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Admission $5
Students & Seniors $4 Children
6 & under FREE
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Dedicated
to preserving and interpreting Cape Cod's maritime past, present,
and future.
Centrally located in Hyannis
with frontage on the town marina and harbor, the Cape Cod Maritime
Museum serves as a focal point for the Cape and Islands' maritime
past, present, and future.
Transformations:
from Farmer to Seafarer
Cape Cod 1639-1739
Cape Cod Maritime Museum's second
major exhibit currently on view
Call for Artist Exhibitors for 8th Annual Cape
Cod Maritime Museum Festival, June 13 & 14 2009
Full details and application form 
New Boat Building Classes
for Fall 2008
click the Boat Building link on the left for full details
Summer Events Re-Cap with a Scrapbook of Photos
from the Catboat Sarah Tour
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National
Park Service
US Department of Interior
Cape
Cod National Seashore |
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SS
Portland
110th Anniversary
Memorial Event
On November 26, 1898, the steamship
Portland left India Wharf, in Boston, for
Portland, Maine, on a regularly-scheduled run.
She never made it to port. None of the 192
passengers and crew survived the massive
storm that wreaked havoc on New England’s
coast - a storm that was later named the
Portland Gale following this tragic loss. |  |
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Friday,
November 28th
Schedule of Events
8 AM to 4 PM - Highland Lighthouse, Truro - open by donation.
10:30 AM - Beach Walk led by a Cape Cod National Seashore ranger.
Meet at Coast
Guard Beach, Truro. 1 hour. Free
11 AM - Forbidden to Sail: The Steamship Portland Lost with
all Hands in
1898 - This one hour presentation with Deborah Marx and Matthew Lawrence,
maritime
archaeologists with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary,
will include a multimedia presentation on the steamship Portland.
Known as the “New England’s
Titanic,” the shipwreck
is located in over 300 feet of water in Massachusetts Bay in NOAA’s
Stellwagen Bank National
Marine Sanctuary. Program features a showing of the Science Channel’s
production, “Science
of the Deep: The Steamship Portland.” Salt Pond Visitor Center
auditorium, Eastham. Free.
1 PM - Wreath-Laying Ceremony - The Portland Society held
a wreath-laying ceremony
annually for 50 years before placing a plaque at the Highland Lighthouse.
Meet at the oceanviewing
platform by Highland Light. Followed by a short presentation - “The
Story of the
Portland.”
8 AM to 3:30 PM - Amateur Radio Operations will be ongoing
from the Highland
Light Keeper’s House using the call sign W1P.
For more information call (508) 255 - 3421, extension
16. www.nps.gov/caco | |
