Ada
Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Skipjack
Year: 1901
Builder:
Location: Exmore
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Media | Date | Vessel | Place | Related Places | Inscription/Marks | Subject | Notes | Archive Number |
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| 1 | No image URL. | Ada Cliff | P0001.011/01-0044 | |||||||
| 2 | No image URL. | Ada Tower | P0001.011/01-0045 | |||||||
| 3 | No image URL. | Ada Bozman | P0001.011/01-0042 | |||||||
| 4 | No image URL. | Ada Carter | P0001.011/01-0043 | |||||||
| 5 |  | WRITTEN ON VERSO: BUILT 1917, AT MANITOWOC, WISE BY MANITOWOC STEAMBOATS COMPANY, OWNED BY BERG HANSON, 2124T, 250.5 X 43.5 X 20.4. RENAMED LAKE ONEIDA, A STAMAHCO, IV, GLENDARUEL, LAKE ONEIDA, ASTMAHCO IV, GLENDARUEL, WILLA CROSBY, ADMIRAL MOSER, SINALDA. WRECKED DEC. 12, 1936 | Motorships | Port side stern quarter view of ship under way. Alternate Name: Admiral Moser, Astmahco IV, Glendaruel, Lake Onieda, Sinaloa. | P0001.003/01-#PB24159 | |||||
| 6 |  | July 7, 1957 | WRITTEN ON VERSO: BUILT1 945, AT MALINA, KOCKUMS MOTOR VESSEL A/B. OWNED BY REDERI A/B GYLTE 3.663 T, 398.2 X 53.1 X22.8. RENAMED KRK (1962) | Port side view of ship tied up at dock. Alternate Name: Krk. | P0001.003/01-#PB26851 | |||||
| 7 | No image URL. | Yassi Island (Turkey)–Antiquities, Byzantine | Nautical archaeology series ; no. 1- | Underwater archaeology–Turkey–Yassi Island.; Shipbuilding–History. Mediterranean Region | Includes index. | LB9434 | ||||
| 8 |  | WRITTEN ON VERSO: BUILT 1917, AT MANITOWOC, WISE BY MANITOWOC STEAMBOATS COMPANY, OWNED BY BERG HANSON, 2124T, 250.5 X 43.5 X 20.4. RENAMED LAKE ONEIDA, A STAMAHCO, IV, GLENDARUEL, LAKE ONEIDA, ASTMAHCO IV, GLENDARUEL, WILLA CROSBY, ADMIRAL MOSER, SINALDA. WRECKED DEC. 12, 1936 | Motorships | Port side bow quarter of ADA under way passing close to docks. Alternate Name: Admiral Moser, Astmahco IV, Glendaruel, Lake Oneida, Sinaloa. | P0001.003/01-#PB24158 | |||||
| 9 |  | WRITTEN ON VERSO: BUILT 1929, AT LIVERPOOL, NOVA SCOTIA, BY J.S. GARDNER. 226.12T, 140 X 24.2 X 11.5, RUM RUNNING | Motorships | Photostat copy of a rum runner. | P0001.003/01-#PB266 | |||||
| 10 |    | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Fantail launch called ADA. The launch was originally built by Charles Seabury and Company sometime in the late 19th century or early 20th century, possibly called Mosnee or Mosinee. The steam engine and boiler were built by Frank Fuegeman between the 1960s and 1986. The launch is 25 feet long and has a 6 foot beam. It has a full straight keel with round bilges and a rounded transom. The hull is made of white oak and white cedar. The hull is varnished on the interior with gloss white enamel on the exterior. The deck is varnished white oak, with white inlayed seams. The cockpit is surrounded by varnished oak coaming, steam bent into a round shape forward and aft. A full length hard canopy is over the cockpit. It is supported by turned oak varnished balustrades, six in all, bolted to the oak coaming. The canopy mirrors the round ends of the cockpit coaming using laminated varnished mahogany to make the shape. The canopy top is of thin aluminum, painted on top, and a bare milled finish on the underside. The entire center cockpit is consumbed by the firebox/boiler and steam engine. There are two general storage lockers forward, and two copper lined bins aft for fuel stowage of wood or coal. All four hatches are varnished, piano hinged. The cockpit sole is polished aluminum diamond pattern metal, with some liftouts, and some pieces fastened down. All of the hardware appears to be cast or machined bronze or brass. The engine is a 10hp single cylinder engine with matching steam boiler (scotch marine fire tube boiler). The engine is powered by either wood or coal. The boiler and heat exchanger are both partially sheathed in wood stripes, with strapping to hold the wood in place. The firebox is painted black. The stack is stainless steel and protrudes up through the canopy top. There is a water tank is forward and another off to port. Sheave and cable type steering. There are two wheels, one forward with mahogany with white inlay, and one on the starboard side aft that is brass with wood spokes. The boat is fitted with a three-bladed bronze propeller, which is supposedly original. There is metal rudder, the lower end of which resides in a bronze skeg that feeds off the wood keel. The boat has a triple note whistle. There is one small hanging liquid