Photos tagged as museums

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
Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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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
Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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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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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
Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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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
Tags: museums revolutionary_war
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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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Day_104_-_Gullah Museum, Sweetgrass Baskets

These were for sale and we saw quite a few shops along the 'Sweetgrass Basket' highway. Slaves brought their knowledge of how to weave baskets from Africa with them and adopted them to local grasses and reeds.