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• “Taps” and the Crew of USS Monitor

  • Military
  • USS Monitor

  August 21, 2020

  Did the crew of USS Monitor hear “Taps” when it was played for the very first time?

  

• Desalination: Because rust never sleeps

  • Civil War
  • Conservation
  • USS Monitor

  August 20, 2020

  Electrochemical treatment set-ups need constant attention in the “wet lab” and outdoor tanks, and environmental conditions in dry object storage also require our steadfast attention.

  

• Privateering and the Battle of Groton Heights

  • Art
  • Collections
  • Military Conflict

  August 14, 2020

  During the American Revolution the Americans had a fledgling Navy, made up of the small fleets that each state could muster together. These ships were not able to match the well-trained, battle-hardened British Navy, so the Americans turned to privateers to help in the fight.

  

• Confederate Pirates: Capture of Steamer St. Nicholas

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  August 13, 2020

  On June 28, 1861, the Union’s first charge of Confederate piracy since the Civil War erupted took place in the Potomac River when the passenger steamer St. Nicholas was captured.

  

• USS Mississippi: Ship of the Manifest Destiny    

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  August 13, 2020

  Matthew Calbraith Perry guided the US Navy’s transition from sail to steam and shot to shell. It was he who recognized how these new tools would ensure the Navy’s ability to project American trade and power throughout the world.

  

• Episode III – Mariners Still Sailing Together…Apart

  • Photography

  August 12, 2020

  Go behind the scenes in the galleries & with staff of the Mariners' Museum during our temporary closure due to the pandemic in this photo series.

  

• Agents of Decay: they’re everywhere!

  • Conservation

  August 5, 2020

  The agents range from everyday environmental issues to unlikely, but devastating, events. It’s important to remember, and you’ll see it as we go through the list, that often these agents work together.

  

• Great Plants Create a Great Park

  • Mariners' Park

  August 4, 2020

  Providing a beautiful Park full of diversity was a long-standing goal.