fuel lamp hanging from the canopy at the stern. There is a brass bell forward and a clanger type bell is aft, spring loaded and mounted on the underside of the canopy. There is a brass eagle decorating the forward end of the canopy. There are red and green fresnel running lights to either side of the stack on the top of the canopy. NOTES: Frank Fuegeman, a master machinist, purchased the launch in the 1960s from Vera and Ernie Blaser. They had purchased the launch in Maine "sometime before selling it to Frank." Fuegeman determined to build his own steam power plant. Over forty years he collected what he could and made by hand what he could not find. Ada was finally launched on September 1, 1986. The donor, H. W. Anderson, acquired the launch from Fuegeman in 1990. A sister ship to Ada is in the collection of the Independence Seaport Museum. NOTES: The bronze plate near the stern provides information for the manufacture of the original naphtha engine, which was removed from the boat in World War II, by the Gas Engine & Power Company. The hull was built by Charles Seabury and Company. It is unclear how the boat has been attributed to the launch called "Mosnee" (could it be "Mosinee"?). It is also unclear how the date of ca 1885 -1889 was attributed. The date circa 1896 was applied as that is when the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury & Co. formed a partnership in New York. The name of the company was not changed to Consolidated Shipbuilding until 1920. Approximately 3,000 to 5,000 naphtha launches were built between 1895 and 1905. | CL28239 | |||||||
| 11 | No image URL. | United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. | People with disabilities–Services for.; Passenger ships–Law and legislation.; Passenger ships–Design and construction. | Passenger vessel design and the ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act. | LB67716 | |||||
| 12 |  | USA; NEW YORK; NEW YORK | WRITTEN ON VERSO: OVERBROOK TUGBOAT, BUILT 1894 AT PHILADELPHIA. 179 T, 104,2 X 24.4 X 11.2 ADA STEAMSHIP SEEN IN BACKGROUND. | Port view of tugboat OVERBROOK in foreground. Starboard side of ADA seen under way in background against city of New York skyline. MM photo from negative by John L. Lochhead. Also in the image is the Overbrook. | P0001.003/01-#PB15474 | |||||
| 13 |  | USA; NEW JERSEY | WRITTEN ON VERSo: FORMERLY CANADIAN CONQUEROR, BUILT 1920, AT MONTREAL, BY CANADIAN VICKERS LIMITED. OWNED BY IMPRESE NAVIGATIONAL COMMERCIAL SOC. ANON 5248T, 412.5X 52.3 X 28.5 | Aerial view showing ADA in New Jersey piers loading scrap iron from barges. | P0001.003/01-#PB5886 | |||||
| 14 | No image URL. | Regular not cataloged. | The seventh century byzantine ship at Yassi Ada: some contributions to the history of naval architecture. | LB92411 | ||||||
| 15 |  | 5/22/1943 | Ada Leonard and her all girl orchestra are shown on the stage of Theater #2 Camp Patrick Henry 5-22-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Virginia | Women in the performing arts–Virginia–Newport News.; Orchestra–Virginia–Newport News. | Ada Leonard on stage in front of her all-girl orchestra. | P0003/01-#J-2271 | ||||
| 16 | No image URL. | A series of articles on sailing vessels. | LB42293 | |||||||
| 17 | No image URL. | Scrapbook containing clippings, photographs, postcards, bulletins, correspondence, a passenger list, and other ephemera documenting Mrs. Gibb Hester's around the world cruise in 1922-1923. | MS0844 | |||||||
| 18 | No image URL. | NOTES: L. Oglesby 5/22/1985 The following comment on painting by E.J. Russell were made by: Robert Elliot; Assistant Curator, Department of Canadian History, The New Brunswick Museum, 277 Douglas Avenue, Saint John, Canada E2K 1E5. Mr. Elliot has been doing extensive research on E.J. Russel and New Brunswick built or based vessels by EJR or others. QW 618 - St. John, New Brunswick - Partridge Island. He usually shows the lighthouse station on the island. NOTES: The only year that H.K. Norton appears as the commander is 1870. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: "Edward John Russell Marine Artist" by Huia G. Ryder, Special Publication of The New Brunswick Museum, 1953. Included a catalogue of the artist's marine paintings. Compiled by George MacBeath. (ND 244 R9 H8) Museum Library VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: ADA GRAY VESSEL BUILT: 1867-1889 SHIPBUILDER: RUSSELL SHIPBUILDING CO. BUILDER LOCATION: WESTBROOK, MAINE VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 129' x 30' x 19', 566 tons HOME PORT: PORTLAND, MAINE SHIP OWNER: GEORGE S. HUNT, CAPT. H.W. RACE | CL6565 | |||||||
