Fort Stockton, San Diego

                        23 NOVEMBER 1846                     FORT STOCKTON, SAN DIEGO On the morning of 29 July 1846, the sloop USS CYANE, 20, dropped anchor in the quiet Mexican harbor of San Diego, whose peacefulness belied the war then raging between the US and Mexico.  Read More

The Gun from USS SHUBRICK

                    15 FEBRUARY–16 MAY 1865                    THE GUN FROM USS SHUBRICK                (outside the NMCSD Command Suite) RADM William Branford Shubrick’s Navy career was long and distinguished.  Born on 31 October 1790, Mr. Shubrick received his midshipman’s warrant in the Spring of 1806 Read More