The oldest living members of the trade meet monthly at a Dundalk Avenue union hall for a retirees luncheon where they find out who is alive and who is dead, and remember the days when they did exhilarating work alongside guys named "Slippery Eddie," "Dirty Neck Frank" and "Killer." Linked together, those shipbuilders span generations that predate the incorporation of Baltimore itself, back to the first sailing ships built along the Fells Point waterfront in the 1730s. A ship is a she, held in high regard like your mother or wife." "All us shipbuilders linked together, we built a ship.
This wonderful pledge provides an excellent springboard, which will enable us to raise enough money to run the ship as a clinic for at least 20 years,” said Thomas Miller director Mark Holford who heads the Chauncy Maples fundraising drive."I've paid a great price, this job has taken my youth and my health, but the pride I have from doing a good job, putting ships to sea and making them quality vessels outweighs the rest of it," says Phillips. “The Mota Foundation support answers the primary concern of donors, namely how the operation of the ship will be funded once the renovation is complete. But further marine equipment to finish the renovation needs to be begged or at least bought at a discount to complete the work. Part of the original plating is now being renewed in Mota-Engil’s Monkey Bay yard and it is estimated the vessel might have another 100 years life once back in service. The galvanised vessel has survived in remarkably good condition in a fresh water environment and has had a varied career that included being a gunboat, trawler, ferry and most recently a bar.
The 11 ton boiler was dragged on a cart for 350 miles.
The Chauncy Maples named after a bishop who drowned on Lake Malawi was built as an mission ship in Glasgow and then dismantled into 3,481 parts so it could barged up the Zambezi and Shire rivers before being carried overland for 100 miles by local tribesmen. People living around the 30,000 sq km Lake Malawi will get primary health care from the Chauncy Maples which will berth at a different settlement each day providing treatment and preventive advice about problems that include malaria, tuberculosis, bilharzias and HIV/AIDS.
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