This winter has been a busy one in the Collections department at HMM!
Month: February 2019
Curator’s Log Feb. 2019: “Battle of the Steam Launches: Newport 1887”
The Herreshoff’s made their first delivery of a steam launch to the US Government in 1876 and over the next 22 years they delivered a number of steam launches ranging in size from 22-42 feet to the Coast Survey, Fish Commission, Lighthouse Service and US Navy.