Posts belonging to Category 'Naval'
November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN), Hernando Past and Southeastern Archaeological Services invite the public to Bayport Park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday to watch archaeologists, FPAN staff and volunteer divers record possible shipwrecks located during recent remote sensing surveys.
Bayport was the site of two brief engagements between Confederate land troops and [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by javal
North Carolina officials say they have identified a Civil War shipwreck that burned at sea more than 145 years ago.
The state Underwater Archaeology Branch said Monday that a silver-plated spoon inscribed with the name of a crew member from the CSS Appomattox confirmed the ship’s identity.
A four-member diving team discovered the shipwreck in August 2007 [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
In the fall of 1864, a U.S. Navy officer serving in the blockade of Charleston set out on a quest that would consume some men for more than a century.
He wanted to find the H.L. Hunley.
William L. Churchill, executive officer on a gunboat and a diver with much interest in submarine technology, had volunteered to [...]
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July 31, 2009 | Posted by Laurie
With replicas of Civil War ironclads dueling offshore, a night firing by large cannons overlooking the water and more participants than in many years, organizers expect this weekend’s re-
enactment of the Battle of Mobile Bay at Fort Morgan should be an exciting part of Baldwin County’s bicentennial celebration.
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July 27, 2009 | Posted by javal
Today, about 57 years after T. Harry Williams published his landmark study of Civil War command and strategy, “Lincoln and His Generals” (1952), the U.S. Navy gets similar recognition for what it accomplished during the Civil War
Craig L. Symonds puts northern admiralship center stage with his latest book, “Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the [...]
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June 24, 2009 | Posted by javal
Archaeologist Chris Amer, diver Bob Butler and historian Ted Gragg fielded questions from the audience about the history associated with the Mars Bluff Naval Yard on the Marion County side of the Great Pee Dee River.
A group of a few more than 50 area residents gathered in Marion’s Opera House on June 16 to hear [...]
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June 23, 2009 | Posted by javal
Divers plan to survey the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor off the North Carolina coast this week with high-definition cameras to look for deterioration in the nearly 150-year-old underwater wreckage.
Expedition organizers are hoping for good weather so divers can make maximum dives into the 230-foot-deep waters some 16 miles off Cape Hatteras, Jeff Johnston of [...]
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June 23, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Horry County Museum has a display of artifacts recovered from the sunken CSS Pee Dee.
The Pee Dee was a 150-foot Macon class gunboat outfitted with two Brookes rifled cannon and a Union Dahlgren cannon that was launched in January 1865 from its Mars Bluff Navy Yard on the Great Pee Dee River in Marion [...]
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April 28, 2009 | Posted by javal
The sinking of the Titanic was not the worst maritime disaster in American history, U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Little Rock, told fellow U.S. House members Monday.
That distinction belongs to the sinking of the paddle-wheeled steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River near Memphis on April 27, 1865, Snyder said. His speech, posted on YouTube, was in [...]
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March 5, 2009 | Posted by javal
NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is seeking to fill one seat on its advisory council, which ensures public participation in sanctuary management and provides advice to the sanctuary superintendent.
The sanctuary is accepting applications for the advisory council seat representing North Carolina maritime museums. One primary member will be selected for the seat.
The Monitor Sanctuary Advisory [...]
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