Frank Mallalieu Ms. Kinda Priestley Mr. Erwin Zimmermann Ms. Carol Cooper Ramos-Roth CAPT James Sorrentino Frank Mauran Mr. Robert Zinman Nicholas H. Cooper Mr. Robert L. Gray III Mr. Jack McBride Mr. Clarence Rahn

Mr. Robert Burgess Mr. and Mrs. John Goschke Ms. Diana Moraco Mr. Jerry Stewart Friend (Up to $100) CAPT Stephen Busch Mr. Norman Grant Ms. Jean Wort Mr Joseph Sturges IV Mr. George W. Adams Captain Phillip B. Bush II, USN (Ret.) Mr. Alan Graves Mr. Raisuke Numata Mr. John Sutka Mr Eugene G. Allen Mr. James Cafferky, Sr. Ms. Patricia Hartle Ms. Catherine Covell Orloff Mr. and Mrs. William Tatewosian Mr. Roger A. Angelo Ms. Alissa Cafferky Mr. David Hill Mr. John Paul Mr. G. Thomas Tranter Mr. Albert K. Antrobus Mr. Thomas Cannuli Dr. William B. Cogar Mr. Frederic N. Phinney Mr. John Trtek Mr. Joe Attura Caterpllar Foundation Mr. Robert Hlavaty Reverend Donald E. Potter Mr. John M. Vournakis LCDR. Peter E. Baci, USNR (Ret) Mr. Thomas C. Chadwick Mr. Donald A. Hunt Mr. Gary C. Raffaele Capt. John P. Wellington Mr. John F. Baesch Mr. Arthur S. Clarke III Mr. G. W. Hutton Mr. Donald B. Raymond USN, (Ret.) Mr. Robert L. G. White, Jr. Mr. William L. Baxter Mr. Stephen Craig IBM Corporation Matching Gifts Program Mr. W. Bruce Redpath Mr. Parker Williamson Ronald and Linda Beck Mr. Alan Cullen Ms. June Sherry Ingram Mr. Colin R. Revill Mr. William Wooding Mr. Thomas Berlin Mr. Terry B. Mr. Samuel L. James, Jr. Ms. Tonya L. Ricketts Captain and Mrs. Lawrence E. Worters Mr. Francis Birchard Mr. John J. Delach Ms. Kyle Ingrid Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Riddervold Mr. Donald Yokum Mr. Douglas Blount Dr. Robert W. Dellers Mr. Michael P. Joynt Mr. Brian Rogers Mr. Peter T. Young Mr. Edward Bohan Mr. Steve Donohue Mr. Donald Martin Mr. James Royle Mr. Paul Yurko Mr. A. Pierce Bounds Mr. Arild Johan Ellingsen Mr. A. Michael Marzolla Mr. John C. Sauter Mr. Darryl Zoeckler Mr. Rick Brown Mr. John David Ferguson Capt. and Mrs. Earl E. Maxfield , Jr. Ms. Kay D. Schloff Mr. Robert A. Bucher Mr. Glenn L. Frizzell Mr. Walter Lynn McLaughlin Mr. Donald H. Smith Mr. Vincent J. Budesa Ms. Lulu Gmoser Mr. John Merriam Mr. Gregory Stavros

n (At top) The hard-working crew of Boston-Provincetown steamer Pier in 1940 – Acores Collection, SSHSA Archives. Powerthe magazine of theShips Historical Society of America

ma nifest • N u m b e r 3 0 3 • f a l l 2 0 17 This quarterly magazine has been continuously published by The Steamship Historical Society of America since first appearing as The Steamboat Bill of Facts in 1940.

The Steamship Historical Society of America, Inc., (SSHSA) was organized in 1935 Might, Style & Splendor as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional Empress historians interested in the history and development of steam navigation, past and present, and ofBritain incorporated in the Commonwealth by William H. Miller . . 10 of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt education corporation.

In addition to PowerShips, The Pilot House . .4 the SSHSA produces other books and Q&A with publications of marine interest, a Sagafjord to Alaska Steamboat Bill . . 5 by Carl J. Liba ...... 20 list of which is available online and Full Steam Ahead .6 from the Warwick headquarters. Letters ...... 8 Regionals SSHSA meetings are normally High Seas ...... 52 held annually. Several local There’s Something Mid-Atlantic ...... 56 chapters also meet regularly. About Mary ...... 58 by Tom Varney ...... 28 Overseas ...... 60 Membership in SSHSA includes New & subscriptions to PowerShips, the Eastern . . . 62. Telegraph, and Ahoy! Dues West Coast ...... 64 are in various classes, beginning at Kate McCue’s Journey Great Lakes / Seaway . . 68 $50.00 for Annual Members. to the Bridge Southeast & Gulf Ports . 71 by Lorraine Coons ...... 40 Southwest Pacific . . . . 74 For further details, write: Western Rivers . . . . . 77 Steamship Historical . . . . .80 Society of America, Reviews . . . . . 83 2500 Post Road, Research: Warwick, RI 02886 Heard on The Basics the Fantail . . . .85 by James Shuttleworth . . . . . 46 From the Visit our website at Collection . . . .86 www.sshsa.org On the cover: Illustration by Kenneth D. Shoesmith for a Canadian Pacific Company poster for the Empress of Britain. – Chase Poster Collection, SSHSA Archives. Above: Bon voyage!: day for the Empress – Canadian Pacific photo.

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PowerShips F all 2017 • 3 PowerShips editor-in-chief Jim Pennypacker 4 Snead Ct., Palmyra, VA 22963 Email: [email protected] The Pilot House Phone: +1 610-883-7988 associate editors P eter T. Eisele 74 Chatham Street, Chatham, NJ 07928 Research, Empress of Britain, Email: [email protected] Dr. Laurence Miller 11321 SW 134th Avenue, , FL 33186 Sagafjord and more … Email: [email protected] contributors ave you thought about writing an article for PowerShips but William G.T. Barber ted Blank weren’t sure where to begin? In this issue Editorial Board Member Charles H. Bogart David M. Boone Peter T. Eisele William A. Fox James Shuttleworth presents the first of a series of articles on how John A. Fostik geoffrey Hamer to research the history of a ship. He shows you how to find and use Donald Leavitt James L. Shaw Mark Shumaker rich Turnwald shippingH documents, including shipping registers, Internet sources, books, museums Julia Winters g. Justin Zizes and other resources to make your task easier. Be sure to check it out. editorial planning committee Jim Pennypacker Dr. Laurence Miller Richard Barwis roland Parent A lso Inside this Issue Jim Shuttleworth marifrances Trivelli Articles Wanted Mary L. Payne matthew Schulte • In Lives of the Liners, William Miller Capt Terry Tilton chronicle’s the Empress of Britain, launched less We’re continually looking for art director than a year after the 1929 Wall Street Crash. articles for the upcoming issues of John Goschke, Cornerstone Media, Inc. Email: [email protected] The beautiful, white-hulled Empress, built by the PowerShips. If you would like advertising sales renowned John Brown shipyard on the Clyde, to write an article, send me a note R ichard L. Barwis, IV, Cornerstone Media, Inc. was Britain’s biggest liner in almost twenty years. ([email protected]) describing your 674 Street, Palm Bay, FL 32907 Email: [email protected] article idea and we’ll talk. In addition Phone: +1-321-220-0346 • Carl J. Liba Sr. makes us feel like we’ve to articles on engine-powered of executive director & publisher joined him on his Cunard Cruise on the MS M atthew S. Schulte, M.S. Sagafjord, from to Anchorage in July/ all kinds we’re interested in articles Email: [email protected] August 1987, when he discovers that Cunard’s on Liners, Ship Design, Ship printing Models, Merchant Marine, Ship Perfection Press advertising slogan, “Getting There Was Half 1200 Industrial Drive, Logan, IA 51546 Preservation and Memorabilia. Of the Fun,” was actually an understatement. sshsa headquarters course, we welcome articles on all 2500 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886 • In September 2015, Celebrity Cruises made topics of interest to SSHSA members. Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-401-463-3570 history when Kate McCue stepped onto the Web: www.sshsa.org sshsa officers bridge as captain of the Summit and joined a R eviewers Wanted M ary L. Payne, President, Wallingford, PA growing number of steamship companies who Nicholas Langhart, Vice President, Jefferson, MA We need volunteers to review ideas Don Leavitt, Vice President, South Ryegate, VT have recently promoted women to the rank and potential articles for inclusion Barry W. Eager, Vice President, Berlin, MA of master. Lorraine Coons introduces us to Robert E. Hughes, Treasurer, New Rochelle, NY in future issues of PowerShips . If Capt Terry Tilton, Secretary, San Diego, CA Captain Kate. you’re knowledgeable in a particular sshsa board of directors • To celebrate the 50th year of the Queen Mary area of maritime history and want O dd Brevik, East Lyme, CT Capt James McNamara, Chatham, NJ in Long Beach, model builder Tom Varney to volunteer, please send me an email Dr. Laurence Miller, Miami, FL presents a detailed account of the 20 years he ([email protected]) along with your Paul O'Pecko, Westerly, RI CAPT David Pickering, Warwick, RI took to build his striking model of the Queen . area of expertise. You should expect to David L. Powers, Jr., Burien, Scaled at 3/32" = 1'-0" the model measures review a couple of ideas/articles a year. Thomas Ragan, Miami Beach, FL CAPT Eric Takakjian, Fairhaven, MA about eight feet long and one wide. Capt Eric Wiberg, Norwalk, CT immediate past president E rik Ryan, Narragansett, RI From the Pilot House copy editors & staff Jim Pennypacker, Editor-in-Chief Bryan Lucier, Membership Coordinator Karen Sylvia, OfficeA dministrator Astrid Drew, Research & New Media Alissa Cafferky, Research Assistant Aimee Bachari, Education & Outreach Coordinator

4 • Fall 2017 PowerShips editor-in-chief Jim Pennypacker Questions & Answers with 4 Snead Ct., Palmyra, VA 22963 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 610-883-7988 Steamboat Bill associate editors Peter T. Eisele collections at the Ship History Center on 74 Chatham Street, Chatham, NJ 07928 C aptain Drown’s Binoculars O n the Lochhead Collection our website: http://sshsa.org/research/ Email: [email protected] Dr. Laurence Miller My grandparents had a set of Has SSHSA received donations index.html. 11321 SW 134th Avenue, Miami, FL 33186 Q binoculars with an engraving Q from John Lochhead? Is his Email: [email protected] stating it was given to Captain H.H. collection available? H ull 123 contributors William G.T. Barber ted Blank Drown on the steamship Golden I have a builder’s plate that Charles H. Bogart David M. Boone Crown on November 1, 1877. Do you Qreads ORESUNDSVARVET, Peter T. Eisele William A. Fox John A. Fostik geoffrey Hamer have any information about this No. 123, 1958, . Can you Donald Leavitt James L. Shaw ship and the captain? identify the ship it was on? Mark Shumaker rich Turnwald Julia Winters g. Justin Zizes In contemporary newspapers we A ccording to Lloyds, Hull #123 editorial planning committee A found references to a “Captain A belongs to the ship Ilheos, which Jim Pennypacker Dr. Laurence Miller Richard Barwis roland Parent H.H. Drown” in Cincinnati, Ohio, was built at the Öresundsvarvet shipyard Jim Shuttleworth marifrances Trivelli operating a ship called the Golden Crown, in Landskrona, . There’s one Mary L. Payne matthew Schulte Capt Terry Tilton also in the 1870s. discrepancy: though she appears in the art director The Way’s Packet Directory lists the Golden 1958 register, her build date is listed as John Goschke, Cornerstone Media, Inc. Crown as a wooden sternwheel packet 1952. Her official number was 9388 and Email: [email protected] steamship built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in she was 2,478 gross tons. Her dimensions advertising sales Richard L. Barwis, IV, Cornerstone Media, Inc. 1877 for Captain Henry H. Drown of were 336.5 × 47.1 × 16.3 (length × width 674 Fairhaven Street, Palm Bay, FL 32907 Marietta, Ohio. Her dimensions were × depth in feet) and she was based in Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-321-220-0346 261 × 41.8 × 6.6 (length × width × depth . executive director & publisher in feet), and she had three boilers (later She had a varied career: in 1958 she Matthew S. Schulte, M.S. Email: [email protected] four, though it’s unclear when it was was sold to a Yugoslavian company, printing added). She ran between Cincinnati and Jadranska Slobodna Plovida or Adriatic Perfection Press New Orleans, Louisiana (the Ohio and n (At top) Scrapbook #18, showing clippings Tramp Shipping, and her name was 1200 Industrial Drive, Logan, IA 51546 Mississippi Rivers). The register notes from 1921, handwritten note referencing other changed to Zenica. In 1972, she was sshsa headquarters 2500 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886 she lost her paddlewheel at Newburgh, scrapbooks, and opposite onion skin pages with sold twice – to Maritima Peamar SA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1-401-463-3570 Indiana, in May 1878 and was salvaged typed synopsis of ships sailing out of Boston from in Panama (renamed the Pea 1) and Web: www.sshsa.org 1919–21. (Above) A Lochhead scrapbook with sshsa officers or maybe raised and towed back to then to Hippolytus Shipping Company Mary L. Payne, President, Wallingford, PA Cincinnati by the Champion No. 8 . Either large foldouts pasted in, showing one of the four in Limassol, (renamed the Nicholas Langhart, Vice President, Jefferson, MA clippings on the spread fully unfolded. Don Leavitt, Vice President, South Ryegate, VT way she was up and running again, as Assimakis). In 1976 she was sold twice Barry W. Eager, Vice President, Berlin, MA later the Cincinnati & Memphis Packet Yes. The John L. Lochhead again, first to Cia. Navigation Jason SA Robert E. Hughes, Treasurer, New Rochelle, NY Capt Terry Tilton, Secretary, San Diego, CA Company purchased her and renamed A Collection includes a variety of in Limassol, Cyprus (renamed Constanza), sshsa board of directors her DeSoto . material, including images, scrapbooks and eight months later to Zyros Maritime O dd Brevik, East Lyme, CT This company operated four large and his journals. The scrapbooks are Ltd. in Piraeus, (renamed Skopi) . Capt James McNamara, Chatham, NJ Dr. Laurence Miller, Miami, FL sternwheelers, the Ohio, Buckeye State and newly available and can be used with the In 1978 she was sold to Pex Export SA in Paul O'Pecko, Westerly, RI Granite State in addition to DeSoto . In aid of indexes he put together himself. Panama and remained the Skopi until she CAPT David Pickering, Warwick, RI David L. Powers, Jr., Burien, WA January 1890, the DeSoto was heading We continue to process materials at the was sold to Pakistani buyers in 1980 and Thomas Ragan, Miami Beach, FL upriver and landed at a distillery a mile Ship History Center, and we try to make towed to Gadani Beach, where she was CAPT Eric Takakjian, Fairhaven, MA Capt Eric Wiberg, Norwalk, CT below Owensboro, Kentucky, to unload them available as soon as possible. His broken up.  immediate past president empty barrels. She caught fire, and her scrapbooks contain newspaper articles, Erik Ryan, Narragansett, RI pilot, Charlie Owens, beached her (her postcards and assorted clippings about copy editors & staff Do you have a question Bryan Lucier, Membership Coordinator master at the time was Captain H. H. all aspects of shipping and contemporary Karen Sylvia, OfficeA dministrator Deem). She was a total loss. This was a events ranging from 1916 to the 1980s. for Steamboat Bill? Astrid Drew, Research & New Media Alissa Cafferky, Research Assistant bad blow to the company, since they had As such they’re a remarkable history of Just email him at... Aimee Bachari, Education & Outreach Coordinator lost Granite State three months before this engine-powered shipping in the modern and the Ohio only a week before. era. Learn more about our research and [email protected]

PowerShips F all 2017 • 5 Join Us For Our Annual Meeting A t the 11th Maritime Heritage Conference February 14–17, 2018, in Historic New Orleans, Louisiana SHSA is a cosponsor of this can’t-miss event, presented by Tall Ships America and the Maritime Heritage Alliance. It’s the largest gathering in the of enthusiasts, educators and historians who are involved, interested and active in our unique American maritime heritage. Leaders, members and representatives from maritime museums, history organizations, government Sagencies, historic vessels, and , lakes and waterways groups all gather together Upcoming Meetings to share ideas, swap stories and spend time with kindred spirits. • February 17, 2018 – SSHSA The event usually happens only once every three years, and this time SSHSA will Annual Meeting & Winter Board also be holding our Annual Meeting on Saturday, February 17, at the same venue. Meeting, New Orleans, LA There will be presentations, exhibitors and even opportunities for visits off-site to area cultural places – and maybe even a steamboat ride or two! See more details and how • April 7, 2018 – Normandie- to register on the next page, and once you do, be certain to let us know that you’re themed Dinner planning to attend. We’re in need of members and friends to staff our SSHSA booth, Fundraiser, Cranston, RI and we’d like to spend some time together, so be sure to drop us a line. • April 8, 2018 – SSHSA Spring Board Meeting, Warwick, RI Reaching the Next Generation through Online Education

ur beta educational website, STEAMing Into The Future (www.shiphistory.org), is now up and running! Our collections as they relate to science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, and social studies provide teachers and students with unique access to rare primary and secondary source material. In addition to archival materials, our website provides brief articles, guided questions, lesson plans, as wellO as some interesting technology integration tools so that students can create digital works based on what they’ve learned. And this is just the beginning! We’re now working on getting honest and critical feedback before adding additional content. Once we have students using the tools to create their own digital projects, we plan to highlight them on the website. STEAMing Into The Future has the potential for exponential growth, making SSHSA’s archival materials available to educators, students, enthusiasts and the general public across the United States and around the world. This initiative was started in 2012 with the vision of Brent Dibner and support from the Dibner Family.

Kind regards, Matthew S. Schulte, M.S. Executive Director Steamship Historical Society of America

6 • Fall 2017 PowerShips 11th Maritime Heritage Conference & 45th Annual Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships, 55th NMHS Annual Meeting & 82nd SSHSA Annual Meeting

“Our Maritime Communities—Stronger Together” Save the Date! eleventh 14–17 February 2018 • New Orleans Call for Presenters The11th Maritime Heritage Conference, the 45th Annual Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships, and the 55th NMHS Annual Meeting will come together for an information-packed, joint conference encompass- ing a broad array of topics this coming February in the historic port city of New Orleans. The Maritime Heritage Conference, last held in 2014, brings New Orleans, February 14-17, 2018 together all elements of the maritime heritage community to discuss topics of common interest. Tall Ships America’s Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships is held annually and has earned a reputation for its high take-away value, networking opportunities, and camaraderie. The conference steering committee invites you to become involved in the 2018 joint conference as a presenter—both individual and session proposals are encouraged. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gather with individuals from all segments of the maritime community. 45th annual conference on sail training and tall ships Papers and sessions topics include, but are not limited to: •Maritime and Naval History •Maritime Art, Literature, and Music •Education and Preservation • •Trade and Communications •Maritime Libraries, Archives, and Museums •Marine Science and Ocean Conservation •Historic Vessel Restoration •Maritime Heritage Grant Program •Maritime Landscapes •National Marine Sanctuaries •Inland Waters Commerce and Seaport Operations •Small Craft •Shipbuilding •Marine Protected Areas Focus sessions include, but are not limited to: •Crew and Staff Training and Development •Tall Ships, Sail Training, and Education Under Sail •Vessel Operations and Safety •Tall Ships® Events and Host Ports •Not-for-Profit Administration •Fund Development •Media and Publications •Marketing and Social Media Individual paper and session proposals should include a one-page abstract and a one-page biographical statement about each presenter. Please email proposals to Dr. David Winkler and Jonathan Kabak at: proposalsmhc@ gmail.com. The deadline for papers and session proposals is 1 November 2017. The conference venue is the beautiful New Orleans Marriott—French Quarter, 555 Canal Street. Rooms are available at the terrific rate of $164+ per night! (Reserve your room online using the conference passkey at https://aws.passkey.com/go/Maritime2018). The discounted conference rate does not apply for rooms before February 13th but is accepted for limited numbers in the days following the conference. Details of the conference schedule, registration and reservation information, guidelines for proposals, and spon- sorship opportunities are posted online at: www.seahistory.org and www.sailtraining.org. Sponsors of the conference from $500 to $15,000 are encouraged to participate and will be amply recognized.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 7 I am looking forward to seeing the of USS California in the Brooklyn Navy performance of Virgin ships in a real Yard in 1915 and launching her across good storm . the continent in the Mare Island Navy Letters Thank you for publishing the Virgin Yard in 1919. The simple explanation is ships sketch. the Brooklyn hull, BB40, emerged as the to the Editor Walter Giger, Jr. USS New Mexico and BB44 came down as Wethersfield, CT the California after acceded to a name switch urged by western X-Bow Explained Spring Bloopers interests. For years BB40 crewmen were Greetings! Ahoy, Jim! confounded when hidden parts of New As usual, PowerShips (#296, Winter Perhaps you know about this already, Mexico turned up with California labels. 2016) claimed my immediate attention. I but there were a couple of bloopers in the Incidentally, BB44 became the only was delighted that Regional Editor Richard otherwise fine article about the Queen Mary modern U.S. ever built from Turnwald (Southeast and Gulf Ports) chose in the [Spring 2016] issue of PowerShips. the ground up on the Pacific shore to show an artist’s rendering of Virgin PS has been remarkably blooper-proof when Mare Island work on the 41,000- Cruises’ planned three 110,000 grt ships. over the years, but what I found a bit ton Montana (BB51) was scrapped after surprising was the story had originally the Washington Naval Conference. been published in 1968, edited since, and Of course, the Bremerton Navy Yard still it happened. rebuilt and prolonged the lives of many I refer to the building site of Clydebank, through modernization and which appears correctly in a caption, but is wartime repairs. “Clydebrook” at least twice in the text. In Thanks for the review. The sketch highlights the rounded, addition, the funnels somehow ballooned George F. Gruner backward sloping bow shape above to 340 feet in diameter, which would have Fresno, California the waterline. The bow appears to be taken up most of the length of the vessel. modeled on the X-Bow developed by I report this, not as criticism, but in O n Sunoco & Esso the Ulstein Group (Ulsteinvik, ). sympathy; in my now-numerous writings Dear Mr. Pennypacker, It has been used on more than 100 (articles and novels), there have been a I greatly enjoyed the “Sunoco offshore workboats, but the Virgin few things that got past me, even after the Shipbuilding and Shipping” article in ships appear to be the first large-ship most (I thought) rigorous proofing, and PowerShips issue #299 [Fall 2016]. On the application. all I could do was shake my head and say operation and losses of tankers I can add The X-Bow allows a large to flow “What the hell happened? How could I a related reference regarding Esso tankers up the face of the bow and then fall away not have seen that?” operated during WWII. Ships of the Esso along the sides. Relatively little water Despite the above warts, PS is a Fleet in World War II was compiled and impact and spray is produced. Below the mighty fine publication and you and your published by the Standard Oil Company of waterline the stem is quite sharp, curving staff are to be commended. I always look in 1946. No author is credited. in circular fashion towards the bottom. forward to it. It is hardbound with 535 pages telling the It softens the blow experienced by a With best wishes always, stories of 136 Esso tankers with photos of plunging bow. Steven Duff each ship. Rather than just a catalog, it The performance of the X-Bow can Parry Sound, is very well written and full of interesting be viewed in a video accessed through tales of the attacks on the tankers along the the Ulstein Group website (www.ulstein. O n USS California east coast and in the . This book com). Two large offshore workboats are seems to have been published internally shown on parallel headings, traveling at for employees, customers and friends of 15 to 18 knots speed, in very rough seas. the Esso shipping operation. It is a shame One ship has a bulbous forefoot and the that no credit was given to those who put usual flared bow. It plows into and it together. My copy was given to my Dad, throws water forward and sideways. At [In the Spring 2016 issue of W. H. Morrison, in the 1950s by James times, the fore part of the ship is engulfed PowerShips], your reviewer (Blue Water Beat: Salisbury, who was a family friend and, in massive spray. The second ship has an The Two Lives of the USS California, The I believe, an executive in the Esso X-Bow and it steps through the mess with Glencannon Press), while not in error, operations department. I’m curious as to relatively little fuss. created a head-scratcher by laying the keel how rare a volume this might be.

