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Item 17515
Title: Naval Air Station Operations Office, Brunswick, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1945
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 17521
Title: Weapons depot, Brunswick Naval Air Station, ca. 1943
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1943
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 17514
Title: WAVES, Brunswick Naval Air Station, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1945
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
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Exhibit
A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.
Exhibit
Lexington of the Seas: A Narrative
The story of the capture of the British ship Margaretta by a group of Patriots in Machias on June 12, 1755 has taken on legendary proportions, some of them deserved, some exaggerated to improve the story and to move Machias more toward the center of the Revolutionary War narrative.
Exhibit
Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death
Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.