Neptune
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Pungy
Year: 1871
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Catalog # | Object Name | Title | Artist/Maker | Date Made | Place Made | Description | Full Image | CBMM Cat. Page |
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| 1 | 8888.0147.0000.00 | correspondence by function --papers (document genres) | Ernest Tucker Correspondence | Tucker, Ernest | 1958-1986 | The contents of this collection include four boxes of correspondence with related boat plans and brochures related to mechanical components for outfitting cruisers. There is an additional box of resource material for yacht design taken from the magazines Rudder, Yachting, and The Chesapeake Skipper. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 2 | 8888.0078.0000.00 | documents | Howard I. Chapelle Research complied by Dr. Joann | Range, Cir 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1975 | Howard I. Chapelle Research complied by Dr. Joann King<CR><CR>This collection is composed of Joann King's personal research notes as she prepared her doctoral dissertation about the life and work of Howard I. Chapelle. Correspondence between Chapelle and various individuals regarding ship building, his publications, his work at the Smithsonian Institution, as well as personal matters are included. Also included are letters between King and Chapelle's wife, Zayma and stepdaughter, Anne, as well as correspondence with many other individuals seeking specific biographical information about him. Chapelle's publications, book reviews written about his works, various newspaper and magazine articles discussing his work, thorough information regarding the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey (HAMMS), and other miscellaneous research materials used for King's dissertation are also found in this collection.Background InformationHoward I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was born in Massachusetts and briefly attended the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, but received no more professional training or education. In the 1930s he started his own business of designing small craft including fishing boats and yachts. As the Great Depression continued, Chapelle became the New England regional director of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey (HAMMS), a Works Progress Administration program designed to record vital information and plans of historic ships throughout the United States. During World War II, Chapelle was a Captain in the U.S. Army and worked in the Office of the Chief of Transportation. In 1950 Chapelle received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study American Naval Architecture at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. In the mid 1950s, Chapelle lived briefly in Turkey and worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a consultant on fishing boat design. In 1957, Chapelle began working at the Smithsonian Institution as the Curator of Transportation. He retired from the Smithsonian in 1971, but continued to write, design ships, and receive mail from boat builders seeking his professional opinion until his death. Throughout his career, Chapelle published a dozen books and numerous articles regarding boat building, and histories and in-depth information regarding certain craft. Wife, Alice Zayma Chapelle (now deceased), and stepdaughter Anne Appleton survived him. In 1983, Joann King, a PhD candidate at the George Washington University contacted Zayma Chapelle, informing her that she would be writing her dissertation about the life and work of her late husband, Howard I. Chapelle. The above biographical information about Chapelle is directly taken from King's research materials that she donated to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in May 2002.For material collected directly from Howard I. Chapelle, see the Howard I. Chapelle manuscript collection (MS 1). SubjectsAnne AppletonAlice Zayma ChapelleHoward I. ChapelleFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsHistoric American Merchant Marine Survey (HAMMS)Joann KingDr. Philip LundebergJames B. Richardson (boatbuilder)Charles F. SayleEric J. SteinleinJames HoltFrank TaylorSmithsonian Institution (Department of Transportation)The American