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May 1968 OCR.Pdf by Harold G. Petersen A collection of six ship's bells of long • The Institute will, this month, have association with the Institute will be made its long-awaited move to State mounted and arranged in a cluster in Street - to a new building especially designed to fulfill the unique require­ the second-floor foyer leading to the ments of today's and tomorrow's sea­ dining room and cafeteria. Passersby will probably be unable to resist the farers. compulsion to thump them with their SCI building as seen from East Coast Memorial in Battery Park. The emphases, the programs, the methods, the directions of the Institute knuckles- which will be all right with may now change to some degree - re­ the management. flecting new objectives, new conditions The cluster will be composed of bells -but the fundamental purpose for from the ill-fated N ormandie, the At­ which the Institute was founded re­ lantic which figured in a sea tragedy, mains immutable: The ministry to the the USS Saturn, the USS Samuel C. well-being of the seafarer; the ameli­ Reid, a replica of a bell from the U.S.S. oration of the problems peculiar to the Pennsylvania and one bell whose origin seafarer's mode of work and living. is not known. Still another will be hung LOOKOUT The Rev. John M. Mulligan Directo1· Mindful that the Institute's illustri­ from a wall bracket. Vol. 59, No.4 Four of them once served special May 1968 Harold G. Petersen ous past has created the foundation for Editor purposes at the South Street building. Copyright 1968 its future achievement, several physi­ Published monthly with exception of July-August and cal symbols which meld the nineteenth The one from the Atlantic hung from February-March when bi-monthly. Contributions to the SEAMEN'S CHURCH a bracket over the entrance, once rang Seamen's Church Institute of New York of $5.00 or more and twentieth centuries of the Insti­ INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK include a year's subscription to The lookout. Single sub­ tute's ministry will be on view in the the hours by ship time- throughout 15 State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004 scriptions are $2.00 annually. Single copies 50¢. Addi· every day and night - by means of Telephone: 269-2'110 tional postage for Canada, latin America, Spain, $1.00: public rooms at State Street. The Right Reverend other foreign, $3.00. Second class postage paid at New Among these will be the memorial an automatic device. Horace W. B. Donegan, D.D., D.C.L. York, N.Y. Another of the cluster, which hung Honorary President plaques (described in the April Look­ COVER: Building as seen from northwest corner of Battery in the lobby, was once rung every morn­ Franklin E. Vilas Park. Statue is of John Ericsson. Photo and others in this out) arranged within the spiral public President issue pertaining to the Institute by Harold G. Petersen. staircase which ascends opposite the ing and evening at 8:00 o'clock; this Chapel entrance. signalled the beginning and end of the 3 Sound November 25, 1846, with a loss of 43 lives. The Sailor, a bronze sculpture by Jacob Lipkin of Long Island, will sur­ vey the SCI scene from some vantage point. A gift to the Institute in 1956, the piece was formerly exhibited in the old museum. Lipkin went to sea ~ hen fifteen years of age. His son waR a seaman for two years. The artist may become profiled by Time magazine. For several months past, the man­ 1- -~ agement and staff of the Institute have carefully considered all possible utilizations of South Street equipment MaMo~o W~~W9Blr and furnishings in the new building. In instances where this wasn't prac­ by W. H. Owens tical or economical, certain articles 1. H.M.S. "Victory" in her dry dock at and eql,lipment have been donated to Admiral Lord Nelson's 200-year-old Portsmouth Harbor. churches and social agencies of the flagship - last of the "wooden walls" New York area. -lies drydocked at Portsmouth, Eng­ 2. A mess table and typical mess utensils on land, where thousands of visitors tread the lower gun deck. Fifteen men sat around (Continued on page 10) her decks each year. She is rigged ex­ these utensils. All eating was done with the fingers and after each meal the men wiped actly as on the day of the Battle of their hands on the tassels. A seaman's kit· Trafalgar (October 21, 1805), her bag in which he carried his few personal three graceful masts soaring from 152 belongings can be seen in the background. to 205 feet above the dockside. The Victory (2,162 tons) had an 3. The cockpit where Nelson died on Oc· tober 21, 1805. Every Trafalgar Day wreaths day's activities. The USS Saturn bell active career around the world from are laid here in his memory. hung in the cafeteria, but usually re­ the time she was launched in 1765, mained silent except for special occa­ forty years before her crowning tri­ 4. Replica of the ship's steering wheel. The sions. umph off Cape Trafalgar. So she was original was shot away soon after action The replica bell of the USS Pennsyl­ already a war-scarred veteran when was joined at Trafalgar. Thereafter the ship vania, which hung outside the Institute Nelson took command of her in 1803. was steered by hand tackles from the tiller on the lower gun deck. chapel since 1915, remained in constant Shortly before that, in fact, the ship use up until the South Street building had been declared unfit for further was vacated- sounding for the re­ service. But Nelson was so attracted ligious services held within. It was a by her graceful lines that he had her commemorative gift from an individual donor. 3 The two most famous bells of the collection are probably of the Norman­ die, which burned at a Manhattan pier in 1942, and the 400-pound Atlantic bell which once hung in the Institute's float­ ing Church of the Holy Comforter, an­ chored at the foot of Dey Street and North River from 1846 to 1868. Orig­ inally, the bell was salvaged from the steamer Atlantic which exploded and sank off Fisher's Island in Long Island 4 5 re-fitted as his flagship, sailing in her for the last two years of his life. Now, carefully restored, she stands today as Nelson knew her, except for the sails that were shot away at Tra­ falgar. The great gun decks of the Vic­ by Edyth Harper tory, carrying 104 guns in all, are still The American coastline covers al­ lined with the 24-pounders and 32- At this table in the Admfral's Quarters Nel­ son wrote his famous prayer just before the most every conditio~ of climate from pounders that blazed away at the Battle of Trafalgar. l frozen shores to trop1cal strands. Have French warships in 1805. Most original ever considered what a wealth of you h" h d deck timbers have been replaced, ex­ and saw another seven years' service. material lies buried between 1g an cepting those on the Lower Gun Deck Then she was afloat in Portsmouth low water? -the broadest in the ship and 186 feet Harbor for over a century until, by A recent discovery in New Jersey of long from bow to stern. Its twin bat­ 1922, the sea threatened her aged tim­ a piece of amber containing an insect teries of guns were manned by almost a bers and she nearly foundered. She was which might well be described as the quarter of the ship's company. (The towed to her present dry dock and, fol­ "missing link" of the insect world be­ complement at Trafalgar was 850 of­ lowing a national appeal, underwent a tween ant and wasp, has stirred peo­ ficers and men.) six-year restoration. ple's imaginations. Many walking by Up on the Quarter Deck is a brass Today the Victory serves as a the shore may be prompted to search plate simply inscribed, "Here Nelson headquarters of the Commander-in­ for other curiosities and semi-precious fell, 21st October, 1805". While pacing Chief, Portsmouth Dockyard, and the stones. Before you begin, it will be the deck with Captain Hardy, the Ad­ Admiral's Quarters aft are used for worth your while to find out a little miral was mortally wounded by a shot receptions and conferences. The table about the subject. fired from the French "Redoubtable" is preserved on which Lord Nelson • The chance of finding semi-precious only 40 feet away. "They have done composed his famous Prayer shortly stones is greater than many people for me at last, Hardy", he exclaimed, before the Battle of Trafalgar: realize. While the only diamonds you "my backbone is shot through." "May the Great God whom I worship are likely to discover when beachcomb­ Nelson was carried below to the grant to my country and for the benefit ing are those washed up from buried article. A visit to the U.S. National cockpit where he died three hours later of Europe in general a great and glori­ treasure, less valuable gems can be Museum, Washington, D. C., or the - but not before Captain Hardy had ous victory; and may no misconduct in found in quantity. American Museum of Natural History told him that victory was certain. any one tarnish it; and may humanity One of the joys of collecting these inN ew York City, will teach you much.
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