The Speaker scheduled for our regular meeting on May 30, 2023, had to cancel due to illness. Andy Hall stepped in as Speaker for the Meeting.
His topic was titled First Ashore, the Continental Marines at New Providence in the Bahamas in March 1776.
Andy is an Admiral in the Texas Navy and a member of the Charles E. Hawkins Squadron. He currently serves as Secretary for the Texas Navy Association. He is also a Faculty Associate at UTMB.
Andy has served as Chairman of the Galveston Historical Foundation Museum Committee. He has volunteered with the Office of the State Marine Archaeologist at the Texas Historical Commission to help document historic shipwrecks in Texas waters.
Andy has worked on numerous marine archaeology projects in Texas notably from 1995 to 2002 on the Denbigh Project, the most extensive excavation and research program on a Civil War blockade runner in the Gulf of Mexico.
Andy is the author of two books, The Galveston-Houston Packet: Steamboats on Buffalo Bayou and Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast.
Thank you, Andy Hall for stepping in delivering a wonderful story of America's early Marines.