| 19 |  | NOTES: Attributed to an old ship lost in Ipswich Bay that was "commanded by Capt. Albert Brewster". Capt. A. K. Brewster owned a Grand Banks schooner called the Ada K. Damon which was wrecked on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts on December 26, 1909 during a large snow storm. The vessels anchor chain parted, sending it adrift. The five crew members survived. The US Life-Saving Service offered to assist in salvaging the craft, but the master, Captain A.K. Brewster, declined, as he wished to sell the ship to wreckers. However, on January 6, 1910, he accepted their help in stripping the ship, as he could find no buyer. The Ada K. Damon was used for fishing and later for sand transportation. The wooden schooner Ada K. Damon was built in 1875 by Ebenezer Burnham in Essex, Massachusetts. INVENTORY: Two (2) trailboards - there are two (2) component parts. | CL3637 | |||||||
| 20 | No image URL. | [Windjammers of the present time and bygone days] illus. | LB45952 | |||||||
| 21 |   | 1/15/1979 | Genealogy. | Two page handwritten letter from Ada W. Lemmings to Irwin Berent. Lemmings says she has an abstract of the Rabun County, Clayton Georgia 1850 census. There is no mention of Barron Carter in the census. She lists the Carters from the census in the hope that it might provide leads to Barron Carter. | MS0164.001/07-008.09#04 | |||||
| 22 | No image URL. | Pottery–England; Pottery–United States; Staffordshire pottery | The blue-china book : __early American scenes and history pictured in the pottery of the time, with a supplementary chapter describing the celebrated collection of a presidential china in the White House at Washington, D.C., and a complete checking list of known examples of Anglo-American pottery __by Ada Walker Camehl ; with illustrations | LB17414 | ||||||
| 23 |  | USA; MARYLAND; BALTIMORE | WRITTEN ON VERSO:BUILT 1919 AT WYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN BY DETROIT S.B. CO. OWNED BY BY RUTLAND TRANSIT COMPANY. 2,431 T, 2454 X 43.2 X 27.2 | Starboard side view underway. | P0001.003/01-#PB26954 | |||||
| 24 |   | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Black and white wood engraving titled 'Fort Elizabeth, on the Danube, Frontier of Servia,' published in the July 22, 1876 issue of The Illustrated London News (No. 1930, Vol. LXIX, page 89). The image shows a view of Fort Elizabeth from the Danube River. The fortress is built at the water’s edge, going up the steep mountainside of the Carpathian Mountains. The fortress has several turrets or watchtowers and a flag, and there are several small sailing vessels on the water. The town visible in the distance at the right is either the fortress of Ada Kaleh or Orsova. The initials, either the artist or engraver, are in the bottom right corner. NOTES: The headline above image on page 89 is 'The War In The East.' Below the title is 'From a Sketch By Our Special Artist.' This image is on the top half of page 89. See LE 318.01 for image from the top half. The text supporting the image is found on page 90 within an article titled 'The War in Turkey.' The text simply states: From the opposite side we have a view of Belgrade, the capital of Servia, taken from Selmin, across the Danube; and one of Fort Elizabeth, an Austrian fortress on the bank of that river, near Orsova, where the frontiers of Servia and Roumania meet those of the Banat. NOTES: The Austrians built Fort Elizabeth in 1736 on the Turkish (now Serbian) bank of the Danube River, near the island Ada Kaleh and the town of Orsova, Romania on the opposite shore. The fort was destroyed in 1868. Ada Kaleh island and the shoreline where Fort Elizabeth stood were submerged in 1972 when the Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station dammed up the river and flooded the area. NOTES: Nantucket native William F. Macy learned the printer’s trade at Nantucket’s newspaper, ‘The Inquirer and Mirror.’ After going to the mainland he worked in several printing shops around Boston and was appointed as the first instructor in printing at the Lyman School for Boys in Westboro, Massachusetts. Later Macy opened an insurance agency in Boston. Throughout this time he continued studying Nantucket history and frequently contributed articles to ‘The Inquirer and Mirror’ (signing his articles "Yorick"). Around 1912, in collaboration with Anna Gardner Fish and Roland Bunker Hussey, Macy issued the first edition of the "Nantucket Scrap Basket". He arranged for a second edition of this publication in 1932. In 1915, Mr. Macy prepared and published "The Story of Old Nantucket," a condensed history of Nantucket (reprinted in 1931). He was a founder and one time president of "The Sons and Daughters of Nantucket." In 1924, Macy was appointed President of the Nantucket Historical Association and served until his death in 1935. During this time Edward F. Sanderson approached the Association about receiving his collection of whaling paraphernalia with the purpose of establishing a whaling museum on Nantucket. When he returned to Nantucket in 1928 Mr. Macy purchased the old American House property, on the corner of Orange Street and Martins Lane, and built the house now standing there. This became Macy’s headquarters during his decade of planning, raising money and finally establishing the Nantucket Whaling Museum which opened its doors on July 24, 1930. | CL10855 | |||||||
| 25 | No image URL. | United States–In art | Staffordshire pottery | Reprint of the 1916 ed. | LB17426 | |||||
| 26 |   | 6/22/1945 | United States. Army–Medical personnel. | FIRST AMERICAN BOWL BATH - Nurse, 1st Lt Ada E. Murphy, N760113, of Washington, D.C., is shown giving baby Linda Aouda her first real American bowl bath. Baby Aouda arrived at Camp Patrick Henry on the 21st of June with 229 other liberated civilians from the Philippines. | Ex-prisoners of war–Virginia–Newport News.; Civilians in war–Virginia–Newport News.; Infants–Bathing. | Shows a woman in a nurse's uniform bathing an infant in a sink. | P0003/01-#E-14714 | |||
| 27 |   | 12/11/1944 | United States. Army. Women's Army Corps.; Newport News High School (Newport News, Va.). | E-11220 - In background, is Mr. Lamor R. Stanley, Principal of Newport News High School, 2nd Lt. Marjorie Wightman, L-400854, Bradenton, Fla. is shown making a speech to pupils of Newport News H.S. in their auditorium in celebration of their going over the top in 6th War Bond Drive sales. Color guards are: left to right, Cpl. Margaret Long, A-700522, S/Sgt. Kate Drennor, A-302534, (other side) Pvt. Ada Hosler, A-120182, and Pvt. Mary Schwikert, A320129 all of CPH, Va., 3rd Wac Co., HRPE. Lt. Wightman is Assistand Public Relations Officer and CPH, Va. 12-11-44 | Speeches, addresses, etc.; Theaters–Virginia–Newport News.; Christmas decorations–Virginia–Newport News. | Several WACs in uniform stand on a stage, two holding flags. One stands beside apodium, addressing the audience. Accross the back of the stage is a row of chairs full of students and school officials. | P0003/01-#E-11220 | |||
| 28 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 29 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 29, VARIOUS DATES W.A. SCHOLTEN (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1874-1887) BRASHEAR (Vessel Built 1875) DONA AMELIA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1876) P. CALAND (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1874-1910) JAMES S.T. STRANAHAN (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1883-1905) WILLIAM J. MC CALDIN (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1876) JOHN H. HAMMITT (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1864-1892) ANNA J. KIPP (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1873) BERGENSEREN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1884) ADA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1881) C.W. JANES (Barkentine) (Vessel Built 1884) LONGHIRST (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1879) JOHN MANN (Ship) (Vessel Built 1867) INVERLOCHY (Bark) (Service Dates 1895-1902) GEORGE H. DENTZ (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1880) FREDDIE HENCKEN (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1882-1892) FOSCOLIA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1879) LEVINA F. WARREN (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1871-1892) CITY OF NEWCASTLE (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1878-1923) CACOUNA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1910) ATHENS (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1877) CAPE RACE (Bark) (Vessel Built 1874) COMAL (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1885) SOVERIGN (Screw Yacht) (Service Dates 1896-1929) | CL28299 | |||||||
| 29 | No image URL. | Larson Boat Works (Little Falls, Minn.).; Falls Flyer (Motorboat) | Boats and boating–Periodicals.; Motorboats–Periodicals. | Title from caption. "Dedicated to the fun of owning a Larson Falls Flyer." | LB107 | |||||
