{"id":9991,"date":"2021-12-03T19:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:37:29","slug":"under-guard-a-case-study-of-the-s-s-black-point-and-u-853-for-the-production-of-comprehensive-war-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/under-guard-a-case-study-of-the-s-s-black-point-and-u-853-for-the-production-of-comprehensive-war-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnder Guard: A Case Study of the S.S. Black Point and U-853 for the Production of Comprehensive War Memorials\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Black Point\u00a0<\/em>was the last\u00a0American Steam Merchant to be\u00a0sunk off the\u00a0East\u00a0Coast of\u00a0North America during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II (WWII). It was sunk off the coast of\u00a0Block Island,\u00a0Rhode\u00a0Island,\u00a0on May\u00a05,\u00a01945,\u00a0by the\u00a0<em>U-853.\u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0attack triggered a successful American counterattack against the submarine. In the resulting action, the\u00a0<em>U-853\u00a0<\/em>became the\u00a0last\u00a0active\u00a0German submarine\u00a0to be sunk off the coast of the United\u00a0States during WWII.\u00a0The project will address the history, memory, meaning, and memorialization of the wrecks and crews of the sunken US Merchant Ship\u00a0<em>Black Point\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>U-853<\/em>\u00a0with the purpose of making recommendations for a more comprehensive war memorial and public interpretive exhibit<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Elements being considered are the\u00a0current uses of Synthetic Aperture Sonar data, historical documents and images of the\u00a0event, and the cultural landscape of the current spread of displayed artifacts retrieved from the wrecks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Research Grant<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Rebecca Sobus (History)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-21-grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9993,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}