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6-Year-Old EJ's Dream Comes True with a Visit to Galveston Naval Museum

In a heartwarming gesture of kindness and community support, Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana is making a young boy's dream...

Collection Spotlight June

This month we are spotlighting the USS Stewart’s Commissioning Pennant. This pennant would have been given to the crew, and flown on the...

Daniel Edward Jackson Volunteer Drive

Born May 25, 1958 in Wiesbaden, Germany, Mr. Jackson had been an active docent with the Galveston Navel Museum. He proudly served and...

September collection Spotlight

CAVALLA DOUGH HOOK This month we are highlighting a fresh bit of archaeology that was done aboard USS Cavalla. Earlier this month...

The Loss of the Seawolf

The Seawolf left Brisbane, Australia on her last patrol on Sept. 29, 1944. She was carrying 17 Army personnel and supplies for an...

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Rudolph P. Biro Memoriam

Truly a man of the sea from birth, this son of a sailor was born near the Naval Shipyard in D.C. GMC Biro joined the Naval Reserves...

Zeke Zellmer Memoriam

"As an Ensign of the commissioning crew you were in the conning tower when Cavalla sank the Japanese Carrier SHOKAKU in June 1944. You...