Naval and Maritime Museums List United
States of America
Compiled by Joseph PoutreLast
updated: 23 August 2004
The list is generally in the following format:
STATE or COMMONWEALTH
City
Museum name and location
Museum phone number
Web page address
Hours
Admission charge
Ship name Class (CV, BB, etc.), number
Highlights
As you will see, I don't have all the information for all the places, and am always interested in reports of visits to these places, so please EMAIL any reports, additions, corrections or updates to me, Joe Poutre, at joseph dot poutre at verizon dot net.
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. I have listings for several landlocked U.S. states, including Iowa and Kentucky.
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.
Note:
Another list of Maritime Museums which have an online presence is maintained by Bob Smith at the following URL:
http://www.maritimemuseums.net/
For the rest of the world, please follow this link to the Worldwide Naval and Maritime Museums list:
http://www.bb62museum.org/wrldnmus.html
Links by state or commonwealth name (if you don't see a link, I don't have a museum within that state.):
ALABAMA
Aliceville
Montgomery Snag removal steamer
Mobile
Alabama Memorial Park
Highway 90, off Interstate 10 - Exit 27
or 30
Phone: 203-433-2703
FAX: 203-433-2777
http://www.maf.mobile.al.us/recreation/uss_alabama.html
Alabama BB 60
Drum
AGSS 228
LST-325
Other military equipment including a B-52 and an A-12.
City of Mobile Museum
Hunley replica
Models of American Civil War ships
ALASKA
Fairbanks
Alaskaland Park
Airport Road
Nenana Passenger steamer
Under restoration.
Kodiak
Kodiak Military History Museum
Miller Point, Ft. Abercrombie
Phone: 907-486-4700
http://www.kadiak.org/
Hours: 3 days per week during summer or by appointment
Admission charge: donation
Museum is in WW II Coastal Defence 8 inch battery bunker.
Kodiak Island
Cape Chiniak, St. Peter's Head, Ft. Smith
Coastal defense fort, demilitarised.
Ft. Tidball
Long Island, Castle Bluff
Demilitarized coastal defense fort.
Arkansas
North Little Rock
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation
Razorback SS
Hoga Tug
Hoga is the last Pearl Harbor USN vessel afloat. Razorback returned to US from Turkish Navy service.
CALIFORNIA
Alameda
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation
Hornet CVS 12
http://www.uss-hornet.org/
Belvedere
Belvedere Cove, 52 Beach Rd.
China
19th century wooden sidewheeler
The social salon on board is a museum. She formerly sailed between San Francisco and Japan and Hong Kong.
Camp Pendleton
Assault Amphibian Vehicle Museum
Dana Point
Nautical Heritage Museum
24532 Del Prado Ave.
Phone: 714-661-1001
Californian Revenue cutter (replica)
Ship tours the California coast much of the year.
Orange County Marine Institute
24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr.
Phone: 714-496-2274
Pilgrim Brig (replica)
Tours are available of the Pilgrim, a copy of the ship Henry Dana sailed on and described in Two Years Before the Mast; call for information.
Eureka
Humbolt Bay Maritime Museum
1410 Second St.
Phone: 707-444-9440
Mon-Sat 1000-1600
Madaket
Passenger ship
Part of the display is dedicated to USS Milwaukee, which wrecked off Eureka in 1916.
Irvine
CAS El Toro Historical Center and Command Museum
Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro
Phone: 714-559-6795
Many WWII to present Marine aircraft.
Will presumably move when the base closes.
S.S. Catalina Preservation Association
18242 West McDurmott, Suite J
http://sscatalina.org/
Hoping to raise the S.S. Catalina from the bottom of Ensenada Harbor in Baja California and restore her as close as possible to her original form.
Long Beach
Pier J
Phone: 310-435-4747
Admission fee
http://www.queenmary.com/
Queen Mary Luxury liner and troopship
Scorpion/U-427 Foxtrot-class submarine
QM is run as a floating hotel. Tours cover most of the ship. She _may_ be haunted. The sub was formerly based in Sydney, Australia, and is maintained by former Soviet Naval personnel.
Monterey
Allan Knight Maritime Museum
550 Calle Principal
Phone: 408-375-2553
Library and museum - renowned model collection.
