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The following is being cross-posted. Apologies in advance should you
receive additional copies.
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We need help to find a model of ship that was displayed at the
Vancouver Maritime Museum at one time. The Thomas F. Bayard
Restoration Society would like to find this item.
The model is of an 1880 Schooner, 'Thomas F. Bayard'. The model was
built by one of the captains, Hans Blakstad, around 1907 (he was
captain from 1907 to 1911). At the time the 'Bayard' was being used
as a seal hunting boat in the fur trade off the coast of Alaska. She
was originally built in New York as a pilot schooner then travelled
around Cape Horn in 1898 to try and catach the gold rush. She was too
late and ended up as a sealer in 1907. She eventually became a
lightboat, 'Sand Heads No. 16' at the mouth of the Fraser River when
she was sold to the Canadian government in 1912. She was taken out of
service around 1955, changed hands a couple of times, and became the
property of the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1978.
Now the Thomas F. Bayard Restoration Society' is her custodian to
oversee her restoration and eventual relaunch. The Maritime Museum
did have the model on display at one point, until the estate which
owned it was sold. Leonard McCann, the curator, suggested that it may
have ended up with a family member (a relative of Hans Blakstad,
perhaps with the family name of "Loos") and might be somewhere in
Louisianna (New Orleans??) It is more of a family heirloom than a
museum piece at this point but the society would like to exhibit it
with the ship.
The only other point worth mentionning is that Hans Blakstad was an
amateur jeweller, so the model is most probably a very fine, detailed
work.
Please contact Linda Tanaka at the Vancouver Museum, 604-
736-4431 ext. 369 or email [log in to unmask] if you have seen this
model.
The Thomas F. Bayard Restoration Society would be eternally
grateful if this model could be located.
Linda Tanaka
Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3J9
[log in to unmask]
Opinions, of course, are my own.
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