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Here is the latest round-up from the Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City project
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We're giving you the chance to win a £50 Argos voucher!
All they have to do is:
1) Visit Hull Maritime Museum
2) Take a photo with the Hull: Yorkshire Maritime City frame
3) Add it to Twitter, tag and follow @HullMaritime and use the #HullYMC hashtag; or upload it to Facebook, tag Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City, use the hashtag #HullYMC, and like and share our page!
Terms and conditions:
- The competition is open to everyone
- Only one entry per person
- The draw closes at 5pm on Sunday 17 March
- Entries uploaded to Facebook will only be counted if participants tag the Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City Facebook page, and like and share the page
- Entries uploaded to Twitter will only be counted if participants tag @HullMaritime, and follow the page
- We will pick two winners as there are two Argos vouchers of £50 on offer
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Ambitious plans to go on display
Ambitious plans to transform the city's maritime sites are to go on display.
Visiting various sites across the city, the touring exhibition will offer residents and visitors alike the opportunity to see the proposals for the very first time.
The project team will be on hand gathering feedback, comments and suggestions to inform the plans further.
Watch this space for more information on locations and dates!
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We recently took delivery of 20,000 beermats to promote Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City.
The mats feature the project logo and slogan on the front, and details of historical sites and social media streams on the rear. We have begun distributing them to bars and pubs across Hull, with plans to send a couple of stacks across the Atlantic to America. Next time you buy a drink, watch where you rest it!
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During the week commencing 25 February, marine engineers from Beckett Rankine carried out invasive surveys on board the Arctic Corsair.
The surveys focused on the ship's hull to ascertain its condition as part of restoration plans. Engineers intrepidly explored the fuel, ballast, and cod liver oil tanks.
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Painting restoration and conservation specialists Critchlow & Kukkonen are conducting a survey of over 400 paintings in the Maritime Museum collection to assess their condition and future conservation requirements.
The company is also conserving around 30 paintings as part of Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City. Members of the project team visited their Sheffield workshop on 28 February to witness the techniques being used. The work will shortly be the subject of a BBC Look North report, so stay tuned!
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The EYMS Band performed at the Maritime Museum on 3 February. Using the impressive acoustics of the court room, the band delivered a stirring and emotional performance.
They were recorded as part of plans for a film promoting the Hull: Yorkshire's Maritime City project which E52 have been commissioned to produce. Details are closely guarded, however we can reveal that the film will explore the maritime themes central to the project.
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Our Arctic Corsair maintenance volunteers have been busy preparing the ship's fishroom to host two private performances of Gordon Meredith's 'Swinging the Lamp'. Their work has included installing screens which will be used for projectors. The performances will take place on 6 March, with a public performance being held at Ferens Art Gallery on 9 March, which is now sold out.
'Swinging the Lamp' is based on the life stories of trawler skipper Jim Williams who was instrumental in preserving the Corsair. The performances on board will consequently illuminate the rich fishing history of the Humber like never before.
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The 'Here be Whales' exhibition opened on 5 February within the community space at the Maritime Museum. Featuring work from Helen Cann, Martha Cattell, Angela Cockayne, Filippa Dobson, Hondartza Fraga, Caroline Hack, Sophia Nicolov, Marina Rees, and Kathy Prendergast, the exhibition reflects on representations of whales by humans.
Co-curator and artist Martha Cattell commented: "Hull and the Maritime Museum offer the perfect host for such an exhibition, as it offers a chance to reflect on Hull’s past whaling history, which at its peak in the 1820s employed around 2,000 people.
“The museum’s collections hold many relics from this era, including the skeleton of a North Atlantic right whale. Whilst at the same time the exhibition offers a chance to think about the current status of cetaceans, which are now often used as markers for the varied environmental threats facing ocean ecosystems."
The exhibition will run until 22 April.
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Following 80 hours of work by our volunteers, the historic cannons dating from 1798 were moved from the workshop at Ferens Art Gallery to the Museums Quarter on 5 February.
Popular memory holds that the cannons were donated to Italian republican Giuseppe Garibaldi by Hull timber merchant Joseph Armitage Wade in 1860, and returned following Italian unification in 1864. The cannons were previously kept in the Museums Quarter however were moved outside the Maritime Museum when it opened in 1975, remaining there until last August.
Work involved painstakingly removing old paint and treating the exposed ferrous metal surface with a rust converter, before repainting the cannons with a conservation grade paint.
Volunteers and our conservation and engagement officer are pictured standing proudly alongside their work.
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This month’s object is a medical chest used on board the whaler Diana. Built in Bremen in 1840, Diana was the final whaling ship to sail from Hull, and notoriously became trapped in the Arctic ice over the 1866/7 winter. This event is represented in a painting by Richard Dodd Widdas (1826-1885) which is presently displayed in the Maritime Museum. The Diana sailed again after 1867, and was ultimately driven ashore at Donna Nook by strong winds whilst returning to Hull in 1869.
The chest, which is presently not on display, was used to keep a reserve stock of medicine. It consists of seven clear glass medicine bottles, contained within a wooden chest. Other items connected with the Diana in the Maritime Museum’s collection include the journal of ship’s surgeon Charles Edward Smith as displayed in the whaling gallery. The chest was, however, not the medicine chest used by Smith. There is a medicine chest on display in the museum, this being from the Hull whaler Brunswick.
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Our image this month shows the 'clearview' on board the Arctic Corsair during one of the snow showers we saw in early February. Although the climate of the River Hull is not quite a perilous as that in the seas surrounding the Arctic, the sight of a snowy deck did recall the ship's operational life.
When bridge windows iced up, the only way a skipper could see the deck and gear was to use the 'clearview'. The term refers to a section of window which constantly rotated, powered by an electric motor, thus preventing ice from forming on its surface.
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- Saturday 9 March: 'Swinging the Lamp', Ferens Art Gallery, 7-8.30pm. Now sold out!
- Wednesday 13 March: Conservation in Action, Maritime Museum, 1.30-3.30pm
- Wednesday 27 March: Conservation in Action, Maritime Museum, 1.30-3.30pm
- Every Thursday: Object Handling, Maritime Museum, 12.30-2.30pm
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