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Mediterranean Region–Description and travel.; Albania–Description and travel.
VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: ABBIE & EVA HOOPER VESSEL TYPE: SCHOONER, 3 MAST BUILDER LOCATION: TUCKAHOE, NEW JERSEY VESSEL BUILT: 1875 SHIP OWNERS: JOHN HOOPER & CO. 1880-1895; C.A. PETTIT, 1892-1897; JOHN G. HALL & CO., 1896-1912.
Shows a port side view of a tugboat making way. Three ferries can be seen in the distance. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Phila Aug 15, 1894"
WRITTEN ON VERSO: BUILT 1868 AT CHERRY FIELD, MAINE. REGISTERED IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS AND OWNED BY A.B PERRY AND COMPANY (1878) 115.10 TONS, 83. 25 X 8. SCHOONER EVA L. LEONARD OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SUNK OF OCEANA DRIVE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND,
Starboard side view of ship docked at pier. Deck filled with oysters. Worker seen with metal basket filled with oysters from ship's deck dumping oysters out on conveyor belt. Crew men seen standing on deck. Buy Boat.
Overall interior view of U.S. Army Finance Building on 34th St., Newport News, Va. Photo made for the Third Service Command.
Shows women working in an office setting. There are many filing cabinets and desks cluttered with paper, it looks like a busy work place. The 8x10 print contains additional information: View of the Commercial Accounts Section of the Finance Office, U.S. Army, HRPE. Left to right are: Mrs. Gladys Kelly, Newport News, Virginia; Mrs. Eva Stinson, Phoebus, Virginia; and Mrs. Ruby Dutton, Hampton, Virginia.
Signatures of 13 Titanic survivors and others on the front cover
Dinners and dining
Menu for the April 17, 1982 Banquet of the Titanic Historical Society, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in conjunction with the opening of a Titanic exhibit at the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. The cover of the menu has signatures for the following individuals: Eva Hart, Frank Aks, Victoria A. Goldsmith, Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, Walter Lord, Louis O. Gorman, John P. Eaton, Ruth Blanchard, Edwina McKenzie, George Youssef Thomas, Arnold Watson, Edward S. Kamuda (Secretary), and Joseph A. Carvalho (founder).
Photo of Lt. Col. Emmet G. Lenihan, ASN 0472435, home, Seattle, Wash., Base Commandant of NAB, HRPE, Norfolk, Va. Shown with him is Lt. Lester F. Russel, ASN 01948216, home, Hampton, Va., Special Service Officer and Miss Eva Washington, home, New York City, N.Y., hostess at the dance given for the Battalion Area at NAB Gym, 20 Feb. 45, NAB, HRPE, Norfolk, Va. Photo taken for publicity purposes.
African American soldiers.
Shows one white officer, one African American officer, and one African American civilian in conversation. Featured in the middle of the photo is Lester Russell, who later became a professor at Georgian Court University in New Jersey and wrote works on black history.
Tec 5 Frank D Guiseppe, 33027645, (second from Bottom) Saplee, Pa., chats with nurse 2nd Lt. Eva M. Gerg, of the Army Air Base at New Castle, Del., prior to the Army Transport taking off at Langley Field, Va, for Atlantic City, New Jersey, Cpl. Guiseppe was one of the 1750 sick and wounded and 1.607 rotational troops to debark at Hampton Roads the 24th of April in the largest debarkation operation in the history of HRPE. Cpl Guiseppe is headed for England General Hospital, Atlantic City N.J. He was with the first group of patients to be evacuated from the Hospital at CPH by air. The operation included 215 sick and wounded officers and men.
Allied health personnel and patient.; World War, 1939-1945–Casualties–United States.; Aviation nursing–Virginia–Newport News.
Shows four men each seatbelted into his own cot. They are smiling and talking to a nurse.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Photographic process print in black and white showing a port broadside view of the sloop yacht Mayflower under full sail. Photographer unknown. A schooner and a smaller cutter are in the background at the right. Publisher unknown. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers.
America–Early accounts to 1600; America–Description and travel.; America–Discovery and exploration.
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd ser. ; no. 69
A translation printed from the manuscript in the British museum (Royal mss. 18 B. XXVIII), of Enciso's Suma de geographia, with much original and supplementary matter by Barlow.
Eight WACs with headsets are seated at a long table with a divider down the center of it and numbered stations. The women on the dear side of the table have books propped open against the divider wall, and each station has a telegraph contact.
