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1 9 4 8 2 0 0 9 1 9 4 8 2 0 0 9 Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage N E W S L E T T E R PAID PSMHS Seattle WA A P R I L N E W S L E T T E R Permit No. 349 APRIL 2009 • dated material PSMHS Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society please deliver dinner meeting: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society • April 2009 promptly P.O. Box 9731 wednesday Seattle WA 98109-0731 april 1, 2009 swedish cultural center APRIL DINNER PROGRAM: 1920 dexter avenue north April Dinner Program: LIGHTHOUSES AND LIFE SAVING seattle, washington ON WASHINGTON’S OUTER COAST menu: pork chops Lighthouses & Life Saving on use form on page 3 Washington’s Outer Coast don’t forget to make your to mail in your Our outer coastal area has long been called “The Graveyard of the reservations early! reservation TODAY! Pacific” and “The Unforgiving Coast” for very good reason. Between the • treacherous entrance of the Columbia River at the south to the lack of bar opens at 6:00 p.m. frequent easy-to-enter safe harbors along the coast up to the often wild dinner at 7:00 p.m. waters at the opening of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, ships have encountered • PROUD SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS OF PSMHS trouble and lives have been in jeopardy. program: To provide warnings and protect the vessels, their crews, passengers COASTAL SENTINELS AND and cargos, the federal government established the US Lighthouse Service HEROS: LIGHTHOUSES in 1790 and gave that organization life saving responsibilities. The Cape Disappointment Lighthouse was first lit in 1856, followed PSMHS Classified Ads AND LIFE SAVING ON Annual Maritime Career Day To Be Held On May 7 WASHINGTON’S OUTER COAST by North Head and Gray’s Harbor in 1898. The first Pacific Coast Life Saving Station was opened at Willapa Bay in 1877. SHIP MODEL RESTORATION. The Maritime Event Center, formerly the Odyssey Maritime historian and author Cleaning, repairs, re-rigging, and/or recon- Our April speaker, Dr. William Hanable first became interested in Discovery Center, is proud to present the 11th Annual Maritime dr. william hanable will struction of ship models in any condition or Career Day in conjunction with the Maritime Festival on Thursday, lighthouses while working as a historian in Alaska. He moved to Washing- size. Thirty-five years experience in res- speak the praise of our toration, appraisals, and conservation. For a May 7, 2009, from 8:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. ton in 1994 to become director of the Westport Maritime Museum, which museum quality restoration contact Gary lighthouses and life saving White, The Ship Model Dockyard, 253- This event provides a unique opportunity to take a glimpse into the is located in the former Coast Guard Life Boat Station. While there, he stations along the so-called 952-4612 or [email protected] 4/09 working world of trade, transportation, fisheries, government and developed interpretive tours at Gray’s Harbor Lighthouse and curated a career training. Step aboard and explore working vessels, speak with graveyard of the pacific new exhibit on Lighthouse Service and Life Saving Service history in the BOOKS BOUGHT AND SOLD. Ma- • rine, maritime, nautical, naval books and industry representatives, and sit in on our Maritime Speaker Series. Westport area. ephemera bought, sold and appraised. This opportunity is offered FREE of charge. The Maritime Event your reservation form Bill Hanable is currently managing director of Northwest Heritage Mention PSMHS for a 10% discount. must be received SeaOceanBooks.com at 3534 Stone Way Center is located at Pier 66, 2205 Alaskan Way. For more information Consultants, which provides historic preservation, museum planning and North, Seattle. 206-675-9020. 2/10 visit www.MaritimeEventCenter.com. not later than noon on grant writing services. His most recent achievement is a new Arcadia book, monday, march 30, 2009 Lighthouses and Lifesaving on Washington’s Outer Coast. He will bring the TO SUBMIT AN AD. Make a $3.00 per month donation to PSMHS and send to YMTA Receives Nine Applications for Scholarships or call pat hartle book, its many historical images and some amazing feats of heroism to life PSMHS Newsletter Editor,Classified Ads, at 206-938-2397 for as he presents our April dinner program. We will be meeting at the Swedish P.O. Box 9731, Seattle WA 98109-0731. YMTA received nine applications from Washington State seniors for the 2009 Norm Manly YMTA Maritime Educational and