EPISODE · Mar 5, 2013 · 8 MIN
Bone Ship Model
from A History of the Navy in 100 Objects · host United States Naval Academy
Video 3 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is about bone ship models.
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One of the most well-know exhibits of the Naval Academy Museum is the collection of roughly two dozen model ships constructed almost entirely of bone by French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars. Although not specifically U.S. Navy history, the collection nevertheless helps set the stage for understanding the conditions into which the American Navy was born. The War of 1812 loomed on the horizon, and in that war the U.S. Navy would be put to the test.
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