8 • Fall 2017 PowerShips The Sunoco article is outstanding and ships, President Wilson and President Cleveland, the writer’s Mr. Preston is to be congratulated and from the West Coast USA to the Far East. question on thanked for submitting it. After 78 years I She gave up the American flag to run the Flying don’t run across new WWII info too often under the Greek flag for Chandris and II . but the fact that German planes only had several other incarnations, which Mr. Enclosed are 87-octane fuel available was new to me Miller so ably showed. two photos and fun to find in a ship history magazine. Which brings us to the ten sisterly of me on PowerShips is outstanding! ships built by Bethlehem at Alameda, the Flying Andrew Morrison MarAd designation P2-SE2-R1, twin- Enterprise and Ooltewah, Tennessee screw of the same length and the Flying breadth as the Federal ships but driven Enterprise II . Steamship La Guardia by GE turbo-electric engines of 20,500 My uncle shp using steam from four Combustion worked for Engineering boilers. Isbrandtsen, Work on the last two had been and when I suspended at war’s end, but they were reached the finished up as the aforementioned age of five I Wilson/Cleveland twins, given MarAd was allowed designation P2-SE2-R3. to start I see in this same issue that my Kings visiting the ships when they came into New [In his article on the La Guardia in Point classmate, Bob Sturm, has written a York. The first photo shows me (on the left) the Winter 2017 issue of PowerShips], Mr. book about his experiences in the engine and a friend standing in front of the stack. Miller doesn’t mention that the vessel rooms of the Big U, SS United States. I’m sure The second photo was taken just before the was a steamship and was twin screw. Bob remembers fondly, as I do, our field Flying Enterprise II went into service in 1952; This vessel was built to a design Federal trips to those huge P2s being operated by we were in Todd Shipyards Hoboken. [Shipbuilding] had been working on the Military Sea Transportation Command Twelve years later A merican Export before the war and was given the MarAd to observe the engineering plants and Isbrandtsen Lines was going to do a public designation P2-S2-R2. She was the ninth get a great meal served in passenger-ship interest story about “Young boy gets to sail of eleven similar vessels built by Federal surroundings. with Hero Captain” as I was going to be in Kearney, New Jersey. She was 573' Donald C. Burnham, KP ’56 assigned to the Flying Enterprise as purser. x 75' 6". She was powered by DeLaval New Orleans, Louisiana But other circumstances intervened and double reduction geared steam turbines I was assigned to the Flying Hawk on the of 18,700 shp using steam furnished by A board Flying Around the World route. four Foster-Wheeler boilers. Enterprise I & II Frank Delaney’s book Simple Courage She was christened General RM Blatchford I am currently enjoying this month’s was a very good book. but renamed General WP Richardson soon issue of PowerShips [Summer 2017] and saw Chet Robbins after. As a troopship, she made several successful voyages to Europe. Then she was laid up. She was taken out of lay-up errata and refurbished by Ingalls Shipyard in RE: PowerShips 299, Fall 2016, Sunoco Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi, for operation The USMC designation of USS Cimarron as T3-S2-A3 on page 18 should be by American Export Lines, which was T3-S2-A1. The USS Cimarron’s shp listed at 30,400 on page 16 should be 13,500. anxious to get back into the Mediterranean SS Mercury Sun listed on page 19 should be MS Mercury Sun . SS Eastern Sun listed on passenger business, awaiting the restoration page 19 should be MS Eastern Sun . MS Sun described on page 19 was torpedoed a of their famous Four Aces and the second time by U-506, not U-502. Aruba is misspelled in the photo caption on page construction of Independence and Constitution . 14. The caption for the photo on page 19 reads MS Sun and should read Atlantic Sun . Then she was briefly laid up to resume service as a troopship for the Korean RE : PowerShips 302, Summer 2017, New York Regional conflict and go into lay-up again. She was The New York Cruise Lines did not join with the Durst Organization to taken out of lay-up and refurbished by buy the New York Water Taxi. Actually Circle Line 42/New York Cruise Lines American President Lines as the President bought New York Water Taxi from The Durst Organization. Roosevelt, where she ran with her sisterly

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10 • Fall 2017 PowerShips MiGHT, Style & Splendor: Em press of Britain by William H. Miller

he French launched the stunning Ile de in 1927. Then the Germans, in an extraordinary revival from the ruins of World War I, added not one but two superliners, the Bremen and Europa, in 1929–30. On the drawing boards there were also two big liners for the Italians and, largest of all, super ships n The Empress passing for Cunard, White Star (later cancelled) and the French Line. The Wall Street crash through the Panama Canal. in October 1929, the start of the worldwide Depression and the 50-percent slump in – ALF Collection. transatlantic passenger traffic seemed to cause few changes. Spirits, and therefore future projections for new liners, some the most lavish yet, were high. TThe great Canadian Pacific Company had the prestigious distinction of “spanning the world” – from Britain to Eastern Canada by liner, across North America by rail and then a second fleet of liners on the Pacific that went from Vancouver to the Orient. The beautiful, white-hulled Empress liners were perhaps at the lead in this vast operation. The Pacific service had just been topped by the Empress of , a 26,000-tonner commissioned in 1930. She was one of the finest liners on the Pacific and also the fastest.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 11 P lans for a More Lavish Empress Canadian Pacific also planned a second liner, even bigger and more lavish than the Empress of Japan. She was the 42,000- ton Empress of Britain. The 748-ft ship was built by renowned John Brown shipyard on the Clyde and was launched on June 11, 1930, after being named by the then-very-popular Prince of Wales (who later became Edward VIII and then the Duke of Windsor). There was added distinction to the occasion: For the first time in history, n World cruising: the Empress passes under the Golden Gate Bridge. – launch proceedings were broadcast throughout the British Empire, Canadian Pacific photo. and also in Canada and the United States. outside her designers opted for unusually mammoth funnels, Carrying a comparatively few 1,195 passengers (465 in first in opposition to her owners’ initial desire for more-normal- class, 260 in tourist and 470 in third class), the new Empress was sized ones. Together with a well-balanced, almost orderly Britain’s biggest liner in almost twenty years, since the Aquitania superstructure, the three giant stacks added considerably to of 1914. Her long, white hull was doubly strengthened for ice the overall sense of size, power and security. In daylight she (for nine months of the year she would ply the North Atlantic presented a most handsome form and great ocean-liner style, and between , Cherbourg and Quebec City). She unquestionably ranked as one of the great liners of the 1930s. At had five holds as well – three for general cargo, the fourth for night, with her buff funnels floodlit, her appearance became even insulated goods and the last for passenger baggage. On the more dramatic and imposing.

n Rare pre-war Kodachrome showing the Empress of Britain visiting Melbourne for the first time, spring 1939. – Anton Logvinenko Collection.

12 • Fall 2017 PowerShips PowerShips F all 2017 • 13 A board the Empress Her innards were, in a word, sumptuous. There was the columned, traditional Mayfair Lounge, which could be contrasted to the angular, stunningly modern, very Art Deco Cathay Lounge. The Salle Jacques was ranked as one of the finest shipboard , while theE mpress Ballroom and The Mall became established shipboard spaces. There was a large indoor pool, a gymnasium and a full squash court located on the highest deck, between the funnels.

n This early brochure features handsome watercolor illustrations, shown on these pages, of the ship and its interiors by F. Griffin. – SSHSA Archives. n The Deluxe Apartments, complete with servants’ quarters, offered the “facilities n First-class single apartments, like all first-class accommodations, of Park Avenue with the seclusion of Park Lane.” were “outside,” providing fresh air and natural light.

14 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n (Facing page) The Empress Room was designed by Sir John Lavery, R.A. The sky ceiling displayed the position of the heavens at the time of Empress’s launch. (Above) The Cathay Lounge, designed by Edmund Dulac, combined Chinese themes and Art Deco design.

n The Mayfair Lounge was decorated with a mural by Heath Robinson of a whimsical “Legend of the Cocktail.” Robinson was as famous in Britain for his cartoons of absurdly complicated devices as was Rube Goldberg in the United States.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 15 n The Empress arrives at Southampton, 1938. – Author’s Collection.

n World cruise welcome: arriving at Auckland. – Author’s Collection.

16 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Winter Cruises The Empress was intended from the start to spend each winter as a and, more specifically, as a world cruise ship.E ach January she would leave New York’s Chelsea Piers, with her outer propellers specially removed to reduce drag and save fuel, for as long as 140 days – for the Mediterranean, Suez, India, the Dutch East Indies, , , Japan and then homeward across the Pacific to , California and the Panama Canal before making a springtime return to Manhattan. Her capacity for these cruises, which became standard for 1930s luxury travel, was reduced from 1,195 to 700, all first class. She became more club-like. She offered an unparalleled amount of space per passenger. The Empress of Britain made headlines and featured in newsreels when she brought King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) home from their highly successful, friendship-building, North American tour in 1939. The royal couple had crossed to Canada weeks before, but on another Canadian Pacific liner, the Empress of Australia. Dowager Queen Mary and the little princesses, Elizabeth (later HM the Queen) and Margaret, greeted their parents upon arrival at Southampton. However, as glamorous and exciting as this was, and how much it added to the ship’s other distinctions, the Empress of Britain was not a great financial success. She failed to build a strong following among the minority of passengers bound for Canada (most travelers still preferring the New York route). Those long world cruises were victims of both the n (Above) Splendid Art Deco poster art. – Norman ongoing Depression and simply the vast expense of running such luxurious jaunts. Knebel Collection. (Below) A pair of early 1930s posters featuring the Empress. – Chase Poster Col- lection, SSHSA Archives.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 17 n In the late ’60s Cambodge and Laos were slated to replace Caledonien (seen here) and Tahitien in service to the south Pacific and Australia. Illustration for Messageries Maritimes by Albert Brenet. – Chase Poster Collection, SSHSA Archives.

T he Premature Death of an Empress n (Above) With the start of war in Europe, five passenger ships (mostly in war dress) are gathered at Halifax in fall 1939: the Empress of Britain, Lancastria, Lady Nelson, Duchess of Bedford and, at the top, Empress of Australia. – Canadian Pacific photo. (Right) At Quebec City she was briefly laid up before sailing for Clydebank for conversion to a troop carrier. – Author’s Collection. (Below) Sad destruction: The burning Empress of Britain, October 1940. – Canadian Pacific photo.

18 • Fall 2017 PowerShips under tow by the Polish Burza. But two days later, on T he Price of War the 28th, the Nazi sub U-32 sighted the former liner and fired The Empress left Southampton on September 2, 1939, the two torpedoes. The once great Empress sank quickly. Some day after the peace-breaking invasion of . She had far reports suggested that Hitler himself had ordered the ship to more passengers aboard than normal. Evacuees and frightened, be sunk because of her association with the King, Queen and often desperate tourists without actual cabin accommodation their alliance-building trip a year-and-a-half before. In the were assigned to cots set up in the public rooms and even, in a final accounting, she became the largest Allied special arrangement, up in the squash court. to be lost in the Second World War.  Once at Quebec City, she was temporarily laid up – pending deliberation by the Admiralty. Two months later, in November, she was formally called to duty. Repainted in gray, About the Author she sailed to Clydebank, the place of her birth, for refitting as Bill Miller, long-time SSHSA member, is an a high-capacity troopship. She then made two more sailings to international authority on ocean liners and cruise Canada, bringing servicemen over to Britain. In March 1940 ships. He has written more than 100 books on the she was dispatched to the far-off waters of New . Briefly subject: from early steamers, immigrant ships and she sailed in convoy with the Queen Mary, Aquitania and other liners at war to their fabulous interiors and about the liner-troopers far removed from their peacetime runs. The highly collectible artifacts from them. He has written Empress’s spell in southern climates was quite short, however. specific histories of such celebrated passenger ships as The Empress was returning home to England, via Cape the United States, Queen Mary, , France, Queen Town and Freetown, on October 26 when she was attacked Elizabeth 2 and Crystal Serenity. A native of Hoboken, New Jersey, and set afire by Nazi bombers. One of the bombs made Miller was named Outstanding American Maritime Scholar in 1994 a direct hit on the once-splendid Mayfair Lounge. Sadly, and received the U.S. Maritime Preservation Award and the Ocean Liner she was only 70 miles northwest of Ireland at the time. She Council’s Silver Riband Award in 2004. He was the 2017 recipient of burned from end to end. All but 49 of her 600 passengers and SSHSA’s Samuel Ward Stanton Award for Lifetime Achievement. crew were saved, however. The blistering was finally put

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N 1987, my wife and I and two friends celebrated The Sagafjord operated in transatlantic service from our joint 25th wedding anniversaries on a cruise Norway from 1965 until 1983. But competition from jet planes aboard Cunard’s MS Sagafjord. We sailed from finally ended that service, and the ship was bought by Cunard Vancouver, , to Anchorage, in 1983 for cruising. Cunard eventually found it too small for Alaska, covering more than 2,485 nautical miles profitable service and sold it in 1997. In 2009 it was scrapped. over 11 days. We departed from Vancouver at 6 p.m. on Sunday, July 26, and arrived in O ur Cruise Anchorage at 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 6. We checked in on cruise day, deposited our luggage and We lived in , so we had to fly boarded the Sagafjord at the Centennial Pier in Vancouver. 2,496 miles to Vancouver for the sailing. We My wife Bernice and I settled into our cabin, C-435, on the had a limousine take us to LaGuardia Airport, Main Deck. where we boarded a flight to Chicago, then to We sailed at 6 p.m., traveling through the Second Narrows Vancouver, where we went through customs. of the port, under the Lions Gate Bridge, which extends from “Getting There is Half the Fun,” according to Cunard, but Vancouver’s Stanley Park to North Vancouver. The Port of our cruise was well beyond that. We had good company, good Vancouver extends from the First Narrows bridge in the east food, great entertainment and comfortable accommodations to the Second Narrows in the west. aboard. In addition, Cunard provided excellent planning and After watching the departure, we went down to attention to detail on the shore excursions. the dining room for dinner, our first meal aboard. Our northerly route carried us between Vancouver Island and the T he MS Sagafjord mainland. We cruised up the coast on the Inland Passage The Sagafjord was built by Société Nouvelle des Forges above Vancouver Island for our first full day cruising. et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, France, which received the We had our mandatory lifeboat drill, donning life jackets original plans and specifications from the Norwegian America and reporting to our assigned lifeboat, hoping that we Line in the summer of 1960. The build contract was undertaken wouldn’t need to use this training. We had a formal dinner on September 24, 1962, and the keel was finally laid on June 19, that Monday evening in the dining room, dressing for the 1963. The ship was launched on June 13, 1964. It underwent occasion and stopping for pictures on the stairway in front of sea trials from May until September 1965 and was finally the portrait of the king of Norway. We also had our pictures christened in Toulon, France, as Sagafjord on September 18. taken with the captain.

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n Bow view of the MS Sagafjord at the Centennial Dock in Vancou- ver, British Columbia, July 26, 1987. We were on our way to board the ship for our cruise to Alaska.

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Ketchikan E ndicott Arm We reached our first port stop, Ketchikan, on Tuesday We spent Tuesday afternoon sailing up the Endicott Arm morning, where we docked at 9 a.m. and walked into town. looking at the passing mountain scenery from the dining room. The 1990 population of Ketchikan was 8,200 people, and Our waiters were from , working to get experience, and access is via air or water. Like many towns in Alaska, it was did an excellent job of taking care of us. They were with us for all originally based on mining, especially gold and silver. Today our meals, which were extremely good and well-presented. it’s supported by fishing, forest products and tourists. Ketchikan is a colorful place with many ties to its past. Juneau One area, Creek Street, is famous for its former red-light We reached Juneau at 2 p.m. Wednesday, 220 miles north district, where some of the buildings have been restored. of Ketchikan and 828 miles north of Vancouver. It has a population The street follows a curving plank road, built on pilings. of 30,503 and, again, can only be reached by air or water. Most renowned of the old residents was Dolly, whose house We took a helicopter trip to the Mendenhall Glacier, has been fully restored and converted into Dolly’s Historic which is 12 miles long and, at its face, 200 feet high. When Museum. We also visited the Totem Bight Totem Park, a we reached the glacier, the crew warned us not to wander replica of a Tlingit Indian settlement with a community house away because the distances are deceiving and the surfaces and 13 totem poles in a park-like setting. Then we returned to aren’t trustworthy. Tea and soda were left to cool in pools on the ship, which departed at 1 p.m. the surface of the glacier. After two hours we returned to the Sagafjord and then sailed for Skagway at 1 a.m.

n Sagafjord, during her service with , at New York. Vessel built at La Seyne sur Mer, France in 1965. – Braun Bros. Collection, SSHSA Archives.

Sagafjord Specifications Length, Overall 615 feet Beam 82 feet Draft 27 Feet Gross Registered Tons 24,474 Capacity, Passengers 584 Crew, Total 350 Service Speed 20 Knots Horsepower 24,000 Range 13,000 miles

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n My wife, Bernice, in our Sagafjord cabin, C-435, on the main deck, July 27, 1987.

Skagway over the pass to the Yukon River near Carcross, Skagway Yukon, Canada. In 1898, construction was started on a We arrived at Skagway, on the Lynn Canal, 160 miles narrow-gauge railroad, the White Pass and Yukon Route, and north of Juneau and 995 miles north of Vancouver, at 8 a.m. was completed in 1900. It extended from the wharf in Skagway Thursday. The town, with a population now of 632, was the to Whitehorse, Yukon. It still operates excursions from time to jumping-off place for the 1898 gold rush. The only reason for time. (A good book on the railroad is The White Pass and Yukon its existence is that it was a place from which you could get Route, A Pictorial History by Stan Cohen.) someplace else. We took a bus trip on a highway that roughly follows The first route over the White Pass was the Chilkoot Trail, the wagon trail. We went all the way to the Yukon River at made famous as a passage to the Klondike in the search for Carcross, where indigenous people sell goods. We saw one of gold. The trail started from the town of Dyea, on the west side the old Yukon River steamers, the Tutshi, built in 1917 by the of the Lynn Canal, and climbed over the pass and past Lake British Yukon Navigation Company in Carcross. It was 167 feet Bennett. (To read more about this episode in history check out long, 1,041 gt. and held 110 passengers in cabins. It was retired The Klondike Quest by Pierre Berton.) in 1955 and put on display, but the ship was burned in a fire in The second route was a wagon trail from the wharf in 1990. You can see most of the machinery and part of the hull.

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Sitka H ubbard Glacier We reached Sitka at 10 a.m. Friday. We had sailed 187 We spent most of Saturday at Hubbard Glacier (one of miles north of Skagway and 1,185 miles north of Vancouver. A laska’s largest at 80 miles long and 300 feet high), sailing close The ship was moored offshore and we used tenders to go into to its face. the town . In the afternoon we took a tour of the Sagafjord’s bridge, Sitka is called Alaska’s little piece of , and it features where we saw how the ship’s route is plotted, how the ship is the onion dome of the reconstructed St. Michael’s Russian controlled, the various instruments and voice connections to Orthodox Cathedral. The town currently has a population of other parts of the ship. Our tour was followed by cocktails in 8,588 and offers Russian items for sale. the Garden Lounge, dinner and dancing. We sailed from Sitka at 6 p.m. and headed north to the Hubbard Glacier. Valdez We reached Valdez at 7 a.m. Sunday. We traveled 231 miles north of Sitka and were now 1,416 miles north of Vancouver. Church services were conducted by Franciscans from , which is true of all Cunard ships. Sagafjord Valdez is located at the northwest corner of Prince William Sound and had a population of 4,069. Like many Alaskan Before Cunard towns, it was founded in 1898 by miners looking for gold, in n Norwegian American this case near Fairbanks. This was their supply point for the Cruise brochure promoting the overland travel. Now it exists for the Alaskan Pipeline. “Ultra Deluxe” amenities Valdez is noteworthy because it’s the ice-free terminus of the and accommodations aboard 800-mile-long pipeline and offers storage and facilities for loading Sagafjord and Vistafjord. – tankers that will travel south to refineries near Seattle. We took SSHSA Archives. a bus trip around the harbor, but we weren’t allowed off the bus for security reasons. We observed the tanker Overseas Juneau being loaded, and when we sailed out the tanker followed us. When a tanker arrives for loading, its ballast water is pumped out to a ballast treatment facility, where the slightly oily water is purified to environmental standards. Then it’s discharged into the bay, 700 feet out and 200 feet down. Ships can be loaded with up to 250,000 tons of crude, roughly equivalent to 1.651 million barrels. The ships are loaded from the 18 storage farm tanks, each of which holds up to 510,000 barrels of oil. At the time we were there, daily production from the North Slope was 1.86 million barrels. We sailed from Valdez at noon. P rince William Sound Following our visit to Valdez, we cruised northward to Columbia Bay. We visited the large Columbia Glacier, which originates in icefields 40 miles back, and saw harbor seals feeding after an icefall stirred up the water. Later the crew launched a boat to gather ice for our evening cocktails. Since the glacial ice has a high air content, it fizzes in a drink. C ollege Fjord The following day, Monday, we spent in the College Fjord, 285 miles north of Valdez, which was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition. Five tidewater glaciers reach the fjord, and in addition there are five large valley glaciers. The expedition had included a Harvard professor and an Amherst professor, who named the glaciers after eastern colleges.

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n (Above) Dining room of the Sagafjord. (Right) Bernice and I on the dining room stairway at the portrait of the king of Norway.

n (Above) Steamboat Tutshi in Carcross. (Right) At Skagway, with a view of the town and Whit Pass in the distance, July 30, 1987.

n (Left) At Hubbard Glacier, over the bow, August 1, 1987. (Above) Passengers visiting the bridge of the Sagafjord, August 1, 1987.

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n (Above) End of the North Slope Pipeline in Valdez. (Below) Tanker loading with north slope oil in Valdez, August 2, 1987.

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We took a park tour bus into the interior of the park. We Seward had been warned that views of the mountain might be obscured We reached Seward at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 231 miles north by clouds, but they parted for us and we got great photos. We of Valdez and 1,416 miles north of Vancouver. It was named also saw bears and moose. We saw and photographed the after Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William H. Seward, and was Alaska Railroad trains that passed by the park and stopped at founded in 1903. Its 1990 population was 2,699. the station in the park. The Alaskan Railroad was built from here north, starting We flew back to New York on Wednesday, August 9, a in 1915 and finishing in 1923. It was initially built to serve the flight of 4,038 miles, and took our limousine back home to coal fields further north atM atanuska, and while we were there Westport. We had a great time on this outstanding trip and coal was still being exported to Japan. The harbor is favored by shared our journey with our friends.  sailing and fishing enthusiasts fromA nchorage, 128 miles north. We departed at 12 noon to sail in the Kenai Fjords. As we cruised north we attended a Chopin piano concert in the Garden Lounge, and after dinner we were entertained by About the Author Norwegian dancers in the ballroom. SSHSA Member Carl J. Liba is retired from a career in management Homer consulting. He spends his time now with We arrived at Homer at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. We had his wife and family and in writing articles sailed 158 miles from Seward and were now 2,228 miles north for historical publications. His career and of Vancouver. travels with his wife have provided him Homer was also founded in 1890 by gold miners as a supply with knowledge on the many topics he base. It had a 1990 population of 3,660. writes about. They live in Wethersfield, We took a bus into town and found the countryside covered Connecticut, just south of Hartford. with brilliant fireweed foliage. We looked through the studios and galleries of the artist colony and then returned to the ship. We sailed at 1 p.m. alongside the Kenai Peninsula. sshsa Ship A nchorage Yeof athe r

Visit USCGC INGHAM (WHEC-35) 1936-1988 National Historic Landmark & National Memorial to Coast Guardsmen who lost their lives in combat from WWII through Viet Nam. • Awarded two Naval Presidential Unit Citations for her service during Vietnam. • Credited with sinking U-Boat 626 during convoy duty in the North Atlantic • Served in Atlantic, Mediterranean and Philippine Theaters and Command Ship for the amphibious landings for General n Sagafjord in Anchorage as we left the ship on August 6, 1987. MacArthur’s return to Corregidor. We reached our destination at 8 a.m. on Thursday. Don’t miss the opportunity to tour this ship and learn A nchorage is the largest city in Alaska, with a population of about its remarkable history. 249,300 people. It was 147 miles north of Homer and 2,485 INGHAM is located in Key West on the Truman Waterfront Park. miles from Vancouver. You Can Visit …You Can Help The foundation seeks We disembarked after breakfast. E arly on we had decided donations to continue restoration of this important vessel. Please send your tax-deductible contributions to: to extend our Alaskan trip by spending a few days in Denali National Park. All of us wanted to see Mount McKinley, the USCGC INGHAM Memorial Museum P.0. Box 186, Key West, 33041 • Phone: (305)-395-9554 highest peak in North America. Accordingly, we collected our www.uscgcingham.org luggage, rented a car and drove to the park. Andy Newman Photo:

PowerShips F all 2017 • 27 There’sAmerican Something About Freighters MrORenSome W hof the aFinal aProject American Goes Breakbulk Overboardy Cargo Ships of the Post-War YearsBy Tom & Their Varney Operators Photos by Jim Jensen & Sam Arias By Jim Shaw • Photos from the author’s collection

28 28 •• FFaallll 20172017 PowerShips When You Can’t Get an enjoy building dollhouses for adults, and she was right. An Idea Out of Your Head extended convalescence can leave a person with a lot of dark t began in 1995, a few years after I moved to thoughts. What better way to exorcise the demons than to build A nchorage, Alaska. At that time my a Victorian-era funeral home, complete with a dead man in a roommate Mark said he planned to visit coffin and a horse-drawn hearse outside in the driveway? This Long Beach, California, for a holiday was my first attempt to include lighting in a model, and I vowed weekend with friends. When I suggested to do that again wherever possible. The funeral home dollhouse that he visit the Queen Mary he just rolled his greets visitors in my living room today. eyes – he planned to party. Upon his return, After I recovered I moved to Alaska for a fresh start and a however, his eyes were as large as saucers sit-down job – computer drafting using AutoCAD. I’ve been when he described the weekend, and now he drawing for 23 years by day and teaching it for 21 years by understood my fascination with ocean liners. night. CAD would come in very handy for building the “really “You should build a model of her, Tom. A big one” Mark suggested. really big one.” And there it was. By Tom Varney Since I grew up in the land- locked cornfields of Ohio, my n Here photographer Photos by Jim Jensen & Sam Arias love of ocean liners is a mystery. Sam Arias was aiming Perhaps it was history textbooks, for the dark & stormy or the morning paper. I closely Atlantic, the ship's followed the Cunard Queens’ natural element retirement with a long-lost scrapbook of articles I’d sure love to have now. Perhaps it was The Poseidon Adventure that sealed the deal, first the movie and then the novel. It was appropriate that my family saw the movie in an Art Deco theater. During the opening credits with SS Poseidon crashing through the waves, I pointed at the screen and said aloud, “That’s Queen Mary!” Mom shushed me, but by golly they weren’t fooling me. The image of that ship model all lit up plowing through the waves would return to me many years later and become the inspiration for this project. Building models has been a lifelong hobby, and they included sailing ships, classic cars and architectural models for school. As a Great … Now What? kid I transformed Revell’s Queen Mary 1:570 kit to Poseidon, and it I had many sleepless nights staring at the ceiling and sat upside down on the shelf more often than right side up. visualizing the project, but how could I make it? In 1995 the After college I moved to California, where my internet was in its infancy, so reference materials were scarce. career as a Pizza Hut manager left no free time A clerk at the local Borders bookstore mentioned a new book for models. Eight years into that position I had a tragic and said he’d have two copies in two weeks. It happened to be car crash that left me with a broken right arm, a broken the comprehensive Queen Mary, by James Steele, a volume that’s right hip and suddenly nothing but free time. One day my still considered a must-have. I couldn’t believe my luck as I dove friend Pam pushed me and my wheelchair into a hobby in for the photos and drawings. Once I started reading, I just shop specializing in miniatures. She was certain I would couldn’t quit. With book in hand I was determined.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 29 n (Above) Deck tennis anyone? Modeling the net was a nerve-wracking experience and the net is repurposed from window screen. (Below) Port side lifeboats hang above the Sun Deck, complete with diesel engines. A catwalk runs the entire length of the davits.

30 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n The distinctive wedding cake profile of the bow. (right) Nothing says Cunard like orange and black funnels.

