USS Huron Shipwreck

09/02/2026

Finding the remains of Titanic...

09/02/2026

"Farewell to Grog..."

A Farewell…

Grog, the diluted rum ration traditionally associated with Vice Adm. Edward Vernon of the Royal Navy, became a familiar part of naval life on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1775, John Adams helped draft the first regulations for the Navy of the United Colonies. Nearly two decades later, Congress authorized a daily ration of distilled spirits or beer for U.S. Navy personnel.

However, on July 14, 1862, Congress passed legislation abolishing the daily spirit ration issued to Sailors aboard U.S. Navy vessels, effective Sept. 1, 1862. Those entitled to the ration instead received an additional five cents per day in pay.

As the end of the spirit ration approached, Casper Schenck, U.S.N., put pen to paper and wrote “Farewell to Grog,” setting the scene in a U.S. Navy wardroom on the night of Aug. 31, 1862.

This short ditty was found among the papers of the “Alcoholic Spirits” folder in the Navy Department Library’s ZV files, located in the Rare Book Room.

The Naval History and Heritage Command connects the American public to their Navy, inspiring future generations through the preservation and presentation of our nation's rich maritime history.
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09/02/2026

A Farewell…

Grog, the diluted rum ration traditionally associated with Vice Adm. Edward Vernon of the Royal Navy, became a familiar part of naval life on both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1775, John Adams helped draft the first regulations for the Navy of the United Colonies. Nearly two decades later, Congress authorized a daily ration of distilled spirits or beer for U.S. Navy personnel.

However, on July 14, 1862, Congress passed legislation abolishing the daily spirit ration issued to Sailors aboard U.S. Navy vessels, effective Sept. 1, 1862. Those entitled to the ration instead received an additional five cents per day in pay.

As the end of the spirit ration approached, Casper Schenck, U.S.N., put pen to paper and wrote “Farewell to Grog,” setting the scene in a U.S. Navy wardroom on the night of Aug. 31, 1862.

This short ditty was found among the papers of the “Alcoholic Spirits” folder in the Navy Department Library’s ZV files, located in the Rare Book Room.

The Naval History and Heritage Command connects the American public to their Navy, inspiring future generations through the preservation and presentation of our nation's rich maritime history.
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09/02/2026

ECU Program in Maritime Studies...lots of great candidates for this job out there.

We're hiring!
Museum Curator Supervisor
Administrate and supervise education branch and staff at the NCMM at Beaufort. Supervise educational branch staff in curatorial level technical work in secondary/teaching collections, taxonomic identification, exhibit implementation, publication writing and proofing, in developing and implementing programming and special events that are part of educational branch responsibilities.

https://nc.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/NC_Careers/job/Carteret-County-NC/Museum-Curator-Supervisor-60083653MOH-Hybrid_JR-123143

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

Ballard Called It an Undisturbed Crime Scene
U-166 torpedoed the passenger steamer Robert E. Lee on 30 July 1942, about 45 miles south of the Mississippi Delta, and was destroyed by depth charges from the es**rt PC-566 within minutes of the attack. Nobody accepted that at the time. Her commander's kill was disallowed, credit went to a Coast Guard aircraft that had attacked an entirely different submarine 140 miles away two days later, and U-166 became a puzzle in the record with no known resting place. She stayed that way for 59 years, until marine archaeologists surveying a pipeline route in 5,000 feet of water in 2001 picked up two large pieces of wreckage and a debris field less than a mile from the ship she had sunk.
Robert Ballard brought the exploration vessel Nautilus to the site in 2014 and put ROVs down on it, and the phrase he used afterwards was that it was an undisturbed crime scene. He meant it literally. Nothing had been salvaged, nothing had been dragged, and every piece was lying where it fell in 1942. The main hull is largely intact with the conning tower, periscope and deck guns still recognisable. The bow is not attached to it. It lies roughly 500 feet away with catastrophic crushing damage, and the evidence points to the depth charges having set off her own torpedoes in the forward room and blown the front of the boat clean off. All 52 men aboard died. In December 2018 the United States listed the U-boat and her last victim together on the National Register of Historic Places, as a single site.

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