CAPT. ANGUS MacINTOSH PRESENTS

Stowed in the MUSEUM’S HOLD you will discover…

Illuminating aspects of fo’c’s’le living tons of paraphernalia employed in working, sailing and navigating ships; treasure from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon, Atocha; exquisite ship models; insight into pirate business; skinny on the Merchant Marine; displays featuring tugboats, sailboats, ferries, liners, lightships, lifeboats, battleships and a cruiser and some stuff on how to build them; where fishing boats go and where the Great White Fleet went; exactly what a boarding pike is, what a linstock is used for, and what quadrilateral spheres on a binnacle look like; what a helm, sea chest, and engine order telegraph feels like; precisely what CAC, USLHS, USSB, USLSS AND USLLHE are all about; how to ties a bowline and tell ship’s bell time; ship’s crockery, scrimshaw, bos’n’s calls, cannon, epaulettes, spyglass, rope knives, and thole pins; The Black Bottle and hear sea chanties; the wonderment of an azimuth ring, taffrail log, and a 19th century bearing board; how it might feel to come almost face to face with Teddy Roosevelt, George Dewey and Howard Cox’s father who was a concrete soldier; the mysteries of the monkey fist, the brass monkey, bow pudding and Chinese Fire Drill; also Tom Sawyer Traverse; the thrill of coming to terms with nifty keen wherewithal like breeches buoy, post lantern, pelorus, sextant and Adm. Perry; some real old Navy stuff and not to mention some Navy stuff so new it still belongs to the Navy.