| 30 |  | 1927-1965 | Cohoes (Steamship : 1927).; Woonsocket (Steamship : 1926). | Ships.; Bodies of water. | Front-quarter view of the Cohoes, Ada, and Woonsocket docked alongside each other. The photograph may have been taken on 7/14/1928. | MS0091/03.01-67#108 | ||||
| 31 |   | 12/23/1944 | United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. | The observation of the Holiday Season at Camp Patrick Henry began with Open House at the 3rd WAC Company. Photo shows members of the company. Photo taken at CPH. | Christmas trees–Virginia–Newport News.; Christmas decorations–Virginia–Newport News.; Gifts–Virginia–Newport News.; Gingerbread houses–Virginia–Newport News.; Phonograph–Virginia–Newport News. | Shows a festive scene: in the background there is a group of WACs around a Christmas tree, in the middle ground some WACs are engaged in decorating a gingerbread house while others are holding presents, in the foreground another group of WACs is seated around a portable record player. The caption on the 8x10 print reads: "Members of the Third WAC Company, Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, are shown in their Day Room receiving their Christmas gifts. In the front row, left to right are: Pfc. Ruby Stark, A-609568, Columbus, Wisconsin; Pfc. Marie Cocco, A-312042, Erie, Pennsylvania; Sgt. Catherine Brown, A-201855, New York, New York; Pfc. Bernice Robare, A-608325, Champion, Michigan; Pvt. Mary Urbas, A-313315, Couerdale, Pennsylvania; back row, left to right: Pfc. Elizabeth Greene, A-105442, Center Harbor, New Hampshire; Pfc. Ada Hosler, A-130182, Bridgeport, Connecticut; T/5 Martha Morris, A-704810, Duluth, Minnesota; Cpl.Corinne, Cooper, A-514384, Indianapolis, Indiana; Pfc. Grace Homeyer, A-704672, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Pfc. Thelma Maines, A-805158, Carthage, Texas; Pfc. Mary Schweikert, A-3201229, Pottsville, Pennsylvania; and Pfc. Annie J. Robertson, A-402724, Irondale, Alabama. The Third WAC Company held Open House, Thurday, 21 December 1944, and members invited friedns and relatives." | P0003/01-#J-11402 | |||
| 32 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 19 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 19, 1887-8 HAINAUT (Ship) (Vessel Built 1887) S.A. RUDOLPH (Schooner,3) (Vessel Built 1882) JOHN R. BERGEN (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1882-1906) ELIESER (Bark) (Vessel Built 1884) CYPRUS (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1878) DEVONIA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1877-1899) MANHATTEN (Screw Steamship) SORRENTO (Screw Steamship) PORT AUGUSTA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1886) DURHAM CITY (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1882) COLORADO (Screw Steamship) CREMONA (Screw Steamship) EXETER CITY (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1887-1925) C. C. WEHRUM (Schooner,3) (Vessel Built 1887) RALEIGH (Screw Steamship) CITY OF NEW YORK (Screw barkentine) (Service dates 1888-1923) [attributed by Harold Sniffen and Eldredge, see Sniffen catalog 73/1 ADA BAILEY (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1884-1894) CARRIE A. LANE (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1887-1918) LAHN (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1888-1927) BRABANT (Bark) (Vessel Built 1863) HANNAH BLANCHARD (Bark) (Vessel Built 1878) VENICE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1874) MINEOLA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1887) | CL28290 | |||||||
| 33 |   | 11/16/1944 | United States. Army–Inspection.; Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Va. (U.S.). Oyster Point Mock Ship.; United States. Army. Women's Army Corps. | Newport News (Va.). | F-10862 - Members of the 3rd WAC Company lower life boat from deck of mock ship during abandon ship drill. Photo taken at Hiden Lake, Oyster Point, Va. 11-16-44 Official Photograph, U. S. Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va. | Boats and boating–Safety measures–Virginia–Newport News. | Three WACs in light dresses, life vests, and helmets, seated in a suspended life boat, hold onto ropes. | P0003/01-#F-10862 | ||
