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2024 NMHS Live Auction – Washington, DC, 18 April 2024
Bidding is now open for the National Maritime Historical Society Live Auction featuring Lot 1: Two crew positions on Black Watch Lot 2: Maritime Adventure for 2 in the Big Apple Lot 3: Battleship New Jersey Dry Dock Tour with…
In the Pages of Sea History 154
Here’s what’s in the pages of Sea History 154: The 2016 National Maritime Awards Dinner NMHS and the Naval Historical Foundation present the 2016 National Maritime Awards Dinner. Join us for our annual gala event at the National Press…
The New York Naval Militia: Seminar with Robert L. Wolf 30 April, 2016
History and Missions of the New York Naval Militia with Major General Robert L. Wolf, NYNM (Ret.) Saturday, 30 April 2016 Hendrick Hudson Library – 25 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 10548 Continental Breakfast is at 10:30 AM. Presentation is…
Nauticus to Purchase Schooner Virginia
The Norfolk City Council voted on Tuesday to approve a plan for the Nauticus Foundation to buy the schooner Virginia. Under the proposed plan, Virginia would be docked next to the battleship Wisconsin and used for educational programming. Nauticus, an…
CBMM Announces Boat Auction
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) is holding its very first sealed-bid boat auction. Due to a large number of recent boat donations, up to 20 in-the-water boats—ranging in size and performance from cabin cruisers and sport fisherman to sailing…
Looking for an Organization to Take On Historic Ferry
The custodian of the ferryboat Binghamton is searching for someone to take possession of the vessel. One of six steam-powered screw-propeller, double-ended ferryboats built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock for the Hoboken Ferryboat Company in 1905, Binghamton…
Fiddlers' Green, Peter Stanford
January 16, 1927–March 24, 2016 … The trustees and staff of the National Maritime Historical Society mourn the loss of Peter Stanford, NMHS president emeritus, longtime friend, and generous benefactor. We extend our deepest condolences to his wife, Norma, and…
