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• Capture of New Orleans: Farragut’s Rise to Fame

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict

  July 16, 2020

  While it was ever so critical for the Confederacy to maintain control of New Orleans, events elsewhere, especially in Tennessee, resulted in the city having inadequate defenses and naval support. 

  

• Conservation Update: Turret Knife

  • Civil War
  • Conservation
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Hampton Roads History
  • USS Monitor

  July 16, 2020

  An update on the conservation treatment for a bone-handled knife found in the concretion of the turret.

  

• Building International Connections through the Collections

  • Collections

  July 14, 2020

  The Mariners’ Museum collection was built around significant and representative objects to tell the story of all maritime history. 

  

• The First Ironclad Emerges: Battle of the Head of Passes

  • Civil War
  • Military Conflict
  • Shipbuilding

  July 9, 2020

  When the Civil War erupted, Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Russell Mallory knew that the South could only counter and defeat the larger US Navy if ironclads were employed.

  

• Expending USS Monitor’s condenser

  • Civil War
  • Conservation
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Hampton Roads History
  • Technology
  • USS Monitor

  July 8, 2020

  In order to conserve these complex pieces of machinery, a large part of our job is to disassemble them. This allows for appropriate treatment of the different materials.

  

• The steamers of Brown’s Grove

  • Black History
  • Recreation

  July 8, 2020

  In the 1910s, Brown's Grove was the only excursion steamboat and amusement park combination entirely owned and operated by African Americans.

  

• From Waters to Mariners’, The Making of a Lake

  • Mariners' Park

  July 6, 2020

  Did you know Virginia has only two natural lakes? The rest are man-made, including our very own Mariners’ Lake! It holds the title as the first, and the oldest, project started on the grounds of The Mariners’ Museum Park.

  

• The “Waters” in Water’s Creek

  June 30, 2020