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Schooner yacht Coronet. Photo: Daniel Forster.

In the Pages of Sea History 182

Here's what's in the pages of Sea History 182: 

 

National Maritime Awards Dinner and NMHS Invitational Art Gallery

In May, NMHS will celebrate three driving forces of the maritime community and their outstanding contributions at the 12th National Maritime Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. A showcase of contemporary marine art will be for sale, with proceeds benefiting NMHS.

 

1885 Coronet back in the water

Historic Ships on a Lee Shore: Schooners on the Move by Deirdre O’Regan

After many years in various stages of rebuild, the 1885 Coronet and 1894 Ernestina-Morrissey are back in the water, while in December the 1921 fishing schooner L. A. Dunton was hauled out for a multi-year restoration at Mystic Seaport Museum.

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a square-rigged ship

All Hands on Deck: Storms, Turmoil, and a Rompin’ Good Sail Aboard the Tall Ship Rose by Will Sofrin

You might think that sailing a square-rigged ship from the North Atlantic to California in the dead of winter would be asking for trouble. And you’d be right. In an excerpt from his new book, Will Sofrin takes us onboard the tall ship Rose in what proved to be an epic voyage.

 

Curator’s Corner—Historic Photos from the Archives by Jeffrey Smith

Columbia River Maritime Museum curator Jeffrey Smith shares a photo from 1938 showing a motor yacht about to be launched in Astoria, Oregon. This same vessel was recently donated to the museum; she arrived under her own power for a grand homecoming last August.

 

studying the prevalence of microplastics in the oceansS.E.A. and the History of Ocean Plastic Research by Chloe Beittel, Ava De Leon, and Isabelle Stewart

Sea Education Association has been studying the prevalence of microplastics in the oceans for 50 years. Recent interns share how a research project in the Sargasso Sea inadvertently started it all, and how S.E.A.’s curriculum has evolved to help confront today’s environmental crises.

 

history of the little brigantine

A Ship, Youth, and the Sea—Black Pearl’s Role in American Sail Training by Nicolas Hardisty

Tall Ships America’s historian Nic Hardisty traces the colorful history of the little brigantine that played a pivotal role in the founding of the sail training movement in the United States.

 

Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in 19th-Century Danish Art by Freyda Spira, Stephanie Schrader, and Thomas Lederballe

A new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art takes an intimate look at the masters of the Danish Golden Age and how they interpreted the turbulent time after the Napoleonic Wars when Denmark was adapting to its changing cultural identity, much of it tied to the sea.

 

View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, 1839, by Martinus Rørbye. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Plus, you’ll find the regular features you look forward to in every issue:

  • Deck Log
  • Letters
  • NMHS: A Cause in Motion
  • Marine Art News
  • Sea History for Kids
  • Ship Notes, Seaport & Museum News
  • Calendar
  • Book Reviews

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