Starlight

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Type: Pungy

Year: 1854

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	8888.0089.0000.00	documents	Fred Hecklinger Papers:Biographical Background		01/01/1950 - 01/01/1970		Fred Hecklinger Papers:Biographical BackgroundFred Hecklinger grew up on and around the Chesapeake Bay during the 1950s. Though he was once a traveling salesman on the Eastern Shore, selling marine hardware, he is now living in Annapolis and known as the Historian for the Eastport Yacht Club. The latter part of his career has been spent as a marine surveyor. He has been participating in the Wednesday Night Races at Annapolis for decades, since their birth in the Sixties. In his sailing he has crewed for well known skipper Clinton Crane. He also helped to organize the Chesapeake Appreciation Days, skipjack races beginning in 1965. Scope and ContentThis manuscript collection includes the contents of four binders kept up by Fred Hecklinger. There are newspaper clippings regarding the standings of boat races in which he participated, clippings and pictures of yacht and other boat designs. Subject: Fred Hecklinger	No image URL.	View
	2	8888.0026.0000.00	documents	C. Lowndes Johnson (1881-1971) and J. Graham Johns		Range, Exa 01/01/1926 - 12/31/1966		C. Lowndes Johnson (1881-1971) and J. Graham Johnson (1883-1931) Yacht Racing Collection (1926-1966)This collection consists principally of newspaper clippings, regatta programs and yachting materials, as well as personal papers and telegrams relating to Star Class racing on the Chesapeake Bay during the time J. Graham Johnson and C. Lowndes Johnson were active (1926-1931). Of principal interest is the materials from the international Star Class regattas at San Diego in 1928, at New Orleans in 1929, and at Gibson Island in 1930. Similar material on Star, Comet and other sailboat racing in later years constitutes the remainder of the collection.Biographical BackgroundLowndes and Graham Johnson, sons of Dr. Julius A. Johnson, moved to "The Harbor" on Miles River Neck in 1894. After finishing high school, the brothers began repairing, building, and designing yachts. They built a shop in 1910 and marine railway in the late 1920s, where they maintained several yachts.In 1926, shortly after the Star Class appeared on the Chesapeake the "Johnson boys" built their first Star boat, Undine. They raced Undine through 1928, winning the Chesapeake Bay Elimination series and Championship in that year. They took Undine to the 1928 Internationals in San Diego.The following winter they built Eel in which they again won the Chesapeake Bay Championship and went on to capture the International Cup in New Orleans. They remain the only Chesapeake Bay sailors ever to have won the International Star Class Yacht Racing Championship.In 1930, the two raced a third Star, Ripple, capturing the Chesapeake Bay Championship for a third consecutive year, the only team ever to do so, and they went on to unsuccessfully defened their international title at Gibson Island. Graham was always the skipper, Lowndes the crew.Graham died suddenly at the tiller of a Star boat at a regatta off Oxford in 1931, and a Star Class trophy was later created in his name.Lowndes designed the Comet Class in 1932, and since then over 4000 Comets have been built.Lowndes Johnson retired from racing but cruised actively most of the rest of his life. He built his last personal cruising yacht, White Cap II, in 1938, selling her in the mid 1960x.Scope and ContentThese papers were collected by Lowndes Johnson and relate to yacht racing on the Chesapeake Bay, and principally to the races in which he and his brother participated.There are newspaper clippings, regatta programs, letters. Subiects:C. Lowndes Johnson; J. Graham Johnson; Yachting Subject: James G Johnson Subject: C. Lowndes Johnson	No image URL.	View
	3	8888.0090.0000.00	documents	Penso Papers				This collection begins on CSC 15B1 and continues on 15B2, 15B3, and 15B4. One oversize folder is located in RR FF 3; the contents have 2 copies and a negative of sketch of two people in the Racing dinghy Penguin.	No image URL.	View
	4	0000.1290.3025.00	photographic prints	Steamboat Starlight under way from starboard side		Range, Cir 01/01/1915 - 12/31/1920		Steamboat Starlight under way from starboard side; no place; soft original and three soft copy prints.	No image URL.	View
	5	0000.0893.0087.00	photographs	REMAINS OF STEAMBOAT "STARLIGHT"; From old Remarks		Range,Exac 01/01/1949 - 12/31/1949	No Address - Rock Creek - MD	REMAINS OF STEAMBOAT "STARLIGHT"; From old Remarks field: SHOWS A FEW PIECES OF VESSEL NEXT TO DECAYING WOODEN PIER IN ROCK CREEK Place: ROCK CREEK, MD Old Subject Fields: VESSEL WRECKS; ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY	No image URL.	View
	6	0000.0897.0001.00	photographs	CUTTER YACHT STARLIGHT UNDER SAIL; From old Remark	Eveleth, E L __Photographer			CUTTER YACHT STARLIGHT UNDER SAIL; From old Remarks field: DAMAGED PRINT; YACHT OWNED BY JIM BRICKEL, OWNER OF OXFORD BOAT YARD;DOWNES CURTIS SAILS Old Subject Fields: RECREATIONAL SAIL VESSELS; RACING RECREATIONAL VESSELS		View
	7	0000.0897.0037.00	photographs	YACHTS STARLIGHT, VIXEN III AND AVILION AT DOCK IN	Eveleth, E L __Photographer	Range,Exac 01/01/1949 - 12/31/1949	No Address - St Petersburg - FL	YACHTS STARLIGHT, VIXEN III AND AVILION AT DOCK IN ST. PETERSBURG; From old Remarks field: FOUND IN DOWNES CURTIS SAIL LOFT. HE MADE SAILS FOR STARLIGHT Place: ST. PETERSBURG, FL Old Subject Fields: RECREATIONAL SAIL VESSELS; SAILMAKING		View
	8	8888.0191.0000	research (document genres)	"Notebook on Shipwrecks" research, Moale	Moale, H. Richard	circa 2000s		Research compiled by author Richard Moale while writing "Notebook on Shipwrecks" publishe din 2010. Includes, documentation of vessels, letters, and other data that did not go into the book.		View