Pacific Maritime more information and Cultural Center on Wednesday, April 1. Please make sure to make your Magazine Scholarships. All nine have been invited to present an oral reservation changes only reservations by using the coupon printed on Page 3. As a added plus, we presentation on “Charting a Maritime Career” to a panel of judges on • will present each person attending with our special Puget Sound Maritime Saturday April 18, 2009, in Seattle at the Maritime Event Center. Historical Society lapel pin. P S M H S o n l i n e : w w w . p u g e t m a r i t i m e . o r g d e d i c a t e d t o p! r e s e r v i n g a n d d i s p l a y i n g t h e n o r t h w e s t m a r i t i m e p a s t d e d i c a t e d t o p r e s e r v i n g a n d d i s p l a y i n g t h e n o r t h w e s t m a r i t i m e p a s t 1 9 4 8 2 0 0 9 1 9 4 8 2 0 0 9 PSMHS Curator is A Key Part of WAWONA PSMHS PSMHS N E W S L E T T E R Documentation and Deconstruction Membership Application Dinner Meeting Reservation PSMHS After a 45-year-long effort to save Seattle’s last tall ship, the 112 year- Individual/Family Membership ! $40 CLIP AND MAIL FOR MEETING Membership in the Puget Sound Maritime Historical old Pacific schooner WAWONA took her final voyage on March 4—a Society is open to anyone interested in maritime Associate (Libraries, Museum, Non-Profit) ! $40 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009 history. Membership is solicited and inquires should quarter of a mile from Lake Union Park to Lake Union Drydock (LUDD) Sustaining Member ! $50 RESERVATION DEADLINE: be addressed to: PSMHS, P.O. Box 9731, Seattle WA where she is now being deconstructed. As this last vestige of an era slips 98109-0731. Monthly meetings are held September Sponsor ! $75 NOON ON MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2009 through June on the first Wednesday of each month. away, PSMHS Administrator and Curator Nathaniel Howe has been Patron ! $100 Name(s): Meeting place and programs are announced to members helping preserve this vital part of Pacific Northwest maritime history. by mail. The PSMHS Newsletter is published monthly, Corporate Membership ! $500 September through June, and is free to members. For more than a year Howe has been splitting his time with Northwest Benefactor ! $500 Seaport to work as their Vessel Documentation and Preservation Specialist. Puget Sound Navigator ! $1000 Telephone: The young Seattle native, sailor and maritime preservationist has directed Maritime Historical Society Work(ed) for a Matching Gift Company! Total Number [at $30 per person]: 206-624-3028 the documentation of the ship, the artifact preservation plan, and has been Total Amount of Check: involved in virtually all the project’s complex planning negotiations. Name(s) Address President: Chuck Fowler Captivated by WAWONA as a child, Howe built a model of the ship MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: PSMHS 360-705-3060 at age eleven when he joined the Society and was a member of the City State Zip MAIL TO: 1st Vice President: Discovery Ship Modelers program. By the time he was in high school Telephone (H) (W) PSMHS MEETING, Roger Ottenbach Howe was determined to enter the maritime museum field and help E-mail P.O. BOX 9731, SEATTLE, WA, 98109-0731 2nd Vice President: restore WAWONA to her former glory. Sponsor (if any) Call 206-938-2397 for changes, cancellations or questions. Leon Gessula However, after studying and working at Beloit College, Mystic Guests are always welcome. Please include payment. Treasurer: ! I/we would like to receive information about how I/we can Reserve Early and Notify of Cancellation. A member who makes Seaport, and the Vasa Museum in Sweden while on a Fulbright Scholar- remember the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society in a reservation and then does not attend a dinner or give notifica- Johnnie Ridgway ship, and the Fregatten Jylland Museum in Denmark, all his training only my/our estate planning or planned charitable giving program. tion of their cancellation in a timely manner (48 hours) will not Recording/Membership showed him that WAWONA was beyond hope. Rot was rapidly consum- be refunded their money for the dinner. The Society must pay for Secretary: MAIL TO: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, the number of meals we have reserved in advance, regardless of the ing the entire ship and to restore her would require more than $20 million number of meals actually served since the caterer orders several Dan Withers P.O. Box 9731, Seattle WA 98109-0731 (Include your check) days in advance.