As we close out 2024, the Herreshoff Museum celebrates a year of growth and innovation. Our commitment to hands-on STEM education has brought sailing, boat building, and career-ready skills to over 350 young people this year alone, many with full or partial scholarships thanks to your support. In our latest video, alumni share the lasting impact of these programs. Sailing instructor Kaia recalls the joy of teaching on a classic Herreshoff 12½, while boatbuilding alum Collin speaks of a "get-your-hands-dirty" experience that shaped his career. Oliver Moore, co-founder of Moore Brothers, highlights how skills learned here build not only craftsmanship but confidence. Each gift fuels programs that empower and inspire the next generation. Visit our campus, meet our students, and see how your support makes a difference. Join us in sparking curiosity and building the future. Thank you for your generosity. Support: herreshoff.org/donate Follow the Museum: facebook.com/herreshoff instagram.com/herreshoff Visit the Museum: One Burnside Street, Bristol, Rhode Island, 02809, USA

Bronze Winner of the 2022 Telly Award for Non-Broadcast A video about Herreshoff One Design Jubilee Celebration at NYYC Harbor Court in 2021. Video produced by New York Yacht Club. Featuring interviews with HMM founder, Halsey C. Herreshoff, Curator, Evelyn Ansel, and more. As part of the celebration of the Herreshoff Marine Museum's 50th anniversary, we held a celebration of the NYYC Herreshoff one-designs at NYYC Harbour Court in Newport with the NY30 AMORITA, the NY40 MARILEE and the NY50 SPARTAN. Our good friend Gary Jobson created a video to commemorate both the event and the legacy of these amazing yachts with footage from an incredible day of sailing on Narragansett Bay. Visit the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI or online at herreshoff.org Facebook & Instagram: @herreshoff Twitter: @herreshoffmm Flickr: flickr.com/herreshoff The Herreshoff Marine Museum, located in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA, is a maritime museum dedicated to the history of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, yachting, and the America's Cup. Nonprofit 401c3. Producer: Gary Jobson, Jobson Sailing Inc. Videographer: David Zapatka Aerial Videography: Halsey Fulton Executive Producer: William Lynn Thumbnail photo of AMORITA and CORSAIR by Daniel Forster.

Russ Kramer, F, ASMA Today, Russ Kramer is widely regarded to be among the country's leading marine artists. His large-scale studio paintings create 'first-hand' experiences for the viewer, putting you right on board during some of history's greatest yacht races or turn-of-the-century luxury vessels. A sense of the dramatic moment, combined with meticulous research and attention to detail, have found considerable appeal and sell quickly into private and corporate collections. His works are unique and immediately recognizable, combining narrative, historical, figurative and maritime disciplines. Russ has been the subject of a one-man show at the Museum of Yachting in Newport, Rhode Island, appeared in WoodenBoat, Yachting, and Sail magazines, and is prominently represented in the volumes Art and Artifacts of The America's Cup by Hyland-Granby. He is a fellow and past President of the American Society of Marine Artists. He has won multiple awards at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition, including the prestigious Yachting Award in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2017. He is represented by the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, CT and the Roger King Gallery in Newport, RI. Russ lives and works in Mystic, CT.

A forum discussion _ Herreshoff Marine Museum May 25, 1993 Bristol, RI www.herreshoff.org

May 24 1994

The Life and Work of A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff by Nathanael G. Herreshoff III and Halsey C. Herreshoff on August 22, 1995 at the Herreshoff Marine Museum

Filmed July 13 2004 at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. This lecture explores the remarkable lives of two Herreshoff women.

Unknown film date. Filmed at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.

by Halsey C. Herreshoff, September 14, 2004 Filmed at the Herreshoff Marine Museum www.herreshoff.org Bristol, RI

Filmed at the Herreshoff Marine Museum on June 27th, 1995.

Filmed on September 20, 1994 at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.

