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Clio’s Armada: In the News

The town of Port Glasgow is embarking on a second replica of their claim to fame: the first commercially successful steamship. Built in 1812, Henry Bell’s Comet began taking passengers and changed the world of powered ships. For me, part of the interesting story here is that the new replica is not built to beContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: In the News”

Clio’s Armada: In the News

John MacFarlane and the Nauticapedia site were both a great help and inspiration for me when I started the Clio’s Armada project to study heritage boatbuilding projects. I’m very glad to hear that he and the BC Maritime Museum (who are also lovely people and very supportive) have taken steps to protect and continue theContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: In the News”

Clio’s Armada: In the News

Experimental archaeologists recently created and travelled in a Dugout canoe named Sugime from Taiwan to the Ryukyu islands south of Japan. According to Reuters, they “ simulated methods Paleolithic people would have used and employed replicas of tools from that prehistoric time period such as an axe and a cutting implement called an adze inContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: In the News”

Clio’s Armada: In the News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/san-juan-galeon-red-bay-replica-1.7260780 Efforts to rebuild a whaling Spanish galleon whaleship in Basque region and sail it to Labrador, where the original sank. Neat story! I’ll try to continue to follow it. Clio’s Armada is a blog series Tom is writing based on his passion for heritage boatbuildingh and examples he has seen or read of around theContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: In the News”

Clio’s Armada: Gli Gli and the Kalinago (Carib) Canoe Tradition

Dugout canoes continue to fascinate me, as do Indigenous voyages of reconnection. Thus the 1990s journey of the Gli Gli, an Indigenous gommier canoe, in the Caribbean caught my attention. Gli Gli was the brainchild of two artists, one of whom was Kalinago and the other a white Virgin Islander, and the result of hardContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Gli Gli and the Kalinago (Carib) Canoe Tradition”

Clio’s Armada The 1893 Santa Maria and the 1492 Fleet

I recently covered the Viking ship replica which appeared at the 1893 Chicago Exposition, and feel I ought to give some space to the vessel(s) which Viking was in many ways a response to: the 1893 Santa Maria and other ships of Christopher Columbus. “In 1893, the Spanish government built replicas of Christopher Columbus’ shipsContinue reading “Clio’s Armada The 1893 Santa Maria and the 1492 Fleet”

Clio’s Armada: Freedom Schooner Amistad and adding Social Justice to Sail Training

I have covered several replica tallships for this blog already and was looking for something that took a different approach or had a unique take: enter Freedom Schooner Amistad. This two-masted schooner is a replica of La Amistad, the slave ship at the centre of a seminal moment in the history of abolition in theContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: Freedom Schooner Amistad and adding Social Justice to Sail Training”

Clio’s Armada: 1893 Viking and the Mystique of the Viking Longship

I still think I’ve found the earliest modern example of heritage boatbuilding with Napoleon III’s 1863 trireme reconstruction effort, but I was still shocked at the vintage of this 1893 viking longship replica, appropriately called Viking. In 1880, a new archaeological discovery of a longship sparked a great deal of interest. The Gokstad is aContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: 1893 Viking and the Mystique of the Viking Longship”

Clio’s Armada: The (Second) Bounty replica and Thirty Years of Adventure

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of replica vessels out there for me to look at in the course of this blog. Often each story I find leads to another. Expo ’86 has proven to be a goldmine of heritage boatbuilding and replicas from around the world, including this second Bounty replica. But that’s notContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: The (Second) Bounty replica and Thirty Years of Adventure”