Expect stunning water views, ecological diversity, and Southern classics on Alabama's Coastal Connection, a National Scenic ...

One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold.

Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an “ocean-and-engineering program” that actually was a highly classified ...

Admiral Farragut assumed control in these early ... through withering fire from Confederate cannons in 1864’s Battle of Mobile Bay (“damn the torpedoes!”). Tour the chapel on the second ...

Also, items from the USS Hartford include his desk, his cash box and his cabin panels. Admiral Farragut commanded the USS Hartford during the Battle of Mobile Bay, a key Union victory during the Civil ...

FARRAGUT, Tenn. (WATE ... the ship he commanded in the Union’s critical victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay, are also on display. A third gallery at the museum will used as a rotating ...

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, who was the first admiral ... it’s usually from a famous utterance during the Battle of Mobile Bay on Aug. 5, 1864. During this Civil War battle, it was ...

Admiral Farragut received orders that summer to ... full speed ahead,” and they did. During the Battle of Mobile Bay the fort reportedly fired over 500 rounds of all sizes, heavily damaging ...

We now believe that with the iron soul of our Admiral all things ... it will be found that FARRAGUT has won many grander victories than those of New-Orleans and Mobile Bay. Fort Morgan looks ...

The details of the glorious news from Admiral FARRAGUT's fleet ... and passed the forts at the entrance of Mobile Bay. At first it was intended that operations should commence on the 4th, but ...