On the eve of the 2020 Herreshoff Classic Yacht Regatta, we want to take a moment to look back at races past. We dug through the archives for this film from the 2002 Rendezvous. Watch closely and you might see some familiar faces and boats! "The Time Machines" A Video Scrapbook With voice-over by Halsey C. Herreshoff Produced by Jerry M Landay Videographer: Robert Kramer Video Editor: Jerry M. Landay Additional Editing: Ray Larson, Cox Communications Music by Mick Moloney, Eugene O'Donnell, Seamus Egan from the CD albums "Uncommon Bonds" & "3-Way Street". CD Copyright 1986 and 1993, Green Linnett Records Produced at the Studios of Cox Public Access, Bristol, RI

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Filmed on February 20, 2020 as part of the Herreshoff Marine Museum Lecture Series Hold Fast is a young adult, historical novel in the vein of Kidnapped. Based on a true story, it combines brutal storytelling and a poignant sense of humor. It follows the lives of two Italian boys pressed into service on the HMS Deptford in 1762 while on a family-trading voyage with their uncle. The story chronicles their lives on board as well as the discovery of longitude and the relentless shelling of Fort Morro during the Battle of Havana. In the end, the main character develops deep New England roots and a connection to Bristol. The authors will discuss the process of writing collaboratively, doing historical research, and transforming a paragraph from an 1886 family chronicle into an adventure story for young readers. Marshall Highet is a professor and writer. Her YA sci-fi novel Spare Parts was published in 2014. Spare Parts also has an educational bent and Marshall has worked in tandem with middle school, high school, and college educators to create a syllabus that pairs with the book. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family and two rescue dogs. Bird Jones is a faculty Emerita from Elon University. She has written extensively for academic journals as well as publishing an oral history of a small town in Maine. Her teaching and scholarship has taken her to far-flung parts of the world. She is an avid sailor and spends as much time as possible with her husband on their boat in Newport.

"Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick" Presented by Richard J. King January 16, 2020 Richard J. King comes to the Herreshoff Museum to present Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "Moby-Dick," a book sure to delight the naturalists, mariners, and readers among us. King will give a brief talk about the book, followed by discussion and book signing. He is also an illustrator, so he draws an original color cartoon in each book--a perfect holiday gift! Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "Moby-Dick" is the "best book ever written about nature," and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael's sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for "Moby-Dick" devotees and neophytes alike, "Ahab's Rolling Sea" is a chronological journey through the natural history and seamanship in Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, celestial navigation, and sharks, King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. About the author: Richard J. King is visiting associate professor of maritime literature and history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. For more than twenty years he has been sailing and teaching aboard tall ships in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He writes and illustrates a column on marine animals for Sea History magazine, edits the "Searchable Sea Literature" website, and was the founding series editor of Seafaring America. He sailed solo across the Atlantic in 2007 aboard a Pearson Triton. He is the author of "Lobster" and "The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History". For more information, visit richardjking.info. _ Herreshoff Marine Museum / America's Cup Hall of Fame Bristol, Rhode Island, 02809 www.herreshoff.org FB/IG: @Herreshoff

October 15, 2019 at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Description: New England is rich with stories and legends of ghost ships and pirates long dead. Blackbeard, Sandy Gordon, Captain Kidd and many more once called the region home; and still do. Phantom ships continue to roam the waters of the New England coast. Some mysteriously abandoned while other vanished never to be seen again , in the physical form anyway. Learn why Marblehead dreads the screeching Lady or who haunts the Isles of Shoals. Why does a phantom dory stalk the water off of New Hampshire and what happened to the Sea Bird's crew? Visit a real life haunted ship and more. About the Authors: Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson have been extensively studying and investigating paranormal accounts for over 36 years with well over 1200 investigations to their credit. Creators of 13 books and counting, together they have penned and captured on film the best haunts and history New England has to offer. Tom and Arlene's books include; Haunted Rhode Island, Haunted New Hampshire, Haunted Massachusetts, Pirate Ghosts and Phantom Ships, Abandoned Villages and Ghost Towns of New England, A Travel Guide to Haunted New England, A History of Vampires in New England, and the soon to be released, Haunted Vermont, Ghost Stories and Legends of Connecticut, Legends, Folklore and Secrets of New England, Rhode Island's Haunted Ramtail Factory, Ghosts Of The Blackstone Valley, and Litchfield County Ghosts. Other stories and accounts are featured in "Ghost Stories of New England" by Susan Smitten, "The Encyclopedia of Haunted Places" by Jeff Belanger, "Picture Yourself Ghost Hunting" and "Haunted Objects" by Christopher Balzano, and "Psychic Pets" by Dinah Roseberry. Tom is also a regular contributor to FATE magazine and the Patriot Yankee XPress News. Tom and Arlene work together with some of the best names in the field investigating the paranormal from New England and beyond. The couple hosts Dining With The Dead 1031, an interactive investigation dinner event where the guests become the investigators in some of the most haunted locales in the region. Thomas and Arlene presently reside in Connecticut. Discover more at www.tomdagostino.com and www.diningwiththedead1031.com Sponsored by: Pella Windows, American Cruise Lines, Gowrie Group, Pure Insurance, Points East Magazine, and Cisco Brewers

