North America’s Maritime Museums: An Annotated Guide

390 Pages·1987·76.27 MB·English

by  Hartley Edward Howe

NORTH
AMERICA'S
MARITIME
MUSEUMS:
An
Annotated Guide
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NORTH
AMERICANS
MARITIME
MUSEUMS:
An
Annotated Guide
Howe
Edward
Hartley
Dedicated to the memory of
Robert Howe Baker, 1927-1983,
who loved the historic small craft ofAmerica
and devoted much of his life to their discovery,
restoration, and preservation.
NORTH AMERICA'S MARITIME MUSEUMS:
An Annotated Guide
Copyright ® 1987 by Hartley Edward Howe
Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformor
byanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,recordingorbyany
information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the
Publisher.
Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Howe, Hartley F.dward.
North America's Maritime Museums
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1. Navigation United States History. I. Title.
VK2:iHB8 198.5 '^H7.5'()97'^ 83-1442
ISBN 0-8160-1001-3
Composition by Facts On File/Maxwell Photographies
Jacket and Interior Design by Oksana Kushnir
10 9 8 7 () 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Introduction ix Allie Ryan Maritime Collection, Maine
Marine Academy; Castine, Maine
PART ONE: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN:
Islesford Historical Museum; Little
ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS
^ Cranberry Island, Maine
Machiasport Historical Society Museum;
NEW ENGLAND (AND ITS
I. Machiasport, Maine
STEPCHILD, LONG ISLAND) ^
• South ofBoston and Into the Old Colony
• The Hub ofthe (Yankee) Universe: Boston 4 Kendall Whaling Museum; Sharon,
USS Constitution Museum; Charlestown Massachusetts
Navy Yard Cohasset Maritime Museum; Cohasset,
USS Constitution; Boston Naval Shipyard Massachusetts
Bostonian Society; Old State House King Caesar House; Duxbury,
Museum Massachusetts
Brig Beaver ///Tea Party Museum Mayflower II; Plymouth, Massachusetts
Francis Russell Hart Memorial Museum/ Sparrow-Hawk/Pilgrim Hall; Plymouth,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Massachusetts
Cambridge
• The Old Colony II: Cape Cod
• North ofBoston to the Piscataqua g Falmouth Historical Society's Museums;
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips
Academy; Andover, Massachusetts Woods Hole Historical Society; Woods
Peabody Museum of Salem; Salem, Hole, Massachusetts
Donald G. Trayser Memorial Museum;
Massachusetts
Barnstable, Massachusetts
Salem Maritime National Historic Site;
Old Harbor Life SavingStation; Race Point,
Salem, Massachusetts
Gloucester Fishermen's Museum; Provincetown, Massachusetts
Gloucester, Massachusetts • The Old Colony III: The Whaling Towns
Museum ofCape Ann History; Gloucester, Nantucket Whaling Museum; Nantucket,
Massachusetts Massachusetts
Custom House Maritime Museum; Peter Foulger Memorial Museum;
Newburyport, Massachusetts Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket Lightship; Nantucket,
• Where the Piscataqua Meets the Sea Massachusetts
Portsmouth Athenaeum; Portsmouth, New Nantucket Athenaeum; Nantucket,
Hampshire
Massachusetts
Replica (iundalow Captain Edward H. Duke's County Historical Society/Francis
Adams; Portsmouth, New Hampshire Foster Museum; Edgartown, Martha's
Kittery Historical and Naval Museum; Vineyard, Massachusetts
Kittery, Maine Seaman'sBethel(Chapel Museum; Vineyard
Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• Way Down East 2Q
Seaman's Bethel; New Bedford,
John Hancock Warehouse and Wharf/Old
Massachusetts
York Historical Society; York, Maine
Whaling Museum/Old Dartmouth
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin
Historical Society; New Bedford,
College; Brunswick, Maine
Massachusetts
Moosehead Marine/M.V. Katahdin
New Bedford Free Public Library; New
Museum; (ireenville Maine
Bedford, Massachusetts
Maine Maritime Museum/Schooner
Lightship New Bedford; New Bedford,
Sherman Zwicker; Bath, Maine
Massachusetts
Friendship Museum; Friendship, Maine
Shore Village Museum; Rockland, Maine • Narragansett Bay
Penobscot Marine Museum; Searsport, Fall River Marine Museum; Fall River,
Maine Massachusetts
5
USS Massachusetts/DestroyerJoseph P. American Merchant Marine Museum;
Kennedy/ Submarine Lionfish; Fall River, Kings Point, Long Island, New York
Massachusetts New York State Maritime (College; Fort
Naval War College Museum; Newport, Schuyler, 1 he Bronx, New York, New
Rhode Island York
Continental Sloop Providence; Newport, City Island Historical Nautical Museum;
Rhode Island City Island, The Bronx, New York, New
Museum of Yachting; Newport, Rhode York
Island
Vanderbilt Memorial Room/Marble House; • The Lordly Hudson 82
Newport, Rhode Island Hudson River Sloop Clearwater;
Herreshoff Marine Museum; Bristol, Poughkeepsie, New York