NeptuneThe Mariner's MirrorWebb Institute of Naval ArchitectureWorks Progress AdministrationHoward I. Chapelle's publications found in the collection:"A Minimum Cost Boat" (1952?)"Iron and Wooden Boats" (date unknown)"Report to the Government of Turkey on Fishing Boats" (1957)Howard I. Chapelle's publications not included in the collection: (although referenced)The Baltimore Clipper (1930)The History of American Sailing Ships (1935)(Old) American Sailing Craft (1936)The History of the American Sailing Navy (1949)American Small Sailing Craft, their design, development, and construction (1951)Boatbuilding Yacht Designing and PlanningThe National Watercraft Collection (1960)"The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A study for a scale model" (1961)"The Migrations of an American boat type" (1961)The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (1964)The Search for Speed Under Sail (1968)The Constellation Question (1970)The American Fishing Schooner Subject: Webb Institute Subject: Ann Appleton Subject: Alice Z Chapelle Subject: Howard I Chapelle Subject: Eric J Steinlein | No image URL. | View | |||
| 3 | 8888.0028.0000.00 | documents | M. V. Brewington Collection: 1930s-1950s | Range, Cir 01/01/1930 - 12/31/1950 | Part of this collection is in CSC FF 60.M. V. Brewington Collection:1930s-1950sThe collection is comprised of correspondence, research notes, ship plans, Yachting articles, newspaper clippings, draft manuscripts, and photographs concerned with Brewington's Chesapeake Bay related publications.Biographical BackgroundMarion Vernon Brewington was born at Salisbury, Maryland, on 23 June 1902 and died on 8 December 1974. As a youth, he worked as a hand on Chesapeake Bay vessels. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925, he worked as a banker in Philadelphia. With the onset of World War II, in 1942 he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and served in the Navy Department's Naval Records and Library. After the war he held the position of Acting Curator of the Naval Historical Foundation in Washington and Curator of the maritime collections at the Maryland Historical Society. In 1956 he assumed the posts of Assistant Director and Curator of Maritime History at the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts. In 1966 he accepted the Directorship of the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts. He retired in the summer of 1974 to work on a cataloguing project at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut. A prolific writer, he produced some of the most important works on Chesapeake Bay maritime boatbuilding and history. The American Neptune, XXXV:1 (January 1975)Scope and ContentThe collection represents Brewington's research methods. The range and type of material reflects the author's meticulous search for details regarding all aspects of the Chesapeake Bay's vernacular watercraft and shipping. The majority of information was collected during the period 1930-1950, though some documents exceed this date. Many of the documents, newspaper abstracts, and notes examine general information regarding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century shipbuilding and maritime commerce. Most of the correspondence deals specifically with information regarding late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chesapeake Bay vessels. The ship plans preserve specific designs of Chesapeake Bay related watercraft. Subject: Marion V Brewington | No image URL. | View | |||
| 4 | 8888.0001.0000.00 | documents | Howard I. Chapelle Papers | Chapelle, Howard I | Exact 01/01/1901 - | The papers of Howard I. Chapelle consist of notes, printed materials, articles by others, some plans and correspondence. Much of the material is not original, but is source material collected by Chapelle.<br /><br />The papers are divided into three basic sections: 1. Correspondence, 2. thematic folders, and 3. whole notebooks by Chapelle. Papers are arranged into the most specific topic heading as possible. However, a researcher would be advised to peruse the subject headings before beginning specific research. | No image URL. | View | ||