"Hull 341: The Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat, First Across the Atlantic" by Kent B. Lewis September 18th, 2019 Transatlantic travel was perilous during the first World War, and Allied shipping was preyed upon by German submarines. The United States was shipping sea planes to England to combat the German threat but needed a better way to get aircraft across the Atlantic. The design requirement for a flying boat emerged, one more than ten times larger than anything previously built, and the Navy turned to Glenn Curtiss. Together, they developed the Navy Curtiss Flying Boat, known as the N.C. or Nancy. The Nancies were designed towards the end of the war and did not fly until after the Armistice, but the Navy decided to finish the craft and validate the concept and design. No single company was large enough to build the entire aircraft, so components were contracted out to boat and coach manufacturers of the day. Herreshoff Manufacturing Company was asked to build one of the first four hulls, which they did in their Small Boat Shop. Herreshoff was known for conquering the Atlantic, and HMCo's hull number 341 became NC-4. She alone would finish the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic in May of 1919. The Nancies were technological marvels of their time, and NC-4 survives today preserved at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Lewis has had the permission of the Smithsonian Institution to examine the Herreshoff hull closely, and will share photos and archival material of NC-4 as she currently rests on her launch dolly. Captain Kent Lewis, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired) is designated an Unrestricted Naval Aviator who flew four types of rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft. He has a B.A. in History and Masters in Library Science, and he currently flies as a Captain for Delta Air Lines. Kent and his spouse Audrey are maritime historians who build and restore small boats when not messing about in them. Their blog can be found at smallboatrestoration.blogspot.com

December 12th, 2019 "In Contact with the Enemy: The Nazi Spy and U.S. Navy Lieutenant John F. Kennedy" A presentation by David Kohnen, Ph.D. Having secured a reserve commission in the U.S. Navy, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy served as the aide to the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. In this role, he received unique access to high grade intelligence sources as American naval forces waged a quasi-war in the Atlantic during the months preceding the Imperial Japanese attacks in the Pacific. Yet, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation unveiled evidence of a very close relationship with a suspected Nazi spy, Kennedy was hastily assigned to Rhode Island. He volunteered for duty in Motor Torpedo Boats and, as a result, Kennedy won fame as a U.S. Naval hero of the Second World War -- eventually becoming President of the United States. Biography: David Kohnen earned the PhD with the Laughton Professor of Naval History in the War Studies Department at the University of London (King's College London). He is the author of 21st Century Knox: Influence, Sea Power, and History for the Modern Era (Naval Institute Press, 2016) and Commanders Winn and Knowles: Winning the U-Boat War with Intelligence (Enigma Press, 1999). Looking to the future, Kohnen examines the underlying influence of history upon "sea power" in, Two Kings and a Navy: U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, the Anglo-American Special Relationship, and the Fifty Years War at Sea, 1901-1946 (under contract, Naval Institute Press).

The record of shipwrecks in Rhode Island begins immediately after the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century with the grounding of a Dutch trading vessel, and thousands more vessels came to grief in its waters in the following centuries, through bad weather, human error, equipment failure, and military action. Some of these shipwrecks were epic disasters, with many fatalities and the total loss of the vessel; others were relatively minor misfortunes in which the ships were salvageable. Come see the dramatic pictures and hear the fascinating stories of a select sample of shipwrecks! Charlotte Taylor is the author of Images of America: Rhode Island Shipwrecks, published in 2017. She is an archaeologist at the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, where her job includes maintaining an inventory of the location and condition of the state's shipwrecks (and very occasionally diving on them!).

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