3/32 Inches to 1 Foot = 1/128 I decided to make the model 8 feet long. That would QE2’s 50th result in a certain degree of wow factor with a scale of 3/32 inches to 1 foot, or 1/128. The model would separate into two Anniversary was halves for easy transport, and interior and exterior lighting Celebrated on would employ the tricks I’d learned from previous miniatures. 22 September I scanned the drawings in the Steele book into AutoCAD and enlarged them to model scale. Then I printed them on long sheets 2017 of paper to have a model-sized plan for every deck. The drawings Clydebank Town Hall, Clydebank didn’t have much in the way of hull lines or cross sections, so I West Dunbartonshire decided to create a balsawood frame of each deck and then stack Scotland G81 1UA the frames together. This gave the exterior of the hull a stair- stepped appearance, which I sanded down, and the interior cavity Join The QE2 Story discussion forum to help keep the would hold power and lights. memory of this ship alive by sharing photos and memories. This was the breaking point. I’d sand down the hull, and if it looked bad I’d toss it and quit the project. With random orbital There is no charge for joining The QE2 Story Forum. sander in hand, the mountains were ground down to the valleys. I theqe2story.com had a recognizable form! It looked like a canoe shaped like Queen This year, we are pleased to be celebrating 50 years Mary, so I had the confidence to continue. Just as I was about to since QE2's launch in 1967. A conference was held on throw some paint on the hull, Mark reminded me that the real 22 September 2017 at Clydebank Town Hall, Clydebank, ship isn’t smooth like a modern welded cruise ship, but made of Scotland. The conference was sold out, but overlapping plates riveted together. Time to re-think the strategy. you can still join the forum to take part Before going gangbusters on the hull, I thought it best year round in all of the discussions and to mount the model on some sort of base or, in this case, two to catch up on news about QE2. bases. I visualized a black walnut base with the model sitting qe2event.com on pillars of some sort. The first thing that came to mind was

PowerShips F all 2017 • 31 trophy bases. Spin off the plastic bowler and we might have a leather punch. That was a poor decision because it made something. So I visited Alaskan Memories, the local trophy for ragged portholes, but it got the job done. A thin piece of shop. Looking around the store I got rather discouraged – the white translucent plastic was glued to the back of each plate to trophies weren’t speaking to me at all. Then I spotted brass cover the porthole. Then the plates were aligned with the light school bells on the shelf, intended to be teacher awards with tunnels and glued to the hull in overlapped shingle fashion. lettering etched into the bell. They sure looked nautical. When White automotive pinstripe was used for the boot line. I told the shop owners of my plans, we sketched everything out With the hull completed, it was time to move to the on the counter. Their woodworker fabricated the walnut bases, superstructure. One criticism of Queen Mary’s construction drilled the holes and provided the fasteners. Once the model was that her superstructure was a cluttered mass of confusion, halves were fastened to the bases with those shiny bells, the air vents and deck houses. The drawings and photos were project took on a serious look. From then on the challenge was intimidating. For example, the repetitive windows of the to keep glue and paint from spilling onto them. Promenade Deck took forever – each window required eight stabs with an X-Acto knife, but I was happy with the results. 1,000 Portholes, Then Superstructure The decking was covered with walnut dollhouse flooring, which Deck plans were used to locate the position of each of the consisted of thin wood strips glued to a paper backing that approximately 1,000 portholes, and I drilled a hole for each, looked great after a few coats of varnish. Once I adopted the basically light tunnels through the hull. The only plating divide and conquer approach to the project, the deck houses information I had came from studying photos and reading went up quickly so it was “under roof” in no time. that most plates were 8-ft by 30-ft steel, so I cut a pile of thin In the late 1990s and early 2000s I visited the Queen Mary balsawood pieces to those dimensions scaled. They were then when the Ship Modelers Association in southern California painted black or white and the porthole was cut out using hosted its conference and exhibition aboard. It was a fantastic

Q uEEN Mary Celebrates 50 Years in Long Beach December 9, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of the Queen Mary’s retirement to Long Beach, California.

n May 27, 1936, the known for her elegance, class and style. of a bygone era and a Southern Cali- Cunard Line’s Queen On October 31, 1967, the Queen Mary de- fornia icon and is listed on the National Mary departed from parted England on her final cruise, arriving Register of Historic Places. The Los Southampton, Eng- in Long Beach on December 9. Long Beach Angeles real estate investment company land, embarking on her purchased the Queen for $3.45 million to be Urban Commons currently holds the Omaiden voyage to New York. At the time, the centerpiece of its waterfront develop- lease for the Queen . she was the grandest ocean liner in the ment. Her magnificent welcome included For an update on issues currently world, carrying royalty and Hollywood an escort of a thousand small boats, Coast facing the Queen Mary, see Pete Eisele’s celebrities and setting speed records. She Guard cutters and harbor tugs. High Seas column in this issue. For more served as a troop ship during World War The Queen Mary is now a floating information check out the Spring 2016 II, and after the war resumed regular hotel, attraction and event and wedding issue of PowerShips, which featured several passenger service across the Atlantic venue (most of the ship’s machinery has articles celebrating the 80th Anniversary Ocean for two more decades. She was been removed). She’s a historic reminder of the ship .

32 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n The organized chaos and clutter of Queen Mary’s upper decks. Libations Restaurant Lounge display and a great source of information and books. That’s where I found a copy of The Cunard Liner Queen Mary by Ross SMALL PLATES • BIGFLAVOR • GREAT VALUE Watton from the Anatomy of the Ship series. I sure wish I had that book when I started, but only rivet counters can spot my mistakes. Visits to the ship also allowed me to take lots of photographs; I would tape them together and then cross out any equipment that was added during the Long Beach conversion. In this same era I joined a Queen Mary newsgroup on Yahoo. This was a great forum to share photos and gain valuable insight; most of us have migrated to Facebook today. I posted a photo showing my funnels painted in Disney red, and I got a reply from one of the moderators, Julian Hill from the , “Your model looks great but your choice of funnel color is dubious at best.” My first reaction was less than positive, but Julian had attached a glorious color photo of the ship from a menu cover that depicted the definitive Cunard orange. He caught me in the nick of time, so I changed the color before stringing the guy wires. Libations Restaurant & Lounge Also around this time I joined the Anchorage chapter of the at the RADISSON HOTEL PROVIDENCE AIRPORT 2081 Post Road • Warwick, RI 02886 International Plastic Modelers’ Society. While my project was 401.598.2121 • www.radisson.com/warwickri unique in scale and not a plastic kit, Paul (the president for life), Joe and the gang provided suggestions and encouragement.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 33 n The Verandah Grill was an exclusive restaurant that would convert into the afterhours Starlight Lounge.

The masts were a challenge all their own. Luckily I was able to find some white metal fittings fromB lue Jacket Shipcrafters From the Inside Out that would fit the cargo booms. The crow’s nest was a happy As the model got complicated I decided that the best plan accident with a Dremel and a grinder bit. The mast ratlines of action was to work from the inside out. This way I wouldn’t were fabricated from a CAD pattern, using wire for the verticals be reaching across anything delicate to get to something in the to keep them rigid. Then it was time for . Pieces of center of the ship. monofilament fishing line were spray-painted flat black. The It’s no exaggeration that I’ve agonized over the construction fishing line won’t fray, and I put a dab of glue on each knot.A of handrails for years. I tried a few options that failed before touch of flat black paint covered the glue shine.B ut the rigging turning to AutoCAD. Various railings were drawn and printed took some getting used to, since it hadn’t been in place for so as patterns. This method has served me well throughout the many years. I would sometimes forget and try to reach through project. Whatever was needed was drawn in CAD life size and it. TWANG! Some days I’d snag the rigging so often it sounded then printed to model scale. For the railings, I created a few jigs like I was learning to play guitar. Luckily nothing broke. to help with mass production. The rails were made from plastic rods. Using the printed pattern, the horizontal bars were held in place with T-pins. Then vertical posts were cut a little longer Mass Production Takes Over than needed, dragged through glue with tweezers and then The last few years of the project were all about mass positioned atop the horizontal bars. Once the glue dried these production. Working from the center out meant that the bow and assemblies were spray-painted white, cut to length and glued to stern were completed, so that left the lifeboats and davits. Again, I the model. The extra vertical bars were cut to length using a studied the boats and davits for years, dreading their completion. I sprue . If the handrail needed a wooden cap, it was covered turned to AutoCAD and drew the main components of the davits. with a strip of thin varnished walnut. This time, rather than cutting them myself, I had them laser-cut Stairways were a bit easier since I found plastic stairs from from balsawood. There was just no way I could cut those intricate Plastruct. I made another jig for the angled handrails. The stairs shapes with a knife without losing my sanity or a few fingers.U pon and handrails were mostly wood, so I sprayed them a dark brown gluing all the davit parts together, I rigged a painting jig that used before assembly. After I installed the first stairway, the model foam core and T-pins and carefully stabbed the davits atop the suddenly took on a realistic appearance with a human scale. pins. But the power of the paint simply spun them around and into

34 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n Cargo booms n Post-war navigation equipment on Monkey stowed for ocean Island, the deck above the wheel house. travel around the forward mast.

each other, creating a mess. Well, it worked in my head. The davits had to be painted by hand. Last but not least – the lifeboats. There was a lot of debate about the boats. Covered? Uncovered? I contemplated having them 3-D printed but I discovered that my three dimensional CAD skills were lacking. In a drawer I found a pile of plastic The News lifeboats that had been hiding for years. I had purchased them from Model Shipways just in case. They certainly came in handy, & History Magazine but upon closer inspection I saw that they were going to need Features: serious modification, and what you do to one boat you do to • Colorful and Vintage 23 others. This involved removing 1/4 inch from their length, Lighthouse Photos. grinding off the wood slats for smooth sides, installing bumpers, • Stories of Lighthouse Keepers, tiny props and rudders and fabricating the diesel engines. Don’t Past & Present. get me started on those loop ropes around each boat. • Restoration Projects When I couldn’t find anything missing, I declared the model Nautical Antiques, finished; that was in January 2015. The next month, my scale Keeper’s Korner, RMS Queen Mary would make her public debut at the annual Events Calendar. Anchorage IPMS Model Show, one of the many events of Fur Subscribe at Rondy, Anchorage’s winter carnival. The only thing more nerve- $5 off our wracking than carrying a model across an icy parking lot is facing regular rates. the uncertainty of the public’s response. One of the local TV news Just $29.95! crews filmed 20 minutes of video but aired only 90 seconds at the end of that evening’s news hour and cut me off mid-sentence. Request a Free Sample Copy! Friends cried, “Hey, there’s Tom! Hey, where’s Tom?” Fortunately, the Alaska Dispatch News printed an article, including a large photo, PO Box 250, East Machias, ME 04630 • (207)259-2121 that drew quite a crowd to the show. I was pleased with the positive www.LighthouseDigest.com/sshs response and surprised to learn how many Alaskans had ties to the

PowerShips F all 2017 • 35 real ship. One elderly lady spent a lot of time scanning every inch of the model, then turned to face me and poked me in the chest while declaring, “Don’t let this gather dust in your home. It needs to be seen!” I shared with her my fantasy of having my mini-Mary displayed onboard the real ship in Long Beach, California, and she beamed and said, “I can’t think of any better place on earth.” I explored that possibility while visiting Queen Mary a few months later for the celebration of her 80th birthday. Things on board were in a state of flux with the arrival of a new leaseholder, so I didn’t push the issue. It was a wonderful three-day event where I got to meet many of my QM Facebook friends and fellow ship nerds in person. I was also fortunate to meet Randolph Churchill, great grandson of Sir Winston and the event’s guest of honor. I presented Mr. Churchill with a copy of my Shutterfly book of model photos, which he took home to England. During our meeting he mentioned that the Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of Alaska hosts an annual black-tie dinner to celebrate his great grandfather’s November 30 birthday. Upon returning to Anchorage I made arrangements, and on a bitterly cold November evening I transferred the model to the downtown venue while wearing my tuxedo. If you’re going to schlep a Queen Mary across town, you’d better dress well for the occasion, right? Since Queen Mary n (Above) Queen Mary was among the last of the great liners to was Churchill’s mode of transportation, the model was feature a well deck. (Below) Electric lifeboat motors. well-received at the dinner.

36 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n (Above) Stacked from top to bottom, the first, second, and third class Promenade Decks. The Docking Bridge is a raised platform stretching across the aft. (Below) Supply and return steam pipes run up the face of the forward funnel to the Tyfon whistles.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 37 n The name that's synonymous the world over for luxury ocean travel.

n While it may be the n Her favorite state of carefree dinner hour above, being: full speed ahead. it's all business for those four propellers down below.

38 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n A proud modeler always stands behind his work.

If I’m lucky enough to end up with a matched set of Cunard Next Project: Queen Elizabeth Queens, perhaps the real Queen Mary might find room for Finishing a project of this scale left lots of time to them someday. Maybe in their proposed museum? Rarely are contemplate: What’s next? Author Ringo Varisco recently the ships displayed together in model form, which is a shame published RMS Queen Elizabeth: Cunard’s Big Beautiful Ship of Life and because there are so many stories not being told. Theirs was RMS Queen Elizabeth: The Unruffled Cunarder, both volumes filled a symbiotic relationship, and their codependency is often with amazing photographs and stories. To my delight, the books overlooked. Cunard Line had the vision of a two-ship weekly included a disc with so many drawings from the late Harold Philpot transatlantic service and wanted liners no larger than what that I could create a brand new ship. My early drafting training was would serve that requirement. Nothing more. What satisfied on a drawing board, so I could appreciate every bit of his detail. that tall order were two of the grandest liners to ever ply the To me, RMS Queen Elizabeth was the forgotten Queen, North Atlantic. They set the standard for ocean travel, and in having burned in Hong Kong harbor in 1972. Since she was no my mind will forever be the only way to cross.  longer with us like Queen Mary in Long Beach, I hadn’t given her a lot of thought beyond the fact that the ships were the same except for the number of funnels. But this sudden wealth A bout the Author of information from Varisco’s books and Philpot’s drawings SSHSA member Tom Varney is a lifelong modeler and ocean illustrated my many misconceptions and led to the inevitable liner fanatic. Originally from Ohio and currently living in Alaska, he has conclusion that I had to bring Elizabeth back to life. discovered the long dark cold winters are quite conducive to model building. Construction began in July 2016. More school bells were His project, RMS Queen Elizabeth, keeps him quite busy, but purchased from Alaskan Memories and a new carpenter fabricated whenever he escapes to the Lower 48, Varney can be found lurking the more walnut bases. Using the methods I learned on the first model, decks of RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach. Elizabeth is moving along much faster that Mary. You can track my progress by visiting facebook.com/queen.elizabeth.model/

PowerShips F all 2017 • 39 The Peoples’ Captain: Kate McCue’s Journey to the Bridge by Lorraine Coons

n September 2015, Celebrity Cruises made history “You can do anything you want” when Kate McCue stepped onto the bridge as captain That conversation resonated with her, and when it came of the Summit. Celebrity joined a growing number of time to choose a college, her father once again provided valuable steamship companies that have recently promoted advice. He had always wanted to go to the California Maritime women to the rank of master. Captain Kate’s first Academy when he got out of the Peace Corps. His father and announcement from the bridge that afternoon no doubt brothers served in the U.S. Navy, but in the end her dad took the took passengers by surprise. “We’re getting ready to civil engineering route. He suggested that she go for it and apply get underway,” she said. “As soon as I remember which to the CMA. She was later accepted into the Academy, where the purse the keys are in!” male-to-female ratio was 15 to 1. Her father was happy for his At age 39, Captain McCue is the firstA merican woman, 19-year-old daughter, but he also made her take up kickboxing. and the youngest woman ever, to rise to the level of master. In her first year at the Academy, Kate served as an apprentice She joins a handful of female captains of passenger liners to be on a school/ sailing to the South Pacific, an hired within the last decade, a fact that clearly demonstrates experience that she described as “pretty special for a 19-year- that the once impenetrable glass ceiling has finally been broken old.” In her second year, she spent three months on a banana (on the high seas at least!). boat traveling from Ecuador to Long Beach, California, which Interestingly enough, Captain Kate doesn’t see herself as convinced her that her future at sea would be on cruise ships. breaking through any gender barriers. Perhaps that’s because There were eight women in her graduating class of 160. One of the encouragement that she received from her parents, who became a captain for Maersk but stopped sailing when she had taught her from a very young age that she could do whatever a baby. Most of the other women took jobs in shipping shoreside. she set her mind to. When she was 12 years old, the family took She’s one of the few from her graduating class who is still at sea. a four-day Thanksgiving cruise on the Big Red Boat. As they In spending an hour with Captain Kate, it became abundantly were driving away from the ship, she told her parents that she clear to me why she has risen to the rank of master at such a had had “such a blast” that she wanted to be a cruise director young age. She exudes a positive energy that she passes on to her “to plan all these fun things” when she grew up. Her father officers and crew. She’s confident, amiable and clearly in charge turned to her and said, “You can do anything you want in this of her ship. She sees the role of captain as similar to that of a CEO world including driving this thing.” of a corporation. Perhaps her business background (she holds a

40 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n Captain McCue is the first American woman, and the youngest woman ever, to rise to the level of master.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 41 bachelor’s degree in business administration) has given her this perspective. When asked if she ever had to confront the traditional Bartender to Third Mate old boys club in her experience at sea, she said that from the start Her journey to the bridge was somewhat circuitous . people had always treated her with respect and were incredibly Having graduated from CMA, and not landing the dream encouraging, and that her job has been “such a pleasure and such job she had hoped for, she decided to get her foot in the door a joy that the last 20 years have gone by in a blink.” by applying to Disney Cruise Line to be a bartender. She That continued support and encouragement begins with her confesses that she didn’t know anything about bartending but parents. “Every day my mom sends me an email of affirmation, was determined to work at sea in whatever capacity. Having usually from Oprah,” she says. Thanks to modern technology, reviewed her resume, DCL realized that she was better suited she stays in touch with her family by Skype. “The last thing to standing watch on the bridge rather than behind a bar and my mom always says to me when we end our conversations is offered her a contract as a third mate. After one-and-a-half ‘Keep those people safe.’” Hers is a close-knit family. Despite the years at DCL, she was offered a promotion to second officer by physical distance between them while she’s at sea, she has chosen Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. to make her home ashore 300 steps around the corner from them On board at RCCL she worked under the first officer, in Las Vegas. While we chatted on the bridge, she was looking a Canadian woman, so she had female mentors from her forward to them joining her on the Summit for that week’s cruise. very early days at sea. “I always felt that I was treated like

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42 • Fall 2017 PowerShips the sister or the mother. Sister big-time when I came over to Celebrity,” she says. “When I was doing ship visits last July, the entire executive team was at the gangway, and the captain was there with open arms.” She advanced in the ranks at RCCL, and after being rated “top performing staff captain” for three consecutive years, Officer McCue was ready for her next promotion – the ultimate position of ship’s master – on Celebrity Cruises’ Summit . To its credit, Celebrity has made a deliberate effort to cultivate and promote women officers. In fact, 20 percent of Celebrity’s deck officers are women. Sailing with Captain Kate on this particular cruise were four women navigation officers. She credits Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, the first female president and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, who has been with the company since December 2014, for actively encouraging the recruitment of young women navigation officers.

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PowerShips F all 2017 • 43 n Kate McCue is one of a growing group of younger officers, in their mid-to-late 30s, who are referred to as the “next generation captains.” – Lorraine Coons photo.

for 2 1/2 hours, or I can stand in a place helps to serve guests cookies. “I can’t make A Next Generation where I can meet 200 people in an hour. cappuccino to save my life, but I can get a Captain I choose to meet more people … When I pastry off the shelf and in that way I can Captain Kate is a “people’s captain.” sit in my office, I get tired, I get lethargic have a conversation with people.” In the Her informal, relaxed manner immediately ... The guests energize you. They give you absence of a formal welcome-aboard party, puts guests at ease. She’s part of a important feedback. It’s such a good feeling in which passengers meet the captain, a growing group of younger officers, in if you can solve some issues that guests practice that was a cruise-ship tradition for their mid-to-late 30s, who are referred to have. You feel like a million bucks. So I many years, Captain Kate schedules time as the “next generation captains.” tend not to sit in my office very much.” twice during each cruise to take pictures “We’re not the captains who sit in Very much a visible presence on board, with passengers. “There are so many their office all the time,” she says. “We’re Captain Kate, who insists on being passengers who want to take their picture the captains who want to be out with addressed by her given name, is often to be with the captain. Why I don’t know!” the guests. I don’t host captain’s tables. found after the evening’s floorshow in the Having always experienced I can sit at a table hosting eight people shops or in the Café al Bacio, where she encouragement and validation from her fellow officers, Captain Kate perhaps doesn’t realize the magnitude of her achievement. That is, until she meets passengers or even some male crewmembers who request a photo op with her. “Can we take a picture with you because we want to show our granddaughters?” At times like that she understands the significance of her accomplishment. The relaxed, informal, laid-back approach that she adopts with passengers carries over to her relationship with the officers, staff and crew. Her

44 • Fall 2017 PowerShips and evening. There’s more substance to them compared to when we worked A bout the Author together.” SSHSA member Lorraine Coons Uncle Bob’s Marbles is is a historian of Modern Europe Her best friend’s uncle passed away and teaches at in 2014 from cancer while she was still Chestnut Hill sailing with RCCL. “Uncle Bob collected College and marbles when he was a kid, so he had Villanova coffee cans full of marbles. And whenever University in the family did something they thought that the Philadelphia Uncle Bob would like, they would leave a region. She is marble behind.” Since she was going to be also the author of traveling a lot, she asked if she could have Women marbles to distribute in the ports the ship Home Workers in the Parisian visited. Her friend gave her a jam jar with Garment Industry, 1860-1915. With 14 marbles inside. While on the Quantum her husband Alexander Varias she has n Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, president and CEO of of the Seas, she put her first marble on the published numerous articles on a variety Celebrity Cruises, has actively encouraged the 122nd floor of theB urj Khalifa Tower in of historical subjects – including maritime recruitment of young women navigation officers. Dubai, the tallest structure in the world. history. Pursuing their historical research, – Celebrity Cruise Line Photo. She also takes something away with her they have lived in Paris, , from every place where she leaves one of Liverpool and Athens and travelled managerial style can best be described as Uncle Bob’s marbles, usually a magnet, extensively throughout the world. They are collaborative. “I’m not a micro-manager. and records where it comes from and why experienced lecturers at sea. I trust people; I have to because my job that location is an important site. She then is hard enough … so I put a lot of faith in puts the magnet and the description in an my staff. I’m big on recognition. People envelope and organizes them by places need affirmation in order to continue to visited. She has left 35 so far – “in a Cochin do a good job. I don’t think negativity Chinese fishing net, an Oman souk, in works at all.” Not having children of her the lighthouse in Bermuda, on top of the own, she feels that “the crew are like my medieval wall in Dubrovnik ... People from kids, more like my family, and you know the cruise go searching for my marbles and how it is when you have to deal with your take pictures. On the last cruise I left one family. There are bound to be challenges on the North Bridge in Lexington.” … I think that the company is really What lies in her future? She and good at providing leadership training on her daily companion on the bridge, her board so that we all realize that we need cat Bug, are quite happy where they are. to get along to make this work. You don’t “There’s nothing else right now, she said. have to like each other or love each other, “There’s nothing that would be better but you do have to respect each other.” except taking a ship from the keel being Captain Kate did find love at sea. laid until it’s brought into service. That’s While with RCCL she met her future like having a baby – so that would be the husband, who was also a four-stripe next step.” That honor usually goes to the officer, but his domain lay in the engine more senior captains “but I would like to room rather than up on the bridge. find myself in that position farther down While he still sails as Chief Engineer the road.” In the meantime, Celebrity with RCCL, she sees a silver lining in passengers will continue to have the good their not working together on the same fortune to sail with Captain Kate. “This ship. “We actually have more quality seat that I’m sitting in is so comfortable time now,” she says, crediting Skype and so fabulous – once you sit in this seat, with keeping them together. “We have you’re not going anywhere. I don’t plan on extended conversations every morning retiring for another 30 years!” 

PowerShips F all 2017 • 45 n The steamer Yale, painted by W. G. Muller. – Author’s collection.

look at the name “Mary” in the shipping registers. Verify that you have the correct vessel. This can be tricky if it’s a common Ship Research: or often-used name. First of all, gather all the information you can about the vessel. This includes, but may not be limited to: ship name, rig type, nationality, tonnage, builder, year of build, place of build, Official Number, signal code flag letters or The Basicsdescribed in this article are by no means numbers and captain or master. Tonnage by James Shuttleworth comprehensive or rigid. Others who have varies by type so be sure to use the same esearching the knowledge of ship research are invited type in your comparison. Signal codes history of a ship and encouraged to submit articles about vary depending on the time period you’re can sometimes methods or resources for ship research. looking at. The current International Code be easy and at The term “ship” is used herein dates from 1857, but it has undergone other times quite generically for various types of rigs. several major changes. Before that other daunting. The The internet is a wonderful tool, but codes were used. Official Numbers will purpose of this don’t rely on it. Unfortunately, it’s full of remain the same unless the vessel was sold article (the first of a series of articles on errors about ships that, once listed, get foreign. Signal letters and numbers were Rresearch) is to make that task easier. repeated over and over. This applies mainly reissued, generally a number of years after Hopefully, even if you’re a seasoned to information created by well-meaning the vessel was lost, scrapped or abandoned. researcher, there will be new methods folks in their original postings. Scans of and sources for you. If you’re a novice, original documents, such as shipping Ship Specifications then perhaps it will help you get started. registers, likely are accurate. The internet is Vessel documents include Certificate Be it a sailing vessel, steamship or more a good starting point, but not an authority. of Registration, Enrollment, and License modern motorship, the methods are Also, keep in mind that many vessels (20 tons or less). The most reliable similar. The methods and references were often given the same name – just information about the specifications of a

46 • Fall 2017 PowerShips were dropped from cgi?article=1213&context=all_dissertations, the terminology. a Master of Science in Maritime Affairs Registered Tonnage dissertation by Aji Vasudevan, 2010, World (RT) is the total Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden. In volume of the vessel. vessel documents, you may see the terms Net Tonnage (NT) is “burden” or “burthen.” While technically the cargo-carrying they mean , they were often used on space and generally the documents as volume. n Extract of information about the Colonist (1861) from Lloyd’s Register excludes passenger If you have a painting, print or of British and Foreign Shipping, 1867. cabins, crew photograph of your vessel, flags can accommodations, help you determine the name of the vessel is found in these documents. The equipment spaces, fuel and water tanks, vessel, what it’s signaling or what port aforementioned are American documents. etc. In cruise and passenger ships Gross or country it’s going to. Most multi-flag This type of documentation is common Registered Tonnage is usually the one hoists indicate the name of the vessel. But for other countries, but may be known that’s quoted. There are many more types some are messages to another vessel or to by other names. In the United States, the of tonnages. Additional types have evolved a land station. If lots of flags are shown, National Archives maintain these Custom to address various needs. Definitions are it may be what’s called “dressing,” which House documents for former vessels. available from maritime references and is just for celebration. Some of these records were transcribed the internet. A good visual aid to see the and published by the Works Progress differences in modern definitions is Administration before World War II. at http://www.themaritimesite.com/a- WPA books were done for some ports and guide-to-understanding-ship-weight-and- are available on the used-book market. tonnage-measurements/ . In most research, The British Archives are similar. Other only registered and net tonnage are countries may have similar repositories. important. Rig generally refers to the type and You may ask, “Why volume, and not arrangement of sails. Early steamships weight?” The term “tons” comes from carried sail, so sail rig is often mentioned, the old English “tuns.” It meant casks or they may just be called steamers. or barrels of wine, hence volume, not Modern vessels are generally described weight. “Tuns” eventually became “tons.” by their function (e.g., tanker, freighter, However, in some earlier times tonnage was tug, passenger or cruise ship). weight. But volume or capacity prevailed Tonnage is somewhat confusing and a over time for Registered and Net Tonnage. bit complicated. But don’t let it bother you – Displacement tonnage, for example, is the just remember to compare apples to apples weight of the ship . It’s n Cover and page and oranges to oranges. There are various calculated from the from Lloyd’s types of tonnage and definitions have weight of the water that’s Register of changed over the years. Most are volumes displaced by the vessel Shipping, 1921. Some or capacity, not weight. A ton is 100 cubic (Archimedes’ Principle). of the information you feet of space. Tonnages are calculated by Displacement tonnage is can find include the formula based on measurements. The used for warships, where ship’s name, tonnage, formulas and measurement methods cargo capacity isn’t build date and location, changed during the 19th century at an issue. Deadweight owners, dimensions, different times in different countries. tonnage (DWT or and engine specs. Therefore, you may see a change in your dwt) is the weight of ship’s tonnage if the ship was extant when everything a ship is carrying – cargo, formula changes occurred. Generally, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, passengers you’ll be dealing with Registered Tonnage and crew, etc. It’s also calculated from or Net Tonnage. You’ll also see these two displacement when a ship is loaded with types of tonnages as “Gross Registered cargo. If you want to learn the history of Tonnage” and “Net Registered Tonnage.” tonnage and the rules governing it I refer “Gross” and “Registered,” respectively, you to http://commons.wmu.se/cgi/viewcontent.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 47 F lags are very important, especially in the research of older vessels, before the modern use of radio, radio telephones and now cell phones aboard ships. In later registers, signal flags identifying a specific vessel are often listed, but not always. Signal code flags vary depending on the time period you’re looking at. Some code flags represent letters, some numbers. The current International Code represents letters. Before 1879, Marryat’s Code (1817–1879) was used side by side with the International Code. Other flags aboard ship are used for other purposes. Examples include pilot, courtesy, ensign and house flags. Naval flags and codes are different from merchant flags and codes. Flags are very important in research and will be discussed in detail in another article. n The Library of Congress is a good source of photos of ships. Shown here is a photograph of the USS McCulloch, published between 1898 and 1901. Shipping Registers Major sources of information Foreign Shipping or simply American Lloyd’s British vessels. I’m not sure what its about ships are shipping registers. It (1857 to about 1883). It started out as the earliest register is, but Bureau Veritas doesn’t matter which register you find New-York Marine Register. A rival register was formed in 1828 in Belgium. The information in; hopefully your vessel will at the time was the Universal American company is still extant today, and you be in several. There are basically two Lloyd’s Register (also, mistakenly, known can see the name on many shipping types: 1) registers for classifying vessels as American Lloyd’s). These two are often containers. Det Norske Veritas is very good for insurance purposes, such as Lloyd’s confused as being the same. The Record for Norwegian and other Scandinavian Register of British and Foreign Shipping, and of American and Foreign Shipping is the vessels. Many vessels were sold to 2) government-issued registers, such equivalent of Lloyd’s Register. It was first Norwegian and other Scandinavian as the Mercantile Navy List (MNL) . Both published in 1867, by the American owners, especially sail. The current contain important information. The Shipmasters Association, which became edition is online at https://www.dnvgl. MNL was first published in 1847 and the American Bureau of Shipping, still com/maritime/vesselregister.html . Det Norske lists all registered British vessels and in existence today. It classifies some Veritas was first published in 1864 and some foreign vessels. Various maritime American vessels and some foreign merged with Germanischer Lloyd (first nations published these types of registers vessels. The List of Merchant Vessels of the published in 1867) in 2013. Both are for shipping . Lloyd’s Register is probably United States (LMVUS) has been published classification registers for insurance the best-known register, published since since 1868 by various U.S. government purposes. Early bound copies of these the late 1700s. In later years it became agencies. “List” was dropped from the latter three are often hard to find, but so thick that it was split into two, then title in 1925. This publication is no some do exist. Maritime three volumes. Early on mostly British longer printed in book form, but bound Museum Research Center has a vessels of 100 tons or more were found in copies are available at least into the few. uses Registro Italiano Navale it. If your vessel is less than 100 tons you 1980s and it may now be online. There (RINA), still extant today, formed in may not find it. Lloyd’s Register and the are several other references that might be Genoa in 1861 . A nd the Library of insurance exchange Lloyd’s of London considered registers for earlier times, but Congress is a good place to look for any are separate organizations. they provide little more than a name, rig rare reference. Also look at the other For American ships there are and perhaps a home port. institutions listed herein. various registers to choose from, again Other registers are also useful. Some registers can be found online, depending on the time frame. In the Bureau Veritas (classification register) but not all years or all registers. Lloyd’s, latter half of the 19th century there was includes many French, European and LMVUS and MNL are a few. If you American Lloyd’s Register of American and other vessels, even some American and can find a close or handy source of the

