May 2021 - Herreshoff Marine Museum

90 years ago this month, the first sports writer to ever win a Pulitzer looks back on an HMCo. schooner’s three-decade career…

Guest post written by Jim Giblin

To continue the celebration of the Herreshoff Marine Museum’s 50th anniversary, we investigate the origins of the first Rendezvous & early regattas.

LIGHTNING (HMCo. #20), the United States Navy’s first torpedo boat in Newport waters, 1876. Sepia tone photograph. Workshop buildings in the background. Torpedo boat in the foreground. Portside View of boat.

A series of papers on bringing innovation to the “New Navy”