Travel Photography > Photos tagged as museums
We saw the sign for this on Hwy 1, it is located at the beach where the original training base was located
SDV = Swimmer Delivery Vehicle, a battery powered vessel
LCPL - Landing Craft Personnel Large, the main "cast & recovery" boat for Seal's after WWII
This is the only museum devoted strictly to Navy Seals
The Florida History Museum in Jupiter, FL is housed in a WWII Army housing bldg (shown)
British Museum
British Museum
This is a replica on the original "Wreckers" warehouse of Asa Tifts. Towers were used to spot shipwrecks on the reefs - a great sourse of wealth to the first salvage ship to reach it.
The Key West wreckers used sloops such as this in their salvage operations.
This was originally the warehouse of the most successful 'wrecker', or salvage operator on Key West, Asa Tifts.
This is from the Spanish Treasure Galleon, Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which went down in a hurricane in 1622 with about 200,000 silver coins among other things.
Another shipwreck found by Mel Fisher is the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship. This copper cauldron was used to feed 250 slaves on board.
These were some of the 80 pairs of shackles found on the Henriette Marie.
These gold bars are from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha wreck. Another exhibit is set up so you can try lifting one, they are very heavy.
I think this is from the Santa Clara wreck from 1564, no treasure but lots of historical value (which is probably the real treasure).
Mel Fisher & Co. have located many shipwrecks. This museum houses some of the most famous treasures found and information about the ships and era of treasure galleons.
Macon is home to two new Hall of Fames, the Music HOF and Georgia Atheletes. I think this is the Music HOF, but could have gotten them mixed up.
This is housed in an 1898 Gun Battery
This photo was one of the displays in the Tybee Island Museum. 2nd Lt. Morgan had just graduated from the Engineering school on the island and was drowned attempting to rescue the crew of a ship wrecked nearby around 1900.
This tower fort was constructed on Tybee Island in 1815 and was used as a lookout station when this picture was taken.
We saw one of these further north. They are used for killing water fowl (ducks, etc.)
This is what a chow hall might have looked like at a typical US Army base in Vietnam during the war.
The huts on the right were constructed out of plywood, on the left were metal containers painted green and used as huts