48 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Regardless of your vessel’s nationality, look in as many registers as available. Vessels were often sold foreign. Name changes are common. A British vessel may become American, an American vessel may become Norwegian, etc. An American register may list a foreign ship. An American ship may be in Bureau Veritas, etc. You can find locations of references and registers at World Cat (www.worldcat. org). See Library of Congress websites http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/ maritime.html and https://www.loc.gov/rr/ business/ships/databases.html for listings of some other helpful websites. Google Books has digitized some registers. The same vessel may appear in different registers, albeit by different names (after a name change). Some registers have n SSHSA has files with thousands of ship photos in its Warwick, Rhode Island, Ship History Center. sections of former names. Look in as many different registers as you have actual bound registers, try to use them. online. Mystic Seaport’s Digital Library access to, under all names you have for Websites can vanish. To guard against is a good example. Mystic may have the the vessel. The earlier the time period the this, download and store online registers only online source of the New-York Marine less information is provided in registers. in several places. On the other hand, Register, American Lloyd’s and The Record, Registers will be covered in more detail some registers can only be found easily for early years. in a following article. Also Available Great Lakes Cap Navy Blue $12*

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7.5” x Po4.875”werShips F all 2017 • 49 You will come across many abbrevia- tions, especially in the registers. Consult the legend or key for their meanings. Here are just a few: • S = Ship • Bk = or Bark • Bg = • Bgt or Bgn = • Bkt or Bktn = Barkentine • Sch = • SV = Sailing Vessel • SY = Steam • MV = Motor Vessel • SS = Steamship or sometimes Single Screw • TS = Turbine Steamship or sometimes Triple Screw • T = Tons or tonnage • D = Deck(s) T he Internet The internet is a great tool but, again, you must verify what you find n Two great sources of ship information are Lloyd’s Register (top) and Merchant Vessels of the there. Do a search for the vessel name, United States (bottom), shown here in SSHSA’s Ship History Center. builder’s name(s), owner’s name(s), etc. You might also try other searches, such Starting with ShipIndex.org will about vessels with the same name you’re as the place where your vessel was built. save you a lot of time, even if you have researching. Exceptions are that it If you’re looking for an individual, search many references, and may lead you to provides links to the registers at Mystic for their name. Most name searches will some otherwise yet-unknown references. Seaport’s Digital Library, some websites, turn up living people and other people It’s an online service that shows you and images of some vessels. Again, you with the same name, so you’ll need to be where information and references to a have to determine if the vessel is the one selective. Be imaginative. Use qualifiers vessel are to be found in books, registers, you’re looking for, not one of a similar if you get too many hits. Some cities have photos, etc. It might even help you name. ShipIndex.org also provides websites where information on ships distinguish between vessels of the same locations for the references it lists. It’s up may be found. For example, the City of name. Note that I didn’t say it gives to you to find and access the reference. Aberdeen, Scotland, has a website that you the information. Rather, it tells But knowing where to look saves you not only lists shipbuilders, but also lists you where to look – it provides names a lot of time looking through various vessels built there. of references that contain information books and references. ShipIndex.org is not an end-all, but it’s certainly a good starting point. A portion of ShipIndex.org is free – some 150,000 citations. The Subscription Service has over 3 million citations and grows larger over time. A year’s subscription is only $65, and a two-week access period is only $6. You can also view the references it uses, which are being added to regularly. And there’s a blog that’s quite interesting. The owner of ShipIndex.org, Peter McCracken, writes a regular column in Sea History magazine on research methods and resources.

50 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Ships published by the U.S. government. registers. And there are four maritime There are many, many more. Make museums within 100 miles. Smith’s yourself familiar with what’s available at Master Index of Maritime Museums your local research facility. The Steamship website is a good place to search out Historical Society of America’s Ship maritime museums near you. Research Research Center has approximately can provide many rewarding and 12,000 maritime reference books and enjoyable hours.  periodicals, about 500,000 images of ships, approximately 8,000 ship plans, tens of thousands of shipping brochures, About the Author paintings, prints and much more. Jim Shuttleworth Maritime museums, other types of is a retired geologist museums, libraries, historical societies, and army officer. He ship modeling clubs, colleges and other served as a member n Most back issues of Lloyd’s Register can be organizations are also good sources of of the SSHSA Board found in SSHSA’s Ship History Center. information. San Francisco Maritime of Directors and the Museum Research Center, Mystic Editorial Planning Books, Museums Seaport Library, Steamship Historical Committee of & Other Resources Society of America’sPower Ship Ships Research PowerShips. He also served as the president Various books and references are Center, Mariners(2.25 Museum, x 4.75 Ma ineinches) 1/6 ofpage the Southern California Chapter of SSHSA. also helpful. Basil Lubbock wrote a whole , Peabody Essex He has a strong interest in maritime history series of books on ships in varying services. Museum, Penobscot Maritime Museum, and maritime art, and has collected maritime Frederick Matthews’ American Merchant among many more, have staffs that can paintings, prints, signal flag systems and house Ships and Frederick Wallace’s Record of help you. Many municipal libraries have flags books that he enjoys studying. Canadian Shipping are but two more. For some of the references discussed here. American naval vessels there’s the eight- In my area there are three institutions volume Dictionary of American Naval Fighting that have libraries with various shipping The Glencannon Press n Thousands of historical Maritime Books maritime publications can G be found in SSHSA’s Ship P History Center. NEW! Blue Water Beat: the tWo lives of the Battle- ship uss California This 2nd edition brings the history of USS California into the 21st century. New photos, up to date informa- tion. Hardcover, 8½x11, 320 pp. 140+ photos. $44.95 + $5 shipping.

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More Newbuild Contracts Signed n Majestic Princess at sea trials, January 11, 2017. (See “Chinese Cruise Updates”) – oyal Caribbean International Princess Cruises photo. Rconfirmed its memorandum of agreement with ’s Meyer Ulstein Verft signed a letter of intent Chinese ports. Calls to South Korean for two 200,000-grt, Icon-class cruise with an unnamed ship owner for a destinations such as Busan, Jeju and ships. The 5,000-passenger pair will be distinctive X-BOW-design expedition ship Seoul were replaced with ports in Japan. delivered in 2022 and 2024. The ships will that will be approximately 393 feet by 65 Princess Cruises announced that the new be powered by liquefied natural gas and feet. This vessel will surpass the newest Majestic Princess will be based in Sydney introduce the use of fuel cell technology to regulatory demands for taking passengers from September 2018 through March reduce greenhouse emissions. into Arctic and Antarctic waters, and 2019 and will not be operated year-round Viking Ocean Cruises signed a is planned for delivery in 2019 with an from China as previously announced. memorandum of agreement with Italy’s option for a second ship in 2020. Sapphire Princess will be redeployed from for two additional 47,800-grt The quarter closed with Japan’s Peace China to Europe in 2018. cruise ships. The latest 755-ft by 87-ft Boat signing a contract with Finnish and an unnamed vessels, with a capacity of 930 passengers, shipyard Arctech for a super- newbuild will be will be delivered in 2021 and 2022. Viking ecological 60,000-grt cruise ship. The deployed in China. has an option for another two vessels. 2,000-passenger “Ecoship” will feature 750 Hainan Strait Shipping’s 14,000-grt Miami-based Sunstone Ships, Inc., and cabins and be delivered in spring 2020. Changle Gongzhu (also reported as Changle China Merchants Industry Holdings Princess) began Xisha Islands (Paracel Co. Ltd., have signed a Framework C hinese Cruise Updates Islands) cruises on March 3. The Agreement for the construction of four arnival Corporation and Royal 499-passenger, 82-cabin ship’s four-day Ice-class 1A expedition vessels with CCaribbean Cruises were forced cruise departed from Sanya with 308 options for an additional six vessels. The to eliminate South Korean ports from passengers. Regular ports of call for the 341-ft by 60-ft vessels will have 80 to 95 their China-based itineraries after Seoul 423-ft by 73-ft ship, built in 2016, will cabins and cruise at 15 knots. deployed a United States anti-missile include the Yinyu, Quanfu and Yagong SunStone is the largest provider of defense system, Terminal High Altitude Islands. Changle Princess replaces the expedition vessels to the industry, with an Area Defense, raising tensions between 200-berth Coconut Princess, which began existing fleet of ten small cruise vessels on the two countries. The change in plans service to the Paracel Islands in 2013. charter to various companies including marks the first time major travel firms That ship made a total of 121 trips and Quark, Adventure Canada, Poseidon have publicly stopped or restricted trips carried 23,000 tourists for an average of and Victory. This new order positions the to South Korea. The change came after 190 per voyage. company as the leading tonnage provider media reports that Beijing had given The 550-ft Nanhai Zhi Meng joined the in this segment of the cruise industry. orders to tour operators in China to stop service in April, operating on the same Australia’s expedition cruise ship selling trips to the country. route as Changle Princess. The competing Aurora Expeditions will charter the first Royal Caribbean detailed changes vessel was built in 2011, measures 24,572 of SunStone’s expedition cruise ships. to itineraries for cruises leaving from gross tons and carries 893 passengers.

52 • Fall 2017 PowerShips C elestyal Deployments for 2017 homson Majesty a) Royal Majesty Tb) Norwegian Majesty c) Louis Majesty will replace Celestyal Crystal a) Viking Saga b) Sally Albatross c) Leeward d) SuperStar Taurus e) Silja Opera f) Opera g) Cristal h) Louis Cristal in . The Crystal will operate seven-day Aegean cruises in 2017. Fleetmates Celestyal Nefeli a) Crown Jewel b) Cunard Crown Jewel c) SuperStar Gemini d) Jewel e) Vision Star f) Gemini and Celestyal Olympia a) Song of America b) Sunbird c) Thomson Destiny d) n Disney Wonder passing through the Panama Canal. (See “A Disney First”) – Disney Louis Olympia will offer three- and four-day Cruise Lines photo. cruises from Piraeus to the Greek Isles. Turkish tour operator Etstur has the Blue Star Voyages banner, the ship Magrodome. Holland America lists the chartered 1968-built, 15,781-gt Louis will be converted to carry 350 passengers vessel’s capacity as 1,916. Aura a) Starward b) Bolero c) Orient Queen in five-star accommodations. for the summer season 2017, cruising C hristenings from the Turkish port of Cesme, near Voyager Sold he 3,900-passenger Norwegian Izmir, to the Greek Islands. he Voyager a) Crown Monarch TJoy spent no time in Europe or the Tb) Nautican c) Walrus d) Jules Verne United States and headed straight to China, A Disney First e) Alexander von Humboldt II f) Alexander where it was christened by Chinese pop n April 29 Disney Wonder von Humboldt has been acquired from star Leehom Wang on June 23. The Joy Obecame the first passenger vessel All Leisure Group’s administrators boasts a number of firsts including the first to transit the Panama Canal’s newly by Mexico’s Hoteles Dinamicos. This go-kart track at sea, a virtual reality games expanded locks. The expanded locks are company was in negotiations for the ship room and a Laser Battle course, as well as 70 feet wider and 18 feet deeper than before All Leisure’s collapse. The hotel special features for the Chinese market. those in the original canal. group currently operates a small fleet of These include 100 high-end Concierge private jets but has not announced plans Class cabins, a hugely increased area New Fitness Cruise Line for the renamed Vidanta Alegria. containing 50 high-end brands, a Serenity Miami-based entrepreneur Park instead of a main pool deck, private A claims that he’ll start a new P assenger Capacity karaoke rooms and a vast casino area, “lifestyle” cruise line in May 2018. Increased including private gambling rooms. Focused on health and fitness, Blue olland America Line’s Westerdam German Olympic swimmer Franziska Star Voyages will take delivery of an Hreceived a new accommodations von Almsick christened Mein Schiff 6 at unnamed ship in November following the block forward on the Observation Deck on June 1. completion of a charter. Sailing under between the Crow’s Nest Library and the Human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai will serve as godmother for Celebrity Edge at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in December 2018. Celebrity Edge will be the first of fourE dge- class ships. The 2,900-passenger vessel will feature several innovations, including a moveable deck called the Magic Carpet and cabins with balcony spaces that transform from open-air verandas to indoor sun rooms. Edge will sail alternating n Thomson Majesty docked in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, , on March 1, 2013. (See Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises, “Celestyal Deployments for 2017”) – Hajotthu photo. departing roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale starting December 2018.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 53 and Mauritius with passengers and that the work needed to preserve the Busy Breakers cargo. She was later sold to an Indian ship would take up to five years. firm, which renamed her Maldives Pride in 2014, and later she became the Sobat . Veterans Return In early April, Portugal’s bank storia a) Stockholm b) Montepio invited scrap dealers to bid on AVolkerfreundschaft c) Fridjof Nansen d) idle Funchal and Porto a) Istra b) Astra I c) Surriento e) Italia f) Italia Prima g) Valtur La Sirene d) Arion. Prima h) Carib i) Athena j) Azores has been Ocean Gala a) b) StarDancer c) given a reprieve. The vessel’s Portuguese Viking Serenade d) Island Escape appears to owners have agreed to extend the charter, n Oasia (seen here as , anchored have escaped the breakers’ torches. The and it will re-enter service March 8, 2018, in Stockholm in 2011.) – Ellgaard Holger photo. ship sailed from its anchorage off Port with a program of six northern European a) Vistafjord b) Caronia c) Said on May 12 and arrived at Abu Dhabi cruises from London Tilbury. OSaga Ruby, the last of the British- on May 15. Waiting for further details. The idle Monet a) Yushar b) Stella built classic cruise ships, has been sold Dalmatiae has been acquired by for breaking in India. She arrived off the P lans for Rescuing a Brodospilt . Monet has moved to the coast of Alang, India, on April 4. Decaying Queen Mary Split shipyard for reconditioning, where A group named Rederi Swedish he real estate firm Urban workers will gain renewal skills that can American Line had hoped to buy the ship TCommons has proposed a $250 be applied to future yacht and cruise from her Myanmar owners. They had million plan to develop an entertainment ship projects to be built at the yard. Until inspected the ship at her layup berth at complex on the Long Beach, California, recently, the ship was laid up at Vranjik Sattahip, Thailand, and found her to be bayfront adjacent to the 81-year-old after its owner encountered financial salvageable. New furnishings were still Queen Mary. Urban Commons currently difficulty in 2009. covered and unused. The ship required operates the ship and has a 66-year lease repainting and a good cleaning, but from Long Beach. The proposal includes Names Announced otherwise could be returned to service since $5.7 million in immediate repairs to ussia’s Black Sea Cruises she was still SOLAS compliant. Attempts Queen Mary and an investment of $289 Rrenamed Roy Star a) Eagle b) The to get the owners to agree on a price for million over the next five years. Azur c) Eloise d) Royal Iris as Knyaz Vladimir the ship were met with silence. Since she’s A recent report issued by the Press- prior to opening its new cruise route now going for scrap, it’s doubtful that her Telegram claimed that the attraction’s between Sochi and Novorossisk, Yalta, owners got anywhere near the $10 million structure is “approaching the point of Sevastopol and Istanbul on June 11. The they spent after buying her from Saga. no return.” They stated that the hull is project cost $11.7 million including the Qing a) Atlantic b) Melody has been corroded so severely from the inside that purchase of the ship. righted but still remains on the bottom at its certain areas, including the ship’s engine In 2018 TUI/Thomson will rename shipyard berth. Several attempts to auction room, could be prone to flooding. They Mein Schiff 1 a) Galaxy b) Celebrity Galaxy the ship to breakers have failed to attract also said that the pillar supports for the c) Mein Schiff as TUI Explorer rather than a bidder because of the cost of raising the raised false floor in the exhibition space TUI Discovery 3 as previously reported. ship and making the repairs necessary to are corroded through and could cause It’s assumed that Mein Schiff 2 a) Mercury b) permit a tow to Alang. Qing rests alongside “immediate collapse” under the weight Celebrity Mercury will become TUI Explorer the 6,700-grt, Japanese, 833-passenger of just a few people. It was estimated 2 in 2019, but that’s not yet official. cargo vessel Ogasa a) Ogasawara Maru, another vessel waiting for a buyer. After much speculation on her future, Henna a) Jubilee b) Pacific Sun arrived off the Bhavnagar Anchorage as Hen on April 25 to wait for beaching. The former passenger- Mauritius Pride was beached as Sobat at Gadani Beach in Pakistan on or about March 10 after arriving at Gadani on February 18. The ship was built in 1990 n Astoria departing , June 20, 2016. (See “Veterans Return”) – Pjotr Mahhonin photo. in Germany to sail between

54 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Hapag Lloyd’s newbuilding expedition AWS Ship Management reactivated the required payment of expensive import ships will be named Hanseatic nature general Helena a) Islander b) BBC duties. The vessel was also to undergo and Hanseatic inspiration. The 16,000- Islander c) Eemslift Christiaan, originally a “quick” survey that actually lasted a grt pair will be built at the Vard yard planned as St. Helena’s replacement. In month, and the surveyor demanded that in Langsten. Norway, and delivered in need of a vessel with passenger capacity, the ship be drydocked so he could check autumn 2019. the company hired as substitute the hull plates. Just when the ship will enter Saga will name its first-ever purpose- 20-passenger Ocean Observer service isn’t known, but Pandaw’s current built cruise ship Spirit of Discovery . It will a) Mermaid, a former Trinity Lighthouse schedule doesn’t show the ship cruising enter service in summer 2019. Service supply ship. With Ascension before October and November 2017. Island’s RAF airstrip closed because of Leisure World a) Skyward b) Shangri- C harters cracks and potholes, 880 workers are La World c) Asean World d) Fantasy World rior to beginning its 2017 season trapped while awaiting St. Helena’s return e) Continental World experienced a small Pon May 3, Hansa Touristik chartered and the airstrip’s reopening. engine room fire while returning to Ocean Majesty a) Juan March b) Sol Technical problems and corrupt Penang on May 10. The blaze was Christiana c) Kypros Star d) Ocean Majesty officials plagued the start-up of Pandaw quickly extinguished and the casino ship e) Olympic f) Homeric g) Ocean Majesty h) Cruises’ 1963-built yacht Andaman Explorer was anchored off the port. Passengers Noreur to Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a) Atlantic Guardian b) Marina. - were transferred ashore using tenders the king of . based Pandaw planned to offer cruises from SuperStar Libra a) Seaward b) that explored the and Norwegian Sea.  C asualties Burmese Coast with the vessel after they oble Caledonia’s Caledonian Sky purchased it in November 2015. Pandaw’s n Write Peter T. Eisele at a) Renaissance Six b) Sun Viva 2 c) troubles began when the company N 74 Chatham Street, Chatham, NJ 07928 MegaStar Capricorn d) Capri e) Hebridean contracted to move the vessel to Thailand or [email protected] Spirit f) Sunshine ran aground on March for refitting but kept postponing the ship’s 4 and caused massive damage to several departure while the previous owners reefs that are unique to Raja Ampat, a removed saleable items without permission. remote island chain west of Indonesia’s When the vessel was finally underway, Showcase Your Papua province. The vessel veered the Explorer’s Rolls Royce propulsion Products & Services slightly off course and slammed into the system began breaking down. The Explorer in an area that wasn’t open to cruise eventually limped into Ranong in February in Front of an ships . The Caledonian Sky was refloated on just one engine and was without air- Exclusive Audience with superficial damage to its hull and conditioning, water or sewerage. NUMBER 303 • FALL 2017

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of BRITAIN ALSO IN THIS ISSUE crew members. Noble Caledonia will be and was to be completed in time for Sagafjord 10 to Alaska 20 There’s Something • Collectors of About Mary 28 Kate McCue’s Journey expected to pay for damages to the reef the ship’s September inaugural, but to the Bridge 40 Ship Research: The Basics Ship Ephemera 46 and the associated tourist industry. political and local events resulted in Celebrity Cruises canceled the April lots of promises but little in the way of • Visitors & 1 sailing on Celebrity Summit a) Summit and actual results. The scheduled October Supporters of shortened the April 15 cruise to four days. 2, 2016, inaugural was delayed after the Maritime Museums The change permitted Celebrity to work owners encountered problems gaining on a continuing electrical issue on one of port clearance from officials. Upon • Artwork, Ship Model the ship’s propulsion systems. The sailing arrival at Mergui, officials insisted that & Book Buyers departed San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April the Andaman Explorer was an ocean-going Advertise in PowerShips 18. The Celebrity Summit returned to its vessel and should be subject to a more The Nation’s Prestigious Ship regular schedule on April 22. stringent certification process. The cruise History Magazine from Steamship St. Helena suffered shaft problems in was cancelled, and to make matters March that delayed her return to Cape worse the 1963 Detroit Diesel generators Historical Society of America Town . The ship entered the Simonstown failed and required replacement, which naval base for repairs. Following their was expected to take several months. completion, St. Helena returned to Cape The ship was moved back to PowerShips Town, where the problem recurred. After Rangoon and its registry was changed email: [email protected] the vessel returned to Simonstown again, to Myanmar, a complex process that

PowerShips F all 2017 • 55 ceremony took place in Charleston in June. P hilly Shipyard News Liberty is able to carry tracked n March 30, Philly Shipyard vehicles, helicopters, trucks and other Odelivered the American Freedom, the military and commercial heavy project second of four next-generation, 50,000- cargoes. ARC is the largest American- dwt product tankers for American flagged ro/ro carrier and is also the Petroleum Tankers. The 600-ft tanker third-largest American-flagged carrier has a carrying capacity of 14.5 million in international trade. The company gallons of crude oil or refined products was established in 1990 and is owned, South Jersey and has received an LNG Ready Level managed and crewed by Americans. Port News 1 approval from the American Bureau Vane Brothers recently took delivery t took over 50 years, but the of Surveyors. Over its nearly 20-year of the 3,000-hp tug Fishing Creek . It’s the IPaulsboro Marine Terminal finally history, the yard, previously known as 13th Maryland-built to join the became a reality. The first ship to dock the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, has company’s fleet in the last 10 years. The there, on March 2, was the Doric Warrior, delivered 26 vessels. Currently there Fishing Creek measures 94 feet in length and carrying some 55,000 tons of steel slabs. are two additional tankers of the same is 32 feet wide with a hull depth of 13 feet. The slabs were subsequently loaded onto type under construction for American She’s similar to the last 12 tugs built for rail cars destined for mills in western Product Tankers plus two container Vane Brothers by Chesapeake Shipbuilding Pennsylvania and Indiana. The port ships for Matson Navigation Company. in Salisbury. This latest addition takes her facilities consist of 190 acres situated name from a location on Maryland’s famed right across the river from Philadelphia P ort of Baltimore News Eastern Shore. In August 2016, the firm International Airport. There are he American-flagged Liberty added the new tug Fort McHenry, and later approximately 21,000 feet of rail track Thad its maiden arrival at the port this summer will welcome the Cape May. and an 850-ft berth, with plans for two of Baltimore in February. The Liberty is Carnival Cruise Line has announced more. Spanning the Mantua Creek is the eighth vessel of this type to join the that it will increase sailings from a $23 million bridge providing access American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier Group Baltimore to the Southern Caribbean as to the waterfront from Interstate 295. fleet. On January 31, 2017, theU .S. Coast part of its Carnival Journeys program. Additional good news is that this port Guard re-flagged the formerM V Topeka This is in addition to the already facility provides 100 jobs. to the American registry and renamed scheduled 9- to 15 day Carnival Journeys her. Naming the ship Liberty follows her cruises in 2017 and 2018. All of these P ort of Philadelphia News owners’ practice of naming their ships after will be on the Carnival Pride and will call American “values.” Fleet mates include at ports including Antigua, Dominica, the Endurance, Freedom, Honor, Independence Grand Turk, Grenada, San Juan, St. II, Integrity, Resolve and Patriot. A naming Maarten and St. Thomas.

n YM Essence. – Maasmondmaritime photo.

n April 19, Philadelphia Owelcomed the arrival of the MV YM Essence. Docking at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal, the ship is the first to use the port on behalf of her operators, The Alliance, a vessel-sharing agreement involving Hapag-Lloyd, K Line, Mistui OSK, NYK and Yang Ming. The YM Essence, with a capacity of 4,600 TEU containers, provides shippers with a n Artist rendition of American Constellation. (See “American Cruise Lines Names 2018 weekly alternative for cargoes going to Newbuild”) – American Cruise Lines photo. or from Northern Europe.

