Naval and Maritime Museums List
Joseph Poutre
Here's the latest incarnation of the List of Naval and Maritime Museums.
It is provided free of charge, and may be distributed freely, as long as
there is no charge for said distribution.
This list is posted four times a year: Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Labor
Day and Veterans Day
Last updated: 9/8/95
New in this issue:
Listings for Turkey and Bulgaria.
A listing for the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, the largest on the west
coast of North America. (Why have I never heard of it from any of you?!)
An attempt at sorting out the ships in San Francisco harbor - I have info
from several people who all live or work there and who contradict each
other. :-|
Hours open and Admissions entries, but almost no entries. Please check
with your local museums and send updates.
This listing is archived at byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (129.71.32.152) in
/pub/history/military/navy/naval.museums.txt.
Note - if you get an out of date copy from there, let me know. I
am trying to get the file updated.
You can also obtain an up-to-date copy via the Web at Andrew Toppan's
Railroads, Ships and Aircraft Homepage: http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/
The list is generally in the following format:
COUNTRY
State, Province, Region, etc.
City
Museum name and location
Museum phone number
Ships Class (CV, BB, etc.), number
Highlights
As you will see, I don't have all the information for all the places,
and I am always interested in reports of visits to these places, so
please EMAIL any reports, additions, corrections or updates to:
Note: Even if you don't think you have a maritime museum nearby, check
your phone book and local tourist information sources - you might be
surprised. For example, I have listings for Iowa, Kentucky and other
landlocked U.S. states.
Disclaimer:
Some information here was confirmed and/or corrected using the Sea
Classics magazine annual Naval and Maritime Museums issue and
OPSail'92, the Official Magazine of Operation Sail.
Also, be warned that this list is very long.
Here's the list:
AUSTRALIA
Fremantle
Fremantle Maritime Museum
Ovens SS
Oberion class, being used for training, and will be donated
to the museum in just over a year.
Sydney
Maritime Museum
Vampire DD
Karat Fishing boat
Light ship
Foxtrot class sub
Several small craft
Karat carried an Australian commando unit to Singapore where they used
kayaks to place limpet mines on docked Japanese ships
Sydney
Seaport Museum
Kanangra Ferry
Waratah Steam tug
Charge $2 to go onboard.
The Seaport Museum has no buildings, just the ships on display.
Also reconstructing an 1874 square rigger, the James Craig.
BRASIL
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro Naval and Oceanographic Museum
Rua Don Manuel, 15
Phone: (021) 221-7626
History of Brasilian Navy: maps, models of ships, publications and pieces
on history and oceanography.
Intinerant at ports of Brasil
Naval Museum
Bauru FF
British Bentick class frigate of WWII that operated on anti-submarine
patrol in South Atlantic from 1943 to 1945. Operational museum ship based in
Rio, on exhibition at principal coastal ports of Brasil.
BULGARIA
Varna
Steam torpedo boat circa 1890
CANADA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vancouver
Maritime Museum
St. Roche
RCMP vessel St. Roche transited Northwest Passage on several occasions,
including first successful Pacific - Atlantic crossing around 1920.
Look for the stuffed walrus.
NEW BRUNSWICK
St. John
New Brunswick Museum
Large collection of ships' figureheads, paintings, etc. During the late
1800s, something like a third of the wooden ships in Lloyd's Register
had been built in the St. John area.
NOVA SCOTIA
Halifax
Maritime Command Museum
Extensive information on the past and present ships of Canadian Navy,
including ensigns, colours, ships plaques, photographic archives,
uniforms, ships' logs. Just about anything relating to Canadian Navy
can be found with help from curators.
Halifax
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
http://rs6000.nshpl.library.ns.ca:80/nsmuseum/mma.html
http://rs6000.nshpl.library.ns.ca:80/nsmuseum/fma.html
Sackville Corvette
Details both Military and Civil Naval Transportation. Sackville is the
last surviving and actively commissioned WWII corvette. Open for tours
all summer. Funds are currently being sought for further restoration of
the engineering spaces. Originally a "short-f'ocsle" corvette, she was
refitted during the war - this alteration is easily seen when inside the
messdeck.
Excellent collection of small boats. Memorabilia from Mont Blanc, a
munitions ship that exploded in 1917 and wiped out downtown Halifax.
Also artifacts from Titanic - some victims were buried in Halifax.
Lunenburg
Maritime museum has some interesting sailing ships.
Smith & Rhuland's yard, where both Bluenoses were built. Bluenose II
presently spends summer in Halifax. Rumrunner was broken up.
ONTARIO
Kingston
Small museum containing traditional boats, such as St. Lawrence skiffs,
and canoes.
Ottawa
National War Museum
Sussex Drive
Highlights of all Canadian involvement in military actions, including
artifacts, equipment from WWI and WWII. Special exhibit on role of
Canadian Peace Keeping Forces around the world.
Toronto
Haida DD
Ship saw limited service in WWII and Korea. Only surviving Tribal class.
Guns used in annual Toronta Symphony Orchestra concert of the (what else?)
1812 Overture.
Marine Museum of Upper Canada
Exhibition Place
Phone: (416) 392-6827
Ned Hanlan Steam Tug
Number of small watercraft in collection. Operated by Toronto Historical
Board.
Victoria (Which province?)
Fort Rodd Hill
Modest national park with restored shore defences from 1890s to 1954
CHILE
9 Region
Talcahuano
Talcahuano Chilean Naval museum
Huascar BB
This battleship belonged to the Peruvian Navy, but was captured by Chile
during the Pacific War (1879) during the Battle of Angamos. It is one of
the last classic ironclads afloat. Peru is still asking for the return
of their ship.
ESTONIA
Tallinn, Pirita
Lembit SS (Mine laying sub)
Sub owned by Estonia, saw action under Soviet flag in WWII.
Built 1936 in England.
FINLAND
Ahvenanmaa (Aland), Marianhamn
Ahvenanmaan merenkulkumuseo (Ahvenanmaa Maritime Museum)
Pommern Steel barque
She is kept in sailing condition. The museum is mostly about sailing
merchantmen history.
Helsinki, Hernesaari
Russian Foxtrot-class SS
Museum. In active service until sold to some Finnish businessmen. In
full working order, bridge and tower closed.
Helsinki, Hylkysaari
Suomen merimuseo (Finland's Maritime Museum)
Phone: 90-664306
Mostly merchant history. On a island 3 km from Helsinki centrum - get
there by ferry.
Helsinki, Hylkysaari
Maritime museum
Kemi Lightship
The last Finnish lightship.
Helsinki, Suomenlinna (Sveaborg)
Island Fortress, built 1750's. 2 km. from Helsinki Centrum, about 15 min
by ferry. One of the largest sea-fortresses in the world, with some 2,000 guns
and 8,000 men. 20 kilometers of fortifications. Owned by Russians 1808-1917.
Some part of the islands, fortifications and guns from that time period.
Was attacked by England in the Crimean war 1854. Has also served as prison.
