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  • Installing the bowsprit

  • Support The Mariners’

    It is only through the generosity of others that we are able to fulfill our mission to connect people to the world’s waters and one another.

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  • IRONCLADS STRIKE: CSS PALMETTO STATE AND CSS CHICORA

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    Something unusual occurred in the early morning darkness of January 31, 1863, when the Confederate ironclad rams, CSS Chicora and CSS Palmetto State, crossed the Charleston Bar and struck the Union ships guarding that blockade runners’ haven.

  • Matthew Henson: The first African American to reach the North Pole

    This video shares the incredible story in Henson's own words from his 1912 autobiography "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole". The journey to learn more about his significant feat all started when one of our curators, Erika Cosme, decided to read more about Henson's impact on Black history...

  • Lifting and flipping USS Monitor’s Condenser 🏗️💦

    For the first time in 160 years, USS Monitor's condenser bed is right-side up! In this video series, you can watch our Conservation team separating the condenser and its support bed, flipping the bed, and lifting both elements into their new treatment tank.

  • Success (and Liquor) on the Rocks

    • Art
    • Collections

    Discover the story behind a print titled “The Success wedged on a Rock, being at the same time between the fire of the Spanish Fort at Umata and a Ship in the Harbour.” Irony anyone?

  • Opening Day: What The Mariners’ Museum looked like in the 1930s

    • Collections

    Today, The Mariners’ Museum and Park’s exhibition space is roughly 90,000 square feet; but when the Museum opened to the public in November 1933, there was only a little over 12,000 square feet of gallery space.

  • A Haunting in Hampton Roads: The Ghost Fleet on the James River

    • Collections
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Military
    • Photography

    A few weeks ago, on a late summer boat ride on the James River, I noticed the outlines of looming grey ships in the distance that I hadn’t seen before. “What are those?” I wondered aloud.

  • Elk…in the Park?

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    For several years, we had a permitted wildlife sanctuary in the Park! Of the projects from the early years of the Park, our wildlife endeavor was the longest, lasting until almost 1950.

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