The Maritime Museum of Monterey
The Stanton Center, Historic Custom House Plaza
Phone: 831-375-8370
FAX: 831-655-3054
Tue-Sun and major holidays 1000-1700
Longer hours
in summer
Newport Beach
Newport Harbor Maritime Museum
151 East Coast Highway
Phone: 949-673-3377
Fax: (949) 675-8864
http://www.nhnm.org/
Oakland
Oakland Airport
The "Halcyon"
Shorts Sunderland flying boat
U.S. Lighthouse Society
FDR Memorial Park
66 Jack London Sq.
Phone: 415-362-7255
http://www.uslhs.org/
Reiief Lightship
Potomac Presidential yacht
Potomac served Franklin Roosevelt during his presidency.
Oxnard, Channel Islands
Ventura County Maritime Museum
2731 S. Victoria Ave.
Phone: 805-984-6260
Thu-Mon 1100-1700
Pacific Grove
Point Pinos Lighthouse
End of Monterey Peninsula
Thr, Sat and Sun: 1300-1600
Phone: 408-648-3116
Built 1855. Described as shaped like a Cape Cod cottage. Two keepers were women. Run by the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. One room will display the history of
the Coast Guard in WWII.
Port Hueneme
SeeBee Museum
Naval Construction Batalion Center
Phone: 805-982-5163
Mon-Fri 0800-1700, Sat 0900-1430, Sun 1230-1630, closed holidays
History of the USN Construction Battalions.
Richmond
Richmond Museum
SS Red Oak Victory
Last of 747 ships built at Kaiser Shipyards. Being restored.
Rio Vista
American Patrol Boats Museum
http://www.patrolboats.org/
CGC-83527 Cutter
PT-695 72.5' Vosper Type
CCB-18
PBR
All are kept in operational condition. The cutter and the PT are sailed.
San Diego
San Diego Maritime Museum
1306 N. Harbor Drive, the Embarcadero
Phone: 619-234-9153
http://www.sdmaritime.com/
Daily 0900-2000, to 2100 during the summer
Admission fee charged, based on age
Star of India Sail barque
Berkeley Steam ferryboat
Medea Steam yacht
Californian Revenue cutter
Surprise, ex-"HMS" Rose Sail frigate
Pilot Harbor pilot boat
The Star of India sails the harbor once a year. She is believed the oldest active merchant vessel afloat. Surprise was featured in the movie "Master and Commander".
Another site about "HMS Rose/Surprise": http://www.tallshiprose.org/
San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
1355 North Harbor Drive
Phone: 619-702-7700
http://www.midway.org/
USS Midway CV 41
Veterans Memorial Center and Museum Balboa Park
In the former chapel of the Naval Hospital
Phone: 619-239-2300
Houses a collection of memorabilia and papers. Dedicated to veterans of all conflicts.
San Francisco
San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
Hyde St. Pier
Phone: 415-447-5000
http://www.nps.gov/safr/
Daily 1000-1700 (Some sections have other hours)
Balclutha Steel hull square-rigged merchant ship
Eureka Ferry
Alma SF Bay scow schooner
Eppleton Hall Side wheel paddle tug
CA Thayer Schooner
Hercules Steam tug
Wapama Steam schooner
Steam schooner
About 90 small craft
Admission to Hyde Street Pier, research library, visitor center and maritime museum free. Boarding pass for National Landmark vessels: $5.
Thayer is in the yard being repaired; follow this link for project information and
photo: http://www.nps.gov/safr/local/thayrest.html
National Maritime Museum Association
Pier 45 on Fisherman's Wharf
Phone: 415-441-5819
FAX: 415-441-0365
http://www.maritime.org/pamphome.htm
Pampanito SS 383
National Liberty Ship Memorial
Fort Mason Center, Bldg. A
Pier 32 on the Embarcadero, just south of the Bay Bridge
Phone: 415-441-3101
FAX: 415-441-3712
Mon-Fri 0900-1500, Sat-Sun 0900-1600
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/maritime/jeremiah.html
http://www.crl.com/~wefald/obrien.html
Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty ship
The last unaltered Liberty ship. Still operating.
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 1000-1530
Admission
free
On an island in the bay, museum of US sea combat in the Pacific.
Santa Monica
Coastal defense fort, on ramp to Santa Monica pier
Rodman smooth-bore, sleeved to be smaller rifled guns.
San Pedro, port of Los Angeles
Berth 53
Outer Harbor
Phone:
310-519-9545
FAX: 310-519-0265
Daily 0930-1600
Lane Victory Victory ship
Open for tours, and 2 annual cruises to Catalina Island. During the cruise the ship undergoes a mock air attack.
