Schooner sultana

Klappentext The original schooner Sultana was built in Boston in 1767 and sold to the British navy the next year. She was the smallest schooner ever to serve in the Royal Navy. Used to enforce the "tea taxes" on the North American coast up to the time of the American Revolution, she visited eleven of the thirteen American colonies and engaged American sailors from Cape Cod to the Chesapeake Bay. Amazingly the logbooks and musterbooks of the voyages have survived to this day and provide one of the most complete histories available for an American-built ship of this period. The book tells the story of the first Sultana in colorful historical chapters, but its primary focus -- in both words and outstanding color photographs -- is the new Sultana, launched in a grand celebration in March of 2001. The reproduction vessel was built under the aegis of Chester River Craft and Art, a nonprofit organization located in the historic port of Chestertown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The saga of the four-year effort that culminated in the ship's launch involves a rare combination of people, events, and resources; among them are a boatbuilder and restorer who had the vision to initiate the project, a successful entrepreneur and a community leader who together became the driving force behind the fund-raising and administrative efforts, professional boatbuilders who passed up more lucrative jobs to help build Sultana, and hundreds of volunteers and thousands of students who took part in the construction. The end product is a lasting legacy for the Chesapeake Bay region and beyond, a unique floating classroom. The diminutive schooner will be used as an educational tool to allow visitors -- young peopleespecially -- to understand their maritime past better, to experience the primitive conditions under which twenty-five crewmen lived for many months at sea, and to marvel at the skills of the boatbuilders who made the modern Sultana possible. Zusammenfassung The schooner Sultana is a remarkable example of what can happen when a grand idea sparks the imagination of a group of exceptional people. The ideaâbuilding a reproduction of an eighteenth-century schooner to be a floating classroom on the Chesapeake Bayâoriginated with John Swain! and in the foreword to this book he sums up the many facets of a shipbuilding project that became the focus of community spirit. He invites readers to share in the experience! and share they will as the pages lead from impossible to absolute reality. The book tells Sultana's story through two perspectives. Lucian Niemeyer's outstanding photographs provide an exciting visual presentation! tracing the entire process from cutting the lumber and laying the keel! to launch day and sailing the bay. Drew McMullen's carefully crafted text guides the reader through the day-to-day progress! describing unique details as only an active participant could doâhe was the project director. While both views chronicle the construction of the vessel! they cover far more than shipbuilding as they introduce the many shipwrights! craftspeople! and volunteers who dedicated time and effort to completing the schooner. The historic Sultana was built in Boston in 1767 and purchased by the British Navy for use as a revenue schooner to patrol East Coast harbors. The story of the original vessel is told in chapters that alternate with the account of the new Sultana! which was built in Chestertown! Maryland! and launched in the spring of 2001. The end product is a lasting legacy for the Chesapeake Bay region and beyond! a unique floating classroom. The diminutive schooner is used as an educational tool to allow visitors! especially young people! to understand their maritime past better! to experience the primitive conditions under which twenty-five crewmen lived for many months at sea! and marvel at the skills of the boatbuilders who made the modern Sultana possible. ...

Product details

• Authors: Drew McMullen, Drew McMullen, Lucian Niemeyer
• Assisted by: Lucian Niemeyer (Photographs)
• Publisher: External catalogues_UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780870335389
• ISBN: 978-0-87033-538-9
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 320 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Guides > Sport