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FALLS OF CLYDE falls on harder times
The rigging on the historic sailing ship FALLS OF CLYDE will be removed as a safety precaution. The ship, which is berthed at the Hawaii Maritime Center, has been closed to the public since 2007 because of its deteriorating condition. The masts are being taken down as a safety precaution so that the ship can be moved without more damage. The Bishop Museum said it does not have the money to repair and restore the ship, a project that is estimated to cost $32 million. The removal of the rigging suggests that the ship's days may be numbered. FALLS OF CLYDE was built in 1878 in Scotland and was launched as the first of eight iron-hulled four-masted ships built for the Falls line. It was bought in 1899 by Captain William Matson, who brought the ship to Honolulu. From 1898 to 1907 it was used as a trans-Pacific passenger and freight-carrying vessel from Hilo to San Francisco. It was later sold and converted to a bulk tanker and then to a fuel-oil barge and floating gasoline depot before decommissioned in 1959. The ship was donated to the Bishop Museum in 1968 and then transferred to its affiliated Hawaii Maritime Center in 1988. 6/08 |
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CUTTY SARK will be fully restored thanks to a £3.3m donation from an Israeli shipping magnate, Sammy Ofer. The ship, based in Greenwich, south-east London, was part-way through a £35m conservation project when a fire started onboard in May 2007. Mr Ofer has given £3.3m to enable the restoration to be completed by 2010. The cause of the fire remains unclear.
Conservation work reached a major milestone in April, when a seven-tonne iron counter, a large and delicate part of the ship's stern, was lifted by crane from the rest of the ship. Other work, which has been ongoing despite the fire, includes the restoration of wooden planks from the hull. The Cutty Sark Trust welcomed the "extraordinary" donation.In March Mr Ofer donated £20m to the National Maritime Museum in London. 6/08 |
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ARTHUR M HUDDELL, Liberty Ship, to become Greek Museum
Neville Smith - Lloyds List
Friday 6 June 2008
CLASSIFICATION society ABS has announced a donation of $250,000 towards the restoration of Liberty ship Arthur M Huddell and its preservation as a maritime museum in Greece.
The Liberty ships, including Arthur M Huddell, were built and maintained to ABS class and their sale to Greek owners at the end of the Second World War began the resurgence of the Greek fleet. US Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton and SeaCrest Shipping chairman Spyros Polemis, who has been appointed as project manager of Liberty Enterprise by the Greek government, were presented with a cheque by ABS chairman and chief executive Robert Somerville.
The ship is the gift of the US government to the Greek government and is currently in Virginia being prepared for the transatlantic crossing to Greece.
Mr Sommerville said the contribution to the project was a reflection of the long association ABS has had with the Liberty ship fleet and the Greek market. ABS opened an office in Piraeus to support this new fleet and to establish the strong bonds between the classification society and the Greek shipowning community, which have only strengthened over the last 60 years,” he said.
Arthur M Huddell was specially converted to lay a gasoline pipeline across the English channel to supply fuel to the Allied forces after D-Day in 1944 and subsequently it served as a cable layer in commercial service. It has been laid up as part of the Marad reserve fleet in the James River since being withdrawn from service.
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City wanted to kill museum says ex-Director. Vancouver wouldn't let maritime collection move to North Vancouver, Jim Delgado says. Delgado, the former director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (Canada), said he quit the position two years ago after the City of Vancouver thwarted the museum's attempts to move its collection to North Vancouver.
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The USS MONITOR Center’s Ironclad Revolution exhibition was recently awarded the American Association of Museums’ (AAM) 20th Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition Award. The new $30 million Center is one of four winning entries out of the 33 AAM received this year. 6/08
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Historic find at Museum. A number of gearwheels and shafts dating back to the 1840s were discovered in a building which was formerly the Naval Bakery and which today hosts the Malta Maritime Museum in Vittoriosa.During upgrading works at the museum, workers discovered a two-metre long trench leading to underground tunnels whose existence was previously unknown to Heritage Malta. At the bottom of the trenches, excavators discovered a shaft and gearwheels buried under layers of rocks. More 6/08
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City wanted to kill museum says ex-Director. Vancouver wouldn't let maritime collection move to North Vancouver, Jim Delgado says. Delgado, the former director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (Canada), said he quit the position two years ago after the City of Vancouver thwarted the museum's attempts to move its collection to North Vancouver.