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
Berth 84 - foot of Sixth Street
Phone:
310-548-7618
Tue-Sun 1000-1700
lamm@netcom.com
http://www.lamaritimemuseum.org/
Admission free, one dollar donation per adult is requested.
Swift of
Ipswich Topsail schooner
Angels
Gate ST class Tug
Ocean Waif
Racing yawl
Ralph J. Scott Fireboat #2
Two
Monterey fishing boats (1917 and 1927 vintage)
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
whereAmerican 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.
16"/50 barrel on display.
Vallejo
Mare Island Historic Park, at the former Naval Shipyard
Phone: 707-557-1538
FAX: 707-552-3226
Tours given of important sites in the area. The museum is in the planning stages, and will contain the sail and
control room of the SSBN Vallejo and the entire SSN Drum, the last ship built at Mare Island.
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
734 Marin St., in the former City Hall
Phone: 707-643-0077
CONNECTICUT
HMS Rose Sail warship
Now on the west coast, in California. Used in filming of "Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World".
http://www.tallshiprose.org/
Essex Village
Connecticut River Museum
1879 Steamboat Dock, Foot of Main St.
Phone: 860-767-8269
Tue-Sun 1000-1700
http://www.ctrivermusuem.org/
Admission fee
American Turtle SS (working replica)
Groton
Nautilus Memorial and Submarine Force Museum
Exit 86 off I95, follow signs
Phone: 800-343-0079 or 203-449-3174
FAX: 860-449-4150
Daily 0900-1700, except Tue 1300-1700
http://www.ussnautilus.org/
Free admission
Nautilus SSN 571
Japanese Type A "Kairyu" minisub
Italian "Maile" minisub
Explorer minisub
World's first nuclear propelled vessel and a submarine museum. Explorer was built and sailed (sunk?) by Simon Lake. There is a very large cutout scale model of a Gato-class sub in the museum.
Mystic
Mystic Seaport Museum
50 Greenmanville Ave.
Phone: 860-572-5315
http://www.mystic.org/
Joseph Conrad Steel hulled square-rigger
Charles W. Morgan Whaling bark
L.A.
Dunton Grand Banks fishing schooner
Sabino Coal-fired steam launch
Emma C.
Berry Wooden sloop-rigged smack
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.
Sabino tours the harbor.
New London
US Coast Guard Museum
US Coast Guard Academy
Route 32
Phone: 860-444-8511
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/museum/museuminfo.html
Mon-Fri 0900-1700, Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission is free.
Eagle, ex-Horst Vessel
Three-masted training barque
Eagle is the primary training ship for the
Coast Guard Academy. Often at sea.
South Norwalk
Maritime Center at Norwalk
10 N. Water St.
Phone:
203-852-0700
Hope Oyster sloop
Nautical history
and ecology of Long Island Sound. Includes an aquarium and an IMAX theater.
Stonington
Stonington Harbor Lighthouse
Water Street
Phone:
203-535-1440
May to Oct, Tue-Sun 1100-1600
Built 1840.
Stratford
Glacier Society
905 Honeyspot Rd.
Phone: 203-375-6638
http://www.glaciersociety.org/
Working to preserve the USCGC Glacier. Have a 9 foot model in her combat
configuration when she served in the US Navy, plus other photos and items
related to missions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
DELAWARE
Bethany Beach
Indian River Lifesaving Station
Rt.1 between Dewey
Beach and Indian River Inlet
Phone: 302-227-0478
http://www.beach-net.com/history/irlifestation.html
Bowers
Bowers Beach Maritime Museum
Cooper Av.
Phone:
302-334-3462
Summer daily 1300-1600
Other seasons Sat-Sun and holidays
1300-1600
Chesapeake City
C & D Canal Museum
Documents and artifacts
relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and a working model of a canal
lock.
Dagsboro
PT 308 Restoration Project, Inc
http://www.geocities.com/restorept308/PT308.html
Lewes
Cannon Ball Marine Museum
Thompson Country Store Historic
Complex
Overfalls Lightship
Wilmington
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation
1124 E. Seventh St.
Phone:
302-429-7747
http://www.kalnyc.org/main.htm
Mon-Sat 1000-1600
Replica of the sailing ship Kalmar Nyckel,
which brought the first Swedish settlers to Delaware in 1638.
