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2010 - 2011 Waterman Lecture Series
A Series of Seafaring Tales with David Grant
(a part of the Waterman Lecture Series)
This season’s Waterman Lecture Series will begin with a series of gallery conversations with David Grant as he tells the tales of some of the world’s greatest seafaring adventures. These conversations will take place here at the Museum in the Richard and Betty Steele Model Pavilion.
Reservations
As with all lectures, admission is free for members, $10 for non-members and $5 for students with valid student ID. Seating for these evenings is limited and is available on a first come, first serve basis so make your reservations early. Please call us at (949) 675-8915 or e-mail us at nhnm@nhnm.org to make your reservation today.
The Voyage of the Convict Fleet and the Founding of Australia
Thursday, September 16th from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
The 11 ships and 800 convicts who set out from England bound for the Antipodes, thousands of miles away, ranks as one of the great sea voyages of all time.
NO LECTURE ON SEPTEMBER 23RD
Cape Horn: An Unforgettable Place For Those Who Survived Their
Heroic Passages and Lived to Tell of It
Thursday, September 30th from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
This is the story of the ships that first rounded the cape as well as the great “Cape Horners” – ships that were all too frequently lost with all hands in the quest for California.
The Remarkable Tale of Ernest Shackleton and the
Trans-Atlantic Expedition 1914-1917
Thursday, October 7th from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
An epic struggle of 28 men alone, when their ship sinks beneath the ice. The voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia staggers the imagination of all modern sailors.
Aurora and the Shackleton Expedition: The Stirring Story of Life and Death
on the Far Side of Antarctica
Thursday, October 14th from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
Not as well known is the “other half” of the Shackleton epic. It’s Shakespearean in its drama of men providing supplies to an expedition that will never come.
William Bligh: Survivor of More than a Mutiny Aboard the Famous “HMS Bounty”
Thursday, October 21st from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
From sailing 3,600 miles in an open launch, to managing a full rebellion in the Antipodes, you will see that Captain Bligh is a good deal more complex than the portrayal by Charles Laughton.
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: Christopher Columbus
Thursday, October 28th from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
This is probably not what you learned in grade school. A look at the man and his four voyages and what it all really meant.
Magellan: The Vision, the Audacity and the Tragedy of the First
Voyage Around the World
Thursday, November 4th from 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.
Steele Model Pavilion
To start with five ships, and to finish the circumnavigation with one lonely ship which staggers home with less than two dozen sailors – is an almost unimaginable epic.
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