Piankatank
Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Media | Date | Vessel | Place | Related Places | Inscription/Marks | Subject | Notes | Archive Number |
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| 1 |  | 6/26/1934 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboats.; Bodies of water.; Passenger ships. | Broadside veiw of the passenger ship Piankatank under way. | MS0091/03.01-84#111 | ||||
| 2 |  | 7/16/1933 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboats.; Bodies of water.; Passenger ships. | Broadside veiw of the passenger ship Piankatank under way. | MS0091/03.01-84#115 | ||||
| 3 |  | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | View of vessel at Harvey's Wharf, VA. | P0001.003/01-#PB11306 | ||||||
| 4 |  | 7/16/1933 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboats.; Bodies of water.; Passenger ships. | Broadside veiw of the passenger ship Piankatank under way. | MS0091/03.01-84#114 | ||||
| 5 |  | 7/16/1933 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboats.; Bodies of water.; Passenger ships. | Broadside veiw of the passenger ship Piankatank under way. | MS0091/03.01-84#112 | ||||
| 6 |  | 7/16/1933 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboats.; Bodies of water.; Passenger ships. | Broadside veiw of the passenger ship Piankatank under way. | MS0091/03.01-84#113 | ||||
| 7 |   | 1890 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912).; Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Company. | Passenger ships–Designs and plans.; Steam-engines–Maintenance and repair. | Midship section, details of engines, stern-pipes, and plans of starboard engine bed plates for Hull 257 of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, which was originally named Neuse. Handwritten notes on several of the plans indicate that they were for Piankatank, ex-Neuse. Piankatank was purchased for service on the Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad Line. This grouping of plans which pertain to the starboard engine in particular may suggest that they were pulled for a July 1928 repair to that engine when it became disabled off Solomons Island on a trip to the Eastern Shore. At that point, the vessel belonged to the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company. | MS0777/01-02.03 | ||||
| 8 | No image URL. | Fishes–Virginia–Piankatank River. | Seasonal and areal fluctuations in diversity statistics within the Piankatank River indicate that descriptive community ecology and diversity must be able to assess fish stress conditions. | LB52062 | ||||||
| 9 |   | Circa 1930 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | Steamboat Piankatank at the steamboat wharf in Freeport, Virginia. | P0001.008/01-213#PH1581 | |||||
| 10 |   | Circa 1930 | Piankatank (Steamship : 1912). | View of the wharf with the steamboat Piankatank alongside. | P0001.008/01-238#PH1582 | |||||
| 11 |  | 1921 | USA; VIRGINIA | WRITTEN ON VERSO: TWIGS FERRY, PIANKATANK RIVER | Side view of two automobiles seen on small ferry crossing the Piankatank River. Workers seen on ferry wearing a hat seen in front of an automobile. | P0001.010/01-#PJ332 | ||||
| 12 |  | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Nylon, triangular burgee with red triangle at hoist edge and red diamond, or lozenge at fly edge, with both meeting at their interior points 7-1/2" from webbing. The upper and lower portions of the burgee consist of white triangles. There are two brass grommets at hoist edge, one near each end of the webbing, for flying the burgee. The tip of the fly edge has been folded and stitched to prevent fraying. | CL4152 | |||||||
| 13 |  | NOTES: The Neuse, built in 1890, carried passengers and freight from Washington, NC to Ocracoke Island. Alternate vessel names: (1) NEUSE (SCREW STEAMBOAT: 1890-1910); (2) PIANKATANK (SCREW STEAMBOAT: 1911-1942). | CL6841 | |||||||
| 14 |  | NOTES: Preliminary sketch for this painting is at the Calvert Marine Museum, accession number CMMA1991.1.84. Sketch depicting a port profile view of the steamer. Tape tag on top left corner is labeled "Avalon" and "Mariners Museum" is written in upper right corner. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: AVALON SHIPBUILDER: HARLAN AND HOLLINGSWORTH BUILDER LOCATION: WILMINGTON, DELAWARE VESSEL BUILT: 1888 VESSEL LAUNCHED: FEBRUARY 25, 1888 SHIP OWNERS: MARYLAND STEAMBOAT CO. TRADE ROUTE: PIANKATANK RIVER, WICOMICO RIVER VESSEL HISTORY: This steamboat was built to replace and old AVALON, belonging to the same company, which had burned at the waters edge in 1887. She ran on the Great Wicomico and Plankatank route. After a series of accidents the AVALON was sold and later renamed the FEDERAL HILL. | CL12570 | |||||||
| 15 |  | 1919 | USA; VIRGINIA | WRITTEN ON VERSO: TERMINAL OF TWIGS FERRY, PIANKATANK RIVER | Overall view of ferry terminal. | P0001.010/01-#PJ334 | ||||
| 16 |  | 1920 | USA; VIRGINIA | WRITTEN ON VERSO: TWIGS FERRY, PIANKATANK RIVER | View of two men and four women debarking from ferry. Ferry at small wooden dock. One woman holding a small box camera. | P0001.010/01-#PJ333 | ||||
| 17 |  | 1919 | USA; VIRGINIA | WRITTEN ON VERSO: TWIGS FERRY, PIANKATANK RIVER VIRGINIA RIVER FERRY | Close view of ferry loaded with automobile and its three passengers. Two barefoot ferry workers standing near automobile. Log canoe tied up alongside ferry. | P0001.010/01-#PJ335 | ||||
