Recently we have been blogging about the effort to conserve and reconstruct the historic steamship United States.  The ship, which was built right here in Newport News, has a special connection to this community.  One Christopher Newport University student is taking this connection to heart.  Sophomore Andrew Jelonek, a history major and avid fan of [...]

I left you in my last post with the purchase of the S.S. United States by the SS United States Conservancy in the summer of 2010.  The Conservancy had saved the historic vessel from the scrapyard, but what do they plan to do with the ship? The donations from the “Save Our Ship” campaign allowed the [...]

As Jay discussed in a previous post, The Port of Call blog would like to begin a conversation about the famous S.S. United States, a ship with a fabled history that was built right here in Newport News.  As a current history major and future Museum Studies student,  I am very passionate about the conservation [...]

Last week I took a few minutes to visit the Conservation wet lab to visit Monitor‘s main engine, the first time I had seen it with the tank drained. Before I say anything about this experience, I ought to say that I love steam engines, have loved them ever since I was a child.  Like [...]