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Identifier: marineroomofpeab00robi (find matches)
Title: The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Robinson, John, 1846-1925, comp Peabody Museum of Salem
Subjects: Naval art and science Ships
Publisher: Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Captain JohnWilliams, U. S. Consul at Fiji, 1835. Cutlasses of CaptainNathaniel Silsbee (later U. S. Senator from Massachusetts),1790; of Captain Henry King, 1818; the cutlass and pistolof Captain Nathaniel Weston, 1820; the naval sword ofCaptain Thomas C. Dunn, 1863. In the early days of Salemcommerce all vessels were armed and all officers carried cut-lasses and pistols. In the enclosure in front of the buildingare the signal gun of the whaler Progress and a howitzer of oldtype brought from Manila. There 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, and other weapons. Knots and Splices; Chest Beckets (Handles), etc. A collection of sailors knots and splices used on ship board anda number of curiously wrought beckets, rope handles made 128
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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: —Knots by A. F. Aldridge, Rudder Publishing Co., NewYork, 160 pages, illustrated, Knots and Splices by A.Hyatt Verrill, Henly Publishing Co., New York, 102 pages,illustrated. Knots, Bends and Splices, printed in theYachtsmans Guide for several years (in ed. 1908, pp. 173 -184).How to Make Knots, Bends and Splices by T. E. Biddle,London, Norie and Wilson, illustrated, 18 pages. These bookscost about one dollar each. A cat-o-nine-tails and a slung-shot from old vessels are in the collection, besides a piece of thecable of a vessel sunk in the Penobscot in 1779; a piece of acable used at the launching of the U. S. S. Salem, 1907; and ofthe great cable used in towing the dry dock Dewey to Manila,190

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  • booksubject:Naval_art_and_science
  • booksubject:Ships
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