Ship / Boat History

Con­tritubed by Else Mar­tin The A‑1 STEAM TUG ROLLA, Novem­ber 1874 VALENTINE DELMAS, MASTER Does any­one have a pho­to of the Rol­la? Hav­ing been thor­ough­ly over­hauled and repaired, is now ready for  TOWING & LIGHTERING at usu­al rates Ves­sels draw­ing 15 feet and under…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin 1994 – Ingalls, 5 deliv­ered total 317 ves­sels deliv­ered to date. Jan 31 — USS Port Roy­al (CG 73) Aegis Guid­ed Mis­sile Cruis­er, U. S. Navy Pacif­ic Bat­tle­ship Cen­ter — Bat­tle­ship USS Iowa July 9th, 1994 — USS Port…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin JULY 6, 1918 — 97 YEARS AGO in MOSS POINT! Post card pho­to of the “Alpa­co” from the fam­i­ly of Mack Hob­dy- “To Hell with the Kaiser!” “Let’s launch the good ship ALPACO ahead of sched­ule!” 1918 –…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin The New Orleans Ship Lists of very ear­ly years were tran­scribed by WPA in 1938. This was the record of ves­sels that entered the Port of New Orleans. There is only one set of these tran­scrip­tions…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin The Schooner “William Mar­tin”, Built at Grasshop­per Point on Bluff Creek, ca 1885 Typ­i­cal for char­coal and tur­pen­tine prod­ucts. This schooner was typ­i­cal of the schooners that trav­eled between New Orleans and Mobile haul­ing loads of char­coal,…
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-Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin- Here is the site about the U‑Boat sink­ing in the Gulf of Mex­i­co in 1942. I have had sev­er­al inquiries about this event since the show was tele­vised May 6, 2015. NOVA — PBS “Nazi Attack on…
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Newest items added to top upon revi­sions ‑Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin- JOE POL’S PILOT BOAT — 1901 Pascagoula Pilot Asso­ci­a­tion: Demo­c­rat Star, May 17, 1901, Local News “The Pascagoula Pilot Asso­ci­a­tion has con­tract­ed with­de­signed and builder, Mr. Joe Pol, to build a…
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-Con­tributed by Judy South­ern Hester- 

-Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin- PORT of ENTRY, EAST PASCAGOULA, State of Mis­sis­sip­pi 1877 — Pascagoula Star, June 8, 1877 East Pascagoula, lies imme­di­ate­ly on the seashore, and is the prin­ci­pal Port of Entry of the State of Mis­sis­sip­pi, where ves­sels from…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin Geneal­o­gy and Local His­to­ry Depart­ment The “Pascagoula,” was built by Dierks-Blod­gett Ship­build­ing Com­pa­ny of Pascagoula. This pho­to, tak­en by the Dierks fam­i­ly, is from the ship’s tri­al run in 1918. This dig­i­tal pho­to was donat­ed to…
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Con­tributed by Else Mar­tin Between the “Dev­il and the Deep Blue Sea” Nau­ti­cal Expres­sions and their ori­gin “Between the Dev­il and the Deep” In wood­en ships, the “dev­il” was the longest seam of the ship. It ran from the bow to the…
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1913 — LOWERY ISLAND MARINE WAYS… Pascagoula Chron­i­cle, 30 Aug 1913. A Deed of Con­veyance was giv­en Sat­ur­day by F. H. Lewis, W. M. Canty, E. J. Jane’, W. R. Kell and J. A. Tabor to the Unit­ed States, for…
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