Charles H. Richardson

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Type: Schooner

Year: 1877

Builder: Kirby & Lang

Location: St. Michaels

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	1	8888.0052.0000.00	documents	CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION				CAPTAIN LEONARD S. TAWES - MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Biographical Background<CR> Captain Leonard S. Tawes was born in Accomack County, Virginia, on October 2, 1853. He died in Crisfield, Maryland, on December 6, 1932. He went to sea at an early age, worked his way up to master of sailing vessels, and continued actively to captain sailing vessels until 1922 when he retired from the sea to devote himself to oyster farming in the area around Crisfield. In his retirement, using his logs and other records, Tawes composed a series of journals covering his life and recounting his maritime experiences in detail. The journals, edited by Robert H. Burgess, called Coasting Captain, were published as a book by The Mariners Museum in 1967. This volume is an excellent companion to the manuscript collection and permits clarification of many of the entries found in the manuscripts themselves. In 1884 Captain Tawes took command of, and part ownership in the three-masted, 138-foot schooner City of Baltimore. The 356-gross ton schooner was built by Goss, Sawyer & Packard of Bath, Maine, and was launched on February 2, 1884. Tawes captained the City of Baltimore until 1904 when she was sold in Tampa, Florida (Coasting Captain, 146, 445-6). Most of the material in the manuscript collection relates to the period during which Tawes sailed the City of Baltimore.Scope and Content The collection consists of seven bound booklets and ledgers, and one folder containing various documents which were found in the ledgers when they were accessioned. Most of the material is financial and other operating records from the schooner City of Baltimore. Subject: Captain Leonard S Tawes	No image URL.	View
	2	8888.0045.0000.00	documents	Talbot County Oyster Ground Surveys and Abandonmen		Range, Cir 01/01/1917 - 12/31/1968		Talbot County Oyster Ground Surveys and Abandonments (1881-1905):NOTE: 5/18/2018 Plat of Oyster Lands at Ratcliffe is located in CSA 10A2.The collection is comprised of 76 oyster ground surveys and abandonments for Talbout County, Maryland. All 76 of these land, or deed, records were originally housed in the Land Record books of Talbot County, Maryland. Four of the deeds deal specifically with the abandonment of a specified oyster ground. The remaining 72 are surveys of oyster ground, with a select few being both surveys and abandonments. Although the records cover a 25 year period, most of the records were concentrated in certain years, such as 1882, the 1890s, 1901, and 1903. Nevertheless, the oyster ground surveys offer examples of many different Talbot County families, surveyors, clerks, Justices of Peace, bodies of water, and maps.BackgroundThe collection of oyster surveys and abandonments was salvaged by the donor, Ronald Lesher, from a storage room of the Talbot County Land Records prior to their disposal in 1995. Mr. Lesher donated the collection to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museaum in September 1995.For further information, see vertical files: Seafood Industry and Oyster Harvesting.SubjectsOyster Ground Surveys; Talbot County-Land Records, Talbot County--History, Families, Government Officials; Eastern Shore--Oystering, Geography; Seafood Industry--Chesapeake Bay	No image URL.	View
	3	8888.0004.0000.00	documents	Ralph Houghton Wiley (1893--1981) Papers (1915--19		Range, Exa 01/01/1915 - 12/31/1979		Ralph Houghton Wiley (1893--1981) Papers (1915--1979). Biographical BackgroundRalph Houghton Wiley was born in Massapequa, New York, February 27, 1893. His parents were Rev. William Wiley and Dora Elizabeth Houghton Wiley. Ralph Wiley died September 6, 1981.He attended Stevens Prep and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915.During World War I he worked for Worthington Company in Hazelton, Pennsylvania where he supervized Naval shell production.In 1928 he moved to Oxford, Maryland, and purchased a boatyard there in 1929. He operated the boatyard, with his wife, for over 30 years, building and designing custom yachts.During World War II Wiley took a job to make life rafts for the Maritime Commission. In 1950 he patented a design for thwartship deck construction.He retired in the 1960s and sold the Oxford boatyard.Well known for his custom yacht designs, Wiley designed both power and sail boats. Several of his most famous designs were the "Scrappy Cat," a one-design racing cat boat, and the cruising sailboats, MOCKINGBIRD and FOX':Wiley papers, page 2Wiley wrote many articles on yacht design for boating magazines. In 1972 he authored his autobiography, PREACHER'S SON.He was active in the