Helping tell the story of the USS Essex
I attended the annual Gales Of November conference in Duluth, MN yesterday, which is a day-long celebration of the maritime history of the North Shore area.
My friends Ann Merriman and Chris Olson of Maritime Heritage Minnesota gave a great talk on the USS Essex, which is wrecked just outside the Duluth harbor. The Essex is significant because it is Minnesota's only U.S. Naval shipwreck -- Chris and Ann have been working on documenting the wreck and recommending various ways to preserve it for the future.
We were happy to contribute many of the digital images that were shown in MHM's presentation. We were able to get on the wreck on a couple of different occasions, taking both still and video images that helped document the current state of the wreck for MHM's analysis.
MHM is a non-profit that could always use donations to continue their work. They have several different projects going on, including the Essex work, documenting steamboat shipwrecks in the upper Mississippi River, and investigating wrecks in Lake Minnetonka from the early 1900's. Take a look at their site and donate.
My friends Ann Merriman and Chris Olson of Maritime Heritage Minnesota gave a great talk on the USS Essex, which is wrecked just outside the Duluth harbor. The Essex is significant because it is Minnesota's only U.S. Naval shipwreck -- Chris and Ann have been working on documenting the wreck and recommending various ways to preserve it for the future.
We were happy to contribute many of the digital images that were shown in MHM's presentation. We were able to get on the wreck on a couple of different occasions, taking both still and video images that helped document the current state of the wreck for MHM's analysis.
MHM is a non-profit that could always use donations to continue their work. They have several different projects going on, including the Essex work, documenting steamboat shipwrecks in the upper Mississippi River, and investigating wrecks in Lake Minnetonka from the early 1900's. Take a look at their site and donate.
Comments