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Jones’s list of surviving artifacts and would like to add to that information. I write a blog about how people in the United States (and elsewhere) decorate boats and the meanings behind those decorations. My 5 January 2022 blog post at www.hullartships.com shows Hartford’s huge carvedHeifer Project cattle bound for Ethiopia, 1947. wood trailboards and complex billethead hunger relief in 26 countries throughout from the Mariners’ Museum collection in the world. An interesting part of its work Newport News, Virginia. I also included is “passing on the gift” where the recipient Hartford’s gilded stern eagle from a photo of an animal gives, in turn, to another fam- I took at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum in 1983. ily in need. The article was fine reading. Carol Olsen John Gill Annapolis, Maryland Little Rock, Arkansas A Legacy in Bits and Pieces Todd Jones’s article on the story and demise of USS Hartford (in Sea History 176) is engaging for its coverage of people, events, chronology, conservation efforts, and the ultimate fate of the ship. I also appreciated USS Hartford billethead at The Mariners’ Museum
one of the premier exhibits in the Naval Academy Museum’s Gallery of Ships is a model of USS Hartford, sponsored by that class, pictured below. Should anyone want to see Hartford the way she was at Mobile Bay, a visit to the museum would be in order. VADM Robert F. Dunn, USN (Ret.) Alexandria, Virginia
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photo by carol olsen
Seagoing Heifers I was pleased to see that the Winter 2021– 2022 issue of Sea History noted the work of Heifer International in Little Rock, Arkansas, hundreds of miles from salt water, in Dr. Joshua Smith’s article on merchant ships and post-war relief. As noted in the article, Heifer is still doing the work it began in World War II and now provides
I much appreciated the story about USS Hartford in the recent issue of Sea History. USS Hartford is of particular interest to the Naval Academy Class of 1951 because
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