There are 700 inhabitants living on the islands. Protected by Unesco.
There are several museums on Suomenlinna:
Vesikko SS
Last survivor of 5 Finnish subs. Saw action 1939-40 and 1941-1944
Coastal artillery museum
Ehrensvard museum
Designer of Suomenlinna fortress. Gunnery officer, artist, ship designer.
Naval academy - need permission to visit. (Shouldn't be hard to get)
Finnish naval history 1700 - Guns, mines, machine guns, torpedo,
uniforms, models of ships, equipment from Russian frigate St. Nikolai,
which sank 1790.
Kotka
Tarmo Icebreaker
Served as a AA-ship in WWII, was hit by Russian bomber.
Kotka
Vmv 11 Patrol Motor Boat of WWII
Kotka, Varissaari
Ruotsinsalmen museo
Museum of the Ruotsinsalmi battles in 1789 & '90. Some 500 ships took part in
the Battles. In '89 Russia won, '90 Sweden-Finland won. Russian lost 53 of 273
ships and some 9000 men.
Raahe
Raahen museo
Small museum. 18th century diving suit, possibly oldest in the world.
Turku
Sigun Sail Barque
Floating museum. One of the few wooden sailing merchantmen in the world.
Turku
Suomen Joutsen (The Swan of Finland)
Sailing frigate, ex-school ship and sub-mothership of the navy.
FRANCE
Arromanche
Arromanche Museum
Just down the road from Bayeux, at the beach. Part of floating harbor
is still there (it's *big*). Small museum with a film, scale models
showing how it was made.
Bayeux, France
Normandy Invasion Museum
On ring road around town, right across from the British Cemetery. Much
larger inside than it looks. Uniforms and equipment of all principles
involved. Rather complete collection of small arms. A separate wing has
vehicles (including pieces of aircraft found in the the Channel. Labeling
is in French, but much of the material (newspapers, manuals, posters,
signs, etc.) is in English.
Saint-Nazaire
Espadon Submarine
GERMANY
Bremerhaven
Wilhelm Bauer, ex-U-254D Type XXI
Raised from the bottom after the war?
The Wilhelm Bauer was scuttled in shallow water, and raised in 1948.
She was refitted as a training boat in 1954, and retired in 1972.
The boat was extensively modified, and does not retain the original
sail and conning tower.
German Maritime Museum
1 of 2 props from Prinz Eugen
Keil
U-995
Kwajalien Atoll, Marshall Islands
Prinz Eugen CA
Kwajelien Atoll is restricted - US Army's western ICBM test range impact area.
The ship rests upside down on the lagoon side of Ennylabegan Island. The ship
was fully outfitted for the A tests including full fuel load (which still
leaks into the lagoon) and things like plates and dishes (original).
(Yes, I know this is United States territory, but he was a German ship.)
There is apparently an effort to bring her back to Germany, but that's
all I've heard. If it's serious, and has a chance, I'd like to find out
about it.
Laboe
U997
Munchen (Munich)
Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik
(German Museum of Achievement in Science and Technology)
Phone: (089) 2179
9-5 daily
Small admission charge.
U1 pre-WW1 submarine
Several smaller vessels
Magnificent technology museum with many hands-on displays of all
sorts of transportation vehicles. Ships, planes, trains, submarines.
Large number of beautiful models, ship components and drive demonstrators,
a tow tank, and mockups simulating ship interiors.
GREECE
Poros
Poros naval base, on island of Poros in the Aegean.
Georg Averoff Armoured cruiser/pocket battleship
~10,000 tons, 4x10", 8x6" main armament, built in UK 1910
Check before visiting; when last visited it was still an active training base,
only open Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. It is possible the base might
have been closed or the ship moved since then. Day trip from Athens.
HOLLAND
Amsterdam
National Maritime Museum (?)
Full-size replica of early 18th C Dutch East Indiaman, built from original
plans. Also two small 20th C. vessels, a minesweeper and torpedo boat(?).
Large collection of ship models and artifacts housed in old East India
Company's magazine. About 1/2 mile east of main railway station.
ISRAEL
Haifa
Clandestine Immigration and Naval museum
204 Derekh Allenby
Phone: 536249
Af-'Al-Pi
The museum is housed mostly in the ship, which ran the British
blockade before WWII to save Jews from Nazi Germany.
The naval portion of the museum has models of current and former
Israeli navy ships, maps and historical displays on wartime activities;
and various memorabilia, including the surrender flag from an Egyptian
frigate that was captured while trying to bombard Haifa in 1956.
JAPAN
Yokahama
Mikasa BB
Flagship of Admiral Tojo at Tsushima Straits during Russo-Japanese War.
See Nimitz Museum at Texas, US for more information.
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland
Ferguson Whaling Museum
Phone: +64-9-4060006
Auckland
New Zealand National Maritime Museum
Hobson Wharf, Eastern Viaduct
Phone: +64-9-3581019
FAX:+64-9-3776000
New Zealand's main maritime museum
Auckland
North Shore City
Royal New Zealand Navy Museum, Naval Base
Phone: +64-9-4455186 or +64-9-4455999
FAX: +64-9-4455046
Bay of Islands
Waitangi
Museum of Shipwrecks
Phone/FAX: +64-9-4027018
Bay of Islands
Russell
Department of Conservation Bay of Islands Maritime and Historic Park
Russell Field Centre
Phone: +64-9-403685
FAX:+64-9-403649
Northland
Dargaville
Dargaville Maritime Museum
Phone: +64-9-4397555
Waikato
Paeroa
Historical Maritime Park
Phone: +64-7-8627121
South Island
Dunedin
Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve Museum
Phone: +64-3-4672669
South Island
Bluff
Bluff Maritime Museum
Phone: +64-3-2127534
FAX:+64-3-2128711
Wellington
Wahine Disaster Commerative Exhibition
Exhibition Hall, 28 Dundas Street
Commemorates New Zealand's worst maritime disaster
Wellington
Wellington Maritime Museum, Queen's Wharf
Phone: +64-4-4728904
FAX: +64-4-4711373
NORWAY
Bergen (west coast)
Haakonsvern Naval Base
Number of German WW2 minisubs as well as tower of submarine B-2 by the
UVBI. This is a fully operational naval base, so access is limited.
Contact the base before going.
Drobakk
Oslofjord
Coastal Batteries of Oscarsborg
The Krupp guns of 1900, Moses, Aron and Joshva, that sunk the German
cruiser Blucher in 1940. Oscrasborg is still in use as a training center;
access might be limited.
Harstad
Trondenes
Coastal artillery battery
Horten (60km south of Oslo)
Marinemuseet
RNN base Karl Johansvern
Rap PT (built 1875)
Large collection different items related to the Navy, including guns,
turrets, torpedo batteries.
Lake Mjosa
Skibladner Paddlesteamer
125 years old, still operates during summer.
Moevig (outside of Kristiansand)
Coastal fort
Very impressive with huge bunkers, built for 4 cannons.
