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More Than $2.5 Million In Grants Will Help Tell America's Maritime History

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Maritime history will gain some prominence thanks to the award of approximately $2.6 million in Maritime Heritage Program grants for projects that teach about and preserve sites and objects related to our nation’s maritime history.

“Our maritime heritage is woven into the nation’s history and identity,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis in announcing the grants along with the Maritime Administraiton. “These grants will not only help preserve our maritime resources for future generations, but many of these projects will also directly connect communities to that heritage through educational outreach and involvement in preservation efforts.”

“Since our nation’s very beginning, seafarers have helped build, defend and provide for our way of life in the United States, and the National Maritime Heritage Grant Program preserves and promotes that proud maritime legacy,” said Maritime Administrator Paul N. Jaenichen. “The projects were so worthwhile in providing education and preservation of our maritime heritage assets that MARAD provided more than $800,000 over the original funding amount to support additional projects that were highly recommended by the Federal review panel.”

National Maritime Heritage Grant awards are made possible through a partnership between the two federal agencies that share a commitment to maritime heritage preservation and education. Funding is provided by the Maritime Administration through the recycling of vessels from the MARAD’s National Defense Reserve Fleet. The grant program supports a broad range of maritime education and preservation projects, without expending tax dollars, while ensuring that the vessels are dismantled in an environmentally sound manner.

The Maritime Heritage grants are available to state, tribal, and local governments, as well as private non-profit organizations for education and preservation projects. Education projects are funded in amounts between $25,000-$50,000; preservation projects are funded in amounts between $50,000-$200,000. Education grants can be used for programs such as school curriculum, interpretive programs and web pages, and preservation grant projects can include the rehabilitation or restoration of ships and other maritime resources.

 

 

Grant Recipient

Project

Award

AK

Sealaska Heritage Institute

The Traditional Tlingit and Haida Halibut Hook Project

$39, 496.00

CA

California State Parks Foundation

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Rehabilitation Project

$73, 436.00

CA

Maritime Museum Association of San Diego

Replacement of the Sailing Ship Star of India’s Weather Decks

$192, 794.00

CA

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

USS Pampanito World War II Submarine Preservation Project

$192,754.00

CT

Mystic Seaport Museum

Restoration of the 1908 steamboat Sabino

$199,806.00

DE

Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation

Indian River Life-Saving Station’s Guardians of the Sea

$25,119.14

FL

UWF Historic Trust

Pensacola Maritime Heritage Trail

$25,960.00

FL

Diving with a Purpose

Diving With a Purpose (DWP) maritime archaeology educational field program

$46,536.00

GA

University of Georgia Marine Extension Service

Georgia’s Rich Maritime Cultural Heritage:  Generational Commercial Fishing Families

$41,837.00

HI

Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy

Papahana Hoolauna Public Outreach Project

$45,899.00

ME

Penobscot Maritime Museum

National Fisherman:  Documenting a Sea Change

$40,784.00

ME

Wood Island Life Saving Station Association

Wood Island Life Saving Station, Kittery Point, Maine:  Rehabilitation

$200,000.00

MD

Living Classrooms Foundation

USS Constellation Spar, Fighting Top, and Rigging Rehabilitation

$89,596.50

MA

Lowell’s Boat Shop

Lowell’s Boat Shop Educational Outreach:  Innovative Learning on the River

$35,330.00

MA

Maritime Gloucester

An Educational Platform for America’s Oldest Marine Railway

$50,000.00

MA

Old Dartmouth Historical Society-New Bedford Whaling Museum

Conservation of the Purrington-Russell Panorama for Exhibition and Educational Programming

$49,845.25

MA

USS Constitution Museum

USS CONSTITUTION:  From Forest to Frigate

$50,000.00

NY

Intrepid Museum Foundation

USS Growler Submarine Preservation Project

$117,278.00

NY

Fireboat Firefighter Museum

Fireboat Firefighter Preservation Project

$80,875.00

NY

Long Island Traditions

Freeport Waters

$40,000.00

NY

National Lighthouse Museum

American Lighthouse History Multimedia Educational Experience

$42,150.00

NC

Core Sound Waterfowl Museum

Port Light:  Tracing Historical Connections/Outerbanks to Mainland-NC

$46,036.50

NC

Battleship North Carolina Commission

Battleship NORTH CAROLINA Emergency Hull Restoration

$200,000.00

OK

Oklahoma Historical Society

Discovery and Excavation of the Steamboat Heroine:  Exhibit & Curriculum Unit

$25,000.00

OR

Columbia River Maritime Museum

Cradles and cantilevered shelving for the Museum’s boat collection

$33,549.00

OR

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Grand Ronde Canoe Culture, Waterways, Travel and Trade

$36,876.00

PA

Independence Seaport Museum

Undertake Critical Projects for the Continued Preservation of USS Olympia

$169,850.00

SC

USS Yorktown Foundation

Giving History Life:  The USS Yorktown Interactive Engine Room Experience

$26,228.00

TX

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Audio tours to enhance visitor experience on board Battleship TEXAS

$49,454.98

VT

Institute of Nautical Archaeology

Lake Champlain Steamboat Winooski Archaeological Investigation

$26,953.50

VA

Mariners Museum

USS Monitor Artifact Conservation and Outreach Project

$99,900.00

WA

Northwest Seaport

Preservation of the National Historic Landmark 1889 Tugboat ARTHUR FOSS

$87,000.00

WA

Center for Wooden Boats

Free public rides on historic small craft

$28,000.00

WI

University of Wisconsin-Superior

Processing and Conservation of Fraser Shipyards Collection Technical Drawings

$49,984.00

WI

Wisconsin SHPO

Lock and Load:  Great Lakes Canallers and the Grain Trade

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