Wilber

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Type: Skipjack

Year: 1897

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Location: Ewell

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These records are found in the online catalog of The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. Uncurated search results are presented to give researchers and interested readers an idea of whether the museum’s archives contain information about this vessel and whether it may be worthwhile to visit the museum’s catalog search page for further investigation. Uncurated results may be inaccurate or incomplete.

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1	No image URL.							Wilber A. Morse	P0001.011/01-3109
	2	No image URL.							Corson of Eclipse and Crittenden, Nansemond County, Virginia and related families of Wilber Gene Corson.	LB88163
	3		12/11/1944	Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Va. (U.S.). Port Ration Office.		United States–Armed Forces–Civilian employees.	E-11198 - Mary Virginia Shaver, home, Newport News, Va. and Peggy Wilber, home, Glens Falls, New York, are shown decorating Christmas tree at Port Ration Office, Bldg. 2, HRPE, Newport News, Va. 12-11-44 Official Photograph, U. S. Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va.	Christmas decorations–Virginia–Newport News.; Offices–Virginia–Newport News.; Office furniture–Virginia–Newport News.; Women employees–Virginia–Newport News.	Two civilian women in an office decorate a small tree on a desk. There are streamers and a crepe paper bell overhead and cotton snow on the windows.	P0003/01-#E-11198
	4	No image URL.							Alternate vessel names: (1) KATIE J. BARRETT (SCHOONER: 1887-1891); (2) STAR OF THE SEA (SCHOONER: 1892-1913).	CL6816
	5	No image URL.		Bear (Ship)					Head and tail pieces.	LB23820
	6	No image URL.		Carolina (Schooner)				Contracts, Maritime.; Shipping–North Atlantic Ocean	Housed in an oversized mylar and acid-free folder combinations; glue attaching the certification has darkened.	LB83181
	7	No image URL.					Bulletin (Virginia. Geological Survey) ; no. 4.	Geology–Virginia; Geology, Stratigraphic–Cretaceous	The physiography and geology of the coastal plain province of Virginia __ __by William Bullock CLark and Benjamin LeRoy Miller ; with chapters on the Lower Cretaceous, by Edward W. Berry, and the Economic geology, Thomas Leonard Watson	LB35278
	8	No image URL.				United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865–Biography.	Original papers (Wisconsin History Commission) ; no. 3.		"Twenty-five hundred copies printed."	LB6243
	9	No image URL.		United States. Navy.				World War, 1914-1918.	The Navy and the nation __ __war-time addresses by Josephus Daniels ... with an introduction by John Wilber Jenkins	LB6065
	10								INVENTORY: part - there is one (1) component part. SHORT DESCRIPTION: Side-wheel iron auxiliary steamboat with clipper-bowed sailing-ship hull form and 3-masted topsail schooner or barkentine rig. (See "RIG" under Miscellaneous Notes.) Single funnel, pilot house, four boats slung outboard. Mounts two large carriage guns (8-inch bore?) forward and four smaller (6-inch bore?) aft. Topsides black with brown rail caps, two white moldings; white waterline; red oxide bottom. Cabin structures and inboard of bulwarks, white. Boats black with gray interiors and brown gunwales and thwarts. Main and forecastle decks, oiled wood; upper decks canvassed, painted buff. Spars white and natural wood. NOTES: (ON THE MODEL) This was the twelfth major model begun at the Museum's model shop. It was shelved in November 1938 so all resources could be concentrated on the thirteenth, SS AMERICA (MD 69). Unfinished when the shop was closed on April 30, 1939, the MICHIGAN model was completed at the shop of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in 1944. (ON NAME USAGE) Model originally cataloged as WOLVERINE, which was her second name. Since the model represents the original appearance, with MICHIGAN on the stern, it is appropriate to use that original name as the primary reference. (ON THE RIG) Setting a fore course, a trysail, and possibly a forestaysail at the foremast (which lacks a fidded topgallant mast), she combines elements that confound the usual definitions of both "barkentine" and "topsail schooner" rigs. For photograph, with sails, see "American Neptune," July 1944, Plate 30. See letter dated June 30, 1947, from Robert Fee to Mr. H.A. Mushan (on shipyard letterhead) for list of research sources used for the model. In the Mariners' model shop, Mr. Besse also used photos that he had taken of the ship's remains. RESEARCHER'S NOTES: Employees from the Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Company built these models at the model shop that was once part of the Mariners' Museum. Engine: CN 322, CN CN 576, CN1. There are several drawings for each of these models in the Archives of the Museum Library. David Dick, February 25, 1999 LABEL COPY: The MICHIGAN was the U.S. Navy's first iron-hulled ship. She was built in parts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, then assembled and launched in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1842. Her entire career was spent on Lake Michigan. She was renamed the WOLVERINE in 1905, and was scrapped in 1949. The model clearly shows how greatly reduced a warship's broadside fire power is by the paddle wheel on both sides. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. pages 442-443, 350-351.; Wilber, Neil and Isaacs, Landis. "Old-Time War Vessel on the Great Lakes". Marine Engineering. December 1913.; The American Neptune. Volume IV. Number 3. July 1944.; Spencer, Herbert R. "The Iron Steamer". American Neptune. July 1944. pages 183-192.; Erie Times. January 26, 1948. page 13.; Transaction of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 1908 issue. plate 2. photo of MICHIGAN in her original rig.; Harper's Weekly. June 23, 1866. page 396.; Rodgers, Bradley A. "Lakes Lore and Lingo: USS Michigan and the Civil War. Anchor News. July/August 1987. pages 57-58. VESSEL INFORMATION-- VESSEL NAME: MICHIGAN VESSEL TYPE: steam auxiliary iron gunboat SERVICE DATES: 1844-1949 SHIP AND ENGINE BUILDER: Contract placed with Stackhouse & Tomlinson, Pittsburgh, May 1842 BUILDER LOCATION: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Erie ASSOCIATED PLACE: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Erie VESSEL HISTORY: USS MICHIGAN was the first iron-hulled combat ship built for the U.S. Navy, ordered in 1842, launched in 1843 and commissioned in 1844. Her iron plates were manufactured in Pittsburgh and hauled by oxen to Erie, Pennslylvania, where she was assembled. She carried a unique power plant consisting of two single-cylinder, 36 x 96-inch, non- compound, inclined engines, driving two cranks on the single paddle shaft. The vessel was renamed, as of July 17, 1905, to release the state name for a new USS MICHIGAN, battleship BB-27. She lasted for over 100 years and was finally scrapped IN 1949, after preservation efforts failed due to an impasse over ownership. "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" refers to the vessel as simply a sidewheel steamer, not a sloop of war as previously cataloged here. Her size (about 170 feet on deck, 685 tons) and slight armament probably do not justify that term. To differentiate from other steamers and honor her unique place in history, we now title her as a "steam auxiliary iron gunboat." But always in lower case, in keeping with the non-official status of this nomenclature. CAPTAINS OR OTHER RELATED PEOPLE: C.W. Copeland (engine designer); Samuel Hatt (ship designer); Commander William Inman (first commader)' SHIP OWNERS: US Navy VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 658 tons displacement; 164'11" x 27' x 9 ALL SHIP NAMES: (1) USS MICHIGAN (1843-1905); (2) USS WOLVERINE (1905-1949). DATE OF DISPOSAL: 1949	CL14079
	11	No image URL.						Astronomers; Astronomy–Amateurs' manuals	Seeing in the dark : __how backyard stargazers are probing deep space and guarding earth from interplanetary peril __Timothy Ferris	LB101996