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National Maritime Historical Society campaigned for the Elissa from 1968 to 1982, finding a sponsor for her in the late 1970s in the Galveston Historical Foundation ...more
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National Maritime Historical Society intervened when San Francisco officialdom threatened to disown the tug while she was on her final voyage from England. ... more
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National Maritime Historical Society formed "Friends of Ernestina" in 1977, following dismasting of the schooner after an attempted voyage to the US from Cape Verde. ...more
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Gloucester fishing schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD, ex-Caviare (1893)
South Street Seaport Museum was considering scrapping the schooner when National Maritime Historical Society got a cover story on the vessel's plight in the Sunday News Magazine, with a 2 million circulation. ...more |
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NMHS formed Project Liberty Ship in the mid-1980s, funding the ship's return from the James River layup fleet to Baltimore, MD. ...more
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This ship was the last of the West Coast steam schooners. In poor condition and slated for demolition by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Maritime Historical Society President Peter Stanford called for her restoration. ...more
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A gift of James P. McAllister to South Street Seaport Museum, the tug sank at her pier in January 1976. Salvaged and stored on a West Side pier, she was recovered by McAllister during his tenure as chairman of NMHS some years later. ...more |
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This Cape Horn sailing ship fell on hard times in South Street Seaport Museum following her arrival there in 1970, after being discovered as a sand barge in Buenos Aires by National Maritime Historical Society founder Karl Kortum. ...more
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Gloucester fishing schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD, ex-Caviare (1893)
WWII Liberty ship JOHN W. BROWN (1942)
Steam tug MATHILDA (1899)