Merrimac

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Type: Schooner Barge

Year: 1906

Builder: E. J. Tull

Location: Pocomoke City

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	0000.0174.0003.00		MIDDLE GROUND LIGHT, SCENE OF ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN T				MIDDLE GROUND LIGHT, SCENE OF ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE MERRIMAC AND MONITOR NORFOLK-NEWPORT NEWS FERRY--THE POPULAR ROUTE; From old Remarks field: CURTEICH Old Subject Fields: FERRIES, VESSELS, POWER; CHESAPEAKE BAY LIGHTHOUSE; NORFOLK AREA (INCLUDING PORTSMOUTH)	No image URL.	View
	2	1986.0027.0001.00	booklets	ADVERTISING BROCHURE FOR CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP CO.,		Range,Circ 01/01/1950 - 12/31/1950		ADVERTISING BROCHURE FOR CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP CO., 6 PAGES SHOWING VARIOUS PORTS THE LINE TRAVELED TO C1950. Title: FUN ON THE BAY Materials: PAPER Colors: POLYCHROMATIC Associated Place: CHESAPEAKE BAY Negative #: N2016 R4	No image URL.	View
	3	1988.0030.0001.00	cannonballs	SOLID IRON CANNONBALL RECOVERED DURING DREDGING OP		Range,Circ 01/01/1861 - 12/31/1861	Hampton Roads - VIRGINIA	SOLID IRON CANNONBALL RECOVERED DURING DREDGING OPERATION IN HAMPTON ROADS. THE CANNONBALL IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM THE 11" GUNS OF THE USS MONITOR DURING ITS BATTLE WITH THE MERRIMAC ON 9 MARCH 1862. PRESENT DIAMETER IS SMALLER THAN 11." Title: CANNONBALL Materials: IRON Associated Place: HAMPTON ROADS, VA Negative #: N2018 R4	No image URL.	View
	4	8888.0015.0000.00	documents	Edward Griffith Dodson (1884 - ) Research Notes		Range, Exa 01/01/1965 - 12/31/1967		Edward Griffith Dodson (1884 - ) Research Notes (1965 - 1967) Notes compiled by E. Griffith Dodson while researching the steamboat olive, once owned by the Dodson family.Biographical BackgroundThe Dodson family was prominent in St. Michaels history, especially in the 19th century. The family owned and operated a steamboat out of St. Michaels, Olive, a drug store, the St. Michaels Comet, and its members served as state senators and town commissioners (see ms 2, ms 12, ms 13).E. Griffith Dodson was born in Norfolk on April 30, 1884 and married Harriote Jones Winchester in 1913. He was the son of Robert Ad&lphus Dodson (1861 - 1913) and Julia E. Griffith. He started oft as a lawyer in Norfolk, looking after most of the Dodson family interests in the area. Dodson later became Vice-President and First Officer of the Seaboard Citizens National Bank and finished his career as Clerk of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Virginia.While serving as Clerk he became interested in historical research and published several works on the Capitol and the Virginia General Assembly. He also started to accumulate information on the steamboat Olive that was owned by Richard Stearns Dodson from 1876 to approximately 1891. Henry Clay Dodson acted as General Agent while Edward N. Dodson was the master. (see Weather Gauge, vol 21, no. 2)The papers were donated by his son, E. Griffith Dodson, Jr. Scope and ContentThe material includes hand-written and typed notes by E. Griffith Dodson, newspaper articles, photocopied documents, and correspondence regarding the career of the olive. Most of the dated material is from 1965.The Olive was built by the Atlantic Iron Works and Dock Company, Norfoolk', Virginia, in 1869 for Gilbert C. Walker. From 1876 to approximately 1891, she was owned by the Dodson family and traded between Baltimore and St. Michaels. The olive was sold to theDodson Papers, page 2the Albemarle Steam Navigation Company but was sunk in a violent storm on February 16, 1903 with the loss of 17 lives. She was later raised and renamed Hertford, owned by the same company, and was dismantled at Newport News in 1911.These papers are useful as they add considerable information to that already existing on the history of the olive, particularly in the latter years.Subjects:Dodson Family; Olive, Steamboats, Chesapeake Bay.	No image URL.	View
	5	2006.0068.0305.00	fragments	metal stud labeled "Merrimac"				metal stud labeled "Merrimac"		View
	6	1966.0183.0001.00	fragments	Section of armor plate from CSN Virginia (ex. Merr				Section of armor plate from CSN Virginia (ex. Merrimac). Too deep of draft to ascend. James River Merrimac was blown up by Confederates nr. Craney Island. After Civil War some of her armor was salvaged and cut into souvenir pieces of which this is one.		View