NEWARK - NEW JERSEY - UNITED STATES - Manufacturer
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Celluloid button on pin. Starboard bow view of the cutter MAYFLOWER under sail. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Chromolithograph. This print has been trimmed. A full copy of the image bears the following text: "The Start", "America's Cup Race off Staten Island, Sept. 7th, 1886 between the American Sloop Mayflower and the English Cutter Galatea. Distance sailed about 38 miles. Mayflower won by 13 minutes 18 seconds corrected time. Published by L. Prang & Co. Boston. The dimensions of the boats are given as well. The signature "J.O. Davidson 1886" has been trimmed off. A printed tag formerly on the mat read: "Seventh International Race" MAYFLOWER defeating the GALATEA; September 11th, 1886, Tobin Art Works, N.Y." which contradicts all other images found online. It's unclear how the Tobin company relates to this image. NOTES: According to dealer George Glazer: This particular print is considered part of “an important series called Pictures of American Sport” that was published by Prang in the 1880s (see McClinton, which also includes a full-page plate of this print from the collection of the Library of Congress). VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: FRANCES VESSEL TYPE: SIDE-WHEEL STEAMBOAT SHIPBUILDER LOCATION: WILMINGTON, DELAWARE SHIP BUILD: 1863 VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 225' x 32' x 10'
World War, 1939-1945–Naval operations, American.; World War, 1939-1945–Personal narratives, American.; Destroyer escorts–United States; Sailors–United States–Diaries.
Noted on verso: C.G. patrol boat cruiser in Lake Ponchatrain, Miss Eva Olsen of New Orleans and Lt. J.G. Donnell K. Watkins, USCGR, 8th District, Asst. Public Information Officer stands by.
Bow on view of a US Coast Guard patrol boat with a female reservist and officer.
NEWPORT NEWS - VIRGINIA - UNITED STATES - Manufacturer
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Large brass builder's plate for the tug Dorothy, the first vessel constructed by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. NOTES: The plate was acquired in 1931 after the tub had been renamed J. Alvah Clark. Newport News Shipbuilding arranged with the United States Salvage Association and the Norfolk Lighterage Company, the owner of the vessel, to swap the original builder's plate with a newer duplicate. NOTES: The tug was supposedly named for the 4-year old daughter of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy between 1885-1889. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: Dorothy VESSEL TYPE: Tugboat SERVICE DATES: 1891 SHIP BUILDER: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company BUILDER LOCATION: Virginia, Newport News VESSEL HISTORY: The contract to build the tugboat Dorothy, Hull No. 1, was signed in 1890. The boat was lauched on 12/17/1890 and delivered to James Sheffield of Norfolk, Virginia, on April 30, 1891. The tug was then acquired by the New York Central Railroad Company of New York, New York. Where she was renamed the New York Central No. 3. Acquired by the Joseph M. Clark Co. of Norfolk, VA and renamed J. Alvah Clark Acquired by the Navy 2 July 1917. Commissioned USS J. Alvah Clark (SP 1248), 26 October 1917. Assigned to the 5th Naval District. The tug performed towing and tug duties in Hampton Roads. It served on submarine net patrol, and transported armed guards to and from merchant vessels in the harbor during WWI. Returned to her owner 29 July 1919. In 1958, the company became an affiliate of the Moran Towing Corporation of New York, New York. Where the tug retained her name. In 1962, the tug was acquired by an individual named Eva Simpkins. Where the tug was renamed as the Jesse Jr. The tug was later sold, where she was renamed as the Janet S. In September 1964, while transiting the Delaware Canal, she was damaged in a collision with a barge, declared beyond repair, and ultimately abandoned on the Elizabeth River. In 1974, the hull was salvaged and brought back to Newport News Shipbuilding, where between 1974 and 1976 the tug was restored. She was then towed into a dry berth along Washington Avenue, where the tug remains on display. SHIP OWNERS: James Sheffield ENGING BUILDER AND LOCATION: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Virginia, Newport News VESSELL DIMENSIONS: 130 tons; 90' (length) x 19' (beam) x 10' (depth); 50 horsepower ALL SHIP NAMES: (1) Dorothy, (2) New York Central No. 3, (3) J. Alvah Clark, (4) Jesse Jr., (5) Janet S. HOME PORT: New York
152 NASSAU STREET - NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Publisher
NOTES: Howe Collection Catalogue # 73. "Mayflower Saluted by the Fleet" is a famous 1886 color lithograph by Currier & Ives, based on a painting by Franklyn Bassford. It depicts the American sloop yacht Mayflower crossing the bow of the British cutter yacht Galatea during the first race of the America’s Cup on September 7, 1886, in New York Bay. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers.
