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Medal, Merchant Marine Victory Medal

Ca. 1946

Medal, Merchant Marine, Distinguished Service Medal

Ca. 1944. Merchant Marine Distinguished Medal, lapel miniature, ribbon bar, and award card.

Medal, Merchant Marine, Mariner's Medal

Ca. 1944. Merchant Marine Mariner's Medal, ribbon bar, and award card.

Medal, Merchant Marine, Meritorious Service Medal

Ca. 1944. Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal, ribbon, and award card.

Medal, Merchant Marine, Victory Medal

Ca. 1946. Merchant Marine Victory Medal and ribbon bar. Award card is not a part of the display.

Medal, Norway, War Medal

Ca. 1940s. Krigsmedaljen

Medal, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (Type 3)

Ca. 1985. Soviet Union Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class decoration Jubilee version of 1985 (Type 3). The hallmark denotes it being manufactured at the "Moscow Coinyard." This medal was awarded to a number of U.S. Navy Armed Guard members for…

Medal, Soviet Union, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (Murmansk Medal)

Ca. 1994. Soviet Union Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and award booklet. The medal was instituted in 1985, but awarded to United States Merchant Mariners in 1994. It was given to those living veterans who…

Medal, Soviet Union, Medal "For Military Merit"

Ca. 1950. Postwar issue of the Soviet Union Medal "For Military Merit." Several medals of this sort were awarded to American Merchant seamen during the Second World War for their heroism on the Murmansk Run. A cadet-midshipman, Raymond R. Holubowicz…

Medal, Soviet Union, Medal "For Valor"

Ca. 1947. Postwar issue of the Soviet Union Medal "For Valor." Three medals of this sort were awarded to American Merchant seamen during the Second World War for their heroism on the Murmansk Run. In Russian, the proper name for the medal is "Медаль…

Medal, Soviet Union, Order of the Red Star

Ca. 1940s. Postwar issue of the Soviet Union Medal "Order of the Red Star." "For Military Merit." Four medals of this sort were awarded to American Merchant seamen during the Second World War for their heroism on the Murmansk Run; each of the…

Medal, United Kingdom, Polar Medal

Ca. 2021. Stamped silver on white ribbon. Manu.: Worchester Medal Service. Type 8.

Medal, United States Lines Distinguished Service Award

Ca. 1938. Medal to Philip W. Babock (OS) of SS American Farmer for courage and meritorious service in support of the rescue of Fishing Schooner Fieldwood. Also known as USL DSA.Designer unknown; struck by Dieges and Clust (D&C). It is 1/10 10K GF…

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Medal, United States Lines Distinguished Service Medal

Ca. 1956. Medal to James J. Smith (1st Ass't Engineer) of SS American Miller for courage and meritorious service in support of the rescue of SS Sea Mazzella. Also known as USL DSM.Designer unknown; struck by Dieges and Clust (D&C). It is 1/10 10K…

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Medal, United States Lines Mid-Atlantic Games - SS George Washington

Ca. 1925. Awarded to passengers and crew who participated in deck games - the "games" were humorous tasks allotted to two or more teams and were organized in good fun.Designer unknown; struck by Dieges and Clust .

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Medal, United States Lines Mid-Atlantic Games - SS Leviathan

Ca. 1923. Awarded to passengers and crew who participated in deck games - the "games" were humorous tasks allotted to two or more teams and were organized in good fun.Designer unknown; struck by Dieges and Clust .

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Medal, United States Lines Mid-Atlantic Games - SS Republic

Ca. 1925. Awarded to passengers and crew who participated in deck games - the "games" were humorous tasks allotted to two or more teams and were organized in good fun.Designer unknown; struck by Dieges and Clust .

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Medal, United States Maritime Service, Training Station, Sheepshead Bay, Small Boat Sailing Award

Ca. 1944. USMSTS Sheepshead Bay small boat handling/sailing award. Reverse has text, "Victory Crew."The training station regularly held small boat handling/sailing competitions. This medal is an award given to the best crew in one of the…

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Medal, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Athletic

Ca. 1940s.

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Medal, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Athletic

Ca. 1940s.