Oslo
Bygdoy
Sjofartsmuseet
Fram Exploration vessel used by Amundsen and Fr. Nansen
Ra, Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdal's ships
Civilian shipping, polar and exploration vessels.
Oslo
Bygdoy
Vikingskipsmuseet
Restored 1000 year old longboats found in this century.
Oslo
Forsvarsmuseet
Oslo Castle (central Oslo)
Models and artifacts from the Norwegian Navy, mainly 1905 - 45. Torpedoes,
guns, Hs293 guided missile, Enigma cipher machines, historical library
for researchers.
Trondheim
Oerland
28cm gun towers
The Royal Norwegian Navy operates the museum vessel Hitra, a fully
restored subhunter from the US, used for commando operations on
Norwegian coast during WWII.
POLAND
Gdynia
Blyskawica DD
Served with Free Polish forces in Royal Navy during WWII.
Warszawa (Warsaw)
Polish Military Museum
Complete military museum, including naval displays. Has static displays of
aircraft, armor, artillery, naval weapons outside. Uniforms and a Salyut
inside. Inexpensive, plus a student discount.
All labeling is in Polish.
RUSSIA
Khronstadt
Naval museum, on the base
Takes some doing to visit.
St. Petersburg
Aurora Cruiser
One of three (four?) surviving pre-Dreadnaught cruisers.
St. Petersburg
D-2 WWII era submarine "D-2"
St. Petersburg
Central Museum of the Navy
In old stock exchange
Urkutsk(?), Lake Baikal, Siberia
Angara Icebreaker
Built by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co; entered service autumn 1900, originally
intended to provide service between Baranchuk and Misovaya to form a link
between the eastern and western portions of the trans-Siberia railroad.
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town
Fort Wynyard
Martello Tower naval museum
near Simon's Town naval dockyard
Johannesburg
South African War Museum
SPAIN
Barcelona
Reales Atarzanas (Royal shipyard)
Maritime museum
Don Juan de Austria Rowing galleon (replica)
Replica of the ship that fought at Lepanto. Lots of ship models and other
artifacts.
Madrid
Museo Naval, Paseo Prado
10:30 - 1:30 daily
Great paintings and large ship models; extensively covers period from Armada
to Trafalgar.
Cuidad Real province
Main Archive of Spanish Navy
El Viso del marques, Cuidad Real province, Spain
Not open Sunday or Monday
Decorated with 16th century frescos illustrating Marques de Santa Cruz'
victories over Turks, etc.
SWEDEN
Gothenburg
Goteborgs Maritima Centrum (Gothenburg Maritime Center)
Packhuskajen, Lilla Bommen
Phone: +46 31 101290
Smaland DD
Nordkaparen SS
Fryken Freighter
Gothenburg
Sjofartsmuseet med akvariet (The museum of shipping and the aquarium)
Karl Johansgatan 1-3
Phone: +46 31 612901
Indoor museum. Exhibitions covering all aspects of civilian shipping.
Gothenburg
Nya Ilvsborgs Fistning (The New Ilvsborg Fortress)
Ferry from Packhuskajen, Lilla Bommen
Fortress is located in the entrance to the river Gotaalv. It successfully
defended the city from naval attack during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Exhibitions includes display on Thordenskiold, the Norwegian naval
commander who led the attacks on Gothenburg, and museum covering the
excavations of the 19th century East India tradeship Gothenburg, which
after 3 years in East India sank just outside the fortress.
Malmo
Technical Museum
1940's era submarine
Stockholm
Sjohistoriska Museet (The Maritime Historical Museum)
Djurgordsbrunnsvogen 24
Good selection of models of commercial and military subjects from all
times.
Stockholm
Vasamuseet (Vasa Museum)
Galarvarvet, Djurgarden
Phone: +46 8 6664800
Vasa Wood ship-of-the-line
Lightship
Ship sank on her maiden voyage around 1628. She was found and raised in
1950's or 60's, and is being refurbished. Possibly oldest preserved
ship-of-the-line in the world.
TURKEY
Istanbul
Deniz Muzesi (Maritime Museum)
Located near the ferry landing in the Besiktas section of Istanbul
and on Cezayir Caddesi (Cezayir Street).
Collection dates back to the naval exploits of Barbarossa. Many
exhibits and aritfacts covering the history of the Ottoman Empire
and the Republic of Turkey.
UNITED KINGDOM
I have deferred this section to a list created by Dr M. H. Evans and Dr.
Janet West, a wife and husband team. Their list is very comprehensive, and
they will be maintaining it. It lists over 140 museums and 180 historic vessels
(almost all are part of museum collections, and many are small vessels) in
the British Isles.
The file is about 2200 lines long, so to save space I'll just give a pointer.
To get the file:
anonymous ftp:
ftp mailbase.ac.uk
login: anonymous
username: your-e-mail-addres
cd /pub/lists-f-j/history-sources/files
get maritime-museums
anonymous ftp via WWW:
file://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-f-j/history-sources/maritime-museums
WWW URL:
gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-f-j/history-sources/files/maritime-museums
GOPHER:
Type=1
Name=MARITIME-MUSEUMS
Host=mailbase.ac.uk
Port=70
Path=11/lists-f-j/history-sources/files/maritime-museums
If you don't have access to any of these facilities, send me email and I'll
send you a copy.
Note: the Doctors also maintain another list of all military museums in the
Isles. The file is on the same server in /pub/lists-k-o/military-history/files,
and is called archive.uk1.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ALABAMA
Mobile
Alabama Memorial Park
Highway 90
Phone: (334) 433-2703
Alabama BB 60
Drum AGSS 228
Other military equipment including a B-52 and possibly an SR-71.
CALIFORNIA
Camp Pendleton
Assault Amphibian Vehicle Museum
Long Beach
Pier J
Phone: (215) 435-4747
Queen Mary Luxury liner and troopship
Open to the public, under new management.
Monterey
Allan Knight Museum
550 Calle Principal
Phone: (408) 375-2553
Library and museum - renowned model collection.
This museum was closed and in the process of moving as of 11/4/92.
Oakland
Oakland Airport
The "Halcyon"
Shorts Sunderland flying boat
Port Hueneme
SeeBee Museum
Naval Construction Batalion Center
History of the USN Construction Battalions.
San Diego
San Diego Maritime Museum
1306 N. Harbor Drive
Phone: (619) 234-9153
Berkeley Ferryboat
Star of India Full-rigged ship
San Francisco
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
Hyde St. Pier
Hyde St.
Hyde St.
Phone: (415) 556-0560 or (415) 556-3002
Balclutha Steel hull square-rigged merchant ship
Eureka Ferry
Alma SF Bay scow schooner
Eppleton Hall Side wheel paddle tug
CA Thayer
Various small boats
Daily 10-5
Admission free
Hall is in the yard being repaired. Eureka was the last car ferry
on the Bay.
