Subject Type: Working

Tug built by and for Newport News Shipbuilding as a project of their apprentice school.

Push boat built by and for the Charles Ward Engineering Works of Charleston, West Virginia.

Virginia was commissioned by the Virginia Pilots Association and designed by naval engineers Cox and Stevens. The designers were instructed to model the vessel after the America’s Cup competitors of the day. She was built by A.C. Brown & Son of Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, and was completed in 1916.

Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge built in Hampton, Virginia, 1916.

Botters were fishing boats designed to sail the shallow Dutch waters.