Sketch of H.M.S. Barham

Thomas Waters Jr.'s sketch of his father’s ship H.M.S. Barham is annotated “Papa’s ship.” Thomas Sr. was on Barham in 1830. Picture is in Amaret (Dakin) Waters' scrapbook. The annotation…

Marine Hospital, Hawkins Point

The smallpox hospital where Thomas Waters Jr. may have spent a grim Christmas in 1846...the Marine Hospital at Hawkins Point, part of the Quarantine Station. U.S. National Library of Medicine.…