San Francisco
Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty ship
Pier 30/32, just south of the Bay Bridge
The O'Brien is the last unaltered Liberty ship in operating
condition in the USA.
San Francisco
Pier 45 on Fisherman's Wharf
Pampanito SS 383
Phone: (415) 929-0202
Daily 9-6
Admission $5
San Francisco
Treasure Island Museum
410 Palm Avenue
(AC Transit bus "T" from Transbay Terminal, Mission at Second St.
Get off just inside gate, first building, plain view)
Phone: (415) 395-5067
Daily 10-3:30
Admission free
On an island in the bay, museum of US sea combat in the Pacific.
San Pedro
Berth 52
Outer Harbor
Lane Victory Liberty ship
Open for tours, and cruises to Catalina Island. During the cruise
the ship undergoes a mock air attack.
San Pedro, Port of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
Berth 84 - Foot of Sixth Street
Phone: (310) 548-7618
la...@netcom.com
Admission free, one dollar donation per adult is requested.
Swift of Ipswich Topsail schooner
Angels Gate ST class Tug
Ocean Waif Racing yawl
Two Monterey fishing boats (1917 and 1927 vintage)
Ralph J. Scott Fireboat #2
Largest maritime museum on the west coast of North America. Operated by
the Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks.
Occupies the former Municipal Ferry Building, a 75,000 sq. ft. art deco
structure located on the main channel of the port.
Holds one of the largest collections of ship models in the U.S.
Swift is used for youth sail training. GATE is listed on the National
Historic Vessel list. WAIF is the original Angleman Seawitch prototype.
Centerpiece of John Gibson Park which includes the National Merchant
Marine Memorial, the USS Los Angeles (CA-135) Mainmast naval memorial and
Education Center of the Museum where American Sail Training Association
endorsed youth development classes are held. Internships are available
through university and college programs worldwide. SCOTT is part of the
John Gibson Park
Research facilities include a 5,000 volume library and a major archive of
maritime photographs.
CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport
Captain's Cove Seaport
1 Bostwick Ave.
Phone: (203) 335-1433
HMS Rose Sail warship
Replica of ship that patrolled Long Island Sound during the American
Revolution.
Essex
Connecticut River Museum
Foot of Main St.
Phone: (203) 767-8269
Groton
Nautilus Memorial and Submarine Force Museum
Phone: (800) 343-0079 or (203) 449-3174
Nautilus SSN 571
Japanese Type A "Kairyu" minisub
Italian "Maile" minisub
HMS Bounty (replica) (?)
German "Seehund" minisub
American "Explorer" minisub
World's first nuclear propelled vessel and a submarine museum. Explorer
was built and sailed (sunk?) by Simon Lake. There is a large cutout
scale model of a Gato-class sub in the museum.
Mystic
Mystic Seaport Museum
50 Greenmanville Ave.
Phone: (203) 572-0711
Joseph Conrad Steel hulled square-rigger
Charles W. Morgan Whaler
steam launch
schooner
Plethora of small vessels
Replica whaling town of 1800's. Nearby is Mystic Marinelife Aquarium. Morgan
is the last wooden whaler still afloat in the world.
New London
US Coast Guard Museum
US Coast Guard Academy
Route 32
Phone: (203) 444-8511
South Norwalk
Maritime Center at Norwalk
10 N. Water St.
Phone: (203) 852-0700
Nautical history and ecology of Long Island Sound. Includes an aquarium
and an IMAX theater.
DELAWARE
Chesapeake City
C & D Canal Museum
Documents and artifacts relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal and a working model of a canal lock.
Lewes
Thompson Country Store Historic Complex
Overfalls Lightship (replica)
Wilmington
Battle of the Atlantic Memorial
Foot of King St.
Phone: (302) 656-0400
Building a replica of the sailing ship Kalmar Nyckel, which brought
the first Swedish settlers to Delaware in 1638.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Naval Museum
Washington Navy Yard
Building 76 or 57
Phone: (202) 433-4882
Barry DD 953
Intelligent Whale Early SS
Trieste I Deep diving sub
Historical retrospective. Models, aircraft, paintings.
United States Marine Corps Museum
Navy Yard
On same grounds as Naval Museum.
The Smithsonian Institution
Constitution Ave. at 12th St.
Phone: (202) 357-2025
Philadelphia Sail gunboat
Remains of first warship built in what would become the US, in the
Hall of Armed Forces History(?). Operated by Army, as Navy wasn't yet
formed. Ship models are on display in the Hall of American Maritime
Enterprise, the Technology building and the Air and Space Museum.
FLORIDA
Key West
The Wrecker's Museum
322 Duval St.
Phone: (305) 294-9602
Panama City Beach
Museum of Man in the Sea
17314 Back Beach Rd.
Phone: (940) 235-4104
Diving and undersea exploration.
Pensacola
Pensacola Naval Air Station
National Naval Aviation Museum
Phone: (904) 452-3604 (touchtone)
Phone: (904) 452-3606 (rotary)
GEORGIA
Columbus
Confederate Naval Museum
101 Fourth St.
Phone: (404) 327-9798
Houses remains of 2 Civil War ironclads fished out of southern rivers
during 1960's Centennial. Both are little more than part of a burned
hull surrounded by iron armor sections, cannon, and other metal items
recovered from the rivers. Additional displays of uniforms, equipments,
and models.
Savannah
Ships of the Sea Museum
503 East River St.
Phone: (912) 232-1511
More than 150 ship models.
HAWAII
Honolulu
Arizona Memorial
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Phone: (808) 422-2771
Arizona BB 39
Honolulu
Hawaii Maritime Center
Pier 7
Phone: (808) 523-6151
Falls of Clyde Full-rigged ship
Hokule'a Polynesian canoe - replica
Pearl Harbor
Utah Memorial
Ford Island
Utah AG 16 (Target ship), ex-BB 31
Ford island is still a Naval base, so call ahead for information.
Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum
11 Arizona Memorial Drive
Phone: (808) 423-1341
Bowfin SS 287
Outside are a 2-man Japanese sub and a Regulus I.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
57th St. and Lake Shore Drive
Phone: (312) 684-1414
U-505 SS (German)
U-boat was captured by CVE USS Guadalcanal during WWII. Museum has an
exhibit called "Ships Through the Ages." Included in the museum entrance
fee ($7.00). Tour is self-guided, with tape players giving a narrative.
IOWA
Dubuque
Woodward Riverboat Museum
2nd St., Ice Harbor
Phone: (319) 557-9545
William M. Black Sidewheeler
Upper Mississippi navigational history including a collection of vessels.
Keokuk River Museum
Victory Park
Phone: (319) 524-4765
George M. Verity Steam sternwheeler
Museum of the Mississippi and riverboats.
Le Clair
Buffalo Bill Museum
200 N. River Dr.
Includes displays on upper Mississippi water transportation, and one
of the few surviving wood riverboats.
