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Hatnpton Roads' Oldest Enen1y Volume 2, Issue 6 A Newsletter for the Supporters of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum The frigate USS Constitution, along with the ships USS A[gus, Enterprise, Siren and lntrep.id and several gunboats, on loan from the King of Naples, give the American response to the pirates ' demands for more tribute, August 1804. (U.S. Navy photo ofan oil painting by Michel F. Corne) Hatnpton Roads' Oldest Enen1y ver since America became an "Hand to Hand is Not Return to Tripoli: E independent country, it has been in conflict with the states of North Child's Play": 1801-1806 Sixth Fleet vs. Libya, 1986 Africa, most notably Tripolitania/ by Joe Mosier by Matt Burchfield Libya. The Naval bases, ships and n May 14, 1801, Yusef ommodore Edward Preble crews of Hampton Roads have been Karamanli, Bashaw of Tripoli, wrote to the Secretary of the principle players in operations sent men to chop down the Navy in 1804 that "[the Barbary against these countries. The first O C flagpole in front of the American States] are a deep, designing, artful, article discusses the early 19th Consulate. In land barren of trees tall treacherous set of villains, and nothing century campaign against the pirates enough for replacements, this was the will keep them so quiet as a respectable of the Barbary Coast. The second accepted way to declare war. Tripoli, naval force near them." One hundred and article discusses the "Freedom of together with Tunis, Algiers and eighty-two years after Preble wrote these Navigation " maneuvers and strikes by Morocco, comprised the Barbary States. remarks, the situation between the two Norfolk-based warships against Col. Although nominally ruled from the powers had not changed that much. Gadhaffi 's forces 185 years later. Ottoman capital of Constantinople, each During the 1980's, the dictator of • Inside The Day Book was in effect a sovereign country. For Libya, Col. Mamommar Gadhaffi, had years one of the principal sources of planned and sponsored a series of Director's Column.............. 2 income along the Barbary coast ofNorth incidents and acts ofterrorism against the Builder's Half-Models .......... .3 Africa was the seizure of foreign ships West, in an attempt to gain more prestige NADEP Exhibit................... 4 and the sale of their Christian crews and and influence among his Arab neighbors. Volunteer News & Notes ..... S passengers as slaves. Following the Among his more blatant attempts was the Museum Sage..................... ! I American War of Independence, U.S. claiming of the Gulf of Sidra, the body Barbary continued on page 6 Libya continued on page 8 Where in the World is the Hampton Roads Naval Museum? The Director's Column by Becky Poulliot e recently embarked on an museum operated by the Navy. retired. Modified videos will go to ambitious public relations We start by targeting interested schools, civic groups, corporations Wand marketing plan to segments of the audienc.e. Military and individual sponsors. The new make residents of Hampton Roads personnel will scion fi~d Speaker' s Bureau brochures should aware of our existence. In June, the advertisements in their bags when be mass mailed to area civic groups first phase of the plan was shopping at the Exchange or by the year's end. implemented. A local research firm Commissary. These advertisemenls Look for an advertisement conducted a phone survey of 325 will double as coupons and allo~ campaign in the local newspaper in respondents to determine aided and those who validate them at th:e the upcoming weeks, which will unaided awareness of our museum. museum to get discounts at loc~l make good use of a crisper logo and We fared poorly on unaided restaurants and ent9rtainment tag line. We are keeping the sloop­ awareness; no one listed us of-war USS Cumberland as the independently when asked to name Work is certainly needed museum ' s logo because of its museums in south Hampton Roads. in the area of military significance to our mission. For those However, when prompted, or aided, awareness, which we had of you who are not aware of it, 58% knew about us. The military and hoped would be much higher. Cumberland fought in the Civil civilian population were evenly split War's Battle of Hampton Roads and along awareness lines. It is our goal to imbue a sense was rammed by the ironclad CSS The findings, which are 90% ofownership for the region's Virginia. The museum is the only statistically accurate, contain a wealth only museum operated by the repository of its artifacts, which were of useful information to guide us in uncovered through an underwater future marketing efforts. It is a Navy. archaeology excavation. benchmark to measure