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  • Lots of Mud, a Battleship, a Ferry, a T-shirt, High Tides, and a UFO.

    • Collections
    • Military
    • Military Conflict
    • Technology

    What do a Battleship, 1950, mud, high tides, a Hudson River Ferry, a T-shirt, and a UFO all have in common?

  • Mariners’ Collection of Curiosities: Spooky and Peculiar Artifacts from the Archives

    • Collections
    • Military

    Fear Not! For I have scoured The Mariners’ Collection, walked the dark storage rooms, and gotten up close and personal with five of our creepiest and most mysterious artifacts, so you don’t have to. I’ve listed the following artifacts for their varying levels of creep-factor or for the fascinating or mysterious stories behind them. All jus

  • Beyond the Frame: The Rescuers

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    “Unidentified Coast Guard Vessel” by Hunter Wood is a 1943 oil on canvas. It was exciting – crisp, and idyllic in an adventurous way, showing the Coast Guard in action. Their clean, well kept boat breaking heroically through the daunting wave, the guardsman on the bow.

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: The Rescuers

    In this episode of Beyond the Frame, we explore the duality of color in Hunter Wood's 1943 oil on canvas, "Unidentified Coast Guard Vessel". This icy blue rescue scene shows the Coast Guard heroically breaking through the daunting waves that seem to be pulling us under...

  • With a Zoologist’s Eye

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage
    • Exploration

    What happens when a zoologist/biologist applies his powers of observation for studying animals to the study of boats? For Alfred Goldsborough Mayor it meant producing a body of work that has given researchers and museums some of the best historic documentation available on the construction of a variety of Pacific island sailing canoes.

  • One Name, Two Ships, Three Stories

    • Collections
    • Technology

    Have you ever gotten the sense that something is following you around? Maybe there is a phrase, word, song, or something else that just keeps popping up in unexpected places, and you’re not sure why? That happened to me recently, and the product is this blog post!

  • Scheduling Students, Lead Lines and Mark Twain

    • Collections

    The lead line was used by sailors to assess the depth of the water and take samples of the sea floor. The line was thrown over the side of a vessel and the lead was allowed to sink to the bottom while the end of the line was held by the sailor.

  • William Robert Wolf and USS Cyclops

    • Collections
    • Exploration
    • Military

    One of America’s greatest mysteries is the disappearance of US navy collier Cyclops. The ship was taken over by the Naval Overseas Transportation Services on January 9, 1918 and directed to head to Rio de Janeiro from Norfolk with 9,960 tons of coal.

  • Beyond the Frame: Where Sea Meets Shore

    • Art
    • Beyond the Frame
    • Collections

    This 1884 oil on canvas simply titled “Coast of Cornwall” by William Trost Richards, captures this complex moment where sea meets shore. In this seascape, there are no people, no ships, no record of time to detract from this moment. Richards

  • BEYOND THE FRAME: Where Sea Meets Shore

    In this episode of Beyond the Frame, experience the magic of the powerful and alluring meeting of sea and shore. Kyra Duffley explores the dark and tragic character of the Cornish Coast in William Trost Richards' 1884 oil on canvas.

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