56 • Fall 2017 PowerShips engineering components, flight deck welding on the structure of the Yorktown A merican Cruise Lines equipment, damage control capabilities would include heat, which shouldn’t be Names 2018 Newbuild and seamanship. The last two tests are near potentially flammable substances. merican Cruise Lines was meant to guarantee not only the ship’s Another concern is the Ainspired to call its next ship American preparedness but also the crew’s. aforementioned oily water, which is a Constitution after the USS Constitution, the Over the past four years, Lincoln’s crew result of ballast water being added to the US Navy’s oldest commissioned vessel, spent over 2.5 million hours working ship’s tanks in 1975 to stabilize her. Over named by President George Washington. to prepare their ship to be successfully the past 40 years the ballast water mixed The ship is presently under construction redelivered, which is in addition to the with oil to create a hazardous mixture at Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Salisbury, work that was done by NNS shipyard that also must be removed. For the time Maryland, with delivery scheduled for employees and outside contractors. The being, only six of 129 tanks are being 2018. American Constitution is the sister RCOH ensures that the vessel reenters emptied, while the other 100,000 gallons of American Constellation, which entered service technologically and structurally will be emptied in the future. service in May of this year. at the top of her game, so to speak, In late April, a group of Chief Petty The 175-passenger American Constitution for the next quarter of a century. An Officer-Selects from theL ow Country has full active wing stabilization, a RCOH is officially over when a carrier Chiefs’ Mess of the Chief Petty Officer variety of lounges and large well- successfully completes sea trials. Association of the U.S. Coast Guard appointed staterooms with private USS Abraham Lincoln is the fifth visited the site to volunteer. The 10 Chief balconies. The American Constellation will Nimitz-class and was Petty Officer-Selects plus a few “seasoned” sail on the Eastern Seaboard this year, commissioned in November of 1989. CPOs were joined by 10 junior officers. and the company plans to expand its new ship deployment to the Pacific Northwest P atriots Point News and Alaska in 2018. here are a couple notable recent Thappenings at South Carolina’s USS Abraham Lincoln Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum. Redelivered In March, the process of removing an estimated 60,000 gallons of old fuel and oily water from the USS Yorktown began. In 2015, Yorktown underwent n Group photo of the CPO-selects who volunteered a structural assessment conducted by at Patriots Point on April 24, 2017. – Patriots Collins Engineering. The study found Point Naval & Maritime Museum photo. that “The Fighting Lady” is in very good The CPO-Selects volunteer on top of n USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) con- shape and “poses no immediate [threat] their regular work to help them learn to ducting high-speed drills during sea trials, May to the environment,” but the company did delegate tasks. Charles “Trey” Kinnear, a 2017. – Mass Communication Specialist 3rd conclude that repairs will need to be done CPO-Select, said that the process is about Class Juan A. Cubano, U.S Navy photo. soon in order to preserve the hull. The building relationships between enlisted ccording to the U.S. Navy removal and safe disposal of the vessel’s and commissioned officers. This is why it’s Awebsite’s news service, the USS old fuel is the first course of action in important for junior officers to be involved. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) was redelivered addressing those repairs. The group helped with a multitude of to the Navy on May 12 after a four-year Mac Burdette, the site’s executive tasks including shining bells dating from absence from the fleet. In March of 2013, director, explained that when the Navy 1888 and 1943, cleaning off some historic the aircraft carrier entered her refueling gave the ship to South Carolina in 1975 aircraft, tightening screws on decking and complex overhaul (RCOH) period, she contained more than 160,000 gallons on the USS Yorktown elevators and the which was conducted at Newport News of fuel. He added that environmental Vietnam Experience Exhibit, and other Shipbuilding. Over the past four years safety is a priority and needs to be dealt tasks. The staff at Patriots Point was the vessel has undergone all of the typical with before any further improvements grateful for the assistance.  enhancements that characterize a vessel’s are made. On March 10, a media event RCOH period, including “refueling the was held at Patriots Point in which n Write John Fostik (PA, NJ, DE, ship’s propulsion plant, modernizing Museum Director of Operations Bob MD) at [email protected] combat systems and upgrading Howard explained what the project entails or Julia Winters (DC, VA, NC, SC) infrastructure.” In addition, numerous and reinforced Burdette’s point about at [email protected] tests were executed, most notably of environmental safety. He said that any

PowerShips F all 2017 • 57 NewC NY YC Ferry, operated by Horn- Nblower, took delivery of Hull 200, now named Lunchbox by New York City school children who took part in a contest to name the city’s new ferries. The vessel was delivered April 2; subsequent boats followed and service began May 1 to n New NYC Ferry – Hull 101. – G. Justin Zizes, Jr., photo. Rockaway Queens, with ferries leaving every hour on the half hour from Pier 11 Germany. The gift will cost Germany for a price of $2.75. 30 million euros to transport and restore C asualties Gaining popularity, the service is well the vessel. She’ll be displayed at the U.S. Navy SEAL fell to his death received by both tourists and commuting maritime museum of Hamburg, Stiftung A during a Fleet Week celebration New Yorkers. Hornblower had to charter Hamburg Maritim. when his parachute malfunctioned. He Provincetown III as an extra ferry until the Peking was one of the Flying P Liners, fell into the water and was immediately other new ferries arrive. A second ferry is which carried cargo around Cape Horn. rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and a Great Eagle . Three other Flying P Liners still survive: Marine unit who were standing by and On June 1, additional service started Pommern, a museum ship in Finland; rushed to the hospital. The SEAL was a to Bay Ridge/South Brooklyn at 69th Passat, a museum ship in Germany; and member of the Leap Frogs, a U.S. Navy Street, and during the summer an Kruzenshtern, a school ship sailing under parachute team. Boat traffic in and out Astoria, Queens, stop will be added. the Russian flag. of Morris Canal was delayed after the For more information check out www.ferry.nyc. n M ore Ferry News Happy Birthday Museum celebrates its 50th. ircle Line 42, which recently – G. Justin Zizes, Jr., photo. Cbought New York Water Taxi, is now running its Circle Line Brooklyn and Queens from Pier 16 at South Street Seaport. The two ferries were designed to resemble the traditional cruise ships, but with more space and better views. Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises bought New York Water Taxi in January of this year, which continues to offer its mix of sightseeing, charter and commuter services. he South Street Seaport Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary Peking Says Goodbye Tfrom April 2017 until April 2018. The anniversary was begun with the fter 41 years, the four-masted ringing of the 110-year-old bronze bell aboard the lightship Ambrose . The APeking, built in 1911, is leaving the celebration will continue with new exhibits, performances and lectures. A South Street Seaport Museum to return cocktail reception was held in September aboard the 1885-built ship Wavertree . to the place she was built, Hamburg,

58 • Fall 2017 PowerShips n Chemical Pioneer, SSHSA 2011 Special Recognition Award honoree, is seen outbound in . – G. Justin Zizes, Jr., photo. fall, as the NYPD Scuba Team searched build the canal. The kickoff celebration the water for a camera that the SEAL will be in Rome, New York, the site Bfrie s had been carrying. of the groundbreaking. More public n Sebastian de Elcano visited New events were scheduled to be held at the York in May as part of its LXXXIX H amilton Honored World Canal Conference in Syracuse Training Cruise. The ship serves to s part of Fleet Week, the crew in September. The Lois McClure, a train future Spanish naval officers. Aof USCGC Hamilton honored the replica canal schooner run by the Lake n The Brooklyn opened Coast Guard’s founder, Alexander Champlain Maritime Museum, will in May for its third season. The Hamilton, with a ceremony at his grave tour the state. Cities, towns and villages waterfront restaurant and bar, located at Trinity Church. Also attending along the canal will be celebrating with in Greenpoint, offers wonderful views of were some of the cast of the musical exhibits and events. Manhattan and the . n “Hamilton.” The 418-ft Hamilton is the Genesee Brewery, located in The Propeller Club of New sixth Coast Guard cutter to be named Rochester, New York, imported 12 York and New Jersey hosted a presen- after Alexander Hamilton, and is home- massive brewing tanks from China. Part tation from Liz McEnaney, executive ported in Charleston, South Carolina. of their journey, 225 miles, took place on director of The SS Columbia Project Fleet Week was the cutter’s inaugural the Erie Canal, where crowds turned out and an architectural historian and pres- voyage to New York City. to watch the spectacle. ervationist. The 115-year-old steamship is scheduled to be in New York in 2018. M ore Whales in New York L ong Island News hale watching has become he Huntington Lighthouse n Write G. Justin Zizes, Jr. at Wa thing in New York City. TPreservation Society said that 147 East 37th Street, New York, New York According to Gotham Whale, a New an 800-pound piece of construction 10016 or [email protected] York-based marine tracking group, 50 equipment was stolen off a barge set whales have been seen in the city since up for repairs to the lighthouse. This 2011. It’s thought that efforts to clean up was the fourth act of theft or vandalism the waters around the city, and limits on against the contractor. fishing, have resulted in an increase in Fire Island Ferries has discontinued menhaden, which are favored by whales. its 1 a.m. service out of Ocean Beach Whale-watching trips are offered by because of what the company called various ferry and cruise companies. “undesirables with no morals.” Ocean Beach Mayor James S. Mallott and Fire G ood Times Islands Ferry president Tim Mooney on the Erie Canal made the decision after a lengthy he Erie Canal is celebrating its meeting. The situation had gotten so T200th anniversary from 2017 to bad that it was feared that the crew were 2025, representing the time it took to being put in jeopardy.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 59 T wo New Cats anish domestic operator DMolslinjen, formerly called Mols- Linien, took delivery of its newly built InCat Express 3 following an 8,000-nautical-mile journey from her n ’s fast ferry/catamaran Express 3 on the way into Port of , . The birthplace in Tasmania. With a capacity ship sails between Odden, Norway, and Aarhus. (See “Two New Cats”) – News Oresand photo. for 1,000 passengers and 417 cars, she’ll be the largest vessel in the company’s b) Saga Star c) Girolata d) Saga Star e) Dieppe, The 1972-built Regula was originally four-vessel fleet. which will become a freight-only ferry. built for the short, busy crossing between Spanish operator Naviera Armas , Sweden, and Helsinor, has ordered a 74-million-euro sister C lassic Ferries Find New Life Denmark. Displaced by the construction ship from InCat for delivery in 2019. eflecting the dearth of second- of the Oresund Bridge, she moved north The vessel will be the first newly built Rhand ferry tonnage available for to for a decade of service on catamaran to join the Armas fleet, purchase in Europe, several classic coastal routes there for owner Saaremaa which currently consists of two other vessels have found new life with new Laevakompanii. In late 2016, in her 44th high-speed ferries and half a dozen operators, in some cases starting their year of operation, she was acquired by modern conventional ferries. fourth or fifth careers. another Estonian operator, Praamid, for The 37-year-old Regina Baltica a) Viking further service. P olferries Expands Song b) Braemar c) Baltica d) Anna Karenina e) Her former running mate, the olish operator has Anna K, which spent the last five years as 1971-built St. Ola a) Svea Scarlett b) Ppurchased the Drujba a) Murillo from an offshore accommodation vessel for the Eckero c) Eck has been acquired by her Bulgarian owners for service on the wind industry, was converted back into a Italian operator Medmar and renamed company’s routes connecting Poland and ferry in Vigo, Spain, for Spanish operator Medmar Giulia for further service in the Sweden. She’ll be renamed Cracovia for her Balearia’s new route between Valencia, Mediterranean. new service. The vessel was built in 2002 by Spain, and Mostaganem, Algeria. The Further south, two of Moby Lines’ Astilleros Espanoles, part of a series of five refit included the removal of a massive redundant ferries – the 42-year-old vessels nicknamed the “Race Horses.” She helicopter platform that occupied the entire Moby Love a) Saint Eloi b) Channel Entente replaces the 1981-built Baltivia a) Sagaland space between the ship’s bow and bridge. c) King Orry d) Moby Love e) Moby Love 2 and 41-year-old Moby Baby a) Svea Drott b) Earl Godwin – have been acquired by the Portuguese company Portucalence for further service in the Azores Islands. The 45-year-old St. Damian a) Viking 3 b) Wasa Express c) Roslagen d) Ionian Spirit was brought back to life, after four years in layup, by Italian operator Red Star Ferries for service between Brindisi, Italy, and Valona, Albania. Her running mate, the Red Star 1 a) Viking III b) Terje Vigen c) Scandinavia d) Fenno Star e) Sagafjord f) n MF Regina Baltica going to Stockholm on April 23, 2006. (See “Classic Ferries”) – Tapio photo Gabriel Scott, is even more elderly, having been built in 1965.

60 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Moby Dazzles talian operator Moby Lines has Ibecome famous – or perhaps infamous, depending on one’s perspective – for the huge murals that cover the sides of many of the company’s vessels. These murals depict characters from the Warner Brothers stable, such as the Looney Toons cartoon characters and cartoon superheroes. This year, Moby has introduced the concept to associated company Tirrenia’s fleet as well. The Sharden has a Batman/Joker livery while the Nuraghes has received the Batman/ n Wreck of the Panagia Tinou at Piraeus, Greece, August 2016. (See “End of the Line”) – Wonder Woman treatment. Lindemann97 photo. Kydon Enters Service with a Bang F ormer Swedish F erries Reach the well-publicized incident marked to Iran End of the Line A the entry into service of the well- he former Swedish Railway/Stena fter spending almost a year travelled ANEK Lines-owned ferry TL ine rail ferry Sunny a) Trelleborg b) Apartially capsized in the Great Kydon a) Hermes b) Sof Venizelos c) Sophocles Salam 2 has found a new life linking the Harbor of Piraeus, Greece, the V d) Elisabeth L e) Sophocles V for her new Iranian ports of Qeshim and Kish on what 1972-built Panagia Tinou a) Hengist b) operators, Ferries del Caribe. Operating is optimistically described as a “cruise Stena Hengist c) Romilda d) Apollo Express between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and service.” Built in 1981 in Sweden for the 2 e) Panagia Ekatontapiliani f) Express Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Swedish Railway’s train ferry service Artemis g) Panagia Ekatontapiliani h) Agios Kydon experienced a mechanical failure between Trelleborg, Sweden, and Sassnitz, Giorgios was finally righted and raised resulting in the vessel aliding with a quay East Germany, she was subsequently in March. She was subsequently towed of the Puerto Don Diego terminal at acquired by , then , to Aliaga, Turkey, for scrapping. the port of Santo Domingo. No one was always remaining on the same route. Stena Other ferries scrapped this quarter injured. Several vans and containers at reduced service on the route in 2014, and include the 1973-built Sveti Stefan II the port were destroyed, and the ferry’s the ship spent two years laid up in German, a) Prinz Hamlet b) Prins Hamlet c) Stena ramp was damaged. The 29,991-gt ferry Swedish and Greek ports before moving to Baltic d) Nieborow and 1991-built Ocean was built in 1991. her new Iranian owners earlier this year. Grand a) Ferry Lavender b) Ionian King c) Victory Step d) Ocean Rose, which ended her days in Alang, India. In May 2017, fire swept through the abandoned 1965-built former ferry Tuxedo Royale a) Dover b) Earl Siward c) Sol Express, which was laid up awaiting scrapping at a scrapyard on the River Tees in England. The retired Sealink ferry spent many years as a popular nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before falling on hard times and permanently closing. 

n Write Ted Blank at 1576 Grotto n Ro/ro Kydon docked at the port of Heraklion, Greece. (See “Kydon Enters Service With a Street North, St Paul, MN 55117 Bang”) – C. Messier photo. or [email protected]

PowerShips F all 2017 • 61 The other four ferries in the The 1906-commissioned, 570-ft liner Islands fleet are due to be was employed on the Quebec City- replaced between 2019 and 2026. That’s to-Liverpool run and is now classified when three new vessels costing $28.1 as cultural property of the Canadian million Canadian arrive to replace federal government. the existing vessels, which were built The same museum also features the between 1935 and 1960. The new 2017-restored, 1909-built, Pointe-au-Père ferries, while being state-of-the-art, lighthouse, Canada’s second-highest at T oronto Ferries are expected to reflect Toronto ferry 108 feet tall. Lighthouse admission this heritage in their appearance. year is free as part of the Canada 150 celebrations, and includes access to the Empress of Ireland Exhibit lantern room. To find out more, visit larger ferry, which has been a www.shmp.qc.ca . AS t. L awrence River wreck for 103 years, is the subject of a new exhibition R esort Features at the Site historique maritime de la Titanic Dinner Pointe-au-Père (maritime history site nother liner was revisited almost n PS Trillium in drydock. – Alex Laney photo. and museum) in Rimouski, Quebec. Aon the 105th anniversary of its elieved to be the only sidewheeler This Empress of Ireland exhibit, in both 1912 sinking. A Titanic-themed dinner Bin regular operation in North English and French, recounts the was held April 8 at the Omni Mount America and the largest and oldest 14-minute sinking of the 14,191-grt Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, Toronto ferry, the 1910-built PS Trillium Canadian Pacific liner in thick fog in New Hampshire. Called The Last Dinner sat in drydock during the month of May 1914. Costing 1,024 lives, she remains on the Titanic, it recreated the last full for inspection and repairs. Transport the greatest passenger tragedy in meal served in the first-class dining saloon Canada inspectors came back with a Canadian history. on the night of April 14, 1912. positive report, but said that about 400 Over 200 objects, photos, archival Billed as an immersive culinary square feet, or ten percent, of the hull documents and written testimonies of experience, the $225-per-plate, 11-course needed replacing. survivors and their descendants are dinner primarily occurred in the To enable the operation, a 150-ton included. There is also a 20-minute video Ammonoosuc Room, which features a barge was temporarily sunk with the show with visual and sensory effects that crystal chandelier made by the same firm Trillium subsequently placed over it. The recreates the hours on board just prior that made those on the Titanic. The resort, barge was then refloated by pumping to the tragic sinking. Other videos and which opened in 1902, is considered one out water and forcing compressed air photos cover recent diving expeditions of the last remaining grand hotels, and into its ballast chambers. The two-day to the wreck, which isn’t far from the calls its chandelier a twin to the ill-fated job required three divers and likely museum itself. White Star liner’s light fixtures. cost more than $100,000 Canadian. Previously, this work would have required the Trillium to sail to the Niagara area. The 673-gt, 150-ft ferry, with a 30- foot beam, must be drydocked every five years per Transport Canada regulations. Able to carry 955 passengers, she has been in regular service since 1976 after a 19-year hiatus and restoration. Mostly used now for special cruises around the Toronto Islands, the Trillium still provides peak-summer relief to the islands when needed. In her heyday she reportedly carried Babe Ruth to Hanlan’s Point, n The Empress of Ireland five years before her fateful collision. – Photo courtesy of Pointe-au- where he hit his first professional home Père Maritime Historic Site, Quebec. run.

62 • Fall 2017 PowerShips destroyed or badly damaged. open in its temporary Portsmouth Olym- Wrecks Studied A survivor is defined as someone pic Harbour location, with a new free- hree wrecked ships from the who was living in either Halifax or admission exhibit called The Maritime Tearly 1900s near Bridgeport, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, when the History of Kingston. The museum expects Connecticut, are part of an $8 million Halifax City Hall clock stopped forever that a new and permanent location large federally funded study. These canal at 9:04 a.m. on December 6, 1917. enough to accommodate its entire collec- are part of a State Historic If you can help, please contact Jennifer tion will take several years to arrange. In Preservation Office survey to better Weagle in the Municipal Clerk’s Office at the meantime, the repository will provide understand the state of wrecks and how (902) 490-6517 or [email protected] . community outreach programming to lo- they may be affected by future storms cal schools and Kingston in general. and other environmental factors. The P atrol Vessels Under project was precipitated by Superstorm Construction Sandy in 2012 and aims to collect data urrently under construction on vulnerable historic sites along the Cin Halifax is the Royal Canadian coast both on land and underwater. Navy’s upcoming Harry DeWolf Lying just five feet below the surface, class of Arctic and Offshore Patrol the vessels were once used to transport Vessels. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, people and goods before they sank in wife of Canadian prime minister Justin 1974. “There are only a few examples Trudeau, has agreed to sponsor the first, [of wooden-hulled canal barges] that Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Harry n The CCGS Alexander Henry. – Wladys- we have and these three are stacked on DeWolf . law Taxiarchos photo. top of each other,” said Nick DeLong, The $3.5 billion Canadian program, The Kingston museum’s CCGS Alexander a nautical archaeologist involved with begun in 2007, will encompass six ships Henry has received unanimous approval the project. “Super storms could pick up providing armed sea-borne surveillance, to return to her birthplace. The Thunder wrecks and move them. Hurricanes and with the Harry DeWolf expected to Bay, Ontario, city council has agreed in the health of the seas can play a large enter service in 2018. The ice-capable principal to make the former a role in where these wrecks are today.” ship, built by Irving Shipbuilding, will waterfront tourist attraction. The Lakehead Superstorm Sandy likely didn’t have displace 6,440 tonnes and use two diesel- Transportation Museum Society would much of an impact on the Priscilla Dailey electric engines providing a combined move the vessel from her current Kingston a) Elizabeth E. Newell, the Elmer S. Dailey a) 6,000 horsepower and 17 knots. home to the Port Arthur (now Thunder Claire B. Follette or the Berkshire No. 7, but The 340-ft vessel is named for Vice- Bay) shipyard where she was built in 1959 the data on the three Admiral Harry DeWolf, a World War on the shores of Lake Superior. ships is more complete now. II-decorated naval commander who Councillor Iain Angus compared the The wrecks are listed with the National took part in the rescue and evacuation Canadian ship to the USS Midway, an Register of Historic Places and managed by of Allied troops from Dunkirk after aircraft carrier museum in San Diego, the U.S. Department of the Interior. the fall of France in 1940. Known as a California. “That ship was the subject of fearless and bold tactician throughout the much debate in the community. For the L ooking For Halifax war, he spent 14 months commanding price of $100,000, people thought they Explosion Survivors HMCS Haida, which led in the sinking couldn’t afford (her) and now that ship ith the 100th anniversary of of many enemy ships on numerous brings in millions to that community. Wthe Halifax Explosion – the largest Atlantic convoy escort duties. This Different magnitude, but just an non-atomic, man-made explosion in history effort earned DeWolf a Distinguished example of how when you have a vision – just weeks away, the committee overseeing Service Order for gallantry. He also and you work towards it, it pays off in the commemoration of the maritime received a Distinguished Service Cross the long term.” disaster is seeking all living survivors. for his courage and skill in action against The city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, German . He later became Special thanks to Loring Lawrence for wants to formally recognize these Chief of Naval Staff. helping with this column.  centenarians in a ceremony. That event will recall the morning when over 1,600 Museum in n Write Roddy Sergiades at people were killed instantly, another Temporary Quarters 15 Brown St., Port Hope, Ontario, L1A 3C8 9,000 were injured and every building he Marine Museum of the Great Canada, or [email protected] within 1.6 miles of Halifax Harbour was TL akes in Kingston, Ontario, is now PowerShips F all 2017 • 63 Aal ska

his year has seen a considerable Tamount of construction and repair activity take place at Pacific Coast shipyards, while several maritime accidents have featured in the general press. Two of the latter involved tug-and- barge tows moving along the southern n Matson has fitted its three D7-class container ships serving the Alaska trade, Matson Alaska coast, with the tug Samson Kodiak, Matson Tacoma and Matson Anchorage, with new exhaust gas scrubber Mariner grounding in the Inside Passage systems. (See “New Scrubbers,” page 65) – Photo courtesy of Matson. northwest of Ketchikan while towing the container barge St. Elias, followed only the Hubbard following in 2019. Both ships Fortunately, the Philippine Red a few weeks later by the tug Ocean Eagle will be 280 feet long and seat up to 300 Cross was willing to take the ferry off grounding in Sumner Strait with a deck passengers while carrying 53 vehicles. the borough’s hands for $1.75 million barge under tow. They’ll function as day boats, and Tazlina earlier this year, providing that its No injuries were reported among is expected to take over the Lynn Canal water-damaged engines were rebuilt. the crews in both cases, and there was summer service–which connects the Once this was accomplished by the only minor pollution, but they added to a communities of Juneau, Haines and Foss yard at Seattle, Susitna was loaded string of such incidents that worry local Skagway–from 54-year-old Malaspina . aboard Harley Marine Services’ barge residents. Both tows were later refloated, Hubbard will then function as a relief vessel Chatham Provider by the heavylift vessel although Samson Mariner, operated by on Southeast Alaskan routes and may Happy Star and towed 15,000 miles Samson Tug and Barge, required hull eventually replace the 43-year-old LeConte . across the Pacific by Harley’s tug Ernest repairs in Seattle, and its barge was Next up will be a replacement for the Campbell. In its new home, the oddly moved on to its final destination by a tug 1964-built Tustumena (see PowerShips configured but multi-capacity craft will supplied by Brusco Tug & Barge. No.301), with the Alaskan Department of provide relief supply transport, medical The two groundings follow the more Transport expected to sign a construction services and humanitarian training serious grounding of the tug Nathan contract for the ship, estimated to cost $240 among the Philippine islands. E. Stewart near Bella Bella, British million, once state funding is in place. Columbia, late last year, in which more New Pilot Boat than 110,000 liters of diesel fuel were F erry Export lthough Alaskan shipyards have spilled (see PowerShips No. 301). Canada n unwanted Alaskan ferry that Abeen gaining an increasing number is now examining restrictions on the Ahas finally found a new home is the of construction contracts, the Southwest movement of petroleum products along 195-ft Susitna, a SWATH-type craft that Alaska Pilots Association in Homer, its western coast. cost nearly $80 million to build as an Alaska, selected the Gladding-Hearn experimental vessel for the U.S. Office of yard at Somerset, Massachusetts, to F erry Construction Naval Research and was then “gifted” to build a new pilot boat that is scheduled n a brighter note, the Vigor Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough for for delivery in 2018. The 75.7-ft by Oyard at Ketchikan joined the use as a ferry across Knik Arm. However, 20.6-ft, all-aluminum vessel will feature forward and aft sections of the new the boat’s intended service between a deep “V” hull and will be powered ferry Tazlina Anchorage and Port Mackenzie never by twin 1,400-hp Cummins EPA Tier in mid-year and has started cutting steel materialized because of a lack of funding 3 diesels driving a pair of Hamilton for sister ferry Hubbard. The lead ship is for terminals, and the borough was left HM651 water jets via ZF gearing for a scheduled to be delivered next year, with with an expensive vessel to maintain. speed of 28 knots.

