Bill Bleyer will present an informative lecture beginning with the country’s Revolutionary maritime history all the way through to the World Wars of the twentieth Century. Bleyer will touch on events such as the first amphibious landing on Plum Island, the British blockade and wreck of HMS Culloden, and the Meigs and other whaleboat raids; submarine warfare and the wreck of the British 22 -gun sloop-of-war Sylph during the War of 1812; Confederate raiders capturing Union shipping just offshore during the Civil War; the sinking of the only American Capital Warship in World War 1 off Fire Island; and the U-boats dropping off spies and attacking commercial vessels during World War 2. 

Members free, nonmembers suggested donation $5.