KANSAS
Olathe
Old Olathe Naval Air Museum
1 Navy Park Drive, Industrial Airport
Phone: 913-381-3939
A-7A
History of Olathe NAS.
KENTUCKY
Louisville
4th Ave. and River Rd.
Phone: (502) 625-2355
Belle of Louisville Steamboat
Built in 1914, now makes day trips. Carries museum about steamboats.
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Naval War Museum
305 S. River Rd.
Phone: (504) 342-1942
Kidd DD 661
New Orleans
Dedalo, ex-Cabot CVL 28
Pioneer Confederate submersible
Dedalo may be scrapped due to lack of funding. However,
there is currently an effort to save the Cabot and bring her
to Chicago by the American Academy of Industry. Further info
is available at Andrew Toppan's web page. If you don't have web
access, let me know and I'll send you the info. I am not
affiliated with the effort.
MAINE
Bath
Maine Maritime Museum
243 Washington St.
Phone: (207) 443-1316
Restored shipyard, plus >100 small craft. Recently completed a massive
new museum bulding, housing a large collection of maritime art and various
research archives.
Greenville
Moosehead Marine Museum
Phone: (207) 695-2716
Katahdin Lake steamer
History of western Maine's lakes.
Kittery
Kittery Historical and Naval Museum
Rogers Rd.
Phone: (207) 439-3080
History of Maine's oldest European settlement.
Rockland
Shore Village Museum
104 Limerock St.
Phone: (207) 594-0311
Lighthouse artifacts.
Searsport
Penobscot Marine Museum
Church St.
Phone: (207) 548-2529
Fishing and seafaring history. Paintings and small boats on display.
South Portland
Spring Point Museum
Southern Maine Technical College
Fort Rd.
Phone: (207) 799-6337
Museum of the port of Portland. Includes bow of clipper ship Snow
Squall, built in Portland.
MARYLAND
Annapolis
U. S. Naval Academy
Preble Hall
Phone: (410) 267-6100 (Academy)
Phone: (410) 267-2108 (Museum)
or (301) 267-2108
X-1 Experimental mini-sub
The Academy is National Historic Shrine, containing multitude of
monuments and relics, including foremast of BB USS Maine and crypt of
John Paul Jones.
Museum run by the U.S. Naval Institute. Contains a brand new model
ship gallery which contains some of the most spectacular items from
the Naval Academy's impressive model ship collection.
Baltimore
Baltimore Harbor
Pier 1
Constellation Dock
Phone: (410) 539-1797 or -1798
Constellation Sail frigate
Torsk AGSS 423
Taney WHEC 38 (Coast Guard cutter)
Chesapeake Lightship
John M. Brown Liberty ship
Constellation is last wooden warship built in US. The US Navy used
funds appropriated for repair of vessels to completely rebuild frigate
Constellation of War of 1812 fame. Taney is the last remaining ship
afloat, Japanese or American, from the Pearl Harbor attack, (she was at
Honolulu).
Baltimore
100 Light St.
Pride of Baltimore II Sailing ship
Interpretation of a "Baltimore Clipper". The first was lost at sea some
years ago.
Baltimore
Radcliff Maritime Museum
201 W. Monument St.
Phone: (301) 685-3750
Historic St. Mary's City
Rosecroft Rd.
Phone: (301) 862-0990
Maryland Dove Sailing ship
The Dove is an interpretation of one of the ships that brought early
settlers to Maryland.
St. Michaels
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Navy Point
Phone: (301) 745-2916
>80 vessels and small boats.
Solomons
Calvert Marine Museum
Routes 2 and 4
Phone: (301) 326-2042
Drum Point Lighthouse and number of small craft.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Boston National Historical Park
Phone: (617) 242-5601
Constitution Sail frigate
Cassin Downes DD
Constitution is oldest ship on US Navy lists. Crewed by Navy personnel
wearing period uniforms. She is currently in drydock for rebuilding.
Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Nantucket lightship #?
Cambridge
Hart Nautical Gallery
Bldg. 5, 1st floor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Gallery has three parts: collection of ship models from ancient to
modern, hull half-sections of various boats/ships/subs and sail craft,
and modern displays changed about every year. No fee. Look for full
size anchors on loan from US Navy.
Fall River
Battleship Cove
Phone: (508) 678-1100
Massachusetts BB 59
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. DD 850
Lionfish SS 298
PT 796
PT 617
LCM
HMS Bounty (replica) (?)
Self-guided tour of the battleship include hand-held radio listening
devices that give audio background on the ship. There is also a small
section of the bow of the cruiser Fall River.
Fall River
Marine Museum of Fall River
70 Water St.
Phone: (508) 674-3533
History of Fall River Line, steam power. >100 models.
Gloucester
Cape Ann Histoical Association
27 Pleasant St.
Phone: (508) 283-0455
Fishing and works of Fitz Hugh Lane
Gloucester
Harbor Loop
Phone: (508) 283-0455
Adventure Fishing schooner
Last old-time Gloucester schooner still sailing. Currently undergoing
a rebuild.
Hull
Hull Lifesvaing Museum
6 Circuit Ave.
Phone: (617) 925-5433
The lifeboat Nantasket used by famous lifesaver Joshua James is on display
here, along with several other lifeboats in various states of decay. A variety
of Lifesaving Service/USCG beach apparatus here, including a breeches-buoy rig
that is often set up as a demonstation and several beach carts.
Nantucket
Nantucket Historical Association
2 Union St.
Phone: (508) 228-1894
New Bedford
10 Union St.
Phone: (508) 992-4900
Ernestina Schooner
Fished the Grand Banks, sailed in the US Navy, and worked carrying
immigrants between New England and Cape Verde Islands.
New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
Phone: (508) 997-0046
Half-size model of whaler Lagoda in main building.
Plymouth
Mayflower II/Plimouth Plantation
Replica of Mayflower in recreated Pilgrim settlement and Wampanoag
Indian village.
Quincy
U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Museum
739 Washington Street
Phone: (617) 479-7900
Fax: (617) 479-8792
Daily 10 to 7, last tour leaves at 6
Admission is $6 for adults, $4 for children and senior citizens.
Salem CA 139
At Fore River shipyard. The Navy has promised to donate an old SS
and a MSO. Tuesday is Senior Citizens day, with free coffee and donuts
in the morning, and a further discount for seniors all day.
Salem is NOT open for wandering. Access to areas other than the
aft quarterdeck is by guided tour only. Ship is being maintained as
she would have been in service.
USNSM also operates the "Massachusetts Military Research Center" with a
vast collection of military records, documents, artifacts, etc. ranging
from before the revolutionary war to the present. Contact person for the
MMRC is Jim Fahey (yes, THAT Jim Fahey).
Salem
Peabody Museum of Salem
East India Square
Phone: (508) 745-1876
Largest collection of marine art in US.
Salem
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
174 Derby St.
Phone: (508) 744-4323
Sharon
Kendall Whaling Museum
27 Everett St.
Phone: (617) 784-5642
MICHIGAN
Detroit
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
100 Strand, Belle Isle
Phone: (313) 267-6440
History of Great Lakes transport, focusing on Detroit.
