NOAA/Navy Archeological Survey (and the answer to WWTT?: Simms)

NOAA and Navy to conduct archaeological survey of two Civil War shipwrecks in Hampton Roads, Va. This is indeed very interesting news. The r...

NOAA Day at Nauticus and HRNM Report

This past Saturday, the Hampton Roads Naval Museum participated in NOAA Day at Nauticus in Norfolk, VA.  HRNM Educators and Interns conducte...

June Updates

Marine Guard Pawnee NEW PARTICIPATORY ORGANIZATION: MARINE GUARD PAWNEE  The U.S. Marine Guard Steam Sloop of War USS Pawnee works closel...

Civil War at Sea: Full Panel Videos now Available on Navy.TV

All of the panel videos for the 2011 Civil War at Sea Conference at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. are now available on Navy.tv.  You...

Introducing the Timberclads

To confirm the veracity of the old idiom that "necessity is the mother of invention," one need look no further than the Union...

Where Were They Then?: Lt. Charles C. Simms, CSN

Where Were They Then? is a series of posts in which a Civil War Navy figure is introduced by his Civil War accomplishments and you are asked...

The Blockade Begins !!

Following President Lincoln's declaration of a blockade of the southern coast on 19 April 1861, the US Navy moved to implement the Presi...