Amazon River Valley–Discovery and exploration.; Amazon River Valley–Description and travel.
Indians of South America–Amazon River Valley.; Botany–Amazon River Region.; Zoological surveys–Amazon River Region.
Dr. Galt’s diary begins at the start of his journey to the Amazon in June/July 1870 and concludes in Volume 2 on April 28, 1874. On these pages he describes in great detail social, political, economic conditions in the countries encountered as well as sketches and maps, lists of flora and fauna, weather conditions, mineral products, and descriptions of native people.
Henry Eugene Newton was born on October 3, 1850 in Grafton, Massachusetts to Barnabus Newton and Betsey Stevens Newton. He worked as a brick mason in Grafton, Massachusetts and married Eliza Jane Shurtleff on May 11, 1871. They had three children: Eva Maria, Charles E., and Harry Shurtleff Newton. They later moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where Henry died on January 6, 1916 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery.
The ship that stood still : - the Californian and her mysterious role in the Titanic disaster - Leslie Reade ; edited and updated by Edward P. De Groot ; foreword by Eva Hart
World War, 1914-1918–Campaigns–Turkey–Gallipoli Peninsula–Photographs.
This collection consists of one photograph album containing both snapshots and stock images of the Gallipoli Campaign, or the Dardenelles Campaign, during World War I. The images are mostly taken shipboard, and the photographer was likely part of the British fleet of warships that supported the landing of British, Australian, and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Pictured are naval personnel shipboard prior to departure, the Grand Harbour at Malta, and the support of the landing at what is known now as ANZAC Cove. ANZAC Cove was a small unnamed area between the headlands of Arniburnu and Little Arniburnu, and consituted the main landing area for Australian and New Zealand troops. Of particular interest are shots of the transport River Clyde, which was modified to be able to ground itself very near to the beach and open port and starboard doors onto a gangway for quick personnel debarkation into boats. According to the website britishbattles.com, the ship carried 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd Hampshire Regiment (less two companies), one company of Royal Dublin Fusiliers and other sub-units of signallers and engineers. These troops suffered heavy casualties during the landing from Turkish cross fire.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Process print in colors (collotype) showing a scene from the 1886 America's Cup between the sloop Mayflower and gaff cutter Galatea. The Mayflower is predominant at the center left. She is shown port broadside under full sail. In the background near her bowsprit is the steam schooner Electra, at her stern is the steamship Alva and several steamboats. Galatea is shown in the background distance at the extreme right. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers.
Underwater archaeology–North Carolina–Atlantic Coast.; Armored vessels–Design and construction–History–19th century. United States; Scientific expeditions–History–20th century.
This small collection is notable for the materials Gustafson collected as part of his participation in the Monitor Project's Architecture and Engineering Subcommittee. The Monitor Project was a formal project set up in the 1980s by the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to research the design, building, service, loss, re-discovery, recovery, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of US Steam Battery Monitor. Gustafson preserved copies of drawings by his friend Ernest W. Peterkin, a prominent researcher with the Navy's Research Lab, into various aspects of Monitor, including the ship's steam plant. He also kept a compilation of transcriptions Peterkin did of all the Monitor-related contracts preserved at National Archives and Records Administration (NOAA). Included among the drawings are copies of plans of another US single-turret ironclad designed by John Ericsson, US Ironclad Montauk.
