By Jerome Kirkland  Hampton Roads Naval Museum Educator John Ericsson may best be remembered as the designer of the Civil War ironclad US...

This is a half-model of the 12-gun brig USS Truxtun. The model dates to 1841, making it the second oldest artifact in the museum galler...

This is a sketch of the U.S. Navy's Home/Gulf Squadron off the coast of the Brazos de Santiago at the start of the Mexican-American Wa...