Browsing by Subject "nautical"
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"A Formidable Looking Pile of Iron Boilers and Machinery": Reconstructing the Civil War Gunboat USS Westfield
(2016-12-09)This dissertation reconstructs the former Union Navy Gunboat USS Westfield. Westfield belonged to an unusual class of civilian vessels that the Navy converted during wartime to serve in the Union's blockade of Confederate ... -
Success at Sea: Maritime Votive Offerings and Naval Dedications in Antiquity
(2014-06-26)In ancient Greece and Rome, gods and goddesses were thought to have control over many aspects of the human world. In order to influence or appease the divine, Greeks and Romans regularly performed religious rituals. These ...