NEW YORK - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES - Artist; BOSTON - MASSACHUSETTS - UNITED STATES - Manufacturer
NOTES: See attached multimedia file for excerpt of newspaper article from the Boston Evening Transcript, October 2, 1886, page 10, which appears to describe this painting. See the New York Times, September 8, 1886, for a detailed account of the race on September 7th and the same paper on September 12, 1886 for a detailed account of the September 11th race. Considering the description in the NYT of the 8th, this may show Mayflower crossing the finish line on September 7th. The article states: At 4:18:30 the Mayflower got into a good position to windward of the line and, bearing up, broke out her spinnaker, while she took in her smaller head salls. Then, under her tremendous swelling balloon jib topsail and spinnaker she came rushing down to the line a winner clear and away. All the tugs that could get in her way did so, but she crossed the line flying in grand style. All the mad shriekings and howlings of steam whistles ever before heard in New-York Bay were chlid's play to what broke loose then. Guns banged and boomed on every side - heavy guns, light guns, and ear-splitting guns. One fellow on a sloop hammered away industriously with a heavy double-barreled shot gun. And then there was a sea of waving hats and handkerchiefs. Every boat was covered with a black, swaying beings. They did not know how to express the mad delight that filled them as the White Witch of Boston went swirling over the line a mountain of swelling canvas. The crew of the Mayflower could not show their joy plainly enough. They waved their hats and simply danced up and down until they got the word to take in their spinnaker and realized that their big day's work was about over. NOTES: A.A. Walker & Co. was a branch store of Frost & Adams, 37 Cornhill, Boston, importers of artists' materials in 1884. 'The Red Book' of Boston, lists A.A. Walker & Co. at 594 Washington Street, next to the Globe Theatre. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers. INVENTORY: frame - there is one (1) component part.
United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Personal narratives.
This collection is comprised of six letters from Jacob Nicklis to his father William Nicklis dating from October 26th to December 28th, 1862. Through his letters, Nicklis describes the series of events that led to his service on board the USS Monitor. Nicklis details his first views of the ship in the Washington Navy Yard, volunteering as part of her crew, and life on board the Monitor. He presents, in detail, the manning and firing of Monitor's guns. Throughout his letters, Nicklis expresses his misgiving on serving on board Monitor. He states that the turret is "getting weak" and that "they say we will have a pretty rough time a going around Hatteras but I hope it will not be the case." Jacob Nicklis did not survive the sinking of Monitor. In his letter to Nicklis's sister, Antoinette, Grenville Weeks, surgeon on Monitor, gives his condolences on the loss of her brother, Jacob. Weeks writes that Nicklis went down with Monitor and states that her brother "did his duty well, and has I believe gone to a brighter world, where storms do not come." The final two letters are written to Nicklis' sister Antoinette (Nettie). The first is from Jacob and Nettie's sister Emma, and the second is from Nettie's son W. C. Leonard. Both letters date after the Civil War. Son W. C. writes of his trip to Chicago, while sister Emma complains about family financial matters.
United States–History–Naval operations. Civil War, 1861-1865
This collection consists of items relating to the service of Walter Jacobs in the United States Navy during the Civil War. The most notable item is Jacobs' personal journal. The journal covers roughly the last year and a half of Jacobs' three-year enlistment, from August 23, 1863 to December 8, 1864. During the time that Jacobs kept this journal, he served aboard two vessels, the screw steamer Flambeau and the ironclad monitor Nantucket. While Jacobs does provide accounts of military action, the most significant aspect of his journal are the rich details and anecdotes he gives about life on board a Union navy vessel and ironclad. Jacobs also offers his opinion on Navy life, the Union war effort, the U.S. government, and African Americans' service in the Union army and navy, among other things. The names of most other vessels contacted or observed are also included. These include those supplying provisions and coal, bringing mail, etc. Most entries begin with a brief description of the weather and direction of the wind. Also included in this collection is a 14-page, loose-leaf transcript of a radio program "What Are You Reading?" that was broadcast by station WELI in New Haven, Connecticut on March 10, 1941. The host of the program was Elida B. Sterling, who was evidently a neighbor of Ella Jacobs Stevens. On her program, Sterling describes the journal and provides brief anecdotes from it. She also provides brief biographical information on Walter Jacobs. Associated with the transcript are a hand-written note in ink and a typewritten letter. The note identifies "Ellenore Jacobs Stevens" both as "Nana" and "his daughter." Ellenore is indeed Ella Clarissa Jacobs, Walter Jacob's eighth child and the grandmother of the author. The author of the note, Peter Daughenbaugh, provides an anecdote of his great-grandfather Walter Jacobs in later life. The typewritten letter is addressed to Ella and is from Elida Sterling. The letter notes the inclusion of a copy of the typescript "for Jane" and concludes with personal content. "Jane" is Jane Daughenbaugh, the mother of Peter. Mother and grandmother gave Peter the Jacobs journal in 1956, and he kept it until donating it to The Mariners' Museum in 2011. The final item in this collection is pencil sketch of an ironclad monitor that appears to be in action. The artist and date of the drawing is unknown. This drawing is similar to a known steel engraving of the monitor Montauk's destruction of the Rattlesnake, the ex-Confederate steamer Nashville, on 28 Feb. 1863. The engraving appeared in Harper's Weekly in January-June 1863.
