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  • 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.

  • USS Hatteras: The First Warship Sunk by CSS Alabama

    • Civil War
    • Military Conflict

    When President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of the entire southern coastline, the US Navy only had 93 warships, and almost half of these were outdated or unusable. So, the US Navy went on a buying spree purchasing every steamer that could mount cannons. One of these vessels was the St. Mary which was soon commissioned as USS Hatteras.

  • Not Your Average Joe

    • Photography
    • Recreation
    • Women's History

    Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs would be the first to tell you that she was “never a little girl.” Joe saw a lot of racing success, taking the trophies at several competitions in Southampton and Cannes. In 1925 Joe became “the fastest woman on water” during the Duke of York’s Trophy, a four-and-a-half mile race down the Thames. 

  • I Must Be Outta My Gourd

    • Community Engagement
    • Mariners' Park

    For centuries, cultures around the world have turned this gift from nature into water dippers, bowls, masks, baskets, jewelry, and musical instruments. The Museum offered workshops using gourds as a canvas for creative projects.

  • “In the land of Submarines”: History of Nishimura-style no. 3746

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    Nishimura no. 3746, a Japanese midget submarine built in 1940. There were only four of these submarines ever built, only two of which were built by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and it is the only surviving example of its kind.

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