Photos tagged as museums

Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Distilling_Plant

The submarine had to make it's own fresh water out of sea water, which this machine did.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Deck

The Clamagore was built in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975, one of the last diesel powered submarines in the US Fleet when she retired.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Contol_Room

You can't actually look through the periscope on this submarine. Instead they have a display showing what you would see if you looked through the periscope. Odd.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Conning _Tower

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, XO_Qtrs

Compared to the XO Qtrs on the submarine, this is quite luxurious.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, Hatches

After touring the submarine, the hatches on the Coast Guard Cutter seem quite large and spaceous

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_USCG Cutter_Ingham

This US Coast Guard Cutter was built in 1934 and remained in service until 1988. She received two Presidential Unit Citations, the only Coast Guard vessel to do so.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_Patriots_Point Sign

This is a list of what ships and other displays are located across the bridge from historic Charleston.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_USS Laffey

The USS Laffey is a Destroyer that took part in D-Day and Okinawa. In the latter, she survived 5 Kamikazi and 3 bomb hits in a 90 minute time span.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_Friendship_7

This was on the hanger deck museum portion of the USS Yorktown. I didn't read the sign carefully enough, I believe it is only a replica (?) of John Glenn's spacecraft, the original is in Washington D.C. He was the first person to Orbit the earth from Space.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, JL at Controls

You can actually climb into the cockpit of this aircraft and play around with the controls

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, Cockpit

Hmm, I wonder whose knees those could be?

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_F9F_Cougar

If you look carefully, you can see part of a ladder on the other side of the cockpit. This one you can climb into!

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_Apollo_8

I believe this is a replica as the original is in Chicago...

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, River_Boat

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval vietnam_war
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Hunley

The Confederate H. L. Hunley was the first submarine to successfully sink an enemy ship.

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Lafayette & James

The painting is "Lafayette at Yorktown" by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, 1783. James collected intelligence for Lafayette.

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Dance_Card

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Cloths Exhibit

The museum was having a special exhibit of clothing styles in different colors.

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_106_-_Charleston Museum, Blunderbuss

The blunderbuss was a favorite weapon for pirates since it shot a wide pattern at close ranges.

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Photo of Boat into_Bldg

The remains of the Browns Ferry Vessel are being lowered into the Rice Museum in Georgetown after they removed the roof of the bldg

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum Davis Quadrant

This Quadrant was used for navigation. It was found on the Browns Ferry Vessel and was used for navigation

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Browns Ferry Vessel Model

Texas A&M built this scale model of what the Brown's Ferry Vessel probably looked like

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Rice Museum, Browns Ferry Vessel

This is what remains of the oldest vessel found to date that was built in Colonial America. It was built about 1700.

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Hand Tools

These were some of the hand made tools on display at the Gullah museum.

• Date: 14 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Georgetown, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums gullah
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