Wilmington Maritime Center
Phone: (302) 984-0472
The Battle of the Atlantic Memorial is no more, and the cutter Mohawk
is now sitting in Staten Island, NY.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Navy Museum
Washington Navy Yard
Buildings 76 and 57
901 M Street, SE
Phone: 202-433-4882
FAX:
202-433-8200
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg8.htm
Barry DD 933
Trieste I
Deep diving sub
PCF 1
British minisub
German minisub
Italian
minisub
Historical retrospective. Models, aircraft, paintings.
The
Barry is docked, while the Trieste is in the main building. The
PCF is on the lawn with a collection of naval weapons, including parts from the
Maine and a 14" naval railroad gun.
The Annex has been closed, and is being
converted to a Cold War museum. The displays within are being sent elsewhere.
United States Marine Corps Museum
Bldg. 58, Navy Yard
Phone:
202-433-3534
Detailed history of the Marines, with a series of glass case
filled with memorabilia from different time periods, opposing a wall of quotes,
pictures and paintings. Some of the descriptions are hard to read due to the
lack of light. Also a gallery of photos and/or paintings on a rotating schedule,
and a series of miniature battle scenes.
Naval Historical Center
Navy Yard
http://www.history.navy.mil/
Information currently available includes bibliographies, active ship levels
from 1917 to present, aviation squadron lineages, and ordering information for
NHC publications.
The Smithsonian Institution
Constitution Ave. at 12th St.
Phone: 202-357-2025
http://www.si.edu/
Philadelphia Sail gunboat
Remains of first
warship built in what would become the USA, 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
Dedalo, ex-Cabot
CVL 28
Scrapped. Some equipment was apparently rescued and distributed to museums around the country.
Apalachacola
Apalachacola Maritime Museum
57 Market St.
Phone:
904-653-8708
FAX: 904-653-9311
http://www.homtown.com/apalachcola/museum.html
Governor Stone Gulf coast schooner
Maritime history of the American south, especially the surrounding bay area.
Dry Tortugas National Park
Fort Jefferson
Largest Civil War-era coastal fort in the United States, known as the "Gibraltar of the Gulf."
Fort Pierce
UDT-Seal Museum
Phone: 407-489-3597
Jacksonville
Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society
1015 Museum Circle
Phone: (904) 398-9011
Daily 1100-1900, except public holidays
Jensen Beach
Maritime and Yachting Museum
2000 Jensen Beach Blvd.
Phone: (407) 334-7733
http://www.flmainstreet.com/Jensen_Beach/mym.html
Several vessels, including some being restored. Tea time talks are given Fridays at 3PM.
Jupiter
Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum
Loxahatachee Historical Museum
Phone: (407) 747-6639
Tue-Fri 1000-1600, Sun 1000-1500, closed New Year's and Christmas
Key Largo
Maritime Museum of the Florida Keys
102670 Highway US 1
Phone: (305) 451-6444
Daily 1000-1700
Key West
Key West Lighthouse Museum and Keepers Quarters
938 Whitehead St.
Phone: (305) 294-0012
Daily 0930-1700 except Christmas
The Wrecker's Museum
322 Duval St.
Phone: (305) 294-9602
Daily 1000-1600
Panama City Beach
Museum of Man in the Sea
17314 Back Beach Rd.
Phone: 940-235-4104
Daily 0900-1700
Diving and undersea exploration.
Pensacola
National Naval Aviation Museum
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Phone: 904-452-3604 (touchtone)
Phone: 904-452-3606 (rotary)
http://www.amaranth.com/~navalair
Palm Beach
Palm Beach Maritime Museum
Pt. Palm Beach Maritime Bldg #404
Phone: 407-659-0800
FAX: 407-844-1636
http://www.software-factory.com/fam/fam_pbmm.html
St. Augustine
The Lyons Maritime Museum
9 King St.
Phone: 904-825-0184 or -4504
Daily except Christmas
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
81 Lighthouse Ave.
Phone: 904-928-0745
http://www.staugustinelighthouse.com/
0900-1800
Admission fee
St. Petersburg
K-77/U-484 Former Russian Juliett sub
Moved to Providence, Rhode Island, to join the former USS Saratoga.
Sebastian
Mel Fisher's Maritime Heritage Museum
200 Greene St.
Phone: 305-294-2633
FAX: 305-294-5671
Daily 0930-1700
http://www.software-factory.com/fam/fam_mfmh.html
Admission fee
General maritime history, focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries.