Rhode Island Franklin D. Roosevelt Libraryand Museum;
Brownell Model Collection/Nicholson Hyde Park, New York
Collection; Providence Public Library, Hudson River Maritime Center; Kingston,
Providence, Rhode Island New York
• Along the Comiecticut Shore 56 • Down Along the Erie Canal 88
Old Lighthouse Museum; Stonington, Erie Canal Village; Rome, New York
Connecticut Canastota Canal Town Museum; Canastota,
Mystic Seaport MuseumlCharles W. New York
Morgan/Joseph Conrad; Mystic, Connecticut Erie Canal Museum/Weighlock Building;
USS Croaker; Groton, Connecticut Syracuse, New York
Submarine Force Museum/USS Nautilus;
Groton, Connecticut • Champlain: Lake ofBattles 92
United States Coast Guard Museum; U.S. Skenesborough Museum; Whitehall,
Coast Guard Academy, New London, New York
Connecticut SS TiconderogalS\\e\hurne Museum;
Tale of the Whale Museum; New London, Shelburne, Vermont
Connecticut Clinton County Historical Museum;
Connecticut River Museum; Essex, Plattsburgh, New York
Connecticut Adirondack Museum; Blue Mountain Lake,
HMS Rose; Bridgeport, Connecticut New York
• The Island Like a Great Whale 65 III. THE ROAD TO CANADA ^ 99
Sag Harbor Historical and Whaling
Museum; Sag Harbor, Long Island, New • Along the St. Lawrence 99
David M. Stewart Museum; Montreal,
York
Quebec, Canada
Easthampton Town Marine Museum;
La Grande Hermine; Quebec City, Quebec,
Amagansett, Long Island, New York
Canada
Suffolk Marine Museum; West Sayville,
Port ofQuebec in the Nineteenth Century;
Long Island, New York
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum;
Musee Maritime Bernier; I'lslet-sur-Mer;
Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New
Quebec, Canada
York
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AND ITS IV. CANADA'S ATLANTIC PROVINCES 108
II.
INLAND EMPIRE 70 • New Brunswick 110
Grand Manan Museum; Grand Harbor,
• Around Next) York 70 New Brunswick, Canada
New York Historical Society; New York, New Brunswick Museum; SaintJohn, New
New York Brunswick, Canada
Museum of the City of New York; New Marine Center/Centre Marin; Shippagan,
York, New York New Brunswick, Canada
South Street Seaport Museum; New York, Albert County Museum; Hopewell Cape,
New York New Brunswick, Canada
USS Intrepid; New York, New York
USS Ling; Hackensack, New Jersey • Prince Edward Island
1 1
Holland I and Holland ///Paterson Green Park Museums and Shipyard; Port
Museum; Paterson, New Jersey Hill, Prince Edward Island, Canada
SeaRescuePark; Northport, PrinceEdward • Delaware Bay II: The Pennsylvania Canals 152
Island, Canada Canal Museum, Center for Canal History
Basin Head Fisheries Museum; Souris, and Technology; Easton, Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island, Canada Delaware Canal barge rides. New Hope
Musee de la Mer; Havre-Aubert, Isle-de-la- BargeCompany; New Hope, Pennsylvania
Madeleine, Quebec, Canada Surviving Sections of Pennsylvania Canals;
Pennsylvania Canal Society
• Acadia/Nova Scotia 120
Maritime Command Museum; Halifax, • Chesapeake Bay I: The Eastern Shore and the
Nova Scotia, Canada Upper Bay 154
Maritime Museum ofthe Adantic; Halifax, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum;
Nova Scotia, Canada Chesapeake City, Maryland
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic; Oyster Museum; Chincoteague Island,
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Virginia
Yarmouth County Museum; Yarmouth, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum; St.
Nova Scotia, Canada Michaels, Maryland
O'Dell Museum; Annapolis Royal, Nova United States Naval Academy Museum;
Scotia, Canada Annapolis, Maryland
Churchill House; Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Maryland Historical Society/Radcliffe
Canada Maritime Museum; Baltimore, Maryland
Pride ofBaltimore; Baltimore, Maryland
• Newfoundland 133 United States Frigate Constellation;
L'Anse aux Meadows; Newfoundland, Baltimore, Maryland
Canada Baltimore Maritime Museum/Submarine
The Newfoundland Museum; St. John's, Torsk, and Lightship Chesapeake,
Newfoundland, Canada Baltimore, Maryland
Steam Tug i?a//mior<'/Baltimore Industrial
THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST;
V. Museum; Baltimore, Maryland
RARITAN BAY TO THE NORTH CAROLINA
Brown's Wharf Maritime Museum;
LINE 138 Baltimore, Maryland
• TheJersey Shore 138 Steamboat Historical Society Collection;
Shoal Harbor Marine Museum; Port Baltimore, Maryland
Monmouth, New Jersey
Navesink Lighthouse Museum; Highlands, • Chesapeake Bay II: The Potomac River and
New Jersey Southern Maryland 168
Sandy Hook Museum; Highlands, New Schooner Alexandria; Alexandria, Virginia
C & O Locks and Tavern/Lockhouse; Great
Jersey
Atlantic County Historical Society Museum Falls, Maryland
and Library; Somers Point, New Jersey United States Navy Memorial Museum;
Ocean City Historical Museum; Ocean City, Washington, D.C.
