Hampton Roads Naval Museum
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Hampton Roads Naval Museum
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"Hampton Roads" is a condensed version of the original name given by the region's settlers to the harbor in southeastern Virginia known then as Southampton's Roadstead. The term "Hampton" dates from the early 17th century when the first royal governor, Lord de la Ware, named the area in honor of The Earl of Southampton, a major investor of the Virginia Company of London, the financial backers of the Jamestown settlers. In addition, "Roadstead" is an old English word for a protected harbor. Some things never change: just as sports stadiums, libraries, and college buildings today are named for major sponsors and donors, so it was then. The third Earl of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, was not only a Jamestown investor but also a patron of the arts and champion of young William Shakespeare. Hampton Roads refers to the body of water between the Virginia Peninsula (to the North) and Southside, the southern part of southeastern Virginia. It is formed by the confluence of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers and flows into the Chesapeake Bay, whose watershed covers 64,000 square miles and all or part of six states (NY, PA, WV, MD, DE and VA) and Washington, DC. Hampton Roads is one of the world's biggest and deepest natural harbors, the largest in North America, and is home to the world's largest naval base at Norfolk. Hampton Roads has been well known within nautical and maritime communities for centuries.
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- Puppet Tour of the Museum
- Hampton Roads
- Seaman's Jacket & ECD uniform
- Battle off the Virginia Capes
- Ville de Paris
- Capture of USS Chesapeake
- 18-Pounder Naval Cannon
- USS Chesapeake
- USS Constellation
- US Gunboat 135
- American Musket, 1812
- First American Drydock
- USS Delaware
- USS Norfolk
- Fore and Aft Hat
- USS Pennsylvania
- Intro to the Civil War
- The Anaconda Plan
- Life At Sea
- Confederate Defenses
- USS Monitor
- CSS Virginia
- Duel of the Ironclads
- USS Cumberland
- USS Congress
- USS Minnesota
- Capture of Roanoke Island
- G.W.P. Custis
- USS Roanoke
- USS New Ironsides
- Engine Room Clock
- Gangway Headboards
- USS Onondaga
- Fall of Fort Fisher
- CSS Richmond
- CSS Florida
- The Civil War Final
- Shipfitters' tools, 1800s
- Steel Navy
- USS Maine
- Spanish-American War
- The Great White Fleet
- Jamestown Exposition
- Naval Station Norfolk
- Birth of Naval Aviation
- USS Truxtun (DD-14)
- USS Subchaser 136
- Mines in WWI
- Propaganda Posters
- USS New York (BB-34)
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