First time shanty singing and we had the best time. Will most assuredly return!! - Melissa T.
Join Tall Ship Providence and Ship’s Company Chanteymen for a monthly shanty sing at The Pier Bar! Come dressed in your best pirate garb, grab a drink from The Pier Bar ,and sing along with traditional sea shanties! Request Ship’s Company to lead your favorite sea shanty, or volunteer to lead it yourself!
Tickets $10/person to cover the cost of the performers. Drinks not included.
In early March 1776, Providence and the Continental forces facing severe shortages of gunpowder and ammunition sailed to Nassau in the Bahamas, intending to raid British stockpiled military supplies. Although the element of surprise was lost when British forces spotted incoming ships in the harbor, the Americans captured two forts and seized artillery and other supplies before returning to New England.
Join us to discuss the 1776 Marine raid on Nassau, widely recognized as the first amphibious landing conducted by American forces and the first combat operation involving the Continental Marines and Navy.
Following graduation from the University of Maryland, Charles P. Neimeyer began his professional career as a military officer with the United States Marine Corps in 1976. Following the completion of training at The Basic School, he was assigned the military MOS of artillery and received additional professional artillery instruction at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. During his 20-year active-duty military career he served in all three Marine Corps divisions, to include service as a strategic plans officer at Headquarters, Marine Corps; on the military staff at the White House for Presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton; and as an instructor at the US Naval Academy and Naval War College. He retired from active service in 1996. He then returned to the Naval War College in 1997 as a professor of national security affairs. In 2006 he became the Director and Chief of Marine Corps History, Quantico, Virginia. He remained in that capacity until his retirement from civilian federal service in January of 2018. Upon completion of federal service, he received the Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the Marine Corps University Foundation Chapman Medallion.
A prolific author, Charles P. Neimeyer has published numerous military history articles in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He has authored the following books: America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army, 1775–1783 (NYU Press, 1996), The Revolutionary War (Greenwood Press, 2007), War Comes to the Chesapeake: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813–1814 (Naval Institute, 2015), and Marines in Crisis (Marine Corps University Press 2024). He remains active in the field of education as an adjunct professor for the Naval War College’s Fleet Seminar Program and for Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
Tickets $15/person. Includes a glass of wine per person.
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