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| Portfolio- Museum & Other Exhibit Displays- SOLD USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier Museum Corpus Christi, TX |
| USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier Museum The biggest project of the year, 2018, was 15 months in the making. I was contacted by the Texas Navy Association to construct an 1830’s Texas Navy display. The location of the display is on board the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was to be an 1830’s ship board exhibit complete with a 16’ long hand rail with two gun ports. These gun ports sported a matched pair of my concrete cannons mounted on naval carriages complete with block and tackle rigging. I also provided all the accessories like ram rods, sponges, worms, copper powder ladles, and linstock. A complete display of the projectiles that were used in this time frame were fabricated by me and mounted on a display table. They included cannon ball, standard bar shot, jointed bar shot, expanding bar shot, chain shot, and grape shot. These projectiles show just how deadly naval warfare was during Texas’ war with Mexico. It is hard to hold one of these without feeling the history. In fact, I have several school teachers using these props as visual aids in their history classes. The display and 1 minute video too can be seen here on the website. |
| Click on this 1 minute You Tube Video to view the 1830's Texas Navy Display I made on the USS Lexington. |
| I was contacted by the Texas Navy Association to construct an 1830’s Texas Navy display on board the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. |
| Below are separate pictures of the artillery items that I made for this display that you will see in the video. |