64 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Damen has signed an agreement with New Cutter Briti sh Columbia Point Hope Shipyards on Vancouver lso gaining a new out-of-state- Second-Hand Ferry Island to perform any warranty work Abuilt boat is the Coast Guard base ritish Columbia’s BC Ferries has required following delivery. in Ketchikan, Alaska, which has been Bbeen taking delivery of a number of chosen as the first station on the Pacific new LNG-fueled ferries in recent months H ybrid Ferries Coast to receive one of the service’s (see PowerShips No. 301), but it has chosen anada’s Seaspan Ferries new Fast Response Cutters. Following a to return to the second-hand market for CCorporation, part of the Vancouver- 6,200-nautical-mile positioning voyage a vessel to operate between Port Hardy based Seaspan Group, officially from Key West, Florida, the 154-ft on Vancouver Island and Bella Coola. commissioned its two new dual-fueled/ USCGC John McCormick was commissioned Selected for the task has been the 2,679- hybrid (LNG, diesel and battery) ferries at the Ketchikan base earlier this year and grt Aqua Spirit, a ferry acquired from Seaspan Swift and Seaspan Reliant at Delta, will be used to conduct fisheries patrols, Greek interests. The 17-year-old ro-ro British Columbia, in late spring. Built search-and-rescue operations and national formerly operated in the Mediterranean by Turkey’s Sedef Shipyard, Seaspan defense missions . and is expected to be modified to meet Swift entered operation in January BC Ferries’ requirements. As the new BC while Seaspan Reliant started service in New Scrubbers Ferries units enter service, older ferries May, both transporting commercial atson has completed the are being retired, with the 1960s-built truck trailers between the Canadian Minstallation of hybrid wet exhaust Queen of Burnaby and Queen of Nanaimo up mainland and Vancouver Island. The gas cleaning technology on all three of for disposal. twin 148.9-meter-long vessels can its D7-class container ships serving the accommodate up to 59 53-ft trailers each Alaska trade following redelivery of New Ferries and are the first newbuilds to join FS C’s the 1987-built Matson Anchorage in May. wo smaller BC ferries to be fleet since 2002. Their arrival has seen Sister ships Matson Kodiak and Matson Treplaced are the 59-year-old North the 1973-built trailer ferry Carrier Princess Tacoma had previously undergone the Island Princess and the 53-year-old Quadra listed for sale. same procedure, which sees a closed loop Queen II, aging vessels that are expected system installed that sprays fresh water to be retired in 2020 when two new C atamaran Ferries treated with sodium hydroxide into the ferries are delivered by Holland’s Damen n mid-May, V2V Vacations, owned vessel’s exhaust system. The water is Shipyards Group. The twin 81-meter- Iby Australia’s Riverside Marine, then re-collected, treated and offloaded long vessels, to be built by Damen’s yard launched an up-scale passenger-only in port for disposal in accordance with in Galati, Romania, will have a capacity ferry service between Vancouver and environmental regulations. of 44 vehicles and up to 300 passengers. using the 254-passenger catamaran V2V Empress a) Famille Dufour II. Although ticket prices for the 3.5- hour transit between the two cities had originally been estimated at around 80 Canadian dollars, the final prices came in at 120 Canadian dollars in Premium class, 199 Canadian dollars in First Class and 240 Canadian dollars in Royal Class, with children’s fares the same as adult fares in all classes except Premium, and passengers in First and Royal receiving a complimentary meal. The undertaking, which represents an investment of 10 million Canadian dollars by Riverside, must compete with an air fare of 207 Canadian dollars for n New Canadian ferry operator V2V Vacations placed the 254-passenger catamaran V2V the same passage and the fare of 17.20 Empress in service between downtown Vancouver, BC, and Victoria, BC, in May. (See Canadian dollars charged by BC Ferries “Catamaran Ferries”) – Photo courtesy of V2V. for its 1.5-hour run between Tsawwassen and Vancouver Island’s Swartz Bay. In

PowerShips F all 2017 • 65 addition, Clipper Navigation, currently operating services between Victoria and Seattle, has indicated that it plans to open a Vancouver-Victoria route next year using the 2003-built catamaran Halunder Jet, which can carry 579 passengers.

Wai sh ngton Chimacum Delivered he Vigor yard at Seattle has Tdelivered the Olympic-class ferry Chimacum to , with the 144-car-capacity vessel employed on the Seattle-Bremerton route. However, before crew training was fully completed in May the vessel had to be placed into emergency service n Washington State’s latest Olympic-class ferry, the 144-car capacity Chimacum, has for several weeks after the 1980-built entered service on the Seattle/Bremerton route. (See “Chimacum Delivered”) – Photo courtesy of Kitsap suffered a failure Washington State Ferries. and the 49-year-old Kaleetan was out of service for repair. Chimacum as the first of two twin-screw boats the Prophet, built by Louisiana’s Conrad will be followed by the fourth Olympic- yard is building for the company. A Shipyard. Designed by Entech Designs class ferry next year when the 362-ft by sister, Mount Drum, will join Kirby’s fleet LLC, the 4,560-hp tugs will incorporate 83-ft Suquamish enters service. The new before the end of the year. Propulsion is Articouple FRC55 pin connections to ferries are powered by twin EMD 12-710 provided by two 2,337-hp Caterpillar mate with the barges. engines producing 6,000 horsepower to 3516C engines driving NautiCAN The somewhat unique names for the give a service speed of 17 knots. fixed-pitch propellers through Reintjes vessels are the result of Harley Marine’s reduction gears. long-standing commitment to medical New Vigor Drydock A second Washington yard, the research, particularly in the fields of ooking at Washington State JT Marine facility on the Columbia cancer, cystic fibrosis and diabetes, and LF erries’ future requirements for new River, has delivered a 110-ft by 40- to honor its senior vice president and construction, as well as repairs, Seattle’s ft multipurpose tractor tug to Vessel chief financial officer, Todd Prophet, Vigor shipyard has entered into an Chartering LLC, a subsidiary of San who has been fighting lung cancer. agreement to purchase a 640-ft by 116-ft Francisco’s Baydelta Maritime, for long- drydock from South Korea that will have term charter to Foss Maritime as Caden University Ships a 20,000-long-ton lifting capacity and Foss. Designed by Jensen Maritime, the regon State University has is expected to be operational before the new boat is powered by twin Cat 3516E Ochosen a final design for its new end of this year. Potential construction diesels of 6,770-hp combined output to Regional Class Research Vessel– contracts include replacements for give a bollard pull of 95 tons. with the possibility that several other Washington State Ferries’ four 50-year-old universities will select the same basic Super-class vessels, Kaleetan, Hyak, Yakima design–but it has chosen the Gulf and Elwha, all now nearing retirement, Oregon Coast’s Gulf Island Shipyards, formerly while the ferry system as a whole has seen Gunderson Built Leevac Shipyards, to build the 193-ft its ridership continue to grow, with 24.2 he , Oregon-based ship, rather than a West Coast facility. million passengers carried last year. TGunderson Marine yard on the The state-of-the-art research vessel has delivered the will be completed to ABS Ice-Class News Tug 430-ft by 76-ft ATB petroleum barges C0 and DPS-1 standards. However, a he Nichols Brothers Boat One Dream and All Aboard For A Cure to firm contract cannot be signed until the TB uilders yard on Whidbey Island Seattle’s Harley Marine Services, which National Science Foundation, the ship’s has delivered the 120-ft by 35-ft tugboat is teaming them with the twin 116-ft eventual owner, approves construction Mount Baker to Kirby Offshore Marine by 36-ft pushtugs One Cure and Todd E. funding (see PowerShips No 299).

66 • Fall 2017 PowerShips four ships expected to replace the four C alifornia Shifting Sherman 1979-80-built container carriers Horizon WETA Ferries mong the West Coast’s historic acquired with the Horizon Lines an Francisco Bay’s Water Avessels, the 94-year-old General purchase. These include Horizon Spirit SEmergency Transit Authority has taken Frank M. Coxe has perhaps seen the most a) Benjamin Harrison and Horizon Reliance delivery of Hydrus and Cetus, the first two movement over the years, despite the fact a) Edward Rutledge, originally built for in a series of four 400-passenger ferries that it is non-powered. Originally built Waterman Steamship, and Horizon Pacific being built by Seattle’s Vigor Shipyard. for the U.S. Army in 1922 to provide a) Austral Pioneer and Horizon Enterprise a) These 135-ft by 38-ft twin-hulled vessels, transportation between military bases Austral Puritan, finished for Farrell Lines. which cost approximately $15 million each in San Francisco Bay, the 144-ft steam to build, are powered by twin MTU Tier ferry continued in that occupation under H onolulu Holdouts 3 engines driving five-bladedM ichigan private ownership after the war until wo very old vessels that have propellers to give a service speed of 27 sold for conversion into “The Showboat Tlong been nautical landmarks knots. The final two Incat Crowther- Restaurant & Wheelhouse Lounge” at in Honolulu harbor, the 140-year-old designed ferries will follow next year, while Stockton, California, in the 1950s. It was Falls of Clyde and 70-year- three larger boats are expected to join the later moved to Oakland’s Jack London old dinner excursion vessel Kulamanu, WETA fleet by 2020. Square in the 1960s where it continued to have both been ordered to leave the operate under the same name. In the 1970s port by the Harbor Division of Hawaii’s H ybrid Brigantine it was moved to Burlingame, California, Department of Transportation. However, just south of San Francisco, to become neither may be seaworthy enough to the “Pattaya Princess,” a Thai restaurant. do so . Falls of Clyde, considered the only Closed in the 1990s, the old ship sat for surviving iron-hulled, four-masted, nearly a decade before being opened again full-rigged ship, and the only surviving as “The Sherman” but was vacant again sail-driven , has been on display within a few years. In 2014 it was towed at Pier 7 for decades, but her hull has back to Stockton where it was expected substantially deteriorated over the years. to debut as “The Queen Stockton” but A drive has been launched to return her n The sail training vessel Matthew Turner, only became a mural for graffiti artists and to Scotland, where she was built in 1878, which incorporates an auxiliary hybrid propul- a home for squatters. Earlier this year the but this would still require a great deal of sion system, was launched at Sausalito, Califor- tug American Eagle, operated by Oakland’s money as well as an inspection to see if nia, in April. – Photo courtesy of BAE Systems. Oscar Niemeth Towing, was called upon her hull could bear the strain. If not, she he non-profit organization Call to move the old boat back down the San may have to be scuttled. Tof the Sea has launched its sail Joaquin River to Vallejo, California, for The 1946-built Kulamanu, long training vessel Matthew Turner at yet another attempt at reconstruction berthed on the other side of Pier 7 from Sausalito, California, and hopes to under the ownership of Sacramento River Falls of Clyde, originally operated on the fit masts and have the boat ready for Resort, Inc. The new owners hope to East Coast as Wilson Line’s Delaware Belle sea trials this autumn. Designed by return the old vessel to its former glory as b) Hudson Belle c) George Washington but Tri-Coastal Marine of Richmond, a floating restaurant but have yet to find a was given a bow sprit and four masts for California, the 100-foot-long two- port within greater San Francisco Bay that operation as dinner Rella Mae off masted brigantine incorporates an will accept the ship. Waikiki in 1980, a venture that failed auxiliary hybrid propulsion system in the late 1990s. Earlier this year she that utilizes a pair of 300-hp Cummins Hawaii conducted sea trials in preparation for a engines driving two variable-speed Pasha Hawaii Orders possible move to California but has since hybrid generators in combination with asha Hawaii, which acquired the remained in port. The Hawaii Maritime a large battery bank. The batteries PHawaii division of Horizon Lines in Center on Pier 7, which sits between the are charged even while the vessel is 2014, has chosen the Keppel AmFELS two vessels, has been closed since 2009 traveling under sail because water yard at Brownsville, Texas, a subsidiary because of economic conditions.  flowing along the hull continues to turn of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & the propellers and connected propulsion Marine, to build two new LNG-fueled, n Write James L. Shaw at motors, which then become generators 2,525-TEU container ships for the [email protected] or 11466 SE to produce electricity in a manner Hawaiian trade. The contract contains Hidalgo Ct., Clackamas, OR 97105 similar to a hybrid car going downhill. an option for two further vessels, with the

PowerShips F all 2017 • 67 2017 Season Off & Running ith minimal ice to contend Wwith, the 2017 Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway season got off to a fast start. The locks at Sault Ste. Marie, n CSL St. Laurent opened the 2017 season on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The vessel is shown Michigan, opened to commercial traffic in the Welland Canal on March 22 sporting The Sea Keeper mural. – Jeff Cameron photo. shortly after midnight on March 25 when Interlake Steamship Company’s lounge was converted to a 190-seat live “Travel in Good Spirits” was applied to Stewart J. Cort passed upbound. The first entertainment venue along with a new Chi-Cheemaun’s bows. The First Nation- downbound vessel to transit the Soo bar and seating. Last year, the vessel themed artwork joined the artwork locks was the Philip R. Clarke the same underwent extensive renovations to the applied to the smokestack last year. day. More than ten vessels transited the cafeteria. The modernization project is The investment is intended to help Soo locks during opening day. expected to be completed next year with make the vessel a destination. Regular The Welland Canal opened March upgrades to the play area and gallery. service between Tobermory and South 20 with the upbound passage of Lower Over the winter, a mural titled Baymouth began May 5. Lakes Towing’s Robert S. Pierson a) Wolverine. Captain Ted Brown received the top hat in the traditional ceremony at Lock 3 before the vessel continued its Camille Marcoux voyage to Cleveland, Ohio. Delivered to Canada Steamship Lines’ Seaway- sized bulker CSL St-Laurent opened the Scrapyard St. Lawrence Seaway on March 20 when the vessel entered the St. Lambert lock. The vessel, on a voyage to , was adorned with a mural titled “The Sea Keeper.” The five-story mural depicting a Canada goose in flight was painted on the vessel’s deck houses to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada and the 375th anniversary of the City of Montreal. The mural was designed by Montreal urban artist Bryan Beyung and created by artists of the n Le Marc being towed through the Welland Canal on April 26, 2017. – Jeff Cameron photo. A’shop art collective. he retired automobile and passenger ferry Camille Marcoux was sold Tto Marine Recycling Corporation over the winter and was towed from Chi-Cheemaun Quebec City to Port Colborne, Ontario, for demolition. The vessel was built in Receives Upgrades 1974 and connected communities across the lower St. Lawrence River until it he Tobermory-to-Manitoulin was replaced by F.-A.-Gauthier in 2015. After its name had been shortened to Le TIsland vehicle and passenger ferry Marc, the vessel departed Quebec City on April 22 in tow of McKeil’s tug Lois Chi-Cheemaun continues a three-year M. a) Lambert with Jarrett M. a) Atomic assisting. The vessel was delivered to the modernization program. During winter scrapyard on April 27. layup, the forward area containing a

68 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Bay, Ontario. The vessel was ultimately Desgagnés in May while the vessel was Scrappings completed in Thunder Bay and entered docked in Quebec. The vessel was built lgoma Central Corporation’s service on June 13, 1983. It spent its entire in Rongcheng, China, and has spent AJohn B. Aird was sold for scrap this career under the Algoma Central banner. the majority of its career owned by the spring, and the Seaway-sized self-unloader Italian company Italtech. A third vessel, left in tow for Aliaga, Turkey. After a Desgagnés Adds Vessels the small general cargo vessel Ofmar, was short winter lay-up in Godrich, Ontario, roupe Desgagnés added several purchased by Desgagnés this spring and the vessel fitted out and departedA pril 1 Gvessels to its fleet during this news renamed Argintia Desgagnés. This vessel with a cargo of salt. After unloading in cycle. The general cargo vessel BBC was built in Turkey in 2007 and has been Ogdensburg, New York, and Prescott, Amazon a) Hatzum was purchased and under Turkish registry its entire career. Canada, it arrived at Montreal on April 5 renamed Taiga Desgagnés in April. The As of this writing, the new Desgagnés and was retired. The vessel, sporting the vessel was upbound on the St. Lawrence vessel has yet to visit Canada. name John B., departed Montreal on May for the first time April 27 bound for Groupe Desgagnés’ subsidiary Petro- 11 behind the deep-sea tug VB Hispania Burns Harbor. It was built at , Nav welcomed the first of a new class with Ocean Charlie assisting along the St. China, in 2007 as Hatzum, but has spent of tanker when Damia Desgagnés was Lawrence River. the majority of its life sailing in the Briese christened in Montreal on May 18. The The stern of John B. Aird was built at Schiffahrts fleet. Groupe Desgagnés also vessel was built at Besiktas Shipyard Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, purchased the 2013 general cargo vessel in Yalova, Turkey, and its ability to Ontario, while the bow section was built Sider Tis a) Montelema b) BBT Ocean early carry fuel, chemicals and asphalt at Port Arthur Shipyards in Thunder this year and renamed the vessel Acadia simultaneously is considered a first. The vessel can be powered by heavy fuel oil, marine diesel oil or liquefied natural gas. Damia Desgagnés is the first of four A lgoma Delay Over tankers scheduled to be built to these specifications.

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n Algoma Strongfield unloads its first cargo in Hamilton, Ontario, June 8, 2017. – Jeff preservation and Cameron photo. promotion of Great

fter a two-year delay, Algoma Central Corporation finally took Lakes shipping’s past Apossession of its fourth Equinox-class bulker, Algoma Strongfield, in late May. and present for future The delay began in 2015, when Nantong Mingde Heavy Industries shipyard generations to enjoy. in Nantong City, China, filed for bankruptcy with Canada Wheat Board’s CWB Strongfield nearing completion. Algoma Central was able to acquire the Please join us! vessel and complete its construction. The vessel departed China on April 3 CONTACT sporting the name Algoma Strongfield and, after fueling in the Philippines and Jim Hoffman transiting the Panama Canal, arrived in Port Cartier, Quebec, on May 30 to Membership Services load iron ore for Hamilton. 4635 Mallory Court The ship will join her sisters Algoma Equinox, Algoma Harvester and G3 Marquis a) Department P CWB Strongfield, which are already in operation. As a continuation of its ongoing Toledo, OH 43623 modernization program, Algoma Central is scheduled to have seven self-unloading MHSD

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PowerShips F all 2017 • 69 H eritage Marine Makes Substantial Moves R escue on Lake Erie ugboat service returned to Two THarbors, Minnesota, for the first time since Edna G. was removed from service at the conclusion of the 1980 season. At the beginning of this sailing season, Heritage Marine stationed Nancy J. a) Point Comfort b) Horace at the busy port to assist with vessels arriving and departing. Nancy J. was built in 1964 by Main Iron Works as the Point Comfort for Point Comfort Towing. In 2004 n A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Marblehead, Ohio, observes as an MH-65 she was renamed Horace. Heritage Marine Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Detroit hovers over the cargo vessel Joseph H. Thompson acquired the vessel in 2014 and renamed in lower Lake Erie near Marblehead May 10, 2017. – Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren it Nancy J. The 1896-built Edna G. is a Laughlin, U.S. Coast Guard District 9. museum in Two Harbors, but its future is crewmember was airlifted from the tug/barge Joseph H. Thompson Jr. and uncertain because of the vessel’s condition. A Joseph H. Thompson a) Marine Robin on May 12 while the vessel sailed on Lake Nancy J. and the other vessels of Heritage Erie near Marblehead, Ohio. The Coast Guard dispatched a 45-foot response Marine share a color scheme with the boat with a medic from Marblehead along with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway, from Detroit. The crew member was flown to Firelands Regional Medical Center longtime owner of Edna G . in Sandusky, Ohio, where he was listed in stable condition. Heritage Marine has also been busy this year, replacing two tugs with new on June 1 and will visit more than ten St. acquisitions. The company sold the tug Atlantic Enterprise Lawrence River ports before leaving our Edward H. to Marine Tech, a Duluth, Departs Lakes region. The voyage is expected to conclude Minnesota-based marine construction fter a nine-month visit to our October 28. and company. The vessel now Aregion, Donjon Marine Services’ The vessel was built in 1959 at Davie sports the name Jean C. The 86-ft tug was Atlantic Enterprise a) Mister Pete b) Pete c) Shipbuilding in Lauzon, Quebec, as light built in 1944 and spent the majority of its Barents Sea departed Erie, Pennsylvania, icebreaker CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert for life as a member of the Army Corps of on May 19 for the East Coast. The tug the Department of Transport Marine Engineers’ fleet asForney . Heritage Marine was transporting the crane barge Farrel Service. It was part of the Canadian also sold the tug Nels J. to the Mount 256 to Donjon Marine’s Port Newark, Coast Guard until it was retired in 2001. Clemens, Michigan-based Dean Marine New Jersey, facility. The barge has been GTX Technology Canada acquired the & Excavating Inc., which renamed the tug in Erie since 2011. McKeil’s tug Jarrett M. vessel, renamed it Polar Prince and rebuilt Madison R. The vessel was built in 1957 at a) Atomic assisted the pair through the St. it for icebreaking duty in the Arctic. Port Arthur, Texas, and was brought to Lawrence Seaway. the lakes region in 2009. R enames In the meantime, Heritage Marine Unique Vessel Celebrates SL Group renamed CLS Melbourne acquired two tugs from Fournier Towing Canada’s 150th Birthday Ca) Orientor 2, its 2002-built self- and Ship Service of Belfast, Maine, and emporarily rechristened Canada unloader, CSL Ferbec during the first brought them to the lakes in late May. TC3, GX Technology Canada’s Polar quarter of 2017. The vessel is scheduled The first is the 1952-built towing tug Prince a) CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert is to spend considerable time delivering Taurus a) LT-2078 b) YTM-748 [Yuma] c) visiting the St. Lawrence River and Seaway iron ore from Havre St-Pierre, Quebec, Delaware d) Mobile Point e) Delaware f) Mobile in honor of Canada’s 150th anniversary. to Sorel, Quebec. Point g) Lesli M., which was renamed Nels The vessel will undertake a 150-day voyage During the first week of April, Grand J., replacing the tug sold to Dean Marine from Toronto, Ontario, to Victoria, British River Navigation’s self-unloading barge & Excavating. The second acquisition is Columbia, via the Northwest Passage. The Lewis J. Kuber a) Sparrows Point b) Buckeye the 1970-built Natick-class tug Fort Point a) trip is intended to celebrate diversity and was renamed Menominee. The barge sailed YTB-809 [Agawam], which was renamed inclusion, reconciliation, youth engagement as the powered steamer Sparrows Point and Edward H. and is intended to replace the and the environment. The vessel is Buckeye before being converted to a self- tug sold to Marine Tech. scheduled to begin its voyage at Toronto unloading barge in 2006.

70 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Briefs n We’re sad to report the death “Crown of Miami,” is scheduled for of a Filipino crew member aboard completion by November 2018, when the the Nord Quebec while the new Symphony arrives to begin seven-night vessel visited Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises. in late May. The Transportation Allure of the Seas, currently sailing from Port Safety Board of Canada has begun Everglades, will join her at that time. an investigation, but initial reports claim that the man was struck by a T wo Oasis-Class Ships New $100 Million cable as the vessel was docking. Nord for PortMiami Terminal for NCLH Quebec was built in 2013 and carries a orwegian Cruise Line Holdings Singapore flag. Nwill get a new cruise terminal at n Coastal Shipping’s 1993-built PortMiami by 2020, part of a new 20- tanker Travestern fetched aground on year agreement. Miami-Dade County Lancaster Bar on the St. Lawrence commissioners approved a resolution that River on May 19. The vessel was would build a new Cruise Terminal B, sailing from Hamilton, Ontario, to n Allure of the Seas will relocate from Port and combine existing Terminals B and C Montreal, Quebec, when it lost power Everglades to PortMiami in 2018. – Rich into a new single Terminal C. This would and grounded in Lac St Francois near Turnwald photo. allow the simultaneous berthing of two Valleyfield, Quebec. Groupe Océan oyal Caribbean’s newbuilding 5,000-passenger ships. The new facility, tugs Ocean Ross Gaudreault and Ocean RPort Miami terminal will be home estimated at $100 million, is scheduled to Intrepid freed the vessel the following day to the fourth Oasis-class ship, Symphony be complete by January 2020. with no injuries or pollution reported. of the Seas, starting in late 2018. She will Miami-Dade County will design, n The pilot boat Huron Maid, join her sister, Allure of the Seas, and this finance and build the new terminals. owned by J.W. Westcott Company, will be the first time that the gigantic NCLH will agree to a minimum of 52 was called on to save four lives in Oasis-class vessels sail from Miami. calls per year, with a ship of at least Detroit on April 17. A pregnant The futuristic Terminal A, called 3,000 passengers and 136,000 GRT. woman had entered the icy water and two Detroit police officers and a medic eventually entered the water in a rescue attempt. Thankfully, the Begins four were pulled to safety aboard Cuba Cruises Huron Maid. The group was taken to a local hospital, where a baby boy was delivered. J.W. Westcott Company owns the mail boat J.W. Westcott II, the last mail ship with its own floating ZIP code. n American Steamship Company’s 100-foot Indiana Harbor struck the breakwall at Conneaut, Ohio, and suffered damage on May 13. The n Norwegian Sky arrives for the first time at , Cuba, on May 2, 2017 from Miami. vessel was taken to Donjon shipyard – Miami Herald photo. in Erie, Pennsylvania, where it orwegian Cruise Lines’ Norwegian Sky made her inaugural call in underwent repairs between May 13 NHavana on May 2, the first of 53 scheduled weekly cruises to Cuba from and 30.  PortMiami. NCL executives were on board for the historic occasion. Norwegian Sky docks in the heart of Havana, bringing passengers to historic sites and visiting Cuban residents through people-to-people exchanges, the only n Write Mark Shumaker at auspices under which Americans are permitted to sail on cruises to Cuba. No 1445 Ashdowne Road, Columbus, OH 43221 regular tourism is officially allowed yet. or e-mail [email protected]

PowerShips F all 2017 • 71 NCLH was also given preferential berthing rights at Terminal J, located on the south side of Dodge Island, for the Amadea Visits Southeast Region company’s Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas brands. A minimum of 45 annual calls is guaranteed by NCLH, up from 30 previously. Additionally, the company will agree that PortMiami continues to be the exclusive South Florida homeport for its three brands. Nieuw Statendam to Homeport in Port Everglades n The German ship Amadea called at Galveston in April during her world cruise. – Cruise Industry News photo.