Douglass
Blue Star Highway and Union St.
Keewatin Passenger steamer
Reiss Steam tug
Helen McLeod Fishing boat
Mackinaw City Marina
Phone: (616) 436-5563
Replica of British sloop of war from around 1775 is centerpiece.
Muskegon
Great Lakes Naval and Maritime Museum
Phone: (616) 744-9117
Crockett PG 88
Silversides SS 236
Sault Ste. Marie
Johnson and Water Streets
Phone: (906) 632-3658
Valley Camp Lake ore freighter
Contains a museum of Great Lakes shipping
MINNESOTA
Duluth
Canal Park Marine Museum
600 Lake Avenue S.
Phone: (218) 722-2497
Duluth
350 Harbor Dr.
Phone: (218) 722-7876
William A. Irvin Iron ore carrier
Lake commerce and boat technology.
Winona
Lee Park
Phone: (507) 454-6880
Julius C. Wilkie Steamboat
One of the few surviving wood sternwheelers.
MISSISSIPPI
Biloxi
Biloxi Seafood Industry Museum
115 First St.
Phone: (601) 435-6320
Vicksburg
Vicksburg National Military Park
Cairo Ironclad riverboat
Union boat that sank in the Mississippi. She was propelled by a split
stern wheel arrangement.
Vicksburg
The Gray and Blue Naval Museum
Sort of a mom and pop storefront place. 30-40 nice models of ACW river
warships, several paintings, some video tapes, and a library.
MISSOURI
St. Louis
Gateway Arch
Inaugural AM 242
NEBRASKA
Omaha
Omaha Military Historical Society
Phone: (402) 345-1959
Marlin SST 2
Hazard AM 240
Peru
Meriwether Lewis Museum
Brownville State Recreation Area
Phone: (402) 872-3815
Museum is aboard former Corps of Engineers dredgeboat.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth
Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum
Market St. Extension
Phone: (603) 436-3680
Albacore AGSS 569
History of locally built submarines. Tour of boat is primary
attraction.
NEW JERSEY
Allamuchy
Canal Museum at Waterloo
Allamuchy Mountain State Park
Phone: (908) 722-9556
April - Sept: Tuesday - Sunday 10-6
Oct - Dec: Tuesday - Sunday 10-5
Tour of several buildings, plus a ride on a canal boat.
Hackensack
New Jersey Naval Museum
River and Court Streets
Phone: (201) 342-3268
Ling AGSS 297
Torpedo, plus Regulus, Talos and other missiles on lawn. Submarine-oriented
museum.
Highlands
Twin Lights Historic Site
Lighthouse Road
History of twin lights of Navesink and navigation.
Highlands
Sandy Hook
Series of naval defense batteries were built on the site, including 12
inch mortars, one of which is on display. Sandy Hook was also national
proving grounds until 1907, when they were moved to Aberdeen. Two missiles
stuck in the ground.
Jersey City
New Netherlands Museum
Liberty State Park
Audrey Zapp Drive
Admission $2 for tour of boat
Half Moon Sailing ship
Replica of Henry Hudson's exploration vessel. Docked at wharf for boats to
Ellis Island, near old NJ Central RR station and Liberty Science Center.
Small museum on history of New Netherlands colony.
(I live right across the canal - I see the Half Moon out my window.)
Morristown
Canal Society of New Jersey Museum Waterloo Village
Phone: (201) 235-8454
Paterson
Great Falls Historic District
Paterson Museum
Spruce and Market Sts.
Phone: (201) 279-9587 (Historic District phone number)
First Holland sub, launched 1881. John Holland was a citizen of Paterson.
Pine Bluff
Farragut Marine Museum
Admiral Farragut Academy
Phone: (201) 349-4829
Note: I am a member of the Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum
Society. We are trying to bring BB 62 to New Jersey as a memorial.
I am trying to get an official announcement from them that I can add
to this list. Send me email for the address and information.
NEW YORK
Blue Mountain Lake
Adirondack Museum
Phone: (518) 352-7311
Collection of >200 small boats.
Fort Schuyler, The Bronx, NYC
Maritime Industry Museum
SUNY Maritime College
Phone: (212) 409-7218
Two tugs and a merchant ship.
Evolution of seafaring.
Buffalo
Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Servicemen's Museum
1 Naval Park Cove
Phone: (716) 847-1773
Little Rock CLG 4
The Sullivans DD 537
Croaker SS 246
PTF 17
Museum has collection of models of many ships, mostly Great Lakes
vessels, including large before and after models of the Wolverine,
one of two side-wheelers converted into aircraft carriers during WWII
for flight training (other was Sable.) Several static displays
on the grounds of various military equipment.
Clayton
Antique Boat Museum
750 Mary St.
Phone: (315) 686-4104
World's largest recreational boat museum.
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Main St.
Phone: (516) 367-3418
Collection includes over 700 scrimshaw pieces.
East Hampton
East Hampton Marine Museum
101 Main St.
Phone: (516) 324-6850
Fishing, boatbuilding, whaling and sportfishing history.
King's Point
American Merchant Marine Museum
US Merchant Marine Academy
Phone: (516) 773-5515
Small museum on history since WWI.
Kingston
Hudson River Maritime Center
1 Rondout Landing
Phone: (914) 338-0071
Steam tug from 1898 and various other vessels.
Lake George Village
Minne-ha-ha Paddlewheeler
Not a museum per say, the Minne-ha-ha is a steam-powered paddlewheel
excursion vessel that sails on Lake George. The engine room is
enclosed in glass and the ship sports a steam calliope.
New Hyde Park, Queens, NYC
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library
Major collection of ship models and paintings that belonged to FDR
plus his personal book collection, as well as papers from when he
was Secretary of the Navy.
New York City
American Museum of Immigration
Ellis Island
Ferry from Battery Park or Liberty State Park in Jersey City
Lots of material - posters, postcards, photos, models - on various
ships which carried immigrants to the US.
New York City
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Pier 88, West 46th and 12th
Phone: (212) 245-2533
Wednesday-Sunday 10-5
Intrepid CV/CVA/CVS 11
Guadalcanal LPH 7 (will soon be added)
Edson DD 933
Slater DDE 766
Growler SSG 577
Nantucket Lightship #
Lightship Frying Pan
Tamaroa, ex-Zuni WMEC 166, ex-ATF 95, US Coast Guard fleet tug
Elizabeth M. Fisher Research/school ship
Flight deck and hanger hold large display of carrier aircraft, plus an SR-71
(sans engines). Military vehicles and more planes on display on pier. Museum
inside carrier has wide range of displays, including many models and a film on
carrier operations. Billed as the World's Largest Naval Museum. (It is, now.)
The Guadalcanal will serve as both museum and heliport. Slater served as
either Hierax or Aetos in the Greek navy. There was apparently an attempt
to obtain a Tarantal class missle corvette, but it appears to have fallen
by the wayside.
