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  • 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.

  • Getting the Collection “Ship-Shape”: The Small Craft Survey

    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Cultural Heritage

    The small craft collection contains a diverse variety of vessels ranging in size, shape, function, and source culture. Because the Museum’s small craft originate from such a variety of contexts, each boat comes to the Museum with its own quirks and challenges resulting from its history of use. To get a better understanding of the collection, its condition issues, and its needs, it is necessary to evaluate each small craft, one-by-one.

  • Battle of Wassaw Sound and CSS Atlanta

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    CSS Atlanta was an ironclad transformation effort which used the iron-hull and Scottish-built engines of SS Fingal to fashion one of the Confederacy’s most powerful warships. The ironclad; however, had a deep draft which limited its operational area below Savannah

  • A Vial-ful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: Technical Analysis of Historical “Medicines” from a Medical Chest

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    Learn more about the treatment and analysis of a Ship’s Medical Chest from c.1860. The results of analysis will be used to inform safe handling and storage of the chest.

  • The Legacy of USS Mayflower: Private and Presidential Yacht, US Navy Warship, Merchant Ship

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration

    Several years ago, I first learned of USS Mayflower, a presidential yacht. I was studying about the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Conference at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. I was curious but didn’t have time to delve into the ship’s history.

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