Safety coil boilers, tasty joinerwork, launchings, postponements, and – finally – something worth celebrating
Month: April 2020
Nathanael Herreshoff, Steam Engineer: The MIT Years (Part II)
What else did NGH get up to while he was a student at MIT in the 1860s, and how did his time there impact HMCo. afterwards? A second guest post by a friend of HMM
Curator’s Log June 2019: The Story of NC-4
Curator’s Log June 2019: Centenary of the First to Fly the Atlantic: The Story of the NC-4 Introduction In May 1919 the Navy Flying Boat NC-4 completed the first Transatlantic […]
Paper Stars
Use these instructions to make your own nautical stars at home.
This Week in Herreshoff History: April 16
The largest fin keelers HMCo. ever built, enormous wealth and enormous yachts, and a sad performance abroad
A Recipe for Hardtack
Try this recipe at home to see if you could survive on sailor’s fare on a long voyage!
Nathanael Herreshoff, Steam Engineer: The MIT Years (Part I)
What was it like to be a student at MIT in the 1860s? A guest post by a friend of HMM
This Week in Herreshoff History: April 13
A factory tour, a launching and a buy-back, and a very successful trial run
Lecture: “Hull 341: The Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat, First Across the Atlantic”
Captain Kent Lewis, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired) is designated an Unrestricted Naval Aviator who flew four types of rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft.
A Virtual Voyage to Australia
An archaeological excavation in our own backyard and an online game based on real convict voyages