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In Bristol Fashion (Hardcover)
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In Bristol Fashion (Hardcover)
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The author has compiled an adventure memoir in photo essay form,
recalling when he worked as volunteer 1975-1980 aboard historic
ships of the San Francisco Maritime Museum. He learned from the
crew of the Cape Horn square-rigger Balclutha (1886), now moored
permanently at the end of the Hyde Street Pier. He later went on to
become president of the Friends of the Eppleton Hall Society, which
operated the steam side-paddle estuary tug, Eppleton Hall (1914).
She had steamed over from England 1969-1970 by officers of the
maritime museum. The beloved tug had many daring and amusing jaunts
on San Francisco Bay, with one long trip to Lost Isle, on the San
Joaquin River near Stockton, CA. This ugly duckling was loved by
those volunteers and families who made her operational. Her
notoriety was such that the captain of the Queen Elizabeth 2 gave
the tug a commemorative crystal when that great liner made her
first visit to San Francisco in April 1978. About that time the
author was the West Coast liaison for Sea History magazine, the
publication of the National Maritime Historical Society in
Peekskill, NY. The tug was retired when the maritime museum was
later turned over to the National Park Service. The book closes
with the author's lively account when, in June 1980, he was guest
aboard the U.S. Coast Guard square-rigger Eagle, when she sailed,
with scuppers awash, from Boston's OpSail to St. Thomas in the
Virgin Islands. From the introduction by Peter Stanford, President
Emeritus of the NMHS..."The book's title, In Bristol Fashion, is
the seaman's universal expression of the highest mark for a job
done in true seamanly fashion - a well-earned tribute to the people
from varied walks of life who saved an abandoned treasure, to a
spirit that shines through this book."
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