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The Richardson Maritime Museum in Cambridge MD is planning a $300,000 restoration of what may be the largest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Royal invitation for Israeli who gave £20 million to maritime museum
The Duke of Edinburgh has asked to meet Israeli billionaire Sammy Ofer following his £20 million donation to the National Maritime Museum last week.
The Duke reportedly wants to show his appreciation to Mr Ofer for the bequest — believed to be the largest single donation by an individual to any cultural project in Britain.
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Wreckage of HMAS Sydney found off West Australian coast
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Relocation relocation
THE famous lightship Calshot Spit, which guided vessels in and out of Southampton Water between 1914-1978, has been on display on at Southampton’s Ocean Village complex for the last 20 years.
Now, however, it could return to the water as a major attraction at Southampton’s new £19m ($38.2m) cruise terminal, which Associated British Ports announced it was building in December after signing a new 20-year deal with Carnival UK.
The distinctive red ship will be relocated to an abandoned dock alongside the new terminal when it opens next year.
Moving the 200 tonne vessel from Ocean Village to the port’s Eastern Docks will be a major operation and ABP have kindly offered to help.
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Dubai: The UAE's first maritime museum will be built in the Academic Quarter of the Maritime City.
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National Museums at Chatham Project Forges Ahead. The creation of a new centre for world-class collections at The Historic Dockyard Chatham - National Museums at Chatham - is now set to forge ahead following the release of funds totalling £7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA).
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Too junky to junk?
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Foundation-Laying Ceremony For Brunei's First Martime Museum
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CARRICK THROWN A LIFELINE??
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CUTTY SARK FIRE
in the early hours of 21 May a fire broke out aboard the Cutty Sark in London.
24 May: Results of a forensic examination of the remains of the ship, which was badly damaged in the early morning blaze on Monday, have proved inconclusive.
The Metropolitan Police are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire but say they have no major leads.
A police spokesman said: "Greenwich Police continue to make inquiries and view CCTV footage from around the area. At this stage, we have no major leads and inquiries continue."
6/07 website photographs of fire the restoration interactive News digest
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Sunken ships reborn
The Korean National Maritime Museum in Mokpo, South Cholla Province, is Korea's only national maritime museum and institute of underwater salvage and research.
The museum was originally a place in charge of the preservation and restoration of the hull and remains of a ``Sinanson'' (Sinan ship), which was salvaged from the seabed off Chungdo, an island in Sinan County in 1976.
It was one of the world's richest underwater archeological discoveries in terms of historical and artistic value. During salvage operations that were conducted until 1984, 23,502 pieces of remains were found, including pieces of celadon, coins, metalwork and spices.
Among them, the main exhibition item is the 34.8-meter-long wooden sailing ship Sinanson, which has an 11-meter beam, a largely intact keel, seven bulkheads and three masts. It was a Chinese merchant ship belonging to the Yuan Dynasty that was on its way to Japan to sell its goods in the 14th century, according to the museum.
The remains of Sinanson and other restored ships provide people with an insight into East Asia's economy, art, handicrafts and shipbuilding technology of those times.
3/07 The Korea Times. For more information: www.seamuse.go.kr
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Townsville Maritime Museum attempts to secure HMAS TOWNSVILLE
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Mariners Museum opens USS Monitor Center
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THE world's oldest clipper, SV Carrick, is finally to be broken up.
Permission for the 143-year-old ship, which is currently stored on a slipway at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, to be dismantled has been given after a study concluded it would cost £10million to restore.
Enthusiasts from across the world had hoped that the beleaguered vessel, which sank in Glasgow 15 years ago, could have become a top tourist attraction, but North Ayrshire Council decided the wreck was too far gone.
