The lifeboat racing emblem refers to a time back in the 1920s and 30s when they actually raced these boats in the harbor in New York City. Google this subject and you'll find films of many events. During the same period, some mothballed passenger liners were tied up in the lower Patuxent River and were called 'the Ghost Fleet'. The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md. has an excellent reference book on this subject.
And there lies the connection but you'll have to read the book or surf the 'net to get all the details - way too much to tell here! Each and every year at the Zahniser yacht yard in Solomons, the Wm. B. Tennison is taken into drydock and given a complete physical exam. Old time techniques are then melded with modern technology and whatever needs attention get repaired or restored. Sometimes new stuff is added. This boat is the oldest of its kind licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry passengers, which it does regularly for the Calvert Marine Museum which owns it.
Excerpts from an obituary story in THE ENTERPRISE, Lex. Pk., MD, Wednesday, January 23, 1985, Pg A1
Born in Newark, N.J. in 1907, he was a graduate of both the Severn School in Annapolis and the Pennsylvania State Nautical School. He sailed as a Merchant Marine officer and obtained his master of all oceans license. In 1933 he was a member of the crew that represented the United States and won the International Race in New York Harbor.
He returned to his wife's home town of Solomons in 1945 where he formed a marine contracting business and founded Zahniser's Marina and Boatyard.
He was a charter member and officer of the Calvert County Board of Trade, an associate member of the Southern Maryland Society, and member of the Pennsylvania Schoolship Association and Solomons Island Yacht Club.
He was survived by his wife , a sister, a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
And there lies the connection but you'll have to read the book or surf the 'net to get all the details - way too much to tell here! Each and every year at the Zahniser yacht yard in Solomons, the Wm. B. Tennison is taken into drydock and given a complete physical exam. Old time techniques are then melded with modern technology and whatever needs attention get repaired or restored. Sometimes new stuff is added. This boat is the oldest of its kind licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry passengers, which it does regularly for the Calvert Marine Museum which owns it.
Excerpts from an obituary story in THE ENTERPRISE, Lex. Pk., MD, Wednesday, January 23, 1985, Pg A1
Born in Newark, N.J. in 1907, he was a graduate of both the Severn School in Annapolis and the Pennsylvania State Nautical School. He sailed as a Merchant Marine officer and obtained his master of all oceans license. In 1933 he was a member of the crew that represented the United States and won the International Race in New York Harbor.
He returned to his wife's home town of Solomons in 1945 where he formed a marine contracting business and founded Zahniser's Marina and Boatyard.
He was a charter member and officer of the Calvert County Board of Trade, an associate member of the Southern Maryland Society, and member of the Pennsylvania Schoolship Association and Solomons Island Yacht Club.
He was survived by his wife , a sister, a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
The lifeboat racing emblem refers to a time back in the 1920s and 30s when they actually raced these boats in the harbor in New York City. Google this subject and you'll find films of many events. During the same period, some mothballed passenger liners were tied up in the lower Patuxent River and were called 'the Ghost Fleet'. The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md. has an excellent reference book on this subject.
And there lies the connection but you'll have to read the book or surf the 'net to get all the details - way too much to tell here! Each and every year at the Zahniser yacht yard in Solomons, the Wm. B. Tennison is taken into drydock and given a complete physical exam. Old time techniques are then melded with modern technology and whatever needs attention get repaired or restored. Sometimes new stuff is added. This boat is the oldest of its kind licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry passengers, which it does regularly for the Calvert Marine Museum which owns it.
Excerpts from an obituary story in THE ENTERPRISE, Lex. Pk., MD, Wednesday, January 23, 1985, Pg A1
Born in Newark, N.J. in 1907, he was a graduate of both the Severn School in Annapolis and the Pennsylvania State Nautical School. He sailed as a Merchant Marine officer and obtained his master of all oceans license. In 1933 he was a member of the crew that represented the United States and won the International Race in New York Harbor.
He returned to his wife's home town of Solomons in 1945 where he formed a marine contracting business and founded Zahniser's Marina and Boatyard.
He was a charter member and officer of the Calvert County Board of Trade, an associate member of the Southern Maryland Society, and member of the Pennsylvania Schoolship Association and Solomons Island Yacht Club.
He was survived by his wife , a sister, a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
And there lies the connection but you'll have to read the book or surf the 'net to get all the details - way too much to tell here! Each and every year at the Zahniser yacht yard in Solomons, the Wm. B. Tennison is taken into drydock and given a complete physical exam. Old time techniques are then melded with modern technology and whatever needs attention get repaired or restored. Sometimes new stuff is added. This boat is the oldest of its kind licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry passengers, which it does regularly for the Calvert Marine Museum which owns it.
Excerpts from an obituary story in THE ENTERPRISE, Lex. Pk., MD, Wednesday, January 23, 1985, Pg A1
Born in Newark, N.J. in 1907, he was a graduate of both the Severn School in Annapolis and the Pennsylvania State Nautical School. He sailed as a Merchant Marine officer and obtained his master of all oceans license. In 1933 he was a member of the crew that represented the United States and won the International Race in New York Harbor.
He returned to his wife's home town of Solomons in 1945 where he formed a marine contracting business and founded Zahniser's Marina and Boatyard.
He was a charter member and officer of the Calvert County Board of Trade, an associate member of the Southern Maryland Society, and member of the Pennsylvania Schoolship Association and Solomons Island Yacht Club.
He was survived by his wife , a sister, a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
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