Phoenix Reisen’s Amadea a) Asuka called at Galveston, Texas, in April with 642 passengers and over 200 crew members. Galveston was the first U.S. port of call for the German ship, which is on a 136-day world cruise. Passengers were offered shore excursions to various sites in Houston and Galveston. Proceeding to both Nassau and Freeport in , Amadea then spent a day at Port Canaveral, Florida, on April 13, before heading northwards, making a number of port calls along the eastern United States. n Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam will call Port Everglades home next year. – Holland to Tampa as a home port and base America Line photo. for her continuing series of cruises to P ort Everglades Terminal olland America Line has Cuba. The ship had previously been Upgraded to “Ocean Hannounced that the newbuilding refurbished and fitted out with an Medallion” Technology MS Nieuw Statendam will be based in Port onboard Cuban motif in anticipation of multi-million-dollar upgrade is Everglades for her inaugural 2018-19 these sailings. A underway at Port Everglades’ Cruise season. After being delivered December Almost immediately after beginning Terminal 2, next to the Convention 2018 at , the ship will make an the Cuba cruises, Royal Caribbean Center, to ready it for Carnival inaugural crossing to Fort Lauderdale. announced plans for these itineraries Corporation’s newest technology, “Ocean She will then spend the winter season on right through 2018 into 2019. Empress is Medallion.” Beginning with use on the a series of cruises to both the Eastern and based in Tampa until November 2017, ships of Princess Cruises, the medallion is Western Caribbean. when she relocates back to PortMiami a small coin-like device that all passengers At 99,500 grt, Nieuw Statendam is the for the winter 2017-18 season. She then will have with them. Interacting with second ship in HAL’s Pinnacle class, and repositions back to Tampa for summer other devices both in the terminal and on she’s a sister to Koningsdam, which entered 2018, and will come back to the East board ship, it will expedite the boarding service in 2016. She will accommodate Coast for winter 2018-19, this time process as well as improve interactions 2,650 passengers. based in Port Everglades. with crew and staff on board. Terminal 2 is being rebuilt to configure Empress of the Seas H olland America to it with the new computing devices, Begins Cuba Cruises Begin Cuba Cruises sensors, cables, portals and access mpresss of the Seas a) Nordic olland America Line received points. The same type of work is being EEmpress, b) Empress of the Seas, c) Hauthorization to begin cruises performed on the ships. The terminal Empress departed PortMiami on April 24 to Cuba, and the company’s Veendam upgrades will be completed by October, for a historic first cruise to Cuba. The will operate a series of seven-, 11- and and the Regal Princess will be the first four-night cruise only spent one day in 12-night cruises calling at either one or ship to use the technology, beginning Havana, as scheduled, but it opened up two ports in the island nation. These November 13. The cost of the upgrades a new itinerary for Royal Caribbean. sailings will be round-trip from Port in the terminal alone will be $4 million. After this first cruise from Everglades, running from December Once on board, the Ocean Medallion Miami, Empress of the Seas repositioned 2017 through April 2018. can be used to unlock and lock stateroom

72 • Fall 2017 PowerShips doors remotely, instantly pay for onboard merchandise, and order food and beverages from any venue before the passenger actually enters. The device is programmed for each individual, and can be worn as a pendant, necklace or wristband, or it can be carried in a pocket. While Princess Cruises is the first Carnival company to utilize the technology, it’s expected to be implemented on their other nine brands within the next year or two. F ourth LNG-Powered R oyal Caribbean Adds OSV for Harvey Gulf Ships to the Gulf Region n The new offshore supply vessels Harvey Power and Harvey Energy at Port Fourchon. – fter a three-year hiatus, Royal Harvey Gulf photo. ACaribbean International will return arvey Gulf International Marine accepted delivery of its fourth to New Orleans with the repositioning of Hliquefied natural gas-powered offshore supply vessel inA pril. The M/V its Vision of the Seas for the 2018-19 winter Harvey Freedom, built at Gulf Coast Shipyard in Gulfport, Mississippi, measures season. The 915-foot-long ship will sail 310 feet by 64 feet. seven-night itineraries to the Bahamas The U.S.-flagged vessel, by burning cleaner natural gas, is one of the most and Mexico. environmentally-friendly OSVs in the Gulf of Mexico, according to Harvey Gulf. Sister ship Enchantment of the Seas, which The Harvey Freedom is based out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. was stretched to 989 feet, will move from PortMiami in June 2018 to join Liberty of missioned and stationed at Pascagoula, U .S. Coast Guard helicopter and a Coast the Seas in Galveston, Texas. Enchantment Mississippi; this is the first FRC to be sta- Guard cutter all searched the area for will operate four- and five-night cruises, tioned in the 8th Coast Guard District. over a day, without any recovery. complementing Liberty’s popular seven- Previous cutters in this class have been A 32-year-old male crew member night cruises from that port. stationed in Florida, Puerto Rico, New was reported overboard from Royal Also in June 2018, the giant Mariner Jersey and Alaska. Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas on April of the Seas returns to the United States The Dailey has a flank speed of 28 24 in the Gulf of Mexico. Eyewitnesses to homeport in PortMiami after several knots, state-of-the-art command, control, stated that the Filipino bartender was years in the Asia-Pacific region. Mariner communications and computer technol- seen jumping overboard at 1:30 a.m. will be the first Voyager-class ship to offer ogy, as well as a stern launch system for U.S. Coast Guard vessels joined in short three- and four-night cruises to the the vessel’s 26-foot cutter boat. the search, approximately 170 miles Bahamas, following an extensive 32-day southeast of Galveston, but the man was “revitalization.” R egional Cruise not found. Ship Incidents Propulsion problems on Carnival Bollinger Delivers 23rd he U.S. Coast Guard suspended Fantasy in April affected the ship’s speed, Fast Response Cutter Tits search for a man who went forcing the cancellation of its scheduled overboard from Carnival Victory near Cuba call at , Mexico; the ship instead on March 22. The 23-year-old passenger spent four nights at sea, going nowhere. was seen jumping from his stateroom Fantasy returned to her home port of balcony on Deck 8 at 3 a.m. After extensive Mobile, Alabama, where technicians searching by crews from the Victory and the worked on resolving the problems. n The Fast Response Cutter Benjamin Dailey, Coast Guard, no sign of the man was found. Passengers were given refunds and 23rd in the class. – Bollinger Shipyards photo. Early on the morning of April 7, a vouchers for the disappointment.  ollinger Shipyards delivered the 32-year-old male passenger was seen U SCGC Benjamin Dailey (WPC- jumping overboard from his stateroom B n Write Rich Turnwald at 1123), the 23rd Fast Response Cutter, to balcony aboard Carnival Liberty . The ship 7635 SW 99th Court, Miami, FL 33173 the Coast Guard on April 20. was on a cruise from Port Canaveral to or [email protected] The 154-foot patrol vessel was com- Nassau. Crews from the cruise ship, a

PowerShips F all 2017 • 73 P assenger Ship Calls March–June 2017 rtania, Astor, Aurora, Azamara AJourney, Carnival Legend, Carnival Spirit, Celebrity Solstice, Golden Princess, Costa Luminosa, Dawn Princess, Emerald n Pacific Dawn – First voyage and first cruise ship with the new P&O Australia livery. Seen in Princess, Explorer of the Seas, Insignia, Moreton Bay off Brisbane, March 2017. (See “Australian Cruise Market”) – Bill Barber photo. Noordam, Pacific Eden, Pacific Jewell, Queen Victoria, Radiance of the Seas, Sea Princess, Pacific Dawn became the first P&O Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth will be Seabourn Encore, Sirena, Sun Princess and Australia cruise ship to sport the new based in Australasian water for two Voyager of the Seas. livery following a March docking in months in early 2019. This follows Singapore. Diamond Princess will be the some mini-cruises by Queen Mary 2 that A ustralian Cruise Market first Princess ship south of the equator to featured a Melbourne/Kangaroo Island ach year more cruise ships visit wear the new colors. cruise in February. Queen Elizabeth will EAustralia, bringing record numbers The new Majestic Princess will be be based in both Melbourne and Sydney of cruise passengers. The Port of Sydney based for a period of time in Australia. and will offer two round-trip New has more than 38 percent of those At 4,250 passengers it’s far too large for Zealand cruises to Tasmania. visitors. Unfortunately, the port is unable many of the Southwest Pacific’s ports. Noble Cruises’ Caledonian Sky struck to facilitate the larger ships since it has Ovation of the Seas was too large to berth a during low off Raja only one berth available, the Overseas at Melbourne. She’ll be based out of Ampat, West Papua, in early March, Passenger Terminal at Sydney Cove. All Singapore for cruising in that region. damaging part of the reef. The Indonesian other terminals are restricted because of government allowed the ship, which was the air draft under the famous Sydney P assenger Ship News not damaged, to sail for the Philippines, Harbour Bridge. merald Princess was involved in but the British ambassador was Radiance of the Seas was forced to Ea medevac emergency January 3 for summoned to explain. There will be some disembark passengers via a cruise ferry and a passenger awaiting for a kidney trans- costs involved, with discussions ongoing. embark new clients using harbor ferries. plant. Officials on board the ship were Numerous complaints arose following The flourishing cruise market has informed that a donor was available and, the overnight stay of Artania in Sydney. exceeded the shore-side infrastructure. in a wonderfully coordinated sequence of She was dubbed the noisiest cruise ship Melbourne can accommodate three events, Emerald Princess reversed its voyage to visit the Port of Sydney. The Balmain large passenger ships at Station Pier, Port from Melbourne to Tasmania and headed berth has no ship-to-shore power and Melbourne. A further cargo terminal berth at full speed toward mainland Australia. her engines ran all night, keeping local at Victoria Dock is utilized once a year A Helimed helicopter plucked the passen- residents awake, some saying that it was when four ships berth for Australia’s famous ger off the ship and flew her to the nearest like sleeping next to a jackhammer. As Melbourne Cup each November. The near- regional airport, where an ambulance dawn approached numerous loud public by Port of Geelong, less than 80 kilometers aircraft flew her to Sydney for a successful address announcements from the ship from Melbourne, could be better utilized operation and recovery. added to the din. The New South Wales if the government of Victoria restores or A passenger fell overboard from Sun Environment Protection Authority has rebuilds the old Cunningham pier. Princess on February 17 when the ship been asked to investigate and to have Brisbane is planning to build a new was sailing between Brisbane, Australia, shore power connections for the ships terminal downstream of the Gateway and New Caledonia. Life rings were installed without delay. Bridge that will accommodate all cruise deployed, a lifeboat was lowered and the Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 made a ships . woman was recovered. maiden call at Hobart, Tasmania.

74 • Fall 2017 PowerShips 20,000 tons of diesel. The island council is seeking a new vessel to provide service out of . Chatham Islands to the southeast of New Zealand also has infrequent service to and from New Zealand. To ensure that the economy remains secure, Chatham Islands Fisheries, the main industry, has extended its facilities. The old building was demolished and a state-of-the-art building replaced it. Most of the 600 inhabitants work in the processing plant during the season.

n Arahura was sold for scrap last year. Picture was taken in original livery. (See “New C ompany News Zealand News”) – Bill Barber photo. asports, a state-owned company, Tassumed responsibility for the King North and South Islands of New Zealand, Island shipping service to Bass Strait Island G eneral News for 31 years. She underwent a number of after Searoad Mersey ceased service between he Port of Darwin came close to changes and modifications during that Devonport and Grassy King in April. The Tshutting down following a March 3 time. The ro-pax ferry, on which I sailed Tasmanian government chartered the ro-ro cyclone alert. The alert was downgraded on a number of occasions, ended her life barge Toll Investigator, renamed Investigator. to a tropical low after it passed the Tiwi on an Alang beach. Investigator is smaller than Searoad Mersey and Islands to the north and swung away The 1979-built cement carrier Golden there’s some concern about its suitability, from mainland Australia. Bay has been replaced by the newer, especially for livestock. With the price of iron ore increasing purpose-built cement carrier Aotearoa Chief, from a historic low, a number of capesize operated by China Navigation. Golden Bay Southwest Pacific Nations carriers have returned to load ore, primarily was sold to Polish buyers. afety on inter-island ferries is for China, Australia’s largest coal/iron ore The cruise ship Azamara Quest grounded Soften a cause for concern because of importer. Port Hedland, Western Australia, in the Marlborough Sounds as she entered weather and the use of less-than-perfect is the world’s largest iron ore export port. Torey Channel on January 27. The ship vessels. Honiara, the capital of the Two sky cranes, which sail south brushed against Wheki Weka Rock. Solomon Islands, operates ferry services to Australia for bush fire season, were Investigation showed only slight damage to the islands making up the nation, loaded onto a BBC cargo ship during the to the ship and some paint marks on the and the ferries experience frequent last week of April for delivery back to the rock. The pilot had stood down. breakdowns and cancellations. West Coast of the United States. As a result of last November’s The Fijian Islands have seen inter- Five new tugs are under construction earthquake, the sunken Mikhail Lermontov, island ferries come to grief because of for Western Australia’s oil and gas fields near Point Gore in the Marlborough cyclones and other rough weather. Two operations. sound, shifted and part of the three upper of the inter-island ropax ferries were lost Following damage from Cyclone decks fell off the main hull about three during the latter part of 2016. Debbie in April 2017, two of Australia’s meters from the sea floor.Mikhail Lermontov The Kingdom of Tonga chartered the three Naval ships, which were urgently came too close at Point Gore in 1986 and Sealink ferry Maggie Cat as a fill-in until required to provide relief, were out of grounded with one crewmember lost but Tongan ferries are repaired or bought up to action. The two new Landing Helicopter no loss of passengers. standard. For religious reasons, no vessels Dock ships, partially built in Spain, had are normally allowed to berth or work on pod problems and are still awaiting parts. South Pacific Sundays. But two exemptions were allowed itcairn Island, of Mutiny on the for ferries to berth at Nuku’alofa, the New Zealand News PBounty fame, is one of the remotest nation’s capital, on a Sunday. was remiss in not advising of the islands in the Southwest Pacific. The The Australian and New Zealand Ipassing of a Cook Strait ferry to the island is serviced four times each year by navies are on patrol in the Southwest scrapper’s torch last year. Arahura worked a ship that supplies everything required Pacific to prevent illegal fishing around the Cook Strait, which runs between the by the small population, including Fiji and Tonga.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 75 n Doulos, recently used as a floating bookstore, is Doulos Comes Ashore now retired and pulled ashore for permanent display in Indonesia. – Bill Barber photo.

he iconic former passenger ship Doulos, which had Tbeen used as a floating bookshop by the German charity Good Books for All, will sail no more. Starting life in 1914 as Medina, she survived two world wars and served for a time as Roma and as Franca C under the Costa banner. As the world’s oldest ocean-going passenger liner, she later roamed the world, dispensing good will and humanitarian aid to third-world nations. When Doulos’s certification expired on December 31, 2009, her future seemed to be in the hands of the scrappers. But her charmed life endured and she laid up at Singapore. n (Above) As Medina pior to 1920 and (below) as Costa Lines’ An idea was floated to make her the centerpiece of a Franca C in the early 1950s. – SSHSA Archives and Michael von resort complex, and in August last year she was towed from Kirvan Pichette Collection respectively. Singapore to Batam, Indonesia, for a final docking. To suit her for a new life as a shore establishment, she required strengthening of her steel beams to support her ashore weight. She was towed for the last time to a site near the Bandar Bentan Telani ferry terminal. Using cables and air bags, she was hoisted ashore and up a slope to a point overlooking the harbour. The ship is gone from the sea but remains for eternity in the annals of maritime history. For a detailed history of Doulos, see PowerShips, #274.

at Papua, New Guinea’s coastal islands. encountered during high-wind berthing A ntarctica Aurora Australis has also completed its last and they need to be addressed. This wo supply/replenishment ships officialA ustralian Antarctic program, has slowed delivery of the other ferries Tthat sailed between Hobart, although it may be chartered until a yet- since any changes on the Hamlin will Tasmania, and Antarctica have reached to-be-constructed vessel is introduced. need to be incorporated into the other the end of their service lives. L’astrolobe newbuildings.  serviced the French Antarctic bases for F erries some four decades and will be replaced he first of a fleet of six new n Write William G.T. Barber by a new ship of the same name that’s ferries, Catherine Hamlin, which T Unit 27 – Townsend Gardens, presently being fitted out in France. The arrived from the builder’s yard in 148 Townsend Road, St. Albans Park, old ship sailed from Hobart to Cairns, Hobart late last year, has still not entered Geelong Victoria 3219 Australiia North Queensland, to be fitted out for service as of March this year. It appears Email – [email protected] use as a women’s health service calling that some technical problems were

76 • Fall 2017 PowerShips around Florida and up the Mobile River, was forced to form the Kentucky Tombigbee Waterway and Tennessee, Waterway District to raise money by Cumberland and Ohio rivers to Louisville. taxes annually to maintain the Kentucky The boat can carry 565 passengers, as River dams as water reservoirs. opposed to the 300-passenger load limit of The Harvey Canal Lock at New Spirit of Jefferson . Orleans was scheduled to close from Georgia Queen is to be renamed Mary M. August 1 to October 1, 2017, to allow Miller in honor of Mary Millicent Garretson replacement of its 83-year-old lock gates. R iver Troubles Miller (1846–1894), a native of Louisville During its closure, tow traffic will have to ecause of high, fast-running water and the first woman on the Western Waters use the Algiers Lock. Bexperienced between April 15 to May to obtain a Steamboat Master License. The Lock and Dam Number 6 on the Green 15, the Upper Mississippi River, Arkansas, voyage of Georgia Queen from Savannah to River in Kentucky was demolished by White, Illinois, Kaskaskia, Cumberland, Louisville was followed by local television the Corps in April, allowing the Green Missouri and Tennessee rivers were closed on www.marinetraffic.org. River within Mammoth Cave National to barge traffic at various times, and Park to run free. As a result, the Green restrictions were put in place governing L ocks & Dams River water levels dropped, as did water the size of tows. During this same period, he Army Corps of Engineers levels in the underground river within officials also restricted the number of Tis considering closing the locks Mammoth Cave. barges allowed in a tow on the lower Ohio and dams on the Allegheny and River and Lower Mississippi River because Monongahela Rivers. Federal funding C ontainer Ports of flooding. TheL ower Missouri River to continue operating and maintaining laquemines Port Harbor and 2017 navigation season began on April 1. these locks and dams is based upon PTerminal District, located at Mile commercial use. Other benefits 55 on the Lower Mississippi River, is C hanges in Louisville they provide, such as water storage, pushing ahead with plans to build a ouisville, Kentucky, is selling recreational use and wildlife habitat, container port dedicated to moving Lits excursion boat Sprit of Jefferson . The can’t be included in the calculation. containers by river to inland container boat is in need of a major overhaul. She With the drop in coal being mined in the terminals. The river terminals would has been taken to Jeff Boat in Jeffersonville, area, and thus a substantial decrease in be served by three different-sized, self- Indiana, and is to be put up for sale. To the coal shipped by barge to the outside propelled river container craft – a 592-ft take the place of Spirt of Jefferson, Louisville market, there’s to close these vessel carrying 1,824 containers, a 772-ft has purchased the three-deck, diesel- locks and dams and allocate their funds vessel with a capacity of 2,392 containers powered, false-paddlewheel boat Georgia elsewhere. When the Corps closed the and a 952-ft vessel holding 2,960 Queen based at Savanah, Georgia. The boat locks and dams on the Kentucky River in containers. All three proposed vessels reached Louisville on May 3, after a voyage 2000, the Commonwealth of Kentucky will have a draft of nine feet.

Happy Birthday Anderson Ferry

n The Anderson Ferry leaving the Cincinnati, Ohio, side of the Ohio River for Constance, Kentucky. – Charles H. Bogart photo.

nderson Ferry, which crosses the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Constance, Kentucky, turned A200 on March 3, 2017. Privately owned, Anderson Ferry operates two boats and daily moves some 500 cars across the Ohio River between sunrise and sunset. It takes approximately 15 minutes to load, cross the Ohio and unload.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 77 The proposal to build a barge container port on the Cumberland River at Clarksville, Tennessee, apparently won’t happen. R. J. Corman Railroad has withdrawn from the project, citing rising costs and negative feedback from potential users. The latest studies of commercial river traffic have found that the barge industry is best at moving dry bulk cargos of 1,500 tons or liquid products of 20,000 barrels or more from one terminal to another. Shippers won’t normally use a barge to move cargo of less than 1,200 tons or 20,000 barrels, instead consigning such cargos to rail. n The 4,200-hp Earl Jones, owned by Kirby Inland Marine, is seen bound down the Ohio F irst New Tow River from the deck of the Anderson Ferry. Note the lines holding the barges to Earl Jones. – n March 2017, the first commercial Charles H. Bogart photo. Itow in 20 years operated on the Clinch River. The 1,200-hp Capt. Mark, compared to 4,692,000 tons last year. owned by Capt. Mark Patterson Marine, Barges Galore Soybean tonnage in the first quarter brought a 3,000-ton metal press to he Western Rivers barge industry of 2017 is 3,694,000 tons, compared to Eagle Bend Manufacturing of Clinton, Tcontinues to experience a marginal 3,302,000 tons at this time last year. Tennessee, from Mobile, Alabama, via corporate profit line. This is due to Some 60 percent of the U.S. soybean the Mobile River, Tombigbee Waterway over-building during the export market is through the Port of New and Tennessee River. last three years. In 2014, 561 barges were Orleans, with 90 percent of that total delivered; in 2015, a total of 880 barges arriving by barge. A ct Changes were built; and in 2016, 888 barges were Dredging Rules added to the fleet. The Western River I llegal Charters he 2016 Waterway Infrastructure barge fleet contains almost no barges he problem of illegal charters TImprovements for the Nation Act built before 1995, so it will be some years Ton the Western Rivers continues to contains language that modifies Western before the present barge fleet reaches the grow because of the use of ride-sharing River dredging. WIIN allows private end of its 30-year life expectancy. apps. Any boat carrying more than interests to dredge a federally maintained Trinity Marine Products of Brusly, six passengers must be operated by a channel and be reimbursed later. This Louisiana, which built 660 hopper barges person having a master’s license, and if allows flood silting to be removed by a in 2016, has closed its plant due to lack of it’s carrying more than 12 passengers, port authority before federal funds are hopper barge orders. Blessey Marine has it must also have a U.S. Coast Guard- allocated for the project. seven of its 83 towboats tied up because issued Certification of Inspection. The Corps is preparing to move of lack of business. In 2018, Dayton forward with a plan to deepen the Power & Light will close two more of its A ccident Report Rules Lower Mississippi River from 45 feet to Ohio River coal-fired plants. he U.S. Coast Guard has issued 50 feet from its mouth up to Mile 168.3, Ta proposed rule change regarding the northern boundary of the Port of G rain Shipments Up the minimum cost required to report Southern Louisiana. However, since s of April 1, 2017, grain shipments an accident. The present cost of a 2013, the amount of money allocated by Aon the Western Rivers are running marine casualty reportable incident was Congress for dredging has decreased, way ahead of 2016. Grain totaling established in 1980 at $25,000. The while the cost of removal has gone up. 9,671,000 tons has been moved by barge Western Rivers operators have pointed out In 2014, the Corp and contract dredge during the first three months of 2017, for the past 20 years that this cost figure operators removed only 186 million compared to 8,435,000 during the same was outdated because of inflation. The cubic yards of material from Western period in 2016. The greatest increase Coast Guard is now considering raising River navigation channels, compared to in grain movement is corn, with some the reportable cost of a marine casualty 238 million yards in 2012. 6,293,000 tons being moved this year, incident from $25,000 to $72,000.

78 • Fall 2017 PowerShips On March 2, the 3,200-hp Austin C. On April 17, the 2,000-hp Todd Brown, T echnology & The Settoon, owned by Settoon Towing, was owned by Ingram Barge, sank on the Human Factor struck by a strong gust of wind while Lower Mississippi River while working ith every technical improve- approaching the Racine Lock and Dam the barge fleet at Columbus, Kentucky. Wment, the human factor slides in to on the Ohio River, causing the towboat render an innovation not as effective as its to lose control of her tow and allide with Changes inventor claimed. Such is the tale of the the dam. As a result, the boat and two ll 35 of the towboats acquired by electronic navigation chart. These charts, of her barges were each wedged against ASavage Inland Marine in February to be current, have to be updated on a a different dam gate. The Corps later 2017 from Settoon Towing have been weekly basis; this, however, is often not that week individually opened each dam renamed with “Savage” forming the prefix done. Remember, the electronic chart has gate and allowed the Austin C. Settoon and or last name of the boat. Savage Inland allowed various channel and riverbank her barges to be washed through. The Marine is also now operating the following markers to be removed in the name of effi- Austin C. Settoon suffered heavy structural CLM Towing boats: the 2,200-hp Capt. ciency and using money wisely. The Coast damage, but no lives were lost. Elliot Crochet, the 1,260-hp Capt. Thomas Guard is considering a rule to ensure that On March 8, the 1,200-hp Tom Rogers, Paul, the 1,400-hp Lenny J, the 1,260-hp electronic charts are always current. owned by James Marine, capsized and Maverick J, and the 1,260-hp Renegade. sank in the Lower Mississippi River at American Commercial B arge Line has C asualities Wickliffe, Kentucky, while working the added the 3,000-hp Jeff Kindell to its fleet. n the Western Waterways, a fleeting area. No lives were lost, and the The Z-drive boat was built by Steiner Ocollision takes place when two boat was later salvaged by McKinney Construction Company of Bayou La objects moving through the water hit Salvage Company. Batre, Alabama. each other. An allision is when one object On March 27, a construction barge Main Iron Works of Houma, moving through the water strikes an holding a crane sank in the Arkansas Louisiana, has delivered the 2,000-hp object that’s not moving, such as a tow River near Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Brandon Kyle to D&S Marine Service. hitting a bridge pier. barge was later salvaged. Turn Service has bought the 1,500-hp On February 26, the 1,280-hp Sonny On April 5, the 4,200-hp Mike A. Elizabeth Ann from CHS Inc., renaming J, operated by Vidalia Dock & Storage Nadicksbernd, owned by American her Bold Ruler, and the 4,000-hp John Company, sank at Mile 364 of the Lower Commercial Barge Line, allided with Roberts from Florida Marine, which has Mississippi River while tied up in a fleet Lock & Dam 52 on the Ohio River and been renamed American Pharaoh . anchorage. She was salvaged on March 5 took on water through a 35-foot-long JANTRAN has built at its Rosedale, and is to undergo repairs. gash in her hull. Mississippi, facility the 2,000-hp Terrence for service on the Arkansas River. Blank River Service of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, has delivered the 660-hp ATB Readshaw to the Allegheny County Sanitation Authority. CENAC has received from Main Iron Works of Houma, Louisiana, the 2,000- hp Victorine Cenac. John Bludworth Shipyard of Corpus Christi, Texas, has delivered to Genesis Marine the 2,680-hp Margaret Anne . Ingram Barge Company has sold to Tennessee Valley Towing the 5,000-hp Jack D. Wood and the 3,200-hp Martha Mac . Tennessee Valley Towing has renamed its Gayolyn Ann Griffen as Bobby Thompson. 

n The 4,300 hp Mary L, owned by Ingram Towing, is seen here backing out the tow of the n Write Charles H. Bogart at Danny Ehteridge, owned by Western Boat Management, from the Kentucky Dam Lock, which 201 Pin Oak Pl., Frankfort, KY 40601 or is located on the Tennessee River. – Harrold Rudd photo. [email protected]

PowerShips F all 2017 • 79 Tugboats by David M. Boone New Tugboat News irby Corporation will be n The new Vane tug Fishing Creek Kspending $165 to $185 million this arrives in Baltimore from her builder’s year on new tugs and barges to improve yard in March, 2017. (See “New Tugboat its coastal and inland fleets, as well as News”) – Photo courtesy of Vane Brothers. on capital upgrades and improvements to existing equipment and facilities. The work includes construction of a 155,000-barrel petroleum barge and two 4,900-hp AT/B tugs for coastal towing. In that regard, Nichols Brothers Boat Builders launched the first of two twin-screw tugs for Kirby. The 120-foot Mount Baker will join the fleet in May, while the Mount Drum will be delivered in November. Vane Brothers recently took delivery of the tug Philadelphia from St. Johns Ship Building in Palatka, Florida. The Moran Towing Corporation has named engines with a total of 6,300 bhp, the 4,200-hp twin-screw tug entered service its newest tractor tug Benson George Moran, tugs are 110 feet by 42 feet. They were in her namesake city in April. She’s the and it’s still building at the Washburn & constructed as ship-assist tugs for the fifth in a series of eight Elizabeth Anne- Doughty shipyard in Maine. The newest LNG trade but didn’t find their place in class tugboats that have been ordered by tug delivered, Maxwell Paul Moran, is now the market and were quickly laid up. Vane. The company also took delivery at work in the company’s Norfolk fleet. Tugboat service has returned to Two of the purpose-built asphalt barge Double Harbors, Minnesota, for the first time since Skin 510A, a 53,000-barrel vessel that was T ugboat Happenings 1981. The Nancy J., owned and operated by constructed by Conrad Deepwater South he former U.S. Navy aircraft Heritage Marine of Duluth, now docks at Shipyard in Amelia, Louisiana. Vane also Tcarrier Independence (CV-62) began the Canadian National Railway Ore Dock took delivery of the 3,000-hp twin-screw her final voyage from Bremerton, 1. Tug services have returned because tug Fishing Creek, the latest of twenty Washington, to a scrapyard in Canadian National wants to better service Sassafras-class tugs built by Chesapeake Brownsville, Texas, on March 11. The its customers that visit the Two Harbors Shipbuilding in Salisbury, Maryland. The Edison Chouest Offshore tug/supply port. Weather plays a vital role for ships tug joined the company’s Philadelphia- vessel Dino Chouest is the lone towing that arrive at the terminal, and with a based Delta Fleet and is primarily tasked vessel for the 60,000-ton warship for the strong north-northwest wind, docking with towing petroleum barges engaged in expected three-month voyage around delays have occurred in the past. Having the North Atlantic coastwise trade. The South America to the berth in Texas. an assist tug at the ready will help facilitate Sassafras, delivered in 2008, is the first The carrier is the last of the Forrestal the ships’ arrivals and departures without tugboat constructed in Maryland in more class to make this long trip, with only the weather delays. than 30 years and the first ocean-service former Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy still The AT/B OSG Independence and barge tug built in the state in more than half a in lay-up reserve. OSG 243 were in danger of running century. The next two Sassafras-class tugs Sea Boats Marine Brokers reported aground off Galveston, Texas, on April will be named Cape Fear and Cape May, that it has four 81-ton bollard-pull tugs 29. The tug had separated from the while the next three Elizabeth Anne-class for sale that were built in the United barge in heavy seas off Galveston Island tugs will be named New York, Charleston States in 2009. Powered with twin Pleasure Pier while dragging both and Jacksonville. Caterpillar 3516C marine diesel Z-drive anchors. The tug worked to reconnect