	7	1987.0020.0001.00	ironclads (model)	MODEL KIT OF THE CSS VIRGINIA (FORMER MERRIMAC), M	Bluejacket Shipcrafters, __Designer ||Priest, William __Creator	Range,Exac 01/01/1987 - 12/31/1987		MODEL KIT OF THE CSS VIRGINIA (FORMER MERRIMAC), MADE BY BLUEJACKET SHIPCRAFTERS, SHELTON, CT. MODEL KIT WAS PURCHASED IN 1987 AND ASSEMBLED BY VOLUNTEER WILLIAM PRIEST. THE IRONCLAD WAS BUILT ON THE HULL OF THE BURNED-OUT STEAM FRIGATE MERRIMAC. Title: MODEL OF CSS VIRGINIA Materials: WOOD Colors: BLACK,BROWN,WHITE Place Made: ST. MICHAELS, MD Negative #: N2018 R1		View
	8	1994.0046.0004.00	lithographs	Hand colored litho. of "The Monitor & the Merrimac				Hand colored litho. Print after a painting of "The Monitor and the Merrimac" Condition: good.		View
	9	1994.0046.0008.00	lithographs	Harper's Weekly 1861 troop transpt & battle Hampto	Harper's Weekly, __Publisher	Exact 03/22/1862 -		Hand colored litho from Harper's Weekly. Two images, top: "The New Jersey Troops Crossing the Chesapeake Bay, in Sixteen Propellors, on Their Way to Washington DC, May 4, 1861" bottom: "First Naval Battle in Hampton Roads between Confederate Iron-Plated Steamers Merrimac, Yorktown & Jamestown and the federal Wooden Sailing Frigates Cumberland & Congress, sinking the Cumberland... Condition: good, small tar on left side.		View
	10	1984.0006.0001.00	lithographs	SHOWS USS CUMBERLAND AND USS CONGRESS BEING BOMBAR	Mathews, G B __Designer	Range,Exac 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906		SHOWS USS CUMBERLAND AND USS CONGRESS BEING BOMBARDED BY CSS MERRIMAC. BASED ON 1906 PAINTING BY G. B. MATHEWS, WHICH WAS BASED ON A DRAWING BY LT. H.B. LITTLEPAGE OF THE MERRIMAC. Title: LAST OF THE WOODEN NAVY Materials: INK,PAPER Colors: POLYCHROMATIC Associated Place: HAMPTON ROADS, VA Negative #: N1062 R01	No image URL.	View
	11	0000.0975.0274.17	negatives	Monitor and Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel? from the cockp	de Gast, Robert		James River - Western Shore - VA	Monitor and Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel? from the cockpit of Fiddler, lookng aft. Photographed for book Five Fair Rivers, but not used. See 975.274.01 for source, date, etc.	No image URL.	View
	12	0000.0975.0274.25	negatives	Unknown structure	de Gast, Robert			Unknown structure, possibly part of Monitor and Merrimac Bridge Tunnel? Photographed for book Five Fair Rivers, but not used. See 975.274.01 for source, date, etc.	No image URL.	View
	13	0000.0975.0415.16	negatives	Looking aft aboard Fiddler toward the Monitor and			Baltimore - MD	Looking aft aboard Fiddler toward the Monitor -Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel.. See also frame 17. See 975.0415.01 for source and date.	No image URL.	View
	14	0000.0975.0415.25	negatives	Railing of Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel, from be			Baltimore - MD	Railing of Monitor-Merrimac Bridge Tunnel, from below. See 975.0415.01 for source and date.	No image URL.	View
	15	0000.1290.2280.00	photographic prints	Log canoe York Spit under sail from port side				Log canoe York Spit under sail from port side; she is carrying jib, main, mizzen and kite; two men aboard; according to notes on back of print she is "racing off Merrimac Shores (present name 1974) in late 1920's or early 1930's;" "The Mariners' Museum" stamped on back. Copy print.	No image URL.	View
	16	0000.1290.3451.00	photographic prints	Photograph of print showing battle between Monitor			Hampton Roads - Western Shore - VA	Photograph of print showing battle between Monitor and Merrimac "The Splendid Victory of the Ericsson Battery Monitor" lithograph by Hatch and Co., New York. Three other vessels in background. Battle was fought 3/9/1862.	No image URL.	View
	17	0000.1290.3452.00	photographic prints	Photograph of print showing battle between Monitor			Hampton Roads - Western Shore - VA	Photograph of print showing battle between Monitor and Merrimac "The First Battle Between Iron Ships of War" Several sailing ships and steamers also shown in background. Battle was fought 3/9/1862.	No image URL.	View
	18	0000.1290.3544.00	photographic prints	Photograph of print of Monitor v. Merrimac				Photograph of print of Monitor v. Merrimac; legend on print: "Naval Conflict in Hampton Roads--Action between the Monitor & Merrimac. From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers..." Shows the two named vessels, two sailing vessels, gunsmoke.	No image URL.	View
	19	0000.2050.0441	postcards	Trees concealing The Rest				"On the beautiful Miles the Rest Talbot Co., Md. The old home of Admiral Franklin Buchanan C. S. N. Commander the Merrimac." printed on the picture. House not visible; Miles River in foreground; two men in a rowboat; long bulkhead along the shoreline.		View