BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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SENATE THIRD READING
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153 (Hueso)
As Introduced June 14, 2016
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE: 36-0
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Arts |7-0 |Chu, Obernolte, | |
| | |Hadley, Levine, Low, | |
| | |Medina, Nazarian | |
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SUMMARY: This measure would recognize and commend the Maritime
Museum of San Diego for its continuing dedication to preserving,
interpreting, and teaching the rich maritime history of
California while upholding a worldwide reputation for excellence
with regard to the restoration, maintenance, and operation of
historic vessels, particularly the San Salvador replica.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following findings and
declarations:
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1)The Spanish galleon San Salvador was explorer Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo's flagship vessel, and during his 1542 expeditionary
voyage, the San Salvador, in the company of two other ships,
landed at what is now the City of San Diego and established
first contact with the indigenous peoples of the California
coast, and Cabrillo and his crew became the first Europeans to
set foot on the Pacific coast of the United States.
2)The Maritime Museum of San Diego's mission is to serve as the
community memory of our seafaring experience by collecting,
preserving, and presenting our rich maritime heritage via a
world-class collection of 10 historic vessels, exhibitions,
public events, and educational programs.
3)In pursuit of this mission, the Maritime Museum of San Diego
sought to build a full-sized, fully functional, and
historically accurate replica of the San Salvador to create a
living link between California's past and present, that would
serve as a community memory of the region's seafaring
experience and present its rich and diverse maritime heritage
and historic connections to the Pacific world.
4)After years of research and fundraising for the construction
of a functional and historically accurate replica of the San
Salvador, the Maritime Museum of San Diego hosted an
international symposium in 2004, at which time experts were
enlisted to evaluate the design of the vessel, and in the
spring of 2011, construction began in full view of the public
at Spanish Landing Park in the City of San Diego.
5)The construction of the San Salvador replica is based on
painstaking research in the fields of early modern Spanish and
Portuguese maritime history and maritime archeology, and
experts have scoured volumes of historical narratives,
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examined all the available images of early sixteenth-century
sailing vessels, and surveyed the remains of contemporary
shipwrecks; and to execute this vision, the Maritime Museum of
San Diego engaged a group of skilled professional boat
builders, who were assisted by scores of regular volunteers.
6)Most of the labor was performed by volunteers who believed
they could learn to build a ship and almost 500 volunteers
from around the world devoted their time, energy, and talents
to building the ship.
7)On September 4, 2015, during the Festival of Sail, the San
Salvador replica was commissioned.
8)The San Salvador replica will function as the origin symbol
ship for California and commemorate the voyage of the original
San Salvador which, through its voyage into the unknown parts
of the ocean, provided vital geographic, climatic, and
oceanographic information on the Pacific Ocean.
9)Beginning in the fall of 2016, as an operational vessel, the
San Salvador replica will be used in Cabrillo discovery
reenactments and outreach voyages to other ports and the
museum will partner with other educational facilities and
museums, and the ship's presence will also enable the Maritime
Museum of San Diego to implement a teacher training institute,
where teachers can attend California standards-based seminars
on the discovery of the western coast and the age of
exploration.
10)The vessel's maiden voyage will be known as the San Salvador
Pacific Heritage Tour and will travel from San Diego to other
California ports of call in Ventura, Monterey, San Francisco,
Vallejo, Jack London Square, Old Sacramento, Morro Bay, and
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the Channel Islands.
11)The mission of the San Salvador replica is to embody our
community origin story by presenting the life and times of
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the historic voyage of the San
Salvador, our place in the beginnings of the modern world, and
first contact between Europeans and Native American peoples of
the west coast of North America.
FISCAL EFFECT: None.
COMMENTS: According to the author, "After 20 years of planning
and five years of construction, the Maritime Museum of San Diego
launched a seaworthy replica of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's
flagship, the San Salvador. The San Salvador replica will serve
as an educational platform to educate Californians on the first
European exploration of the California coast. This measure
commemorates the Maritime museum of San Diego for constructing
and operating the San Salvador replica."
Analysis Prepared by:
Dana Mitchell / A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. / (916)
319-3450
FN: 0003699
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