| 34 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 69 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. NOTES: A loose sheet with a sketch of the Chamberlin Hotel, Old Point Comfort indicates that A. Jacobsen was in Virginia. Possibly, this sheet came out of Sketchbook 70 which has Hampton Roads ships sketched in it. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 69, DATED 1906-07 CHARLES S. HIRSCH (Schooner,4) (Vessel Built 1901) KIT CARSON (Schooner, 3) (Vessel Built 1877) HENRIETTA A. WHITNEY (Schooner,3) (Service Dates 1901-1924) ROBERT A. SNYDER (Schooner, 3) (Vessel Built 1890) CORA GREEN (Schooner,3) (Vessel Built 1875) WILLIAM J. QUILLIN (Schooner,4) (Service Dates 1904-1915) SULTANA (Screw Yacht) (Service Dates 1890-1937) IDEAL (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1906-1945) ROBERT KNAPP (Schooner,2) (Vessel Built 1850) ORLEANIAN (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1880-1915) QUEEN AMELIE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1905) FALCO (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1890) MARTHARA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1905) ADA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1881) JAMES J. McQUIRL (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1892-1954) GEORGE L. DRAKE (Schooner,3) (Vessel Built 1883) LAKEWOOD (Schooner,3) (Vessel Built 1900) MANZANILLO (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1906) MOMUS (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1906-1934) CHALMETTE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1879) SAN JUAN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1900) SANTONA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1905) INVERAN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1906) JAMES J. MC QUIRL (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1892-1954) EVELYN W. HINKLY (Schooner,4) (Service Dates 1905-1917) | CL28335 | |||||||
| 35 |  | 4/19/1945 | United States. Army Nurse Corps–Nurses.; United States. Army–Officers–Portraits.; United States. Army–Medical personnel. | Photo graph of Army Nurse Corps, Station Hospital, Camp Patrick Henry, Va. (Refer to caption sheet for list of names.) | Group photo of 38 nurses, they are shown wearing capes. There is no 8x10 print for this photo, so there is no associated caption sheet. | P0003/01-#E-13693 | ||||
| 36 |  | 1883-1931 | Chippewa (Side wheel steamer : 1893). | Chippewa 1895 Can[adian].; Niagra navigation Co.; In Toronto, Can[ada]. | Copy negative of an illustration of the steamer Chippewa in Toronto, Canada. | MS0091/03.01-11#016 | ||||
| 37 |  | 5/22/1943 | Key Taylor dancing on the stage of Theater #2, Camp Patrick Henry, Part of the Ada Leonard Variety Show held at Camp Patrick Henry Mary 22, 1943 5-22-43 Official photograph U.S.Army Signal Corps, HRPE Newport News, Virginia | Dance–Virginia–Newport News.; Women in the performing arts–Virginia–Newport News.; Orchestra–Virginia–Newport News. | Key Taylor dancing on stage in front of an all-girl orchestra. | P0003/01-#J-2270 | ||||
| 38 |  | 1917 | Lake Oneida (Motor vessel : 1917). | "Lake Oneida"/1917/ex "Ada"/later "Astmahco IV" etc.; U.S.Shipping Board/Mallory Steamship Co., operators/photostat negative. | Copy negative of a bow shot of the steamer Lake Oneida. | MS0091/03.01-30#097 | ||||
| 39 |  | 11/16/1944 | United States. Army. Camp Patrick Henry (Va.). Headquarters. | E-10865 - Presentation of medals fro safe driving is made at Retreat, at Camp Headquarters, Camp Patrick Henry, to members of the 3rd WAC Company. Lt. Sarah I. Jencks, Chief of Women's staging Branch, is shown pinning medals on first row, while Lt. Marjorie B. Wightman, Assistant Public Relations Officer, is shown covering the second row. 11-16-44 Official Photograph, U. S. Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va. | Award presentations.; Award winners–Virginia–Newport News.; Military ceremonies, honors and salutes–Virginia–Newport News. | Shows several rows of WACs standing at attention at a retreat ceremony at Camp Patrick Henry. They are outdoors under trees. | P0003/01-#E-10865 | |||
| 40 | No image URL. | Library buildings–Design and construction.; Library architecture–United States.; Library planning. | "For the Architecture of Public Libraries Committee, LAMA Buildings and Equipment Section." | LB92157 | ||||||
| 41 |  | 4/24/1945 | 1st Sgt. Royal W. Trawik, 14000364, of Harrisburg, Pa., formerly of the 391st AF, 3rd Arm'd Div., 1st Army was among the 215 sick and wounded officers and men to be evacuated from Camp Patrick Henry to General Hospitals by air. Sgt Trawick wears the Bronze Star for organizing and distributing ammunition under fire and for exposing himself to enemy fire while looking after his men in France. he is shown here with T/4 Thomas Tarwater, 38154702, of Ada, Oklahoma, of the CPH Station Hospital, pitching horseshoes on the hospital grounds. | World War, 1939-1945–Casualties–United States.; Horseshoe pitching–Virginia–Newport News. | Shoes two men standing together, they both carry a horseshoe in each hand. | P0003/01-#E-13922 | ||||