80 • Fall 2017 PowerShips with the barge using an emergency tow line but fouled its starboard propeller in the process. The Galveston tugs Thor, Judy Moran Sold Deacon, Captain and Holt T. arrived to assist and were able to prevent the tow from grounding. The barge was empty of cargo, having discharged a shipment of gasoline, and was awaiting orders offshore. The tug Gene Dunlap, owned and operated by Dunlap Towing Company in Everett, Washington, had to be intentionally run aground while being towed off Golden Gardens Beach, Seattle, to prevent her from sinking. The tug developed a leak due to a failed shaft seal in the engine room. Efforts by the crew, U.S. Coast Guard and n The recently-sold Judy Moran alongside Moran’s Philadelphia home pier in the 1980s. – Seattle fire and police department units Photo by Dave Boone. helped stabilize the boat, and it was oran Towing has sold its Judy Moran to Fournier Towing in Belfast, later refloated and towed to Ballard, MMaine, where the tug was renamed Captain Arthur Fournier in honor of Washington, for repairs. the family’s late patriarch. The Judy Moran was the lead tug in a series of five Kirby Offshore Marine, as part of sisters built in Amelia, Louisiana, in 1973. The others were the Amy Moran, Cape its ongoing fleet renewal, has sold the Charles, Cape Henlopen and Cape May. The Amy differs from her sisters since she 3,800-hp twin-screw tug Altair to an has a telescoping pilothouse. unnamed West Coast buyer. The tug was built in 1981 by Edward Sanchez Marine also repositioned its tug Denali from the Harley Marine Services recently Services Corporation of Fall River, Gulf Coast to its New York fleet and laid completed an epic 15,000-mile trans- Massachusetts, and was acquired by up the tug Petrel and listed her for sale. Pacific tow. The tug Ernest Campbell towed Allied Transportation Company, Norfolk, The Petrel worked for many years on the Philippine Red Cross vessel Susitna, Virginia. After working for owners on the the Delaware River, shifting the barge which was loaded on the barge Chatham east and west coasts, the tug was acquired ASC-257 between chemical berths. The Provider, across the ocean using the safest by K-Sea Transportation, which in turn tug Bering Sea has replaced the Petrel in possible route through Honolulu, Guam was purchased by Kirby in 2011. Kirby Philadelphia. and on to the Philippines. In its New York fleet, the company renamed the tug Cameron to Dr. Milton Waner. Tradewinds Towing of Green Cove Springs, Florida, has repowered two of its newest acquisitions. The tugs are sisters that were built at Main Iron Works in Houma, Louisiana, in 1980 and received their life extensions at A&B Industries Shipyard in Amelia, Louisiana. The newly-renamed Rebekah was the Benjamin Foss and the new Hannah was formerly the David Foss. The replacement engines were built by Mitsubishi Marine Engines in North America and are rated at 1,100 hp each. The repowered tugs will operate under a long-term charter on a dedicated n The tug Petrel docked in the Schuylkill River waiting for her barge to load. (See “Kirby route between Pensacola, Florida, and Offshore Marine”) – Photo courtesy of John Curdy. Port Arthur, Texas, towing ocean-going chemical barges.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 81 Cng omi in the n The Calusa Coast underway Winter Issue of in 2015. The tug was the first down-bound vessel to transit the Welland Canal to open the PowerShips 2017 shipping season. (See “An American-Owned Tugboat“ – Photo courtesy of John Curdy.

Hoboken’s Fifth Street Pier On Fridays at 12 noon, Hoboken would “rattle” The AT/B Joyce L. VanEnkevort, built in A forsaken former U.S. Navy tugboat with the thunderous steam whistles of one of 1998 by Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon has finally been removed from a waterway Holland America’s “Big Three” – Rotterdam, Bay, Wisconsin, has been renamed Clyde in Florida. The Tutahaco (YTM-524) has Statendam or Nieuw . In Lives S. VanEnkevort. She is mated with the barge been a fixture on the Halifax River for of the Liners, William Miller makes us feel like Erie, formerly known as the Great Lakes almost two decades. After legal battles and we’re there on the pier with him. Trader, and operates in the ore, coal and an inadvertent oil spill, the tug was deemed aggregates trades on the Great Lakes. a by the United States Coast U-Boat Attacks on Allied The tug is powered by two 5,100-bhp Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Merchant Ships Off New Caterpillar 3612 twelve-cylinder engines, Commission. She was lifted onto a barge making her one of the most powerful for a trip to Texas and an uncertain future. England towing vessels in the United States. (Thanks to Scott Van Valen for sending Between January 12, 1942, and May 5, 1945, Fournier Towing sold its tugs Fort Point along the information about this tug.) there were 72 German patrols off the and Taurus to Heritage Marine of Knife Everyone is aware that a tugboat can coast of New England. Eric Wiberg presents a River, Minnesota. The Fort Point has be a hazardous workplace, and this was history of this near continuous assault by U-boats, been renamed Edward H . while the Taurus reinforced when a deckhand recently where on average every other submarine managed has been renamed Nels J. The sales went lost his arm in a line-handling accident to sink an Allied ship, but for every three ships a on, as Heritage sold its former Edward J . in New York Harbor. The Buchanan German submarine was sunk. to Marine Tech in Duluth, Minnesota, Marine tug Mister T. was helping to shift a which renamed her Jean C., while the barge off the Bayonne Terminal when the Plus company’s former Nels J. has been sold to deckhand attempted to adjust a line and Sailing (or Avoiding) The an undisclosed buyer. his arm became caught and was severed. Exile’s Line to India An American-owned tugboat was He was quickly removed from the tug by Laurence Miller helps bring the British colonial the first downbound vessel to transit the New York Police Department and period to life in his article that features numerous the Welland Canal at Port Colborne taken to a hospital in Brooklyn. Line- images of British, French, Italian, and Dutch to open the 2017 shipping season. The handling accidents are the second-most colonial liners. tug Calusa Coast, with the liquid asphalt common cause of significant injuries in barge Delaware, passed through the the towing industry, with 51 U.S. seafarers Ship Research, Part 2 lakeside city toward Lake Ontario. The injured over a nine-year period ending In the second installment of his advice on ship captain of the tug received a ceremonial in 2014. Falls accounted for 115 serious research, James Shuttleworth shows you how head-topper, a 100-year-old - injuries, while crushing impact injuries to use shipping registers and vessel documents to pelt fur top hat, during a ceremony at accounted for 43 injuries.  support your article.. … and More! Lock 8 Park. The Calusa Coast is owned by Dann Marine Towing, Chesapeake n Write David M. Boone at City, Maryland, and is employed 36 Kendall Blvd., Oaklyn, NJ 08107 or  moving asphalt from Detroit, Michigan, [email protected] Don’t Miss It! to ports on the Great Lakes.

82 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Reviews Edited by William A. Fox n SSHSA assumes no responsibility for opinions expressed by reviewers, nor are reviews official statements of the Society itself. World War I improving the capability of THE SUNKEN GOLD: divers to work for longer lengths of time THE SHipS FROM A Story of World War I and at greater depths. His services were FIELDS POINT: Espionage and the Greatest needed during the early years of World Providence, RI 1942-1945 Treasure Salvage in History War I in salvaging damaged British C. Roger Wallin. 2017. Dorrance Publishing Joseph A. Williams. Chicago Review Press (814 ships. Later he became part of the dive (585 Alpha Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238) 800- North Franklin St, Chicago, IL 60610), 800- team that explored sunken German 788-7654, dorrancepublishing.com. 165 pp., 888-4741, chicagoreviewpress.com. 2017. 336 U-boats to salvage codes and other illustrated. $33.00. Paperback. pp., illustrated. $35.99. Hardcover. intelligence material. ne of the great true stories his book contains three stories Following Laurentic’s sinking, Damont Oconcerning America’s involvement Tin one: the sinking of the gold and his team of divers were sent to in World treasure recover the ship’s gold cargo. What War II was ship HMS should have been a simple salvage the turning Laurentic; job turned out to be anything but, as of waterfront attempts to the ship’s superstructure was found corn fields recover her to have collapsed into its hull and the and swamps sunken gold; main deck was now 103 feet under the into shipyards and the life surface. With more important salvage that built of LCDR jobs around the coast of England, the thousands of Guybon salvage effort was discontinued after ships for the Damont. 542 gold bars had been recovered. In Merchant Each tale is 1919, Damont and his crew returned Marine a fascinating to Laurentic to attempt to salvage her and the Navy. One such shipyard was read, but their interwoven story makes remaining gold. It would be a six-year located at Field’s Point, just outside of this book a non-stop read. struggle at the end of which 2,644 bars Providence, Rhode Island. As with SS Laurentic was launched in 1908 as of gold would be recovered. In all, almost all of these shipyards, when the a 14,892-ton passenger liner. However, Damont and his men recovered 3,186 war was over the yard was dismantled in 1914 she was taken over by the gold bars, leaving 154 bars still hidden and its land converted to other uses. Royal Navy and converted into an in Laurentic’s hull. Today Field’s Point is home to Johnson & armed transport. As HMS Laurentic her With 154 gold bars, weighing an Wales University. life was uneventful until January 25, average of 14 pounds, still hidden in During the years before World War 1917. On that day, as she left the port the wreck of HMS Laurentic, various II, Field’s Point was home to a waterfront of Buncrane, Ireland, she struck two individuals over the years have sought amusement park until, in 1941, it was U-boat-laid mines near the entrance to recover it. All of these latter-day gold turned into a shipyard operated by the of Lough Swilly and sank. Her cargo salvage attempts are covered by the Welch-Kaiser Company. Between the consisted of 3,211 bars of gold that author, recording their successes and years 1942 and 1945 this yard launched weighed 44 tons. The gold was being failures. 11 Liberty ships for the Merchant sent to the United States to pay for war If ship salvage, searching for gold Marine, 21 Colony-class for the material. Laurentic, upon sinking, came under the sea and the pitting of men and Royal Navy and 32 Artemis-class attack to rest with her main deck 62 feet below ships against the sea is of interest to you, cargo ships for the U.S. Navy. In order the surface of the sea. you ‘ll find all you could wish for in this to build these 64 ships, the Welch-Kaiser LCDR Damont, early in his Royal book. Young and old will be fascinated Company had to hire and train over Navy career, became interested in ship by this account of a sunken ship full of 21,000 workers, male and female, to salvage. In order to understand all the gold and the challenges the would-be build and outfit them. The first ship, facets of salvage work he became a hard salvagers had to overcome to bring this William Coddington, a , had hat diver and spent the years before gold to the surface. Charles H. Bogart her keel laid in June 1942, and the last

PowerShips F all 2017 • 83 ship delivered was USS Zenobia AKA 45, USS Duncan September 15, 1942, she was part of the commissioned in August 1945. All of the DD 485, his destroyer screen around USS Wasp CV 7 ships of the Royal Navy’s Colony class and father’s ship, when the carrier was sunk by torpedoes the U.S. Navy’s Artemis class were built at during World fired by the Japanese submarine I-19 . Field’s Point. War II. Duncan The author discusses the sinking and, in The author’s account devotes little was a Gleaves- particular, examines the problems that text to the Welch-Kaiser Shipyard, for his class destroyer the destroyer USS Lansdowne DD 486 concern is with the ships that were built that was encountered in trying to sink the burning there, focusing on their design history. commissioned hull of the carrier with torpedoes. While the account of the design history into the Lansdowne had both magnetic-fused and isn’t detail oriented, it does give the reader U.S. Navy contact-fused torpedoes that failed to an understanding into how and why these on April 16, explode when they were fired at the hull ships were built. Each design history is 1942, at Kearny, New Jersey. She would of Wasp. followed by an account of the part played have a short life of seven months, being The heart of the book is the October by some of the ships in World War II. sunk on October 12, 1942, at the Battle 12, 1942, naval battle of Cape Esperance The book ends with a review of the of Cape Esperance from damage suffered fought between American and Japanese postwar history of a select few of the ships. from both Japanese and American shells. cruisers and destroyers. The battle was The Liberty ship SS Frank Gilbert would Among the 48 officers and men killed on a tactical win for the U.S. Navy, as they sail until June 1972. All of the Colony- board Duncan during this action was the sank the Japanese Furutaka class frigates would be scrapped in 1947, author’s father. At the time his father was and the destroyer Fubuki for the loss of with the exception of HMS Caicos, which killed, the author had not yet been born. Duncan. The author provides a detailed became the Argentine Navy’s Santisima As might be expected, the first examination of this battle, pointing out Trinidad. Four of the Artemis-class ships few chapters of the book covering the flaws inA merican tactical handling. He would go to Merchant Marine academies fitting out and commissioning of Duncan also explains how the U.S. Navy came and become Kings Pointer, Empire State II, contain a wealth of details about his to misunderstand the tactical lessons Golden Bear and Yankee State . father. However, once Duncan commences it should have learned from this battle This book is well worth a read. The wartime operations, information concerning ship-to-ship night fighting author has put together a nice account of concerning his father becomes sparse. gunfire and torpedo encounters. Duncan, the part the 64 ships built at Providence The text for the majority of the book during the fight, was hit by both Japanese played in World War II and the postwar centers around the wartime cruise of and American gunfire. world . Charles H Bogart Duncan, outlining the problems the Navy The book closes with an examination encountered in trying to man all the ships of the futile efforts to save Duncan, the THE GUN CLUB: U.S.S. that were coming on line in 1942. Duncan abandonment of the ship, the rescue Duncan at Cape Esperance can only fill out her crew by accepting 25 of the survivors and the fate of various Robert Fowler. Winthrop & Fish. 2017. 363 pp., sailors from the brig, of whom five were members of Duncan’s crew. This book illustrated. $15.99. Paperback. Available from put ashore before she reached the Pacific. is a step above the normal ship history Amazon.com. Duncan’s first months of service saw because the author takes time to not only he author has combined two her carrying out convoy duties in the report the naval engagements Duncan Tstories into one to tell the tale of Caribbean before transiting the Panama fought in but undertakes to examine the his father, LTJG Robert Fowler III, and Canal for the Pacific Theater. On American decision-making process. One fact that the reviewer found interesting was that crew members using non- Visit SSHSA’s eBay Store, sshsaonline shielded guns at night were blinded by Back issues of Steamboat Bill & PowerShips, Books, Ephemera & Memorabilia the first round they fired and often then had trouble servicing their guns. If destroyer operations are your forte, this book is a must-read. Charles H. Bogart 

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84 • Fall 2017 PowerShips by Barry Eager Heard on the Fantail

Aboard Queen Mary

y first visit to Queen Mary Even more special this time was was at Pier 90 in New York at meeting many members of the Society Mher open house on a sailing for the first time. I became better n (Above) Queen Mary’s side with its rows day in February of 1961. I was then a high acquainted with a number of national and rows of rivets, July 21, 1992. (Above, left) school junior on a family trip to New York officers, including Jim and Alice Wilson. Queen Mary from helicopter, June 23, 1975. City. All was in good order as we explored Several California members were there, – Barry Eager photos. the passenger areas of the ship. I noted the including QM guide Richard Villa, who blue ensign flying at the stern, though it took a couple of us into other areas not Most of these visits coincided with was some time before I learned that meant usually open to the public. SSHSA gatherings aboard. Each time her captain was a Naval Reserve officer. Another California member was there were new Society friends to be We particularly enjoyed viewing the H. Alan Sims. Alan had sailed on the made along with the pleasures of just magnificent buffet laid in theF irst Class Mary in her last season back in 1967. His being aboard. For the 2006 meeting, my dining saloon, including roast suckling, memory of the Mary and his knowledge old friend Alan Sims came down from complete with apple! Across the way was and appreciation of the details in her Sacramento, and we shared a stateroom the upper level balcony of the indoor accommodations were very enlightening. just off the foyer by the former travel swimming pool. It was very exciting Some of us went to witness one of the bureau. to be aboard and note the luxurious last sailings of P & O’s Oronsay from San Al and I have stayed in touch all these accommodations. I maintained a keen Pedro. Alan and I took a brief helicopter years. He was long a member of the interest in her through her retirement and flight over Queen Mary in her Long Beach Golden Gate Chapter and often gave long renovation in California. berth. One of my photos is included here. programs there. This summer Alan had My next visit to the Queen was at Long I have made several more visits to mounting health problems, and he passed Beach in 1975. The occasion was the the Queen. In each case I have taken away in late August. I think another visit SSHSA’s first ever West Coast meeting. great joy in walking her decks and her to Queen Mary is in order to remember I went back to some of the same spots I beautiful wood-paneled passageways. him and others who knew and loved the remembered from 1961. This time, we In 1992 I was given the room under magnificent Queen . could visit the bridge and other off-limits the hotel entrance. Some guests in that areas. The Society was given a tour in room had complained about noise from n Write Barry Eager at non-public areas below, including the people passing above. I found it pleasant, Box 87, Berlin, MA 01503 cavernous spaces which had originally indicative that the dowager Queen still or [email protected] been filled with 32 boilers. had life aboard.

PowerShips F all 2017 • 85 From the Collection by Don Leavitt n Rick Miller aboard in 1986. – Don Leavitt photo.

F or 16 years now I have been an online dealer of ocean liner memorabilia. Every morning I wake thinking I’m the luckiest guy in the world. It even got me an invite to write a column for PowerShips and join the SSHSA board. When Executive Director Matt Schulte announced SSHSA’s “Buy a Brick” program, I knew I had to buy one in my friend’s memory. According to Matt, early supporters are remembering people as wide ranging as early shipbuilders in New York and a Ward Line engineer from the early 20th century to beloved parents and even the Black Ball ferry MV Coho, a 2013 SSHSA Ship of the Year. The bricks are either standard size ($95) or oversized ($175). For an additional Building Memories, $30 all sorts of logos are available, including the SSHSA burgee and Brick by Brick symbols representing all branches of the military and merchant marine. For n the end, I kept the message baggage stickers, travel agency posters, now the bricks will be on display at simple. It was the memory, not the even a blanket from the SS United headquarters. Eventually they will be Iwords that mattered. States. So, it was only logical that when incorporated into an outdoor feature. How do you sum up a friend who took Rick’s health What you on life paths you never expected to deteriorated message go? Rick Miller and I became friends he turned to did I finally the day I admired his mahogany Chris- a business choose for Craft on a New Hampshire lake. From that required my brick? there he helped me restore a Gar Wood less physical In the end utility. Then we decided to buy an old activity, selling I kept it mansion and convert it into an inn. My ocean liner simple: “In parents were aghast – why did I get a memorabilia. memory journalism degree only to become an I didn’t know n A simple tribute to a great friend. of Rick innkeeper? For the next two decades what all the stuff was. Heck, I probably Miller, friend & ship lover.” I know I Rick and I bumped along, surviving even called the Titanic a cruise ship. will smile every time I see it.  and even flourishing in the hospitality And when Rick passed away, I inherited business, and always enjoying a all this stuff. He couldn’t have left me n Write Don Leavitt at Nautiques, friendship built on boats and adventures. a kinder gift. When I launched into 255 Pleasant St., South Ryegate, VT oon odd ocean liner stuff began S turning deck plans and tea cups into 05069 or [email protected] arriving in the mail. A collection of cash, I discovered my passion in life.

86 • Fall 2017 PowerShips Captains’ Circle Members as of October 5, 2017

Commodore CAPT Dick Palmer Mr. Charles T. Andrews CAPT & Mrs. Roland R. Parent Mr. Preston B. Baker Ms. Mary L. Payne Mr. Odd A. Brevik Mr. Mark B. Perry Mr. Donald Deckebach CAPT Dave Pickering Mr. William W. Donnell Mr. Donald Pomplun Mr. Barry W. Eager Mr. David L. Powers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Eberle Mr. Richard Rabbett Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards Mr. Thomas C. Ragan Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ferguson Mr. Thomas Reed Mr. Robert J. Golden Mr. Harry E. Richter Mr. John B. Henry Mr. William A. Schell Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shuttleworth Mr. Scott G. Huston, President Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith Mr. Neil E. Jones CAPT Cesare Sorio Mr. Murray Kilgour Mr. Kent Strobel Mr. Nicholas Langhart CAPT Eric Takakjian Mr. H. F. Lenfest Mr. Douglas A. Tilden Mr. Ralph S. McCrea CAPT and Mrs. Terry Tilton, USN (Ret.) Mr. William M. McLin & Mr. Samuel J. McKeon Mr. G. Thomas Tranter CAPT and Mrs. James J. McNamara Mr. Terence Turner Dr. Laurence Miller CAPT Robert F. Wasson, Jr., CPA Mr. Richard Muller Mr. Peregrine White Mr. Don Leavitt Mr. Eric Wiberg A n Exclusive Member Mr. Paul J. O’Pecko

Category from SSHSA Commander CAPT Kenneth M. Graham Mr. Carl R. Nold Mr. Joseph Bains CDR Michael Greene, USN (Ret.) Mr. Roy C. Rose s a Captains’ Circle member The Rev. James Brandmueller Mr. and Mrs. Glenn P. Hayes Mr. Paul Shepard Mr. Stanley J. Ciaputa Mr. Francis Lazar Mr. Shapleigh Smith you’ll join with peers who Mr. William D. Comings, Jr. CAPT Leif Lindstrom Mr. Donn R. Spear share your interest in the Mr. Patrick Dacey Mr. Laurence P. MacDonald Mr. Alexander Swavy history and culture of fine Mr. Steven Draper CAPT Warren McDonald, US- CAPT John S. Tucker Mr. Francis Galasso CGR (Ret.) vessels, enjoy significant benefits and recognition, and be part of our impor- Mariner Mr. Bruce J. Estell CAPT Ronald J. Meiczinger Mr. James Alexandre Mr. Robert Foley Mr. Harry Meyer tant mission: recording, preserving and Mr. Jim Antonisse Mr. Raymond H. Fredette Mr. Charles A. Miller, III sharing maritime heritage. Mr. Richard L. Barwis, IV Mr. Mark Gathings Mr. Charles W. Moorman Mr. Jerome Batchelor Mr. John F. Gibson, III Mrs. Harry Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Bellafiore Mr. Albert Gilder Mr. William G. Muller Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Bieser Mr. Roger Gill Dr. and Mrs. William P. Murphy A mong the Many Benefits... Mr. Ted Blank Mr. Larry Glenwright Mr. Bruce Nickerson Mr. Gus Bourneuf Mr. Paul S. Gravenhorst Mr. Brian L. Norden • Council of American Maritime Museums Mr. H. Peirce Brawner Mr. Robert A. Haslun Mr. Kevin F. O’Donnell Mr. Conrad Breit Mr. Albert R. Hinckley, Jr. Oregon Maritime Museum Cards for complimentary admission to 80 Mr. Robert Brown Mr. Buell Hollister Mr. Patrick D. Ortego maritime museums Mr. J. O. Busto Mr. Cyrus Hosmer, III Mr. Ronald L. Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Donald Caldera Mr. John C. Hover, II Mr. Art Peabody Dr. George Callard Mr. Harold Kaplan Mr. Richard G. Pelley • Recognition as a member of Captains’ Circle Mr. John Cameron, Jr. Mr. Timothy J. Kelly Mr. W. Bruce Redpath Mr. Gabriel Caprio Ross and Ellen Langill Mr. William S. Reid in SSHSA’s e-newsletter, The Telegraph, CAPT Gerard P. Carroll Mr. Stephen Lash Mr. William M. Rosen and in PowerShips magazine Mr. Jerry Cesak Mr. Thomas Lavin Mr. Bruce Rowe Mr. Charles W. Clarke Mr. Matthew Lawrence Dr. Victor H. Rubino CDR Andrew O. Coggins, Jr., CAPT David Leech Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Schulte • Invitations to Captains’ Circle events USN (Ret.) Mr. Reginald Lewington Mr. John W. Schumann CAPT John M. Cox Ms. Susan E. Linda Mr. Bruce C. Seibel • Specially selected archival quality maritime Mr. John J. Crowley, Jr. CAPT Adrian M. Loughborough Mr. Walter A. Shields Mr. Ian Danic Mr. Joe MacArthur Mr. Howard Smart prints from SSHSA’s Image Porthole CAPT Robertson Dinsmore Dr. Mark P. Macina Mr. Britton C. Smith Mr. Andres Duarte Vivas Mr. Jeff MacKlin Mr. Mark Snider Mr. Michael Dugan Mr. Gary Maehl Mr. John S.W. Spofford Mr. Andrew Edmonds Mr. John Mahoney Mr. Alan Stover Mr. Andrew W. Edmonds Mr. David L. McColloch Mr. Richard Vanaria Mr. Jonathan Ely Mr. Daniel L. McCoy Mr. Stephen Weaver Mr. Elmer Engman Mr. Walter Lynn McLaughlin Call SSHSA for more information at (401) 463-3570 or visit www.sshsa.org at! ar II Aflo

e the Action of World W erienc Exp Aboard the Liberty Shipw n Joh n W. Bro 2018 Cruises from Baltimore on the Chesapeake H H H H H H H H H H H H Saturday, June 9H H H H H H H H H H H H T he SS JOHN W. BROWN is one of the last operating Saturday, survivors from the great fleet of over 2,700 war-built Liberty Ships and the last operational troopship of World War II. The ship is a September 1 maritime museum and a memorial to the shipyard workers who built, merchant mariners who sailed, and the U.S. Navy Armed Guard who defended the Liberty ships during World War II. The John W. Brown is fully restored and maintained as close as possible to her World War II configuration. Visitors must be able to walk up steps to board the ship.

T his exciting 6 hour day cruise includes lunch, music of the 40’s, period entertainment and flybys (conditions permitting) of wartime aircraft. Tour on-board museums, crew quarters, bridge and much more. See the magnificent 140-ton triple-expansion steam engine as it powers the ship through the water.

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