Museum trustee Graham Kennison said: "It's a very sad end."
Source: www.eveningtimes.co.uk 19 Jan 2007
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S.Korea launches first vessel for marine archaeological survey
South Korea launched a vessel to survey underwater relics on Thursday to enhance its marine archaeology studies on Korea's ancient civilization and its exchange with neighboring countries.
The survey vessel, which was named Seamuse, went into commission for the National Maritime Museum in Mokpo on the country's southwest, the South Korea's Yonhap said. Seamuse is the first marine archaeological survey ship in Asia, said the maritime museum.
The survey ship will drastically expand the scale of archaeological understanding in Northeast Asia, the museum said. According to Yonhap, the survey ship is 19 meters long and 4.4 meters wide and can accommodate up to 13 people. It is equipped with exploration systems that can operate in deep waters, such as a side scan sonar system for searching and detecting objects underwater through photographic images made from its sound waves and remote operated vehicles that use remote controlled robots instead of divers.
Seamuse will have its inaugural sail on Nov. 19 on occasion of the 30th anniversary of the discovery of a sunken ancient vessel on the seabed of Sinan off the country's southeast coast.
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Rabelo Boats from Portugal full details
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Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Gulf, will soon have a Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum , called the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (GAD). The 323,000-square-foot contemporary art facility, slated to open by 2011 in the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island , became official with a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the New York-based Guggenheim Foundation. A natural island just offshore the UAE capital, Saadiyat Island will also serve three other museums-a national museum, a classical art museum, and a maritime museum-as well as a performing arts center and an arts center park. About half the size of Bermuda, the island is part of a massive new $27 billion mixed-use development project, expected to be completed in 2018.
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SAN FRANCISCO USA -
Maritime museum closing for 3 years for major repairs
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The Threat to the use of Pine Tar - ' Stockholm Tar' - and European Legislation
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A Maritime Museum for Northern Africa
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he Ministry of Culture reached the decision to create a maritime museum in Algeria . The Administration has chosen a building in Algiers, suitable for the museum project. The Directorate for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage requested assessment to the Museu Marítim de Barcelona to undertake the project. This is a firm attempt to create a Heritage Centre in the country, rich in maritime tradition. Algeria counts with a valuable representation of maritime heritage, dated before the Roman Empire and up to the French colonisation. This new museum can become a point of reference of maritime culture in the Maghreb 6/06
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UK - SS GREAT BRITAIN
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, a huge fan of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, will start up the engine and bring the ss Great Britain back to life for the first time in 160 years. Full Details 6/06
SS GREAT BRITAIN was the world's first iron ocean-going ship, transporting thousands to new lives in Australia and troops to the war in Crimea. But when Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship was hauled back to its home port of Bristol from the Falkland Islands in 1970, it was a corroded wreck.
A restoration project in the three-and-a-half decades since has brought the ship back to its former glory. The project was honoured on 25 May with the Gulbenkian Prize. More Details 5/06
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HMAS DIAMANTINA returns to her dry dock at the Queensland Maritime Museum More Details 5/06
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British Waterways Yorkshire has commissioned an award-winning tourism and leisure consultancy to carry out a £150,000 makeover on one of Yorkshire's tourist attractions. Located along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Standedge Visitor Centre is the site of Britain's highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel and it is hoped the facelift will help make it one of the North's top tourism destinations. More Details 2/06
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USA - Mystic Seaport partners with the Water Channel to bring maritime history to millions. The Water Channel, the world's first television network devoted to water lifestyle programming, announced an agreement with the Mystic Seaport Museum of America and The Sea, to bring America's maritime history to millions of viewers through a collaboration that will include content, programming development and product sales. More Details 2/06
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Carrick becomes an abandoned ship - Oldest surviving clipper will now be broken up. Efforts to save the world's oldest surviving clipper and preserve a major piece of maritime history have finally run aground.
An application has now been made to break up the 142-year old Carrick, whose rusting hulk has lain on a slipway in Irvine harbour since it sank in Glasgow in 1992. More Details and Here 2/06 (See latest news above)
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