New York City
Museum of the City of New York
103rd St & Park Ave
Permanent display: Maritime New York - artifacts (some large), photos,
models, paintings
New York City
South Street Seaport Museum
East side, just south of Brooklyn Bridge
Peking Square-rigged four-masted cargo sailing ship
Wavertree Square-rigged sailing ship
Ambrose Lightship
Museum located right next to the fish market. Lots of shops and restaurants,
becoming yuppified. Tours of New York harbor available on steamships and a
schooner.
New York City
Seamen's Church Institute
Water Street
(just north of South Street Seaport's Low Building Galleries)
Outstanding collection of ship models, though the times they are open can
be irregular.
Oswego
H. Lee White Marine Museum
Derrick barge
It has some interesting exhibits, especially on the War of 1812.
Poughkeepsie
12 Market St.
Clearwater River sloop
This is the ship's dock, but she is usually sailing the Hudson River.
Rome
Erie Canal Village
5789 New London Rd.
Phone: (315) 337-3999
Chief Engineer Canal packet
Re-created canal village.
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor Whaling Museum
Main and Garden Streets
Phone: (516) 725-0770
Syracuse
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd.
Phone: (315) 471-0593
Housed in former weigh station. Display includes replica canalboat in
the weighlock.
West Sayville
Suffolk Marine Museum
Montauk Highway
Phone: (516) 567-1733
Two restored oyster sloops. Shell-fishing and recreational boating
history.
Whitehall
Skenesborough Museum
Skenesborough Drive
Phone: (518) 499-1155
Early US naval history and commerce on Lake Champlain and the upper
Hudson River.
NORTH CAROLINA
Beaufort
North Carolina Maritime Museum
315 Front St.
Phone: (919) 728-7317
Kingston
Caswell-Nuese State Historical Site
Neuse Confederate ironclad ram
Manteo
Elizabeth II State Historic Site
Replica of smallest of three ships that brought settlers to North
Carolina in 1585.
Southport
Southport Maritime Museum
Covers the maritime history of the area. The museum is small, located
in a storefront in Southport. A fee of several dollars is charged for
admission. The museum is about a 40 minute drive south from the USS
North Carolina exhibit in Wilmington.
Wilmington
City Piers
Mohawk WPG 78 (Coast Guard)
Deteriorated. She was then towed away for rebuild, sank under tow,
was raised, and will be rebuilt.
Wilmington
Eagle Island
Phone: (919) 752-1829
North Carolina BB 55
Well done display. Nighttime sound and light show. (Multimedia!)
Wilmington
New Hanover County Museum
814 Market St.
Emphasis on Civil War blockade and blockade-running.
OHIO
Ashtabula
Great Lakes Marine and US Coast Guard Memorial Museum
1071 Walnut Blvd.
Phone: (216) 964-6847
Cleveland
E. 9th St. Pier
William G. Mather Great Lakes bulk ore carrier
Cleveland
N. Marginal Road
Phone: (216) 566-8770
Cod SS 224
Open May through October
Completely authentic example of a WW II fleet sub. Everything
on the sub is genuine WW II issue and there have been no modifications
done. A Navy cameraman who shot COLOR film of the COD's last patrol,
July-August, 1945, donated the film and his camera to the COD museum.
Fairport Harbor
Front Street (?)
Converted lighthouse and keeper's quarters. Pilot house of lake freighter.
Marietta
Ohio River Museum
601 Second St.
W. P. Snyder. Jr. Steam towboat
Maritime and natural history of Ohio River.
Put-In-Bay
Maritime Museum at Put-In Bay
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
Model version of the Niagara on display, along with a section of ship's
deck carrying naval-mounted cannon.
Toledo
26 Main St.
Phone: (419) 698-8252
Willis B. Boyer Lake freighter
Vermillion
Great Lakes Historical Society Museum
480 Main St.
Phone: (216) 967-3467
Maritime history of the Great Lakes.
OKLAHOMA
Catoosa (NE of Tulsa)
Arkansas River Historical Society Museum
5350 Cimarron Road
Phone: (918) 226-2291
Muskogee
USS Batfish Park
Phone: (918) 682-6294
Batfish AGSS 310
Museum is sub oriented.
OREGON
Astoria
Columbia River Maritime Museum
1792 Marine Drive
Phone: (503) 325-2323
Columbia Lightship
Knapp DD 563 (Bridge only - centerpiece of museum.)
Rasher SS 269 (Periscopes and part of conn only.)
Artifacts from battleship Oregon, local Indian canoes, Lewis and Clark
artifacts, whaling.
Hammond
Fort Stevens State Park Museum
Site of attack by Japanese sub I-25 during WWII. Photos and artifacts
in display.
Portland
Oregon Maritime Center and Museum
113 SW Front Ave.
Phone: (503) 224-7724
Portland Steam tug
Museum of Oregon's nautical history. Tug is steel-hulled sternwheeler.
Along seawall across street.
Portland
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Blueback SS 582
Last diesel boat produced for the US Navy, once set a record for
crossing the Pacific Ocean underwater and was featured in the 1990 film
"The Hunt for Red October." The ship is being restored to near-working
condition by the Submarine Veterans Blueback Base, who are also adding
mulitmedia presentations (sound tapes and light shows). Children (and adults)
are allowed to touch much of the equipment.
PENNSYLVANIA
Easton
Hugh Moore Historical Park
200 South Delaware Dr.
Phone: (215) 250-6700
Josiah White Canal boat
American canal history and technology.
Erie
164 E. Front St.
Phone: (814) 871-4596
Niagara Sail barque
Perry's flagship on Great Lakes during War of 1812 - sort of. Rebuilt from the
keel up, with a small section of the original keel the only remaining piece of
the original.
Philadelphia
Penn's Landing
Phone: (215) 922-1898
Call for hours
Olympia Cruiser 6/CA 15
Becuna SS 319
Olympia was Dewey's flagship at Battle of Manila Bay in Spanish American
War. Note that 8 in. turrets are fabrications, as originals were
replaced with barbettes during WWI.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Maritime Museum
321 Chestnut St.
Maritime US history, 30 small boats, 10,000 artifacts.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
Chestnut St. and Delaware Ave.
Gazela of Philadelphia Barkentine
Jupiter Tug
Barnegat lightship
Philadelphia
Port of History Museum
Delaware Ave. and Spruce St.
Phone: (215) 925-3804
Emphasis on Atlantic coast.
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Science Center
Phone: (412) 622-3303
Requin AGSS/SSR 481
Willow Grove/Hatboro
Willow Grove Naval Air Station
Rt. 611
WWII and more recent aircraft, including P-2 Nepture, on static display.
RHODE ISLAND
Bristol
Herreshoft Marine Museum
7 Burnside St.
Phone: (401) 253-5000
Newport
Museum of Yachting
Fort Adams State Park
Phone: (401) 847-1018
Shamrock V J boat
History of yachting, America's Cup and solo sailing.
