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  1. TheAuthorsDaughter
    From Whaling Ship to Clipper Ship-dust jacket.pdf Thought some of you might find this of interest
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    If only dad’s fascination with Glory paid the bills instead of being a labor of love…
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    Rich - your fear of not finding enough info is exactly why my dad has the massive stash of info on Glory and keeps writing about her. It’s a dark rabbit hole one jumps down! Over the years people have literally come out of the wood work with never before seen letters or photos, etc. and it takes him to another project. He has filing cabinets crammed with photos, journals and history for quite a few ships and has written and had published a number of articles but Glory still pulls him to write more. Sadly one book that never saw the light of day due to circumstances beyond his control was on the San Francisco waterfront. Before computers and word processors were ever available I used to assist him in typing and rough editing as he used to hand write and then type everything on an old 1952 Underwood typewriter! It has been fascinating to see the progression of the collective project that’s being undertaken here by your group. Arina
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    Shared your latest photos with my dad, he said “very impressed” with your progress and the fine attention to detail. He truly respects the time and effort you and the others are putting into getting this as accurate as possible 😁
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    My dad is just a member of the Nautical Research Society (since the early 70’s) and has written articles for their journal. He was at one time the editor and has been a longtime member of the editorial board for Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society and their journal The Sea Chest.
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    WOW!! Beautiful work!
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    Here are a few photos (sorry for the glare) of my dads collection. His new book should hopefully be published later this year or early 2022. Down East Captain will cover Captain Henry Gillespie (he was captain from 1906-1909). The last photo will be the cover as artist Mark Meyers granted my dad permission to use. The jar with the copper sheathing is from the exploratory dig they originally did when they discovered her exact location in West Seattle. So gracious of the property owner to allow the group to traipse around her property. The scaled down name board my late brother did while in wood shop (when they still offered those types of classes!!) He actually had done another one that is unfinished. Next is a door off Glory. The spike was given to him by I believe someone involved in the burning of Glory and the balsa wood hull is the sister to the one we brought over to Robs. He of course has many more things pertaining to Glory (and quite a few other ships including full size plans, photos, books and data in genera). He has a number of prints/paintings as well.
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    One of the name plates is should still be on display at the Research library situated on the third floor of Building E of the National Park Service complex at San Francisco. They started exhibiting it in conjunction with publication of Clipper Ship Captain in 1997. I went to see it when I was a teenager and going in a trip to Disneyland. My brother also did a scaled down replica up that is hanging in my folks living room above one of the paintings of Glory.
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    Hey all - We’ve set up a new email address for my father - easier to keep everything in the proper compartments for his various projects, etc. As my folks own the rights to numerous articles, photos and his books this is just a natural progression - Pacific Maritime Publishing Foundation. In my spare time I’ll eventually do more with a website I’m sure (you can’t see me but I’m laughing hysterically becasue I don’t have any spare time!!) PacMaritimePubFdn@gmail.com
  11. TheAuthorsDaughter
    He could’ve probably answered that for you as well - he’s part of the editorial board (or at least I think he still is LoL)
  12. TheAuthorsDaughter
    My father said he’d be happy to answer that and explain to you the ins and outs of said issue - feel free to email him. He is pretty good about answering emails. He generally checks them at least twice a day and it’s a great way to communicate with him (he and I email back and forth as it’s also an efficient way sometimes to communicate LOL)! mjmjelde38@cs.com
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    If you have the second book written by my father you will find much of the above book referenced, the family gave my father an original typed copy of it and their permission and blessing to expound further on his journeys aboard Glory along with far more information than could be put into one book. He has been collecting/compiling information for years and I’m hoping he’s been spurred to finish getting everything catalogued - his index between books, various ship plans, charts and photos is getting close to 400 pages and covers an extremely wide variety of maritime history (and is not just on Glory). He’s also assisted other writers with their endeavors usually as he as information due to a parallel project that necessitated research. Occasionally new data shows up that corroborates a sliver of data he had but couldn’t verify so a new file gets started for possible future use. The Glory hull is one of those items however that has been a challenge!!
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    Dad actually has two books that have been submitted for publishing (not approved yet and a daunting process unless someone has a benefactor). They’re both on different time periods of Glory and more on particular voyage or people vs the vessel itself. He has enough file folders of photos and data on her (a few file cabinet drawers) for a few books! Over the years he’s become more of a generalist in maritime matters (not solely focused on clipper ships) so Glory hasn’t been only focus but fortunately with time more info has come forward and more of her history has been unearthed. Sadly the most important and pertinent was destroyed by fire back East or hasn’t come to light.
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    He doesn’t appear to have any more photos of her however he did send off an email to India House and we will have to wait and see if they respond. The published photos of her are few and far between and all seem to be the same angle or too grainy when enlarged!
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    Honestly I have no idea but wouldn’t hurt to ask, the bow we all know has to be altered and it’s also balsa wood - not sure if there were any differences between the two or not. The first one is long gone, apparently got damaged and the person he had sold it to has since passed away so no telling where it ended up.
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    My father has actually been to see Glory’s figurehead at India House, I’ll have to see if he has any better photos (message me and I can pass on info) as for the model, he originally commissioned three. One was completed and sold many years ago when my youngest sister needed multiple heart surgeries (she survived thankfully), the one we brought on the visit with Rob and there is actually a third one, pretty bare bones hull only if I recall.
  18. TheAuthorsDaughter
    Pat - Ron Haug is who my father has been working with down your way - via snail mail. He is a retired shipwright and he lives in S. Maroubra, New South Wales. He was also an excellent modelmaker.
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    You are very welcome, growing up it was just normal for us kids to meet other “ship” people, like Frank Prothero that built the other Glory that was being worked on in PT and had history on the Glory as well as others that became friends with my dad. We have a rich maritime history here in the PNW. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized there was a bunch of “Glory Groupies” with my dad being one of the bigger ones 😁 and he has kept researching her and compiling more info on her and her captains and crew!
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    You’re welcome 😉
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    Hi - my dad is doing ok. He’s actually been going to work this entire time as he’s deemed essential. Fortunately the office where he works was able to have half their staff work from home but his job not so easy. They are practicing the social distancing as my mother is medically vulnerable. We are even socially distancing within the family so as to protect the various family members. Thank goodness for zoom, FaceTime, email and the phone! I will I’ll let him know that you’d still like to meet up. He does enjoy anything to do with The Glory 😊
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    Hi Rob - I’ll let him know and remind him to check their messages. Arina
  23. TheAuthorsDaughter
    He is truly a Renaissance man and in fact is working on ANOTHER book about Glory.
  24. TheAuthorsDaughter

    My father, Mike Mjelde, enjoyed looking at your rendition of The Glory, please don’t hesitate in contacting him. He is currently working on another project involving her!

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      rwiederrich

      OH MY goodness   Michael Jay Mjelde?   I have enjoyed his books on the subject for years and have used them extensively during the planning stages of My Gloy's build.  I am well pleased he found my rendition enjoyable.

      I was able to recover artifacts from her resting p[lace to add to my exhibit of her....which make the display of her even more attractive.  The Glory of the Seas was, as you know, Donald McKay's last Medium clipper...and he is my favorite builder and to have acquired artifacts of her for my display, is a great honor.

       

      How do I contact Mike...the pleasure is all mine for sure?

       

      Rob

  25. TheAuthorsDaughter
    Stumbled upon this group and appreciate the amount of detail and accuracy that you all so carefully try to follow. My name is Arina and I am one of Michael Mjelde’s daughters and while doing some research for him on Glory found myself scrolling thru and enjoying the photos of everyone’s work!

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