| 42 |  | Titanic (Screw schooner : 1912)–Fiction. | Underwater exploration–Fiction.; Shipwrecks–Fiction.; Sea stories. | "A Bantam Book / December 1990" Title page verso. "Jacket illustration ©1990 Paul Swendsen" Page [3] of jacket cover. "A novel of the race to raise the Titanic" Jacket cover. | LB105620 | |||||
| 43 |  | SHORT DESCRIPTION: View of the PACIFIC rescuing the crew of the sinking barque JESSIE STEPHENS. NOTES: Lloyd's Register of Shipping from 1849 to 1852 consistently spells the name of this barque as Jessie Stephens. Newspapers spell the name of the barque Jessie Stephens in advertisements and reports of sailings between 1847 and 1852 and Jesse Stevens in reports of the wreck. NOTES: Commentary from A. S. Davidson published in ‘Samuel Walters-Marine Artist, Fifty Years of Sea, Sail & Steam’, page 96: The Collins liner P.S. Pacific rescuing the crew of the barque Jessie [also seen spelled Jesse] Stevens in mid-Atlantic, December 4th 1852. An inscribed lithograph by Dutton after the original by Walters (see number 40 in the list of prints) [see LP358] is the source of the details. A “Francis”’ metallic Life Boat” was used to transfer the barque’s crew, and is just visible off the hulk’s stern. Oil on canvas 28 x 32, signed and dated 1853. NOTES: Reported in the Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, December 11, 1852, page 8: By Electric Telegraph from America, to Liverpool, The Pacific fell in with the Jessie Stephens, of Irvin, from Quebec for Glasgow, waterlogged and in a sinking state, and lay by her for upwards of 12 hours before she could succeed in rescuing the crew, 16 in number. They were, however, after much exertion, all got safely on board. The passengers subscribed 500 dollars for the crew of the boat that rescued the unfortunate persons. Reported in the New York Times, December 25, 1852, page 4: The Pacific arrived out on the 10th with the crew of the Jesse Stevens of Quebec bound for Belfast, whom she had rescued from the wreck of that vessel. Reported in the Brooklyn Eagle, December 30, 1852, page 2: The Tribune makes the following interesting extract from a letter of Marcus Spring, Esq, one of our citizens, who formerly had his residence on State street, between Bond and Nevins. It gives a description of the saving of the crew of the Scotch bark Jesse Stevens, by the steamer Pacific, on her last passage to Liverpool. We are sure no one can read this simple narrative without something of the emotions it so vividly expresses: - One morning, while wrapped up in blankets, overcoats, &c., on the sofa, the wind and sleet and snow roaring round the heaving ship, one of the passengers came down and reported that a wreck had been seen in the midst of the storm, and men clinging to it, and calling out "Save us! save us!" Though so nearly stupefied as to care for nothing, even if we had been the wrecked ones ourselves; and hardly believing, at first, it could be so, I aroused myself; and sure enough, all my own stupid and selfish feelings, all nausea and headache, and all murmuring spirit in view of our own condition, were instantly dissipated, and gave place to the heartiest sympathy and earnest prayers for sixteen poor fellows in a shattered bark, with sails torn and streaming in the wind, masts all wrenched off and swept away, and the water rushing through the sides of the vessel, as she rose now and then on a high wave, the sea rolling over her, a perfect flood every minute. Our ship had stopped her engines, and was hovering about; coming near enough, in the brief intervals of the storm, for Captain Nye to speak through his trumpet a word of encouragement. The Captain had been sick with a violent cold and inflammation of the lungs, (the first time, I think, since he became a captain,) but this had called him from his bed, and, dressed in his great tarpaulin coat, with his hat drawn down over his ears, a sailor holding him from falling as he stood on the steep deck, the ship almost tumbling over on her sides at every roll, his fine face flushed with excitement, as the wind and sleet dashed into it, and against him, as if they would take him off his feet; his