Sparkling Sea
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Pungy
Year: 1856
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| 1 | 8888.0077.0000.00 | documents | John. G. Earle Papers:<CR>The collection is a vertic | Range, Cir 01/01/1894 - 12/31/1991 | This collection begins on CSC 15C3 and continues on CSC 15C4.John. G. Earle Papers:The collection is a vertical file of notes, ship plans, letters, drawings, articles, and photographs assembled by John Earle on varied Chesapeake maritime research topics, and individuals with whom he corresponded. Arranged alphabetically in three large boxes, two are of nautical subjects, and the other, people. Individuals are listed by last name, and vessels by name or type. Chronologically, the collection includes correspondence from the 1910s to the 1980s (not all involving Earle), but including original printed material, the collection dates from 1894 to 1991. Topics that contained no original research by Earle were removed to the library vertical file. Note: All photographs in the collection have been removed to the library photo archive, and are listed under accession number 1176. Photocopies of originals remain in the folders listed below. Biographical Background (from MS 30)Born in Easton, Maryland on March 14, 1901, John Goldsborough Earle expressed a love for and an interest in the vessels of the Chesapeake Bay early in life. It would be this interest that ultimately shaped his professional life, with Earle able to parlay this curiosity into the receipt of a degree in naval architecture and mechanical engineering from Lehigh University upon his graduation in 1926. After working for the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, from 1943-1946 Earle served as the special assistant to the chief engineer at the U.S. Maritime Commission in Washington, D.C. Earle then moved to Moylan, Pennsylvania where he was employed by the New York-based Nordberg Manufacturing Company. During this time Earle pursued the application of the diesel engine to the maritime environment, ultimately serving on the Ships' Machinery Committee of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Earle retired in 1966 and served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and returned to Easton in 1979. A thorough and exhaustive researcher, Earle never ceased in his quest to study and document the indigenous water craft of the Chesapeake Bay. Earle's scholarship put him in contact with many of the twentieth century's foremost maritime historians, including Howard I. Chapelle and Robert H. Burgess, and his work was particularly valuable to Marion V. Brewington in his study of Chesapeake Bay log canoes and bugeyes. Earle also contributed works to Yachting and Chesapeake Bay magazines. Prior to his death on May 21, 1992, Earle was presented with the Historic Preservation Award by the Historic District Commission of Talbot County for his lifelong dedication and devotion to the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay's maritime heritage. Subject: John G Earle | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 8888.0076.0000.00 | documents | Elmer Burrows Statements:The statements are co | Exact 03/16/1965 - | Elmer Burrows Statements:The statements are comprised of five pages of handwritten text clarified and expanded from three pages of interview notes from a conversation on March 16, 1965 between Terrence Burrows (age 68) and his uncle Elmer Burrows (age 89). Pages are stapled together and include a piece of notepaper from the Sheraton-Belvedere in Baltimore. Material was found in the vertical file and was originally given to the museum by Terrance Burrows, who transcribed them. Subjects include steamboats that ran to St. Michaels, boatbuilding and boatbuilders in St. Michaels, vessels owned at St. Michaels and some of their stories, harvesting oysters in the pre-motor days, working in the shipyards, and a list of some of the last vessels built by Thomas Kirby. Biographical BackgroundMr. Elmer Burrows, born 1875/1876, lived on Bodkin Island (3.5 nautical miles north of Claiborne) until he was 6 years old (1882). At this time the family moved to St. Michaels so he could enter school along with his brother Denny. In later years he worked a variety of jobs, including as a waterman dredging and tonging for oysters, as a caulker in Thomas Kirby's boatyard where he learned the trade in addition to sawing timber and other shipyard jobs, and as captain of the bugeye Anna Ellis hauling oysters and grain for owner Crit Harper. Vessels mentioned: Adelaide (log canoe) later Valiant LadyAnna Ellis (bugeye)Belle M. Crane (log canoe)Bohemia (schooner)C. C. Wheeler (schooner)Damascus (schooner)Dorchester (steamboat)Ella Cripps (schooner)Emma Giles (steamboat)Emma K. Reed (steam barge)Ernelia Price (pungy)George S. Cripps (schooner)George W. Lambdin (log canoe)Girty (log canoe)Gypsy (schooner)Harry P. Ford (pungy)John C. White (pungy)"Loon" [?] (ram schooner) Maggie Philips (schooner)Magic (log canoe)Martha Jones (schooner)Nellie White (steamboat)Olive (steamboat)R. A. Dodson (schooner)Sparkling Sea (pungy)St. Michaels (steamboat)Thomas Blades (bugeye)Valiant Lady (log canoe) ex-AdelaideWarden Evans (schooner)Weldon (pungy)Individuals mentioned:Burrows, Edwin (captain and owner of Thomas Blades)Burrows, Elmer (waterman, ship carpenter, captain)Burrows, Girty (wife of Elmer)Burrows, Terrence (deepwater sailor, log canoe owner, nephew of Elmer)Burrows, William (waterman, father of Elmer)Caldwell, Thomas (African-American preacher)Calk, George (oyster packer)Cox, Daniel (boatbuilder)Galloway, ? (captain of Warden Evans)Harper, Crit (owner of Anna Ellis)Johns, Lev (boatbuilder)Jones, Jack (captain)Jones, Ned (owner, captain of Sparkling Sea)Kirby, Thomas (boatbuilder)Lambdin, George W. (boatbuilder, son of Robert)Lambdin, Robert Sr. (boatbuilder)Shanahan, Samuel (owner of Valiant Lady)Shockley, ? (captain and owner of Weldon)Shores, Elmer (captain of Maggie Philips)Spurry, Frank (farmer?)Tarr, Charles (boatbuilder)Tyler, George (captain of Harry P. Ford)Wilson, Robert (owner of Magic in 1965)Coffin, Greenbury (boatbuilder)Blades, Samuel (boatbuilder) Subject: Elmer Burrows | No image URL. | View |
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