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Medal, United States Treasury Silver Lifesaving Medal

Medal awarded to Elmer J. Stull "For bravely assisting in rescuing three men from perils of the sea, September 29, 1932." The decoration one of two classes of awards called the Congressional Lifesaving Medal. From the estate of Captain Elmer J.…

Medal, United States, World War I Victory Medal with U.S. Navy Patrol clasp and New York State War Service Medal

Ca. 1920-1921. ex-Graham Covert

Model, Liberty Ship

Pamphlet, Heroes Today, Tramps Tomorrow?

Pamphlet published in 1943 by the National Maritime Union to call attention to the fact Amercian merchant seaman were without Social Security and adequate financial protections during the Second World War. William Gropper illustrated the pamphlet.

Patch (Lapel), Matson Navigation Co.

In the 1930s and 1940s, licensed officers and stewards wore a Matson house flag on their lapels. This was a not a common uniform device and was used by a few of the larger steamship companies; e.g. Robin Line and Matson.

Patch (Shoulder), United States Navy U.S. Technician

Ca. 1943. Early in the Second World War, the motto was 'C.T."

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Photograph - Digital, Ira Van Cleave

Scan of a portrait of Ira Van Cleave in his United States Maritime Service uniform. Circa mid-1940s.

Photograph, "Mail Cadet", Deck Cadet

ca. 1920s. Prior to the institution of the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps in 1938, the Federal government-sponsored cadets to work aboard federally-subsidized vessels. This is a rare photograph of a cadet from this period.There are some…

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Photograph, Lynn Baggett "Miss Maritime Day"

"Lynne Baggette, Warner Bro[ther]s featured played in 'Pillow to Post,' was selected by the editors of Maritime Murmurs, Merchant Marine publication at Catalina Island as 'Miss Maritime [Day].' She will review 4000 trainees at the island training…

Photograph, Merchant Seaman, Norway

ca. 1940s-1970s. ex-Jøte Wiklund of Sigerfjord, Norway . I do not know what 8410 on the reverse of the photograph may indicate; it may be an old post code. In the summer of 1996 I moved into a mostly-furnished apartment at 95 Governor Street in…

Photograph, United Fruit, 2nd Officer

Ca. 1940s. United Fruit 2nd Officer - as noted on cap band. The shoulder boards are of the generial deck officer type as was common in the early 1940s.

Pin (Lapel), British Antarctic Survey Club

Ca. 2020. Pin worn on the lapel of a BAS member's jacket.

Pipe, Corncob

Ca. 2008. Also known as "Popeye Pipe." Popeye the Sailorman would often suck spinach through his pipe.Purchased in October 2008 from Noho Convenience Store, 640 Broadway, New York City. "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm strong…

Plaque, HMNZS Otago

HMNZS Otago (F111) was a frigate in the Royal New Zealand Navy. As part of "Operation Pilaster," this ship was involved in New Zealand's protest of France's atomic bomb testing in the Pacific in 1973 - she had specific orders to convey strength and…

Plaque, RRS Shackleton

RRS Shackleton wardroom plaque. Shackleton served with FIDS and BAS from 1955 through 1992. The central device is comprised of three buckles – a play on the Shackleton family name, “shackles” which are a form of a buckle.

Plaque, United States Navy, United States Naval Communications Station - Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory

Ca. 1970s. Wardroom plaque, US NAVCOMMSTA Diego Garcia BIOT.Immediately after the eviction of the island's residents and clearing the territory of the civilian population, the British and United States governments set about to militarize Diego…

Rating Badges, Section Leader, New York Merchant Marine Academy

Ca. 1930s-1940s. With the rename of the New York State Nautical School to the New York Merchant Marine Academy in 1929, all insignia for NYSNS also had their designs changed. On patches, instead of the unwieldy, New York Merchant Marine Academy, the…

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Ribbon bar, Merchant Marine, multiple

ca. 1944. War Shipping Administration Merchant Marine War Zone bars: Atlantic War Zone, Mediterranean-Middle East War Zone, and Pacific War Zone.

Ribbon, Gallant Ship Citation Bar & Mariner's Medal

Ca. 1944. Cadet-Midshipman Arthur R. Chamberlain, Jr. Gallant Ship Citation ribbon bar, and Merchant Marine Mariner's Medal and citation letter to Mrs. S. Chamberlain (mother)."Mariner's Medal given to Cadet Midshipman Arthur Richard Chamberlin, Jr.,…

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