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Gouache or water paint on a silver background depicting six America's Cup yachts or racing scenes. The yachts depicted include: America, 1851; Magic, 1870; Mayflower, 1886; Vigilant Valkyrie, 1893; Columbia Shamrock, 1899; Enterprise, 1930. The numbers that appear after the yacht names are the catalog numbers of the photographs that were used as reference works for the images. NOTES: In 1940 the Section of Fine Arts (of the Public Buildings Administration/Federal Works Agency) announced a competition for mural and sculpture decorations for a combination cargo and passenger vessel (a C-3) of the United States Maritime Commission. The vessel was being built at Newport News Shipbuilding and was to be named "President Andrew Jackson". It would be one of the American President Line ships. The ship was designed to carry ninety-seven passengers in thirty-eight staterooms and was intended for use in round-the-world service. The competition lays out the areas to be decorated as a promenade deck, a cocktail room and bar on the port side, a combination card, game room and library on the starboard side, and a dining room on the second deck. The competition specified that the designs had to be scaled to two-inches equals one foot and could be carved or relief decorations and should be submitted in the form of drawings or renderings with the proposed medium and materials identified. This work and one other were created by Museum artist Thomas Skinner for entry in the competition. According to an inscription on the reverse, the designs were intended for the Hall of the promenade deck. The works consisted of a large central image of the clipper ship Flying Cloud (QW 1032.01) and seven smaller spandrel decorations (QW 1032.02) to be executed in aluminum, etched and sandblasted, glazed and painted with a protective coat of varnish—or painted on vehisote. Both artworks had remained unidentified until June 3, 2014 when a Museum patron offered to donate a series of sketches by artist Bernard Perlin (one of the winning entries for the decoration of the ship President Hayes). Following his call the patron provided scholarship that detailed the original intent behind the artworks. After reviewing the information it was determined that QW 1032.02 (at that time unaccessioned) was, in fact, a design created by Thomas Skinner for entry in the competition. Unfortunately, the main artwork (QW 1032.01) was deaccessioned in October of 2013 because the ship was unidentified and there was no historical information regarding the piece leading the members of the collections committee to feel that it was simply a case of “bad art” or a work created to illustrate one of the Museum's early publications or press releases. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MAYFLOWER VESSEL TYPE: sloop OWNER: GENERAL CHARLES J. PAINE DESIGNER: EDWARD “Ned” BURGESS SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SON BUILDER LOCATION: CITY POINT, MASSACHUSETTS VESSEL LAUNCHED: MAY, 1886 SKIPPER: Martin V.B. Stone VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 100'2” LOA X 85'5" LWL X 23'6" BEAM X 9'9" DRAFT; sail area 8,330 square feet VESSEL HISTORY: The centerboard sloop, MAYFLOWER defeated the English cutter GALATEA at New York, September 7 and 11, 1886, in the 7th (or 6th if you don’t count the 1851 race) America’s Cup. On September 7th by 12 minutes, 2 second (corrected time). The race was sailed over the N.Y.Y.C. course from Bay Ridge to Sandy Hook and return, 38 miles. On Sept. 9th an attempt was made to sail the second race, but the wind failed, and after MAYFLOWER beat GALATEA some four miles to the windward mark a heavy fog rolled in, the race was called off at the expiration of the time limit of seven hours. The second race took place on Sept. 11th off Sandy Hook over a leeward and windward course of 20 miles to a leg. MAYFLOWER beat the British cutter by 29 minutes, 9 seconds (corrected time). General Charles J. Paine of Boston had Edward Burgess, Esqr, design a new yacht for the 1886 defense and MAYFLOWER. General Paine was the sole owner. MAYFLOWER was built by George Lawley at City Point, Mass. and launched early in May, 1886. In 1889 the Mayflower was purchased by F. Townsend Underhill and altered to become a schooner. In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica. The Mayflower was sunk off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew was rescued by passing steamers.
