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Tall Ship Mock Battle
Date: 12/20/08 - 12/20/08
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Los Angeles Martitime Museum, San Pedro
The tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain will be visiting the San Pedro Harbor and are offering dockside tours. You will have the opportunity to tour the Lady Washington and/or the Hawaiian Chieftain while she is at the dock in San Pedro. You'll explore the ship and hear tales of life at sea for an 18th-century sailor. Dockside Tours are free, although a donation of $3.00 per person is reuested. Please have scouts wear class A uniforms.
The Lady Washington is the Official Ship of the State of Washington. The Hawaiian Chieftain accompanies her on her voyages and goodwill missions. Both ships welcome the public during visits to ports in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia.
The new Lady Washington is a full-scale reproduction of the original Lady Washington. Built in the British Colony of Massachusetts in the 1750s, the original vessel carried freight between colonial ports until the American Revolutionary War, when she became an American privateer. In 1787, after the war, she was given a major refit to prepare her for a unprecedented trading voyage around Cape Horn. In 1788, she became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America.
A pioneer in Pan-Pacific trade, she was the first American ship to visit Honolulu, Hong Kong and Japan. Lady Washington opened the black pearl and sandalwood trade between Hawaii and the Orient when King Kamehameha became a partner in the ship.
The topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain is a replica of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century. Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer's ships used in the expeditions of the late 18th century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Built of steel in Hawaii in 1988 and originally designed for cargo trade among the Hawaiian Islands, her design was influenced by the early colonial passenger and coastal packets that carried on coastal trade along the Atlantic coastal cities and towns.
The coastal packet service was part of the coasting trade based on mercantile activity of the developing seaboard towns. The early packet ships were regular traders and were selected because they sailed remarkably well and could enter small ports with their shallow draft. Out of the gradual development of the Atlantic packet ship hull form came the ship design practices that helped produce some of the best of the clipper ships of the later 1850s.
For a map to the Maritime Institute, please visit http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=los+angeles+maritime+institute&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=73.789856,113.203125&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=33.738424,-118.278551&spn=0.002079,0.004013&z=18
Mindy Bostick
E-Mail: jmbostick@aol.com |
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