- Malta Boat Club
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Malta Boat Club Established 1860 Navy admission 1865 President Mike Brown Vice President] Fred Duling Secretary Kip Wetzel Treasurer Matt Arria Captain Phil Marcella Lieutenants Sam Cunningham, John Hayburn Location #9 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Home water Schuylkill River Colors Royal Blue and White Affiliated programs The Shipley School and Father Judge High School Website maltaboatclub.com Malta Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #9 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1865, the Club joined the Schuylkill Navy when it relocated to the Schuylkill River from the Delaware River and purchased the facilities of the now defunct Excelsior Club.[1][2] While on the Delaware, the club occupied a house on Smith’s Island where the club stored its boat called the “Minnehaha”.[3] The Club was founded by members of the Minnehaha Lodge of the Sons of Malta.[3] The Sons of Malta, originally organized in the South, did not survive the Civil War.[4][5]
As four members of the US National Team row out of Malta, the Club was well represented at the 2009 World Championships.[6]
Contents
The Boathouse
In 1873, Malta, in conjunction with Vesper Boat Club, built a 1 1⁄2-story boat house.[7] In 1880, the boat house was expanded.[7]
In 1901, brothers George W. and William D. Hewitt designed more substantial additions including a third story to make Malta the tallest boathouse on Boathouse Row.[7] The Hewitt brothers had been Frank Furness’s partner until 1876, and they designed the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, the Bourse Building, and the Wissahickon Inn.[8]
Prominent members
- Shane Madden - 2009 US National Team member (Lightweight Men's Double Sculls)[9]
- Sam Cunningham - 2009 US National Team member (Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls)[9]
- Rich Montgomery - 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls)[10]
Photo gallery
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Malta Boat Club, #9 Boathouse Row in 1972.
See also
- Mark Gerban - controversial former Malta member competing for Palestine in Lightweight Men’s Single[11]
References
- ^ Peverelly, Charles A. (1866). "Malta Boat Club". The Book of American Pastimes. New York. p. 213. http://books.google.com/books?id=j1cqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA213.
- ^ Janssen, Frederick W. (15 August 1888). "Malta Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829–1888. New York. pp. 211–12. http://books.google.com/books?id=j2p68grSMFoC&pg=PA211.
- ^ a b "A Philadelphia Rowing Tradition". Malta Boat Club. http://www.maltaboatclub.com/about. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ^ Stevens, Albert C. (1907). "Sons of Malta". The Cyclopædia of Fraternities. New York: E.B. Treat and Company. p. 284. http://books.google.com/books?id=H-K3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA284.
- ^ N., I. P. (2 July 1894). "The Shrine Examined". The American Tyler (Detroit: The American Tyler) 8 (23): p. 539. http://books.google.com/books?id=vctNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA539.
- ^ "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program". Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. http://www.hosr.org/2009HOSRPROGRAM.pdf. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ a b c "National Registry of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. p. 663. http://image1.nps.gov:9001/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=NHLS&item=Text/87000821.djvu&style=nps/FOCUS-DJview.xsl&wid=640&hei=480&oif=jpeg&props=item(SUMMARY,COPYRIGHT),cat(Name)&page=14. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "National Registry of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. p. 673. http://image1.nps.gov:9001/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=NHLS&item=Text/87000821.djvu&style=nps/FOCUS-DJview.xsl&wid=640&hei=480&oif=jpeg&props=item(SUMMARY,COPYRIGHT),cat(Name)&page=22. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ a b "USRowing Announces 2009 World Championships Roster". United States Olympic Committee. 10 August 2009. http://rowing.teamusa.org/news/2009/08/10/usrowing-announces-2009-world-championships-roster/14905. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ^ "USRowing Announces 2007 World Championships Roster". USRowing. 6 August 2007. http://www.usrowing.org/news_media/pressreleases/detail.aspx?nws_lKey=396. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ^ Iradj El-Qalqili (5 November 2005). "Wharton crew and the Gaza Strip". Wharton Journal. http://media.www.whartonjournal.com/media/storage/paper201/news/2005/11/14/Insider/Wharton.Crew.And.The.Gaza.Strip-1055559.shtml. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
Further reading
- "Boathouse Row". Living Places. http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Philadelphia_County/Philadelphia_City/Boathouse_Row.html. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- Burt, Nathaniel (1999). "The Schuylkill Navy". The Perennial Philadelphians: the anatomy of an American aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 296. ISBN 9780812216936. http://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA296.
- Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 71. http://books.google.com/books?id=vRdrOgAACAAJ.
- Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. p. 59. http://books.google.com/books?id=4v2BAAAAMAAJ&q=malta.
- Keyser, K. C. (1872). "Malta Boat Club". Fairmount Park: Sketches of its Scenery, Waters, and History (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger. p. 136. http://books.google.com/books?id=pWKQ8GKMRigC&pg=PA136.
- Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871. http://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1871.
- Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). pp. 103–04. http://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/41. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 2 - Beginning of the Clubs". Schuylkill Navy. http://www.boathouserow.org/pac/pachist2.html. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
External links
- "Malta Boat Club". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Malta-Boat-Club/246324882710. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- Malta Boat Club on wikimapia.org
Schuylkill Navy Current
membersFairmount Rowing Association · Pennsylvania Barge Club · Crescent Boat Club · Bachelors Barge Club · University Barge Club[n 1] · Malta Boat Club · Vesper Boat Club · College Boat Club · Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association · Undine Barge Club[n 1] · Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club · Gillin Boat ClubOfficers - Commodore - John Hogan, Penn AC
- Vice Commodore - Paul Horvat, Vesper BC
- Secretary - Jennifer Donsky, Penn AC
- Treasurer - Joel Sussman, Bachelors BC
- Quartermaster - Jack Lees, Crescent BC
- Log Keeper - Joe McFadden, Undine BC
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