maritime history Archives

Jun 29, 2017

Legal Advice for Shipping and Sailing

Source: The Merchant Shipper's Assistant and Common Carrier's Guide (Boston: I.R. Butts, 1850) and The Seaman's Assistant (Boston: I.R. Butts, 1849). Joyner Library Special Collections, HE745 .B88 1850 Digitized version...

Aug 31, 2015

Bodie Island Lighthouse

Source: Jan Sellars Coward Collection, (Manuscript Collection #1112) Staff Person: Jennifer Joyner Description: With Fall approaching, many are visiting the beach for the last time this season. One tourist attraction...

Feb 07, 2014

USS Sarda (SS488)

Source: USS Sarda entering Havana, Cuba  Call Number: 818.os1.1 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description: USS Sarda (SS-488), was a Tench-class submarine.  Financed by bonds purchased by the residents of Lynn,...

Dec 04, 2013

“Memories of Two Years (almost) before the Mast”

Source: Ronald Vaughn Papers (Manuscript Collection #658) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Ronald Vaughn of Brownwood, TX, enlisted in the Navy with his twin brother Donald (January 1944). He served...

Apr 17, 2012

Concrete River Steamers of World War I, ca. 1921

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.2.b Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Seen in the photograph above are four, unnamed, concrete-hulled river steamers at the Newport Shipping Corporation shipyard, in New...

Mar 03, 2011

John L. Porter Naval Architectural Notebook

Source: John Luke Porter Papers (#850) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description:                                  John L. Porter (1813-1893) constructed naval ships in Portsmouth, Virginia, prior to the Civil War. After the secession of...

Nov 11, 2010

Harold Stacey Burdick

Source: Harold Stacey Burdick Collection, 1892-1923;  East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1162 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is a studio portrait of Lt. Commander Harold Stacey Burdick (#1162.1.g) in...

Nov 04, 2010

Aerial View of Barbour Boat Works, Inc.

Source:  Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  This image offers a nice view of the Barbour Boat Works factory in New Bern, North Carolina.  The business...

Sep 02, 2010

Ellen Zukunft McGrew

Source: Ellen Zukunft McGrew Papers, 1942-1958; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #723 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This featured portrait is of Ellen Zukunft McGrew of Portland, Maine, an X-ray technician who...

Sep 04, 2009

S.S. Utah – A Banned Book

Source: S.S. Utah, Hoover PS 3531.E2967 S1 1933 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mike Pell's S.S. Utah is an example of the genre of proletarian fiction. Proletarian fiction written in...