USS SCORPION Project 2011 Day by Day: Week Three
Monday, 18 July 2011- Today, we were back in the Patuxent trenches continuing our efforts to delineate the boundaries of the suspected USS Scorpion wreck. So far, the team has been successful in...
View ArticleThe Conservation of Enfield Rifle Barrels from USS Tulip
The Naval History and Heritage Command’s (NHHC) Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) manages the Archaeology & Conservation Laboratory which is primarily tasked with the documentation, treatment,...
View ArticleNational Museum of the US Navy to host Battle of Lake Erie Commemoration
. Join us at 9:00 am on Tuesday, 10 Sept. 2013 at the National Museum of the United States Navy for a day of activities including exhibit tours, demonstrations, first person interpretation, period...
View ArticleReturn of USS HOUSTON Artifacts to NHHC
Last week, the Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC) Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) received a trumpet and ceramic cup and saucer from World War II cruiser USS HOUSTON. The artifacts were...
View ArticleWashington Navy Yard Warehoused Artifacts Arrive at Richmond Collection...
From Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division The curators of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) completed the transfer of artifacts previously warehoused at...
View ArticleSailing into the Future with the United States Coast Guard
In honor of the United States Coast Guard, which turned 225 years old this week, the Naval History Blog offers a selection from a speech delivered by A. Denis Clift, Vice President for Planning and...
View ArticleRestoring the US/C-3 Infrared Signalling Telescope
In Greek Mythology, the prophet Tiresias was blinded by the gods as punishment for revealing their secrets. He begged the goddess Athena to restore his sight, but she could not. Instead, she gave him...
View ArticleThe VT Fuze: The Other Secret Weapon of World War II
As a young officer, then-Lieutenant Commander (later Admiral) W.H. P. Blandy, USN, had a keen interest in gunnery. Writing for Proceedings in 1920 (“Director Fire a Century Ago”) and 1925 (“Possible...
View ArticleMonument of the Month: Granite, Old and New
The old NSS Annapolis, otherwise known as the Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter, at Greenbury Point on the Severn River to the West of Annapolis, is not a place where one might...
View ArticleA Story in a Spoon
“Our country is at WAR,” read the memorandum to the employees of Buffalo, New York’s, Republic Metalware Company shortly after the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917. “Some of our...
View ArticleMine Over Matter
On the evening of 14 April 1988, Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was steaming though the Persian Gulf when her forward lookout spotted several ominous spherical canisters with floating on the surface: sea...
View ArticleThe Corps’ Parris Island Museum
Men who enlist in the Marine Corps east of the Mississippi River and all women joining the Corps must first report to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina, for four hellish...
View ArticleScuttlebutt: Thanksgiving 1943
The Naval Institute Archive was recently the recipient of a lucky find by Bill Foley of Boston who came upon some USS Hermitage (AP-54) papers left behind in an attic of a house that a friend of his...
View ArticleOrigins of Valor: The History of the Navy Medal of Honor
By the end of the Civil War, the Union’s Armed Forces loss some 365,000 men, with more than double that in total casualties suffered during the four year-long “War Between the States”. With such...
View ArticleDNU on the Search for Bonhomme Richard
NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch Head, Dr. Robert Neyland, spoke with DMA sailors about the search for Revolutionary War vessel Bonhomme Richard. The interview was featured in a Daily News Update...
View ArticleUAB Loans MAC Lab a piece of Civil War History
This morning, UAB welcomed members of the Maryland Archaeology Conservation (MAC) Laboratory team for the transport of a Civil War iron cannon. The 3-ton cannon was made in Liverpool, U.K. in 1862 and...
View ArticleOld Ironsides is Spared
June, 24th 1833 USS Constitution enters dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston MA for overhaul. The Ship was saved from scrapping after public support rallied to save the ship following publication...
View ArticleUSS SCORPION Project 2011 Day by Day: Week Two
Monday, 11 July – Today was a very exciting day for the project as archaeologists from UAB, MHT and MSHA began active excavation of the wreck believed to be War of 1812 block sloop Scorpion,...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Naval Wargames
Naumachiae: Sea Battles in the Colosseum The Romans always enjoyed a good game, especially if it was extravagant and resulted in multiple gruesome deaths. Historical accounts from the reign of...
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