Maine Maritime Museum’s popular Symposium, to be held Saturday April 10th, 8AM through evening program
starting at 7:30PM. This year ‘s title is “Big Ship Smack-Down: Who’s Got the Biggest?”
In part, the announcement reads: “People associated with the [Maine Maritime] Museum frequently are heard to say that the six mast WYOMING (built at the Percy & Small shipyard now part of the Museum) was the largest wooden vessel built in the US, or just the largest wooden vessel,period.–What do people form other parts of the country, or even the world, think about this claim? What vesels are the WYOMING’s competitors?
Speakers will disucss ancient vessels, the limits of wooden shipbuilding, and steel sailing vessels. We will also et a glimpse into modern steel shipbuilding as it carried on in Maine. There will be opportunities for
scholars and studentrs to briefly mention work thay have in progress or recently finished.”
The following activities are scheduled:
– Panel Discussion: The Largest Wooden Ships (Lincoln Paine, Kurt Hasselbalch, Ralph Linwood Snow, Bud Warren)
– Arthur Sewll & Co’s Big Wooden Ships (William F. Bunting – MARHST guru and author of “Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships”)
– Giants from the Past: Caligula’s Ships in the Speculum Dianae (Michelle Stefanile – underwater archaeologist, Naples, Italy)
– Longitudinal Stiffness in Wooden Vesels: North American Solutions echoed in SW Europe, Min 19th-early 20th Centuries (Jean Yves Blot – Portuguest Institute of Archaeology)
– The Largest Steel Sailing Ships (Norman Brouwer – author and historian)
– Steel shipbuilding as it happens today (Guided bus tour of Bath IronWorks, Corp.)
– Fish house punch receeption
– Silent Films – “Old Ironsides” (1926) , “Yankee Clipper (1927)
Online registration at www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org or call 207-443-1316 ext. 0.
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