On Friday afternoon members visited Fort McHenry, returning in time
for the traditional dinner and speaker on Friday evening at the
hotel. Saturday featured a full schedule of
interesting talks on Napoleonic subjects, with a special presentation on the role played
by the United States in the war of 1812, and the British attempt to capture Baltimore in 1814.
USS Constellation
Gun deck of the Constellation
Early Saturday evening, we were shuttled from the hotel to Baltimore's famous Inner Harbor,
where we werwe treated with a private guided tour on board the US frigate
Constellation. Fr there we proceeded a short distance to the Admiral Fell’s sister hotel,
Pier 5, where we enjoyed a splendid annual
banquet.
The US Naval Academy at Annapolis
Bancroft Hall
Tomb of John Paul Jones
On Sunday we traveled by bus to nearby Annapolis, where
we visited the United
States Naval Academy and its recently renovated museum, which covers not only the history of the
Navy during the Napoleonic period, but its subsequent eras as well. The museum is also the home of
the world famous Rogers Collection of 18th and early 19th century dockyard models, considered
to be the finest in North America. Sunday evening will see the usual "survivors’
dinner" for those able stay over and depart on Monday morning.
Naval Academy Museum
Sword of john Paul Jones
Captain James Lawrence,
whose dying words "Don't give up
the ship"
became the watchword of the US Navy
Dockyard model (detail)
Ivory model of a ship of the line
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