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Wooden Hulls & Rag-Tag Fleets:
From the Continental to the US Navy
Wooden Hulls & Rag-Tag Fleets:
From the Continental to the US Navy
A Free Panel Discussion
Friday, June 5th
7:00PM
The ATHENAEUM
201 PRINCE STREET
Old Town, Alexandria
Doors open at 6:30. Light refreshments will be available
Join us for the combined AHS / Athenaeum salute to the upcoming Sails on the Potomac when we host a panel of experts discussing an overview of the early days of the US Navy and its predecessor, the Continental Navy.
Our free, family-friendly Friday night prelude to Sails on the Potomac will include:
Dr. Tom Sheppard, author of Commanding Petty Despots who will discuss the creation of the Continental Navy, its officer corps, and the accomplishments & struggles of the American Revolutionary war at sea.
Mr. Chris Martin from the Ships, Stations and Squadrons Histories Branch of the Naval History & Heritage Command, who will describe what some of the early Navy ships were like.
Information on Alexandria's own Tall Ship Providence, a reproduction of the first Continental Navy ship, and the following week's Sails on the Potomac, part of Sail 250.
We will conclude with an informal Q&A session on all things early Navy.
Our Panelists
Our Panelists
DR. THOMAS SHEPPARD is an Assistant Professor of Military History at the Marine Corps University Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. He earned his doctorate in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has appeared in the Journal of Military History and Strategic Studies Quarterly. He lives in northern Virginia.
MR. CHRIS MARTIN is a Historian for the Naval History & Heritage Command. He received a Bachelor's degree in Communications and a Master's degree in History from George Mason University.
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