New National Museum of American History of
Jersey
Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
• Delaware Bay I: Philadelphia and Wilmington 14 I 1876, a Centennial Exhibition; Washington,
Philadelphia Maritime Museum; DC.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Calvert Marine Museum; Solomons,
Bark Moshulu; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Maryland
Barkentine Gazela Primeiro; Philadelphia, Pinnace Maryland Dove; St. Mary's City,
Pennsylvania Maryland
Protected Cruiser Olympia and Submarine
Becuna; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Chesapeake Bay III: The Virginia Peninsula and
American Philosophical Society; Hampton Roads 179
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery;
Historical Maritime Collection of the Jamestown, Virginia
Insurance Company of North America, Yorktown Victory Center; Yorktown,
CIGNA Museum; Philadelphia, Virginia
Pennsylvania National Park Service Visitors Center;
Franklin Institute Science Museum; Yorktown, Virginia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Watermen's Museum; Yorktown, Virginia
Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk; Wilmington, Mariners' Museum; Newport News,
Delaware Virginia
Hampton Roads Naval Museum; Norfolk, The Mississippi to the Rio Grande 217
Virginia Rosenberg Library/Lykes (iallery;
Norfolk Naval Shipyard; Portsmouth, Galveston, Texas
Virginia Bark Elissa; Galveston, Texas
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and Destroyer Escort Stewart and Submarine
Portsmouth Lightship Museum; Cavalla; Galveston, Texas
Portsmouth, Virginia USS Texas; Houston, Texas
Virginia Beach Maritime Historical MSB-5; Fort Worth, Texas
Museum; Virginia Beach, Virginia Corpus Christi Museum; Corpus Christi,
Texas
VI. THE SOUTH FACING THE Adiniial Nimitz Stale Historical P^ark;
Fredericksburg, Texas
ATLANTIC
188
• South ofCape Henry to Cape Fear: The North
Carolina Coast 189
Elizabeth IT, Manteo, North Carolina PART TWO: MIDDLE AMERICA'S RIVERS
Cape Hatteras; Island VisitorCenter, North AND LAKES 225
Carolina
North Carolina Maritime Museum; THE OHIO COUNTRY
VIII. 227
Beaufort, North Carolina
Fort Fisher, North Carolina
New Hanover County Museum; • "The Beautiful River" 227
The Ohio River Museum; Marietta, Ohio
Wilmington, North Carolina
Howard Steamboat Museum;
USS North Carolina; Wilmington, North
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Carolina
Belle ofLouisville; Louisville, Kentucky
• Cape Fear to the St. Mary's: South Carolina and
• From Lake to River: The Canals ofOhio and
Georgia 99
1 Indiana 232
Ketch Adventure/Charles Towne Landing;
St. Helena II Canalboat; Fulton, Ohio
Charleston, South Carolina
Monticello II Reconstructed Canalboat;
Replica, Confederate Submarine Hunley,
Coshocton, Ohio
Charleston Museum; Charleston, South
GeneralHarrison CanalboatVPiqua
Carolina
Historical Area; Piqua, Ohio
Patriots Point/Aircraft Carrier Yorktown,
Whitewater Canal State Memorial;
Nuclear Ship Savannah, Destroyer Laffey,
Metamora, Indiana
Submarine Clamagore; Charleston, South
Carolina IX. THE MISSISSIPPI 236
Ships of the Sea Museum; Savannah,
Georgia
Confederate Naval Museum; Columbus, • Old Man River I: The Lower Mississippi and the
Arkansas River 236
Georgia
Mississippi River Museum; Memphis,
Tennessee
VII. THE GULF COAST 206 USS Cairo Museum; Vicksburg, Mississippi
USS Batfish; Muskogee, Oklahoma
• 'Tampa Bay to the Mississippi 207
MGM's Bounty; St. Petersburg, Florida • Old Man RiverII: The Upper Mississippi 239
West Florida Museum of History; USS Inaugural; St. Louis, Missouri
Pensacola, Florida USS Hazard; Omaha, Nebraska
Pensacola Historical Museum; Pensacola, Keokuk River Museum/SS George M.
Florida Verity; Keokuk, Iowa
Naval Aviation Museum; Pensacola, Florida Putnam Museum; Davenport, Iowa
Fort Morgan Historic Park; Fort Morgan, SS Lone Star Buffalo Bill Museum; Le
Alabama Claire, Iowa
Battleship Alabama; Mobile, Alabama City ofClinton Showboat; Clinton, Iowa
Louisiana Maritime Museum; New Otleans, SS William M. Black Woodward Riverboat
Louisiana Museum/Port of Dubuque; Dubuque,
Louisiana State Museum; New Orleans, Iowa
Louisiana Julius C. Wilkie Steamboat Museum;
USS Kidd; Baton Rouge, Louisiana Winona, Minnesota