against, and a facilities. These coupons will also be To ensure the professionalism of foundation to build upon. Work is inserted into the Flagship, the Naval our product, the museum is seeking certainly needed in the area of Base's official newspaper. the help of the American Association military awareness, which we had We also began the distribution of of Museums through their Museum hoped would be much higher. It is informational videos, mentioned in Assessment Program. Peers from the our goal to imbue a sense of the last issue, to target military field will examine how we discover, ownership for the region's only organizations, both active duty and interest and evaluate our audience. Before their visit, we are conducting About The Day Book HRNM Staff an in-house survey to determine The Day Book is an authorized publication ofthe Hampton Director visitor response to the permanent Becky Poulliot Roads Naval Musewn (HRNM). ltscontentsdonotnecessarily exhibits. That effort is being assisted reflect the official view ofthe U.S. Government, the Department Curator of Defense, the U.S. Navy or the U.S. MarineCorpsanddonot Joe Judge by docent Harold An ten and summer imply endorsement thereof. The HRNM is a museum dedicated Education Specialist interns Josh Brown and Matt to the study of 200 years of naval history in the Hampton Roads Bob Matteson Burchfield. Exhibits Specialist region. The musewn is open daily from I 0 am. to 5 p.m. With all these efforts, we should The Day Book's purpose is to educate and inform readers on Marta Nelson historical topics and musewn related events. It is written by the Museum Technician see an improved awareness level • staff and volunteers of the musewn. The newsletter takes its Ofelia Elbo when a second telephone survey is name from a 19th century Norfolk newspaper. Assistant Curator conducted next year. We' ll keep you Tom Dandes BTCS (SW) Questions or comments can be directed to the Hampton informed of how these projects go. Roads Naval Museum editor. The Day Book can be reached at HRNM LPO (757) 444-8971 , by fax at (757) 445-1867, or write The Day SK I Santos Vega Please drop in and examine the Book, Hampton Roads Naval Museum, One Waterside Drive, Editor of The Day Book written reports concerning the survey Suite 248, Norfolk, VA 23510-1607. The museum can be found Gordon Calhoun and the marketing and public Director, HRNHF on the World Wide Web at http://xroads.virginiaedu/-VAM/ relations plan. A vamhome.htrnl . The Day Book is published bi-monthly with a Maj.Gen.Dennis Murphy, circulation of I ,000. USMC (Ret) 2 Shipbuilding and Design with Half a Hull The Museum Collection of 19th century Half-Models by Dana Wagner and Joe Judge ' f the many ship models in the out of thick laminations of Hampton Roads Naval wood call "lifts." Pine was a OMuseum's collection, the most popular wood used to make important are "builder' s models." these lifts. Sometimes the Builder's models are ship models used designer alternated woods and by naval architects as an aide in design used, for example, pine and and production of the ship itself. Naval cedar lifts. For larger vessels, design and policy makers can use such lifts were planned down to models to debate features of a ship. represent one or two feet of Two examples of these builder' s thickness on the hull of the real models at the museum are the battleship ship. the ship of the half model's hull by · drawing it full sized on the mould loft floor. These skilled craftsmen easily noticed errors in smooths, or fairing, at this stage. Thin planks were cut and pieced together to match the lines on the floor, creating full-sized patterns called "moulds." These moulds were taken out to the shipyard to guide the cutting out of the ship's frames. The entire process is known as "lofting." USS Virginia (BB-13) and the aircraft Shown above is a builder's halfmodel ofthe 74- After lofting, the half model had gun ship-of-the-line USS Delaware. Loftsmen carrier USS America (CV -66). served its purpose. Some became would build a ship by reproducing a foil-size copy A special kind of builder' s ofthe model. The model itselfis only about three kindling on chilly mornings at the model is a "half-model." Half models feet in length. But, it was detailed for workers to shipyard. Other were nailed or glued represented half of a ship's hull, usually be able to produce a hull several hundred feet back together for display in the yards long. The final product of the above half-model the starboard side. The museum has or in designer's offices. Many have is shown below. two excellent examples of half models in its collection: the 74-gun ship-of-the­ line USS Delaware and the 12-gun brig USS Truxtun.
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