community, and was a founding member of the Tred Avon Yacht Club. He also held memberships in the Out Island Sailing Squadron, the Windjammers, the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake. He was an honorary member of the Annapolis Yacht Club and member of the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.He served as president of the American Boatbuilders and Repairers Association and served two terms an an Oxford town commissioner.Wiley was a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Oxford, and Christ Episcopal Church in Easton.In 1922 he married Mary Cooper Bensel. They had a son, Charles Richardson Wiley.Scope and ContentRalph Wiley was one of the area'a best known boatbuildersand designers in recent years. His custom yachts were known in this area, and along the Eastern seaboard.Because of this, the most valuable parts of the collection are the boat plans themselves and ancillary materials. The plans span a period of years from the 1920s to the 1960s and reflect changes in tastes, styles, and in Wiley's own develppment.Plans of several of Wiley's best known boats are contained. A complete set of plans of the one-design racer "Scrappy Cat" is part of the collection. There are some drawings for the FOX and VIXEN also (Sailboats, 1940s).The papers are of interest to researchers interested specifically in the work of Ralph Wiley, and to students of yacht design from 1920s--1960s.Subjects:boatbuilding, yacht design, Wiley, Ralph H.	No image URL.	View
	4	8888.0054.0000.00	documents	THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas		Exact 01/01/1981 - 12/31/1993		THOMAS C. GILLMER<CR>MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION<CR><CR>Thomas C.Gillmer was born in 1911 at Warren, Ohio. He became interested in ships at an early age, entering the U.S. Naval Academy and graduating in 1935. During the late 1930s he served aboard light cruisers in the Pacific and Mediterranean. During World War II he served as an instructor in naval construction, damage control, and marine engineering at the Naval Academy, eventually becoming chairman of the naval engineering department. In 1952 Gillmer wrote Naval Construction a Ship Stability, a basic text still in use in the naval architecture program at the Academy. He retired from active teaching at the Academy in 1967 and began to devote full time to the design of yachts and ship replicas. His first successful yacht design was the 1946 Blue Moon. Subsequent designs were the Southern Cross and Seawind series. He designed Pride of Baltimore 3,(1976-77), the pungy Lady Maryland (1979), and Pride 2L Baltimore 11. (1988). Most recently Gillmer prepared a study of the USS Constitution for her overhaul by the navy. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.See also Oral History tape No. 93 with transcript and list of books and articles.The manuscript collection consists of six papers:1. "Signposts Towards the Origin of Ship Design," prepared for the 5th Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, 1 October 1981.2. "Evolving Ship Design Technology As Revealed in Wrecks of Post Medieval Ships." 3rd International Symposium of Boat and Ship Archeology, Stockholm, 1982.3. "Authentic Replica Ships: Theory and Practice." International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Delphi, Greece, August 1987.4. "The Importance of Skeleton First Ship Construction to the Development of Rational Ship Design." International Symposium on Ship and Boat Archeology, Amsterdam 1988.5. "The Second Pride of Baltimore, Her Design and Construction." 9th Sailing Yacht Symposium, Annapolis 1989.6. "USS Constitution: An Assessment for Her Future." Naval History Symposium, Annapolis 1993. Subject: Thomas C Gillmer	No image URL.	View
	5	0000.1288.0162.00	photographic prints	Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, MA	Knobeloch, Charles C	circa 1907-1917	Copley Square - Boston - MA	Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston MA, designed by H. H. Richardson, built 1872-1875. (Photographer and his wife traveled by freighter Melrose from Baltimore to Boston.		View
	6	0000.1290.0654.00	photographic prints	Schooner Charles H. Richardson under sail				Schooner Charles H. Richardson under sail, seen from port quarter; light breeze; main topsaild, man, foreseal and one jib set. "The Mariners' Museum..." stamped on back.	No image URL.	View
	7	8888.0155.0000.00	serials (publications)	Fishing and Hunting catalogs	Walters, Keith	1911-1973		Various catalogs, magazines, and publications collected by Keith Walters. Walters was a photographer, writer and columnist.	No image URL.	View
	8	2020.0013.0001	skiffs, crabbing	Crab Skiff	Parks, Charles H.	circa 1928	Fishing Creek - MD	Crab skiff built by Charles H. Parks and used to harvest peeler crabs out of Hooper Island. Charles H. Parks opperated a seafood packing house till the 1960s.		View