Newport
Naval War College Museum
Coasters Harbor Island
Phone: (401) 841-4052
Evolution and technology of sea warfare, including a history of the
development of the torpedo in the US.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston
Charles Towne Landing
1500 Old Towne Rd.
Phone: (803) 556-4450
Adventure Ketch (replica)
Mt.Pleasant
Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum
Phone: (803) 884-2727
Yorktown CV 10
Laffey DD 724
Clamagore SS 343
Ingham WPG35 - USCG Cutter
Another USCG cutter
Bills itself as World's Largest Naval Museum (It's not anymore). The cutters
served in the Atlantic in WWII on U-boat patrol. The Savannah has been
stored elsewhere with the NDRF.
TEXAS
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Museum
1900 North Chaparral
Phone: (512) 883-2862
Primary exhibit is artifacts recovered from two Spanish ships wrecked
in 1554.
Corpus Christi
Lexington CV/AVT 16
Fort Worth
Pate Museum of Transportation
MSB 5
Fredricksburg
Chester Nimitz Museum
Museum of the Pacific War
Japanese mini-sub
PT 304
Ship sections, including the fire control area of a cruiser and the tower
of USS Pintado, SS 387. Display on famed Japanese warship from Russo-Japanese
war: while touring Japan after the war, Nimitz found the ship in terrible
condition, and had it set in concrete and made suitable for display.
Galveston
Seawolf Park
Phone: (409) 744-5738 or (713) 744-5043
Cavalla AGSS 244
Stewart DE
Self-guided tours.
Galveston
Texas Seaport Museum
2016 Strand
Phone: (409) 763-1877
Elissa Bark
La Porte
San Jacinto Battleground
3527 Battleground Rd.
Phone: (713) 479-2411
Texas BB 35
Self-guided tours. In the process of being restored. She still has her
triple-expansion steam engines, and is both a National Historical
Landmark and a National Civil Engineering Landmark. She is the only
remaining battleship, and possibly the only remaining warship, to
have served in both world wars.
Rockport
Texas Maritime Museum
1202 Navigation Circle
Phone: (512) 729-1271
Texas maritime history. Several Texas coastal workboats.
VERMONT
Basin Harbor
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Phone: (801) 475-2317
Revolutionary War museum. Replica of gunboat Philadelphia, plus
numerous small boats.
Shelburne
The Shelburne Museum
Route 7
Phone: (802) 985-3346
Ticonderoga Passenger steamer
Colchester Reef lighthouse. Boat is dry-docked on the lawn or under
restoration.
VIRGINIA
Dahlgren
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Newport News
The Mariners' Museum
100 Museum Drive, exit 62-A off I-64
Phone: (804) 595-0368
Ship models, scrimshaw, figureheads, working models of classic steam
engines, small craft from around the world.
Norfolk
Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Norfolk Naval Base
Pick up pass at Tour and Info office, 9809 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk
Phone: (804) 444-8971 (Museum) and (804) 444-7955 (Base)
Displays on over two centuries of naval activity in and around the
harbor of Hampton Roads. Tour begins with Battle off the Virginia Capes
in 1781. Ship models, artwork and retrieved underwater naval artifacts.
Note: On most weekends, one or two Navy ships at Norfolk offer tours for
visitors. For information call the Naval Base Tour and Information Office
at the above number.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
2 High St.
Phone: (804) 393-8591
America's first naval shipyard. Portsmouth lightship is nearby.
Williamsburg
Jamestown Settlement
Phone: (804) 229-1607
Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery
Replicas of ships that brought colonists to Jamestown in 1607.
Yorktown
Yorktown Victory Center
Route 238 and Colonial Parkway
Phone: (804) 887-1776
American Revolution, primarily naval victory at Yorktown.
WASHINGTON
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport
813 E. Heron St.
Phone: (206) 532-8611
Lady Washington Brig
Lady is replica of first American ship to explore the Pacific
Northwest. Working shipyard is part of museum.
Bremerton
Turner Joy DD 951
One block from Navy yard. Has photographs of shipyard over the
years, large model of an aircraft carrier with frames and plate of
clear plastic. and what may be the oldest existing cannon - a
wooden device from China.
Tours given of naval graveyard: BB Missouri, carriers, subs,
cruisers and other types.
Ilwaco
Nearby, on Columbia river
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
Maritime museum - most northwesterly point Lewis and Clark reached.
Keyport
Naval Undersea Warfare Museum
Trieste II Deep diving submersible
Adjacent to Navy torpedo test facility. Has models of support
ships and boats. Also has actual research and rescue subs.
Seattle
Center for Wooden Boats
1010 Valley St.
Phone: (206) 382-2628
Boatbuilding shop, boat livery, display of many small boats.
Seattle
Coast Guard Museum/Northwest
Pier 46
1519 Alaska Way S.
Phone: (206) 286-9608
Collection of ship and boat models and uniforms of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Two high-endurance cutters and two icebreakers dock there, and are part
of the tour.
Seattle
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
2700 24th Avenue East
Phone: (206) 324-1126
Part of Museum of History and Science
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
Phone: (414) 684-0218
Cobia AGSS 245
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Maritime Center
(offshoot of Milwaukee Lake Schooner, Ltd.)
500 North Harbor Drive
Phone: (414) 276-5664
Islay Great lakes tug
Oldest tug on the lakes. In the process of building a 99 ft long
three masted replica of an 1800's lake schooner.
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Joseph Poutre, aka The Mad Mathematician N2KOW
jpo...@lehman.com Systems Administrator, Lehman Bros.
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Joseph Poutre, aka The Mad Mathematician N2KOW
jpo...@lehman.com Systems Administrator, Lehman Bros.
Paul Clayton
jpo...@lehman.com (Joseph Poutre) wrote:
>AUSTRALIA
>Fremantle
>Fremantle Maritime Museum
>Ovens SS
>Oberion class, being used for training, and will be donated
>to the museum in just over a year.
>
>Sydney
>Maritime Museum
>Vampire DD
>Karat Fishing boat
>Light ship
>Foxtrot class sub
>Several small craft
>Karat carried an Australian commando unit to Singapore where they used
>kayaks to place limpet mines on docked Japanese ships
A couple of corrections in the Australian section.
Fremantle: submarine is "Oberon" class
Sydney: I think the fishing vessel is "Krait" not "Karat". This is the name
of a small, deadly S.E Asian snake. The collectio of "small craft" is
fairly dynamic - generally it includes a 12m America's Cup yacht, a "boat
people" refugee boat and the yacht used by Kay Cottee, first (ever
(?) or just Australian) woman to solo circumnavigate the world..
Adelaide: no mention of the Port Adelaide Maritime Museum.
Warrnambool: no mention of "Flagstaff Hill" Maritime Museum.
I'll try to prepare a synopsis for the next list.
Paul
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CSIRO Div. Soils, Adelaide, Sth Australia Fax:+61-8-303-8550
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