{"id":36631,"date":"2017-12-28T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/28\/navys-captured-flags-hidden-nearly-100-years-rediscovered\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:29:14","slug":"navys-captured-flags-hidden-nearly-100-years-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/12\/28\/navys-captured-flags-hidden-nearly-100-years-rediscovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy&#8217;s captured flags, hidden nearly 100 years, rediscovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15470\" data-id=\"15470\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689792356.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689792356.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689792356.jpg.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689792356.jpg.jpg?resize=768,576 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 photo, Charles Swift, managing director and curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, stands in front of a case in Annapolis, Md., where the flags shown behind him had been tucked away from view behind another flag on display for nearly 100 years. The flags were recently moved out of the cases for preservation. (Brian Witte\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15475\" data-id=\"15475\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689725509.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689725509.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689725509.jpg.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689725509.jpg.jpg?resize=768,576 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, photo, Charles Swift, managing director and curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Md., looks up from a British flag of the HMS Landrail, which was captured in 1814 by American privateers sailing in the English Channel. It is one of 61 flags recently removed from glass cases at the U.S. Naval Academy for preservation. (Brian Witte\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15493\" data-id=\"15493\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736641672.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736641672.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736641672.jpg.jpg?resize=300,208 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736641672.jpg.jpg?resize=768,533 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">This undated photo provided by the  U.S. Naval Academy Museum shows some of the flags found behind War of 1812 flags in Mahan Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Md. (U.S. Naval Academy Museum via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15505\" data-id=\"15505\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736577037.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736577037.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736577037.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17353736577037.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">This undated photo provided by the  U.S. Naval Academy Museum shows a detail of a flag, showing Amelia Fowler&#8217;s stamp at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Md. Fowler, a well-known flag preserver who restored the original Star-Spangled Banner in 1914, was contracted in 1912 to conserve the academy\u2019s collection of trophy flags. She worked with dozens of other women in the museum\u2019s Mahan Hall, using a patented stitching pattern to help preserve fabric. (United States Naval Academy Museum via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15511\" data-id=\"15511\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689710567.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689710567.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689710567.jpg.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17352689710567.jpg.jpg?resize=768,576 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">This Dec. 7, 2017, photo shows a Chinese pirate flag captured from a fort not far from Macau in 1854, at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Md. (U.S. Naval Academy Museum via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-15520\" data-id=\"15520\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17355835821698.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17355835821698.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17355835821698.jpg.jpg?resize=300,209 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17355835821698.jpg.jpg?resize=768,535 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">This 1913 photo made available by the United States Naval Academy Museum shows the auditorium of Mahan Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Dozens of women in the museum&#8217;s Mahan Hall, used a patented stitching pattern to help preserve fabric. (U.S. Naval Academy Museum via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 The curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum wasn\u2019t exactly sure what would be found: records indicated five display boxes long used to exhibit captured British flags from the War of 1812 actually concealed more banners underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not until all 61 banners were painstakingly removed in December for a conservation effort did curator Charles Swift, who is also the museum\u2019s managing director, actually see what was hidden. And he was gratified to learn that conservationists had uncovered dozens of other flags \u2014 many captured by the Navy in other conflicts of the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 46 newly discovered flags \u2014 including banners from battles in Asia and from the Spanish-American War \u2014 had originally been put on display in 1913. But seven years later, they were covered up by the 15 flags from the War of 1812 \u2014 and sealed up for nearly a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one alive had seen the flags long hidden from view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMore importantly than just seeing them was seeing the colors,\u201d said Swift. \u201cIt is what struck me immediately. It was sort of dark, but you could see the colors \u2014 the vibrant colors \u2014 of them having not been in light for 100 years, and so it was exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flags, covered by the others in boxes with large plate-glass lids, speak to an earlier era of U.S. intervention overseas. They include one taken from a Chinese pirate fort off Macau dating to 1854 and another captured in Korea in 1871, according to Swift. There were even some replicas of Revolutionary War-era flags among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said no one had attempted to open the boxes for so long until it came time for needed conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was mostly the recognition that after 100 years, these things really needed to be taken down, because hanging like this places stresses on the flags,\u201d said Swift. \u201cIt can tear them. They can be damaged. So, they\u2019re getting a well-deserved vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1849, then-President James K. Polk designated the academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as the repository of flags captured in battle by the Navy. The museum is now home to about 800 flags and trusted with their conservation, Swift said. About 250 of them are trophy flags seized in battle. The museum also houses seafaring instruments, naval uniforms, medals, photographs, art and items recalling past naval expeditions and explorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are ultimately stewards of these objects that tell important stories,\u201d said Swift, whose museum boasts more than 100,000 visitors a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amelia Fowler, a well-known flag preserver who restored the original Star-Spangled Banner in 1914, was contracted in 1912 to conserve the academy\u2019s collection of trophy flags. She worked with dozens of other women in the museum\u2019s Mahan Hall, using a patented stitching method to help preserve the fabric. All told, they stitched up enough flags to cover two football fields, Swift said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camille Myers Breeze is working on a new conservation process for the flags as director of an independent conservation studio, Museum Textile Services, based in Massachusetts. She said Fowler\u2019s work has enabled her crew to handle the flags without risk of damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor us to conserve a collection of flags like this that\u2019s historical \u2014 not only for its use, but for how it was preserved and how it has been installed here for 100 years for Naval Academy students and visitors to appreciate and learn from,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really our favorite kind of project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swift said funding for the conservation, about $40,000, came from the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, which is tasked with preserving artifacts, documents and other items of that military branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum wasn\u2019t exactly sure what would be found: records indicated five display boxes long used to exhibit captured British flags from 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