Stuart
Maritime & Yachting Museum of the Treasure Coast
3250 S.W. Kanner Highway
Park in the Florida Aquarium parking lot
Phone: 772/692-1234
http://www.mymflorida.org/
Mon - Sat 1100-1600, Sun 1300-1700
Vintage Rose 21 foot 1934 Chris Craft triple-cockpit motorboat
Follie, Annie and Thompson's Bird trio of Bahamas dinghies
VeeGee 1934 Wheeler 39' yacht
Moonraker scaled-down replica of the ship's gig Captain Bligh was set adrift in
Care Taker 1950 Century Seamaid with original flathead 6 Gray Marine Race Engine
Big Blue 1951 Lyman runabout
The Evinrude Collection of motors
Missions: preserve significant and irreplaceable boats and artifacts that provide a tangible link to the past, maintain a permanent record of
maritime and yachting history that has helped shape the Treasure Coast and Florida, and provide maritime and yachting educational programs that are based
on knowledge of the past, and will stimulate imagination for the future.
Tampa
The American Victory Mariners Memorial & Museum Ship
York St., on the waterfront.
Park in the Florida Aquarium parking lot
http://www.americanvictory.org/
American Victory Victory ship
Intended that she be restored to operating status.
Includes the assets of the former U.S. Merchant Marine Museum in Anderson, Indiana.
Volusia
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Museum
S. Peninsula Dr.
Phone: 904-761-1821
Daily 1000-1700
http://volusia.com/ponce/
Completed 1887, still active.
GEORGIA
Athens
Naval Supply Corps Museum
Prince and Oglethorpe Streets
Phone: 404-354-7349
Closed Federal Holidays
No admission fee
Massive library.
Columbus
Civil War Naval Museum/Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center
Phone: 706-327-9798
http://www.columbusga.com/ccvb/ccvb-cnm.html
Tue-Fri 1000-1700, Sat-Sun 1300-1700
Houses remains of Civil War ironclads CSS Jackson and CSS Chattahoochee, 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.
Savannah Maritime Museum
St. Simon's Island
Museum of Coastal History
610 Beachview Dr.
Phone: 912-638-4666
GUAM
Gaan Point blockhouse
Japanese WWII 200 mm short gun
Naval Station
Japanese Type-A midget submarine
Captured on Guam at the end of WW2
HAWAII
Honolulu, Oahu
Hawaii Maritime Center
Pier 7
Phone: 808-536-6373
Falls of Clyde Full-rigged iron-hulled tanker
Hokule'a Polynesian canoe (replica)
USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park
11 Arizona Memorial Drive
Phone: 808-423-1341
FAX: 808-422-5201
http://www.bowfin.org/
Daily 0800-1700
Admission fee, can be combined with Missouri tour (see below)
Bowfin SS 287
Outside are a 2-man Japanese sub and a Regulus I. Now has artifacts from USS Kamehameha, a former ballistic missile and special operations submarine.
Army Museum at Battery Randolf
Shore defence battery, though no guns are left.
Pearl Harbor, Oahu
Arizona Memorial
1 Arizona Memorial Place
Phone: 808-422-2771 or 808-422-0561 (Recorded information)
Daily 0730-1700. Closed New Year's, Thanksgiving, Christmas
http://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm
Arizona BB 39
Missouri BB 63
http://www.ussmissouri.com/
Admission fee, can be combined with Bowfin tour (see above).
Missouri is moored at the other end of Battleship Row from Arizona.
Utah Memorial
Ford Island
Utah AG 16 (Target ship), ex-BB 31
Ford island is still a Naval base, so call ahead for information.
Wailukl, Maui
Port of Lahaina, Maui
890 Alua St.
Phone: 808-244-9286
Cathaginian II Brig
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Chicago Maritime Society
North Pier Building, 435 E. Illinois St.
Phone: 312-836-4343
Tue-Sun 1200-1700
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
57th St. and Lake Shore Drive
Phone: 312-684-1414
http://www.msichicago.org/
U-505 Sub (German)
Type IXC 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.
American Academy of Industry
Trying to preserve CA Des Moines.
Great Lakes Naval and Maritime Museum
Randolph St.
Phone: 312-819-0055
Marquette Army tug
Chippewa Research vessel
Rachel Carson, ex-Crockett Research vessel
Lockport
Illinois and Michigan Canal Museum
803 South State St.
