The non-profit Baltimore & Chesapeake Steamboat Co. relies upon the hard work and dedication of its volunteers. If you would like to join the crew and help preserve, restore and protect the maritime history surrounding the the last hand-fired coal-burning tugboat in North America, and the waters she has sailed, step forward and make yourself known.Whatever your particular desires, experience, skills, aptitudes or time constraints, we can find a way for you to help. We can promise you a fun experience and a rich and rewarding opportunity to be a part of a great crew, a group committed to the goals of preserving a very special piece of our historic life's fabric.Individual and Corporate Membership support for our hands-on projects can be obtained by viewing: http://www.steamtug.org/Membership.cfm
We'd love to meet others wishing to save operating examples of our rich heritage, whether by contributing funding, passing the word to others of like mind, helping to locate much needed resources and/or sharing their own time and energies that, collectively, they may count themselves as making a personal mark in worthwhile preservation. That all may know that, together, we are helping to honour the memories of our maritime forebearers and teach future generations from the decks of special platforms.By using hands-on examples of real live working artifacts, enthusiasts, lovers of history and students of the seagoing trades can personally learn to understand and appreciate near-lost arts of communication, navigation and related aspects from which our modern port technologies arise.One of our long range living history opportunities would be to commemorative activities surrounding the 150th anniversary of the American War of 1861 with Steam Tug BALTIMORE, a re-configured barge and a tethered gas balloon to help celebrate the birth of naval aviation and army aerial intelligence gathering beginning in 2011 on the York, the James and the Potomac Rivers. We wish to demonstrate how electric telegraph operators and signallists using flags and lanterns could, for the first time in history, create accurate real-time reports from the wicker baskets high above the din of battle and do so while navigating the waterways and airways within the seat of war. We want to consider participating in mind, body and spirit.We'd like you to meet what can only be described as a "CRAWL BOAT"Excavator Paddle
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The volunteers and supporters of Steam Tug BALTIMORE, Helen Bentley and the Port of Baltimore Tricentennial Committee, Baltimore Immigration Project, The Baltimore Museum of Industry, The Chesapeake Bay's Maritime Community, Those who seek to understand America's past, appreciate the present from the accomplishments of our mentors, pioneers and forward thinkers who wish to create an insight for Steam Tug BALTIMORE'S future.The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way, offers relevance for to-day's understanding and it very useful in planning our tomorrows ...