WRITTEN ON VERSO: GERMAN U-BOAT 530, USS TORO SS-422 FIRES TORPEDO AT U-530-SUNK 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS
U-Boats; U.S. Navy
CURATOR NOTES: USS Toro (SS-422) fires torpedo at U-530 during a practice exercise off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts during November 20/21, 1947. U-530 after surrender at Mar del Plata Naval Base Career Name: U-530 Ordered: 15 August 1940 Builder: Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg-Finkenwerder Laid down: 8 December 1941 Launched: 28 July 1942 Commissioned: 14 October 1942 Fate: Surrendered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, 10 July, 1945 Sunk during tests on 28 November 1947 by a torpedo from USS Toro General characteristics Type: Type IXC/40 submarine Displacement: 1,120 t (1,100 long tons) surfaced 1,232 t (1,213 long tons) submerged Length: 76.8 m (252 ft) overall 58.7 m (192 ft 7 in) pressure hull Beam: 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) overall 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) pressure hull Height: 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) Draft: 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) Propulsion: 2 × MAN M9V40/46 supercharged 9-cylinder diesel engines, 4,400 hp (3,300 kW) 2 × SSW GU345/34 double-acting electric motors, 1,000 hp (740 kW) Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) surfaced 7.3 knots (13.5 km/h; 8.4 mph) submerged Range: 25,620 nmi (47,450 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced 117 nmi (217 km) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged Test depth: 230 m (750 ft) Complement: 48 to 56 Armament: 6 × 55 cm (22 in) torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern) 22 × torpedoes & 44 TMA mines 1 × Utof 105 mm (4.1 in)/45 deck gun with 110 rounds Service record Part of: 4th U-boat Flotilla (14 October 1942–28 February 1943) 10th U-boat Flotilla (1 March 1943–30 September 1944) 33rd U-boat Flotilla (1 October 1944–8 May 1945) Commanders: Kptlt. Kurt Lange (14 October 1942–January 1945) Oblt. Otto Wermuth (January 1945–10 July 1945) Operations: 7 patrols Victories: 2 ships sunk for a total of 12,063 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 10,195 GRT Unterseeboot 530 was a Type IXC/40 submarine of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. U-530 was commissioned on 14 October 1942, and served with 4. Unterseebootflottille (U-Boat Flotilla) for training, then 10. Unterseebootsflottille from 1 March 1943 to 30 September 1944, and 33. Unterseebootsflottille from 1 October 1944 to 8 May 1945. U-530 completed seven war patrols sinking two ships totalling 12,063 gross register tons (GRT) and damaging one ship totalling 10,195 GRT. She surrendered in Mar del Plata, Argentina on 10 July 1945. On 22 May 1944 the U-530 left Lorient, France for operations in the Trinidad area. On her outward voyage she was to rendezvous with the Japanese submarine I-52 and supply the larger boat with a Naxos radar detector, radar operator, and a German navigator to help the I-52 complete her journey. The submarines rendezvoused on 23 June in mid-Atlantic, 850 mi (1,370 km) west of the Cape Verde Islands. U-530 then headed for Trinidad, finally returning to base after 133 days at sea. The Allies had been informed of the rendezvous and directed the escort carrier Bogue (CVE-9) to the scene; her aircraft managed to sink the I-52 with an acoustic torpedo.[1] Surrender U-530 did not initially surrender at war's end, as ordered by Admiral Karl Dönitz, instead the crew headed for Argentina, but ultimately surrendered on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata. Her captain, Oberleutnant Otto Wermuth, had decided to surrender at Mar del Plata. He did not explain why it had taken him more than two months to reach there, nor why the submarine had jettisoned its deck gun, its crew members carried no identification, nor what had happened to the ship's log. The unexpected arrival of the U-530 started many rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Martins said he believed that the U-530 could have sunk the cruiser Bahia, while Brazilian Admiral Dudal Teixeira believed that the U-530 had come from Japan. An Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the lower Argentine coast and had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise. U-977 was also accused of sinking the Bahia; an inquiry eventually found that she had been sunk due to a gunnery accident. The Argentine Naval Ministry issued an official communique in which they stated that the U-530 was not responsible for the sinking of the Bahia; no Nazi leader or military officers were aboard; and the U-530 had landed no one on the coast of Argentina before surrendering. The crew of the U-530 were interned, and U-530 transferred to the United States for trials. She was sunk as a target on 28 November 1947 by a torpedo from Toro (SS-422).
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MS0094-732 Eva Belle Cain
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MS63-333 Schooner Eva
MS63-628 Eva
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MS576-1-33 John Eva
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