ships Archives

Feb 07, 2014
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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
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“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...

Nov 19, 2013
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Honoring Our Past

Source: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/293.1 Postcard of the U.S.S. North Carolina. Title from historical note on verso. "U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Commission." Numbered P57112. Date approximated. Identifier: 318.2.c.317 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description:...

Apr 17, 2012
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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
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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 04, 2010
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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...

Jul 23, 2010
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U. S. Army Provost Marshal’s Office Pass No. 11382 (1863)

Source: Shirley Kilpatrick Collection #10.1.d. Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: U. S. Army Provost Marshal's Office Pass No. 11382 was issued in Union-occupied New Orleans on 4 February 1863.  It...

Jan 30, 2009
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USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Albert Parker Niblack Collection, 1876-1942; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1080 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This 1882 cabinet card shows portraits of 17 officers inset...

Apr 18, 2008
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Japanese Surrender Photograph, 2 September 1945

  Source: Frank A. Armstrong, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The photograph below is one of the most famous in any of our...

Feb 02, 2007
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HMS Bucton Castle

Source: A.M. Handley Journal, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1064 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is a pen and ink sketch of the HMS BUCTON CASTLE, a three-masted sailing ship....