Malta Boat Club

Malta Boat Club
Location	#9 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Home water	Schuylkill River
Established	1860
Navy admission	1865
President	Phil Marcella
Vice President	Jeff Cutler
Secretary	Kip Wetzel
Treasurer	Matt Arria
Captain	Jeff Cutler
Navy delegate	Chuck Patterson
Lieutenants	Colin Ethridge
Colors	Royal Blue      and White
Website	maltaboatclub.com
Malta Boat Club
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	Coordinates: 39°58′11″N 75°11′07″W / 39.96962°N 75.18534°W
Part of	Boat House Row (#87000821[1])
Added to NRHP	February 27, 1987

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.^[2][3] While on the Delaware, the club occupied a house on Smith’s Island where the club stored its boat called the “Minnehaha”.^[4] The Club was founded by members of the Minnehaha Lodge of the Sons of Malta.^[4] The Sons of Malta, originally organized in the South, did not survive the Civil War.^[5][6]

As four members of the US National Team row out of Malta, the Club was well represented at the 2009 World Championships.^[7]

The Boathouse

In 1873, Malta, in conjunction with Vesper Boat Club, built a  1 ¹⁄₂-story boat house.^[8] In 1880, the boat house was expanded.^[8]

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.^[8] 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.^[9]

US National Team Athletes

1970s

• Stan Depman^[10]
• Fred H. Duling^[11]
• Rick Stehlik^[12]

1980s

1990s

• Fred S. Duling^[13][14]
• Tom Loughlin^[14][15]
• Marc Millard^[16]

2000s

• Sam Cunningham^[17][18]
• Shane Madden^[19][20]
• Marc Millard^[16]
• Rich Montgomery^[21]

2010s

• Sam Cunningham^[17][18]
• Bob Duff^[22][23]
• Colin Ethridge^[24][25]
• Christopher Lambert^[26][27]
• Shane Madden^[19][20]
• Tyler Nase^[28][29]
• David Smith^[30][31]

Photo gallery

• 
  Malta Boat Club, #9 Boathouse Row in 1972.
• 
  Vesper and Malta Boat Clubs, #9-10 in 2010.

See also

• Mark Gerban - former Malta member competed for Palestine in the 2007 World Rowing Championships^[32][33][34]

References

1. National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Peverelly, Charles A. (1866). "Malta Boat Club". The Book of American Pastimes. New York. p. 213.
3. 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.
4. "A Philadelphia Rowing Tradition". Malta Boat Club. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
5. Stevens, Albert C. (1907). "Sons of Malta". The Cyclopædia of Fraternities. New York: E.B. Treat and Company. p. 284.
6. N., I. P. (2 July 1894). "The Shrine Examined". The American Tyler. 8 (23). Detroit: The American Tyler. p. 539.
7. "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program" (PDF). Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
8. "National Register 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. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
9. "National Register 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. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
10. "FISA, Stan Depman". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
11. "FISA, Fred H. Duling". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
12. "Row2k, Rick Stehlik". Row2k. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
13. "FISA, Fred S. Duling". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
14. "Philadelphia Inquirer". www.philly.com. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
15. "FISA, Tom Loughlin". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
16. "FISA, Marc Millard". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
17. "USRowing, Sam Cunningham". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
18. "FISA, Sam Cunningham". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
19. "USRowing, Shane Madden". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
20. "FISA, Shane Madden". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
21. "FISA, Richard Montgomery". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
22. "USRowing, Bob Duff". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
23. "FISA, Bob Duff". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
24. "USRowing, Colin Ethridge". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
25. "FISA, Colin Ethridge". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
26. "USRowing, Christopher Lambert". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
27. "FISA, Christopher Lambert". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
28. "FISA, Tyler Nase". Retrieved 15 May 2015.
29. "USRowing, Tyler Nase". US Rowing. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
30. "USRowing, David Smith". www.usrowing.org. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
31. "FISA, David Smith". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
32. Iradj El-Qalqili (5 November 2005). "Wharton crew and the Gaza Strip". Wharton Journal. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
33. http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/23003/gerban-mark
34. "FISA, Marc Gerban". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.

Further reading

• "Boathouse Row". Living Places. 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 978-0-8122-1693-6.
• Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 71.
• Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. p. 59.
• 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.
• Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871.
• Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). pp. 103–04. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
• Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 2 - Beginning of the Clubs". Schuylkill Navy. Retrieved 30 April 2010.

External links

• "Malta Boat Club". Facebook. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
• Malta Boat Club on wikimapia.org