trumpet in his hand, he raised above the war of the storm his voice of command to engineers, sailors, &c., to go on or stop, or go to the other side of the wreck, trying to keep near it, and avoid dashing against it, to the certain ruin of all. All this lasted an hour or more, while we passengers on the upper deck, holding on to ropes to keep from being dashed overboard, and watching the poor fellows, when the mists, and clouds, and spray, gave us opportunity to see them climbing the waves in their shattered bark, all looking anxiously towards us, and waving hats and hands. The rolling of the sea, some movements on the deck, and something I heard the Captain say, made me fear that it was a hopeless case, and that we should have to go and leave them when all at once a gleam of light broke from above, and a splendid rainbow appeared on a dark background of clouds behind us. It seemed, indeed, a heaven-sent sign of hope and promise, and I eagerly scanned the upturned faces of the wretched crew, to see if they did not hail it as such; but I since learned that they interpreted it according to the sailor's adage: "A rainbow in the morning, Is the sailor's warning; A rainbow night, Is the sailor's delight." While I supposed the bow of promise was filling their hearts, as it was mine, with joy and gratitude, the captain seized the moment of a lull in the storm to say to Tompkins, his third officer, (blessed be the noble-hearted fellow!) "Are you willing to risk going in the life-boat to their rescue?" "Ready and willing," was the prompt reply; and soon the beautiful boat, with Tompkins and three sailors, was bounding over the foaming waves. They had a rope soon drawn from ship to bark, passing through the life-boat. The brave little company were soon under the stern of the wreck, receiving with open arms, as they were dropped or thrown down (for some were so stupified with wet and cold they had to be thrown into the boat) the dripping sailors of the "Jesse Stevens." The waves ran so high it was unsafe to lie near the wreck, so the boat was hauled up by rope, at intervals, near enough for them to drop in one or two men-- then they would slacken the rope and let the boat recede before the returning wave should come and dash them together, then they would return, in like manner, for, one or two more; and, finally, all were safe in the boat, and we only hoped they would get it back to the ship with its freight of saved lives. Proudly again it bounded over the billows with its heavy load as if it had been a swan or a sea-bird, and though several times, when it went out of sight in the trough of the sea, we trembled lest we had seen it for the last time, it still mounted the top of the next wave and dashed down the watery hill-side towards us, again to rise and descend till they reached our ship's side, when a hundred men, with boisterous shouts and ropes let down, with nooses at the ends, soon hauled up every man of them. And so sixteen nice, respectable Scotchmen, from Augustine, on their way home from Can ada, with a load of lumber, are fellow-passengers with us with thankful hearts only and no lumber, and will reach home before they are looked for, to tell of their marvellous escape. Since this incident, certainly the most heart-thrilling and subline it has been my lot to witness, and well worth, we all say, all the sufferings of the voyage, we have all been in better spirits, and have slept, I imagine, with more grateful and happy dreams. We had a meeting of passengers and raised five hundred dollars as a purse for Tompkins and the three men who aided him. Tompkins looks very happy as he walks the deck, and is a great favorite to us all. Another report appears in the Pittston Gazette, December 31, 1852, page 2. See the object file for a copy. The Boston Evening Transcript, April 22, 1853, page 1 reports: PRESENTATIONS FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICES. Washington, 21st. The British Government has sent to Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, a gold medallion likeness of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, and a gold pocket Chronometer for Capt. Nye, of the steamship Pacific; a gold mounted trumpet and £10 for the mate, and £10 for each of the six men who volunteered their services and saved the crew and passengers of the British barque Jesse Stevens, wrecked some time since. The presents are to be distributed through the State Department. | CL12503 |
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