Event Invitation from Apalachicola Maritime Museum!

You're Invited!  A Rough, Wet Ride: The Civilian Genesis of the American Torpedo Boat, a lecture by Dr. Edward Wiser Saturday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. Dwight Eisenhower once warned of an insidious collusion between industry and government that threatened to become master of United States domestic and foreign policy. His warning came too late, of course, for the threat had already become reality before he spoke. But there were and are positive elements to the merger of interests, and one of them was the infusion of civilian small craft expertise into the arena of national defense. Dr. Wiser will give an overview of the evolution of small combatant craft in the United States Navy and demonstrate that the most successful of these boats have consistently come from the civilian sector. He will trace this history from its origins in the American Revolution through its ultimate incarnation of the motor torpedo boat of World War Two. Experience in Vietnam and ongoing counter-terror and drug interception operations worldwide, demonstrates conclusively that rugged, efficient boats for security, patrol, and combat are still an essential factor in law enforcement, homeland defense, and power projection, and the services have come to rely increasingly upon the domestic small craft industry to supply them.   About Dr. Wiser Edward H. Wiser is a licensed merchant marine deck officer (500 gt), former artillery officer, and ABYC certified marine technician with a Ph.D. in history from Florida State University.  He has written on riverine warfare, Civil War, and small combatants for theUS Naval Institute Proceedings, North and South magazine, and was a contributor to Craig Symonds' Union Combined Operations in the Civil War.  Ed has over three decades of experience operating and maintaining a variety of small craft on the coastal waters of the Atlantic and Gulf and throughout the Bahamas, Antilles, and Central America. When not on a boat, he studies, writes, and speaks about Civil War navies and military small craft and lectures on World War Two as an adjunct professor of strategy and policy for the Naval War College.     Join Us!   Social on the docks at 6:30 p.m.   Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by a shrimp boil   $5 Donation Visit our website at www.ammfl.org 103 Water Street Apalachicola, Florida 32320 (850) 653-2500

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