| 18 | No image URL. | City of Richmond (Steamship : 1913).; City of Annapolis (Steamship : 1913).; Talbot (Side wheel steamer : 1912).; Dorchester (Side wheel steamer : 1912).; Piankatank (Steamship : 1912).; Anne Arundel (Steamship : 1904).; Howard W. Jackson (Side wheel steamer : 1925).; Florida (Steamship : 1907).; District of Columbia (Steamship : 1925).; Southland (Steamship : 1908).; F. C. LaTrobe (Side wheel steamer : 1879).; City of Baltimore (Steamship : 1911).; City of Norfolk (Steamship : 1911).; Newport News (Steamship : 1895).; Maryland (Steamship : 1907).; Northland (Steamship : 1911).; Yorktown (Steamship : 1928).; Virginia Lee (Steamship : 1928).; Virginia (Steamship : 1905).; Alabama (Steamship : 1892).; Columbia (Screw schooner : 1907).; Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore County. | United States–Surveys. | Merchant ships–Design and construction. United States; Passenger ships–Designs and plans.; Ocean–Maps.; Hydrological surveys.; Pilot guides.; Merchant ships–Designs and plans.; Passenger ships–Design and construction. | The collection consists entirely of plans and drawings, specifications and sea charts. The chief interest of the collection lies in the ships plans. The presence of plans and drawings here is indicative of Douty's interest in ship construction, both professionally as a naval architect and as a maritime curator. The preponderance of the plans come from yards owned by Bethlehem Steel during his time of employment there. The plans from other places, such as Newport News Shipbuilding and New York Shipbuilding, may have been collected when the Bethlehem yards repaired ships built in those other yards. --Among the coast surveys and ocean charts, of interest is an Atlantic Ocean pilot map from 1916, parts of which were based on Lieut. Matthew Maury's original charts from the 1850s. The charts all come from either the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey or from the United States Hydrographic Office, formerly the US Navy Hydrographic Office. The latter was the publisher of British Admiralty charts of worldwide waters during the emergency period from 1938 up to 1968, some of which are also found in this collection. | MS0777 | ||||
| 19 |    | 1960-1979 | Virginia Institute of Marine Science–Photographs.; Royal Vancouver Yacht Club–Photographs.; Potomac River Fisheries Commission–Photographs.; Virginia. Commission of Fisheries–Photographs.; Standard Products Company, Inc. Photographs.; Reedville Oil & Guano Co. Photographs.; Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (Md.)–Photographs. | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Piraeus (Greece)–Photographs.; Cape Canaveral (Fla.)–Photographs.; Great Wicomico River (Va.)–Photographs.; Potomac River–Photographs.; Rappahannock River (Va.)–Photographs.; Piankatank River (Va.)–Photographs.; Tangier Island (Va.)–Photographs.; Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (Va.)–Photographs.; Smith Island (Md. and Va.)–Photographs. | Oyster industry–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Oyster fisheries–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Fishing boats–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Sailboats–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Work boats–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Yachts–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Marine railways–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Fishers–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Boaters (Persons)–Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Yacht racing–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Pound net fishing–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Menhaden industry–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Human beings–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Historic sites–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Nuclear power plants–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Waterfowl–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Shore birds–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Yacht clubs–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs.; Yachting–Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)–Photographs. | Contains photographic negatives of oyster shell-planting, shucking machines, Windmill Point Hatchery, Windmill Point Oyster Company in Urbanna, Virginia, oyster shucking, seeding at the Wicomico river area, aerial shots of Swan Point, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, tongs and shafts, oyster-shucking rigs, tongers on the Potomac river, log canoes on the Corrotoman river, Captain C. E. "Sonny" Thomas and his mate Henry Hughes of the Virginia Fisheries Commission, oyster harvesters, Elmer Coats, oyster tong shafts, Great Wicomico river, Piankatank river, Rappahannock river, boat-builders Virgil Miller and Carl V. Pederson, boatbuilding, Miller's marine railway, the boat "Jim Lee", the Urbanna Oyster Festival of 1978, fishermen, watermen, pound boats, C. E. Wilmore, J. D. Krentz, J. L. Reynolds of the Baltimore Army Engineer's Office, boat models, Krentz Marine Sport Fishery, various photographs taken for Frye's book "The Men All Singing", the founder of menhaden fishing company Standard Products H. R. Humphreys Sr., founder of menhaden fishing company at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, Sherman Curry, Smith Island, Captain Lawson Tyler, 1977 Chesapeake Bay Appreciation Day in Sandy Point, Maryland, National Marine Fisheries Association, Captain Alfred Biddlecomb, Tangier Island, the boat "Jorisuda", lighthouse models, Reedville Oil and Guano Company, Windmill Point Marine Lodge, Windmill Point boat show, fishing boats, Christchurch School Marine Institute, Piraeus Port near Athens, Greece, the motorship "Turkia", English Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, yachts, the yacht "Migrant", Port Canaveral, Florida, Bellows house, Civil War memorial at Heathville Village Square, Reed monument at Reedville, Baltimore G & E Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, the boat "Lilly Mae", pound fishing, fish market, the boat "Jenny Dare", the boat "Albert T. Graham", net-mending, Sunnybank Fish Dock and Ferry, Icelandic fishing boats, Rappahannock River Yacht Club, boat-racing, Potomac River Fisheries Commission, the yacht "Maryland Lady", the boat "Captain Thomas", waterfowl, and shorebirds. | MS0199/02-13 |
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