The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum · leaf 240
e are also in the collection boarding pikes and axes usedin the days of hand-to-hand encounters on vessels, a towermusket for use by British marines during the AmericanRevolution, taken in 1779; American musket owned by Capt.Thomas C. Dunn, U. S. Navy, 1863; musket from the whalerProgress, 1860,… … 8s by sailors to attach to sea-chests, may be found in one of thetable cases in the Marine Room. There are several excellentbooks on knots and splices which have appeared with therenewed interest in the subject and which may be obtained forconsultation at libraries or purchased of book dealers:…
Naval art and science -- Exhibitions · Ships
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