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  • USS ROANOKE: THE THREE-TURRETED MONSTER

    • Civil War
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Military Conflict

    The USS Roanoke was a Merrimack-class steam screw frigate built at the Gosport Navy Yard. When the Civil War erupted, Roanoke captured several blockade runners and fought during the March 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads.

  • History is in the Details

    • Art
    • Collections

    The Mariners’ Museum and Park has thousands of prints in our collection, and one of my recent projects has been to catalog the prints and engravings from a German book titled Meyer’s Universe, or Illustration and Description of the Most Remarkable and Strangest Things in Nature and Art all over the World.

  • La Isabel Project: Part One

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    The first step in a project to assess the condition of La Isabel, a Jábega boat, a traditional fishing trawler from Málaga, Spain. It was built in 1925 and came to The Mariners’ Museum and Park in 1933 not long after the Museum opened.

  • Elk…in the Park?

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    For several years, we had a permitted wildlife sanctuary in the Park! Of the projects from the early years of the Park, our wildlife endeavor was the longest, lasting until almost 1950.

  • Navy Service Pistols

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    It’s incredibly rare, it’s from the US Navy, it’s a key piece of the origin story for the longest serving, most produced military sidearm in world (not American, WORLD) history… and it’s in the collection of your Mariners’ Museum and Park!

  • A Tour Through the Mediterranean with Joseph Partridge

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration

    A recent inquiry from the Assistant Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brought a really cool assemblage of watercolors in our collection to my attention. The images were painted by Joseph Partridge, an artist turned Marine stationed aboard USS Warren between 1827 and 1830.

  • Captain Ahab, Ishmael, and Starbuck, Oh, My! 

    • Collections
    • Community Engagement

    Remembering a Moby Dick read-a-thon and whaling display with a school group, a program that brought literature and history to life. Visitors got to listen to the book’s narrative while seeing authentic pieces from our Collection.

  • Landlocked No More

    • Collections

    Introduction to Morgan Brittain, joining The Mariners’ Museum and Park team as a Graduate Assistant from the William & Mary American Studies PhD program.

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