BATH
The National Maritime Historical Society will be honored with the Maine Maritime Museum’s 2013 Mariner’s Award.
The honor recognizes 50 years of maritime education, advocacy and preservation undertaken by the Society since it was founded in 1963.
The reception is Aug. 21 at the museum.
In 1963, when a small group of ship preservationists set out to save the 1899 merchant bark Kaiulani, the last square rigger built in America, which was constructed in the shipyard in Bath.
The group did not save that ship but were determined to save others. From their fundraising efforts, organizers learned they needed a national organization to gather public support for maritime history and preservation.
That organization became the National Maritime Historical Society.
Around the same time, the Marine Research Society of Bath was founded, in 1962. It eventually became the Maine Maritime Museum, in 1975.
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