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  • CSS ARKANSAS: THE YAZOO CITY IRONCLAD

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    By October 1861, there were five ironclads under construction in New Orleans, Cerro Gordo, Tennessee, and Memphis. It would be an extreme challenge to place these ironclads in the water as effective warships with limited industrial infrastructure. It was all about the questions of time, iron, workers, and engines!

  • Vessel Launches: Heckin Good Images

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Photography

    The Mariners’ Museum and Park has glorious photographs in its collections, of course, many of them maritime. Despite the number of battle-at-sea images, many of the most striking visuals are vessel launches.

  • Telling a Story: A Documentarian Eye

    • Art
    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Photography

    Documentary photography is a genre of the medium where the goal is to tell a story through images. The idea is to take photos that, viewed together, can give you a more complete understanding of an event, a person, or even just a location. A do

  • ROLL, ALABAMA, ROLL! – SINKING OF CSS ALABAMA

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    CSS Alabama, commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, had spent nearly two years capturing and destroying 65 Northern merchant ships and whalers. There were seven different expeditionary raids from the Eastern Atlantic to the Java Sea and back near where the vessel had been built.

  • Dahlgren Gun Tools: an In-Depth Look at Treatment, Part II

    • Conservation
    • Science
    • Technology
    • USS Monitor

    In this blog post we’ll continue the discussion about one of USS Monitor’s gun cleaning tools, and the conservation treatment it has undergone.

  • Always Ready, Even 230 Years Later

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    The United States Coast Guard was born on August 4, 1790. Wait, what? Does that sentence seem to come out of nowhere? And what does this have to do with Alexander Hamilton? I’m glad you asked. Among Hamilton’s many feats, he is also recognized as the father of the US Coast Guard.

  • Dahlgren Gun Tools: an In-Depth Look at Treatment, Part I

  • Beyond the Frame: Live Again

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    In the International Small Craft Center at the Mariners’, there’s a Portuguese Moliceiro, or Kelp Boat. This boat was one of the first 5 in our collection, accessioned in 1934. This moliceiro had a life on the water, felt the sun’s rays and was used and loved by the kelp gatherers.

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