Name/Title
Ornament, Pilot-houseEntry/Object ID
2012.0016.024Tags
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Piece of glass window from the pilot house of the "Tulip" a Union gunboat used during the Civil War to blockade the waters surroundeing the Northern Neck. It sunk in the Potomac off Coles Point when its boiler blew up.
Gift of Miriam Haynie. Found by Chris Baker of Richmond 1992 who dove on the wreck.
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