Bill Text: CA SCR153 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Maritime Museum of San Diego: San Salvador replica.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 40-22-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 156, Statutes of 2016. [SCR153 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SCR153-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: SCR 153 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 156
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE AUGUST 30, 2016
ADOPTED IN SENATE AUGUST 25, 2016
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 18, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 18, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hueso
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen,
Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Brough, Brown, Burke,
Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly,
Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia,
Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Grove,
Hadley, Harper, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Obernolte, Olsen,
Patterson, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Mark Stone,
Thurmond, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, and Williams)
JUNE 14, 2016
Relative to the San Salvador replica.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 153, Hueso. Maritime Museum of San Diego: San Salvador
replica.
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.
WHEREAS, The Spanish galleon San Salvador was explorer Juan
Rodríguez 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; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, 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, examined all the available
images of early 16th 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; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, On September 4, 2015, during the Festival of Sail, the
San Salvador replica was commissioned; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, 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 the
Channel Islands; and
WHEREAS, The mission of the San Salvador replica is to embody our
community origin story by presenting the life and times of Juan
Rodríguez 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; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes and commends 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 that will soon set
sail; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