| 5 | 8888.0071.0000.00 | documents | Joseph Liener Papers<CR><CR>Background<CR>Joseph Liener | Range, Cir 01/01/1909 - 01/01/2002 | This collection begins on CSC 15C1 and continues on 15C2.Joseph Liener PapersBackgroundJoseph Liener (Sept 1909-Jan 2002) was a long-time, dedicated volunteer at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. He was born in Salem, NJ, and in 1938 married Lillian England, the daughter of a Baptist minister of Alloway, NJ.As a young man Liener worked as an apprentice to several Salem house builders, becoming so proficient as to be entrusted with all their cabinet work. His life-long interest in wooden boats led to his employment before World War II as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he ultimately became one of only three rated Senior Supervisors at the yard. He supervised the construction of all wooden boats built at the navy yard including mine sweepers, motor launches, yard boats, captain's gigs, and Naval Academy sloops. As part of this work he sought out special woods, selected specific trees to be cut and taken to lumber yards to be sawed to his specifications for the navy's shop work.In 1942 Liener joined the navy as a Petty Officer First Class. He was assigned to the South Pacific where he supervised the repair of damaged landing craft and assault ships. As the war ended he was stationed at Eniwetok where early atomic bombs were being tested. After the war he returned to the small craft shop at the Philadelphia Navy Yard until his retirement on 31 Oct 1969.As a volunteer at the museum Liener was instrumental in the conservation, restoration, and documentation of vessels in the small boat collection. The museum's catalog of that collection, A Heritage in Wood (St. Michaels: CBMM, 1992) is dedicated to Liener. Lines drawings of historic craft prepared by Liener are in the ships plans collection. During this period Liener became a friend of James Michener and gave him information about the bay and the watermen; Michener asked Liener to comment on a draft of Michener's book Chesapeake for which Liener provided written comments (see Box 7, folder 10).Among Liener's many avocations was making fine furniture for the house he built himself, carving decoys for his own use, playing the piano, organ, and violin, designing, building, painting, and sailing his catboat Buxom Lass. He maintained a longtime interest in catboats and was active in the national catboat association and one of the founders of the Chesapeake Bay Catboat Association. Liener's papers and other material was donated to the museum by Lillian Liener prior to her death in 2003.Scope and ContentA large part of this collection consists of correspondence Liener received from many friends and contacts. Much of the correspondence is personal, but many letters are from individuals who ask for information about all kinds of vessels, especially catboats. Among his correspondents was James Michener who asked for Liener's comments on a draft of his book Chesapeake, naval architects Lowndes Johnson and Edward Brownlee, author John Leavens, editor of The Catboat Book (Camden, ME: International Marine Pub. Co., 1973), and Dave Dillon of the Wooden Boat School and co-author of Boats A Manual for Their Documentation (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History and the Museum Small Craft Association, 1993).Sub'ectsAcademy of Natural Sciences Bermuda Maritime Museum Boston's Museum of Transportation Calvert Marine Museum CatboatsChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Decoy CarversDecoysHistorical Society of Talbot County Morton Smith, naval architect Mystic Seaport Museum Philadelphia Maritime Museum Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Boat Shop Philadelphia Ship Model Society The Apprentice ShopGeneral Correspondence (Filed alphabetically & by date within each name)Acton, Charles L.Adler, Georgia, Historical Society of Talbot County Allen, Roger & MichelleBossett, Robert H., Matawan, Aberdeen Regional School DistrictBrous, N. S.Brinkmann, Sarah W.Carpentier, Ralph, Town Marine Museum Carney, Patrick, Black Bottom Runabouts, Inc. Cole, N. R (Roger)Conboy, Joseph L., Joseph L. Conboy & Associates, Yacht BuildersCooke, William S., & MildredCox, Richard M.Crothers, William L., The Philadelphia Model Ship Society Culver, Rebecca. L.Dery, Julian, Ajusteur D'Assurances Generales, Sherbrooke, QuebecEmmett, Jim, Waterway GuideEtter, Ellen & Dick Feree, RussellFisher, Donald (Doc) E., M.D. Fusco, PatGalvin, Ann & JimGarvie, W. C., Boatbuilder, San Rafael Harbor, CA Geer, Michael, Motor Yacht SarinaGehring, Jim & Millie, worked at Phil. Navy Yard Boat ShopGering, Larry & ArleneGraefe, Doris Gustafson, Albert V.Guthorn, Peter J. (With reply letter by Liener) Hall, ChristopherHarrington, Norman, Historical Society of Talbot County Hartge, DaveHartge, Totch (With memorial notice for Eric Joslyn Steinlein)Heffner (?), DaveHenry, Oliver, Delphi Productions, Ltd. Hewins, Charles E. Higson, James D.Hill, Charles H. Jr.Historical Society of Talbot County (Adler, Georgia, & Harrington, Norman)Homfeld, Max F.Hook, John H.Howard, Marie A. (Liener's sister-in-law) Humphrey, CraigHutchins, Dick Jenkins, W. H. Johnson, Arthur C., Jr.Johnson, C. Lowndes, Naval architect Johnson, Paula J., Calvert Marine Museum Kaighn, SusanKeller, Sherman E., St. Mary's Square Museum Kirch, Fred G.Kobialka, Edward J. Lamanteer, JackieLipke, Paul, Boat Shop Director, Boston's Museum of Transportation (Enclosing letter fromRev. Cannon Robert E. Merry) MacKannan, Charles H. & Doris Maffen, HerbMangum, Michael T., Chief Naturalist, Ocean County, NJ, Dept. of Parks & RecreationMay, George L.Michener, James & MariMills, Clark W., worked in Boat Shop at Phil. Navy Yard Miller, John H., Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Mulford, Wayne D.Nelson, Florence Park, David E. Patterson, Edward F., Jr.Rogers, Martha, House Restoration Coordinator, Pennsville, NJ, Township Historical SocietyPerrella, JohnPfister, George Phelps, Robert BemissPorter, Eugene, from dredgeboat Stanley NormanPostich, Joe & Wendy, Barrington, NH, Boat Shop; Postich letter of 11 Dec 85 followed byLiener letter of 8 Jan 86 attesting to good character of Postich. Rebuilt sloop Chicane inBermuda (see Chicane materiagl in Box 2, folder 6) Poston, Robert, Jr.Prugh, Robert Burton Quimby, Alfred P. Samson, Rene & JoyceSaudergas, Tony & Sherry, Philadelphia Navy Yard Boat ShopSanto, (???)Scofield, John, CBMM Boat Shop Sheehan, KevinSmith, Harry W., Barnstable Originals (Author of Windjammers of the Maine Coast, Camden,ME, 1983; compiler of Workaday Schooners, Camden, 1975)Squibb, JoryStanley, Roman S. Surgent, George Swartz, Bea Temple, Buk Thomas, BarryTomlinson, Fred & Esther, Frederick Tomlinson worked in Boat Shop, Phil. Navy YardTucker, Jane Foster (Mrs. Ernest)Van Meter, Ralph H.Waters, Karen Roy, Research, Wooden Boat magazine Wilson, Jonathan, Traditional Small Craft, and Wooden BoatSpecial CorrespondentsAllen, Mae W.Apprentice Shop, Lance R Lee, Director Brownlee, Edward G. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Dillon, DaveFuller, BenPhiladelphia Maritime Museum Philadelphia Ship Model Society Seidel, CharlesWard, David Subject: Josef W Liener | No image URL. | View | |||
| 6 | 1985.0018.0001.00 | gas engines | NEPTUNE model B12A OUTBOARD ENGINE | Muncie Gear Co, __Creator | NEPTUNE OUTBOARD ENGINE, MODEL # B12A, SERIAL # G7954. MADE BY MUNCIE GEAR CO., MUNCIE, IN. Materials: METAL Place Made: MUNCIE, IN | No image URL. | View | |||
| 7 | 8888.0111.0000.00 | manuscript | Thomas Gillmer Manuscript Collection | This collection begins on CSC 16B2 and continues onto CSC 16B3.Background:Thomas Gillmer (1911-2009) was a naval architect whose designs include both historic vessels and cruising sailboats. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Baltimore clippers Pride of Baltimore and Pride of Baltimore II, the former having attracted national attention when she tragically sank off Puerto Rico in 1986 ( the subsequent investigation determined extreme weather rather than poor design or seamanship was at fault). Gillmer's other historical designs include the pungy schooner Lady Maryland and the Swedish pinnace ship Kalmar Nyckel. His cruising sailboats, in both wood and fiberglass, are also respected as elegant and seaworthy vessels. One, an Allied Seawind named Apogee, was the first fiberglass boat to circumnavigate the globe. In addition to his work as an architect, Gillmer wrote several books and articles on subjects ranging from ancient watercraft to the restoration of the USS Constitution, a project in which he was involved. Gillmer was a professor of naval architecture at the US Naval Academy and later served on the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Board of Governors and as chairman of the curatorial committee. Scope and Content:The manuscript collection consists of 156 files in 5 boxes. Files are grouped together by subject as follows:Box 1: Historical VesselsBox 2: Designs and ProjectsBox 3: Academic Work and PublicationsBox 4: CorrespondenceBox 5: ScrapbookIn most cases, papers are arranged chronologically within each folder. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 8 | 1970.0059.0001.00 | outboard engines | Neptune 2 cyl OUTBOARD MOTOR c. 1940 | Neptune Motor Co, __Creator | Range,Circ 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940 | OUTBOARD MOTOR MADE BY THE NEPTUNE MOTOR CO., OF MUNCIE IN., C.1940, SERIAL# 34008D16, 2 CYLINDER, PROPELLOR MISSING, PAINTED SILVER. Materials: METAL Colors: SILVER Place Made: MUNCIE, IN | No image URL. | View | ||
| 9 | 1986.0031.0001.00 | outboard engines | NEPTUNE model 4A38 OUTBOARD MOTOR | Muncie Gear Co, __Creator | Range,Exac 01/01/1938 - 12/31/1938 | NEPTUNE GASOLINE OUTBOARD MOTOR MADE BY MUNCIE GEAR COMPANY, MUNCIE, INDIANA; 2 CYLINDER; MODEL #4A38; SERIAL #4448; TWO BLADED PROP. Materials: ALUMINUM, BRASS Place Made: MUNCIE, IN Negative #: N2016 R5 |  | View | ||
| 10 | 8888.0156.0000.00 | papers (document genres) | Marine Engine Materials | Marine Engine Materials: Series 1, Gerald Dunn; Series 2, William B. Wimbrow; Series 3 Misc. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 11 | 0000.1290.2327.00 | photographic prints | Tug Neptune under way with five sails up | Tug Neptune under way with five sails up. Men in business suits on board. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 12 | 0000.2039.0245.00 | postcards | "Annual Bay Country Festival" | Range, Cir 01/03/1963 - 01/29/1971 | Printed on back is: "Annual Bay Country Festival: Cambridge, Maryland, King Neptune and his Court, Princess Neptune and her Court." Written on back is: "Cong. Rog.Morton in middle" which refers to Congressman Rogers Morton (in Congress from 1963 to 1971). | No image URL. | View | |||
| 13 | 8888.0177.0000 | sail plans --documents | Haarstick-North Sails documentation | 1980s-2000s | Eight boxes containing printed and hand-drawn sail plans, from Haarstick Sailmakers and North Sails, for numerous classes of cruising and racing sailboats. Both Haarstick and North used computer driven equipment to cut the sails and many folders contain the information used to load computers with the data needed to precisely cut the sails for the many types of vessels and various sails required. | No image URL. | View | |||
| 14 | 1997.0046.0001.00 | ships logs | Log book of Albemarle | Forbes, William __Writer | Log book of the Navassa Phosphate Company's Chesapeake Bay sailing vessel (bark) Albemarle of Baltimore documenting voyages between Baltimore and Navassa Island for guano. 70 pages, stiff board covers with decorative paper in blue and brown. Smaller loose pages in back. Material: Paper, cotton binding, cardboard, ink. Presumably kept by Capt Wm Forbes, found in grandmothers attic (Glenda Harris) |  | View | |||
| 15 | 1997.0055.0001.01 | ships plans | Schooner Sultana | Circa 01/01/1997 - | Data and drawings of the schooner Sultana built in 1768 at Boston and originally used by the British for law enforcement, eventually came to the Chesapeake Bay and used for transportation and cargo. Plans & data are part of a current plan to build a replica in Chestertown, MD. One set of Plans A-B. Plan A is the British Admiralty draught for HM Schooner Sultana from the British National Maritime Museum. Plan B is the 1993 Model rigging plan for Model Shipways Sultana. |  | View | |||
| 16 | 1997.0056.0001.00 | watercolors (paintings) | Clipper schooner Young Brutus by Roux | Roux, Antoine __Artist | Circa 1819 | Marseilles - France | Clipper schooner Young Brutus attributed to Antoine Roux Jr., starboard view of ship under sail heading into the port at Marseilles, France, crew visible on deck including several Black men, black and white hulled vessel flying US flag and house flag, black lower border with vessel name and capt name.<br /><br />The Roux family were well known for their ships portraits. Living in Marseilles port district they were able to observe many different ships. |  | View |
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