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Two US Naval Hats

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Helmets Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
Two US Naval Hats
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This item SOLD at 2018 Jun 24 @ 13:59UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Two US naval hats of varying design. The first is a shipmates hat from the USS Langley, Amerca's first aircraft carrier. The ship itself was an innovation, too, born of retrofitting. The Langley wasn't built from scratch as a carrier. No, it was converted from, of all things, a collier -- a ship tasked with the unglamorous job of carrying coal and other cargo. In that first life, the ship was known as the USS Jupiter, which, in its own humble way, was an innovator as well, according to the Naval Historical Center: "The Navy's first surface ship propelled by electric motors, she was an engineering prototype for the turbo-electric propulsion system widely used in Navy capital ships" over the next two decades. (courtesy, C-Net.com) Renamed in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, a former assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and later Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. Like other aviation pioneers, Langley was obsessed with creating a working “heavier-than-air-aircraft” for the Navy. Langley died in 1906 without having successfully flown his “aerodrome,” but he succeeded igniting the Navy’s desire to launch and land aircraft from ships at sea. The Navy took up where Langley left off. (courtesy, Navalhistory.org.) Excellent condition.



The second hat appears to be a skippers hat. It is US-made, with an international flag symbol. Very fine condition. Made by the Bancroft Caps Company, etablished in the early 1900's in Massachusetts. They made caps for various divisions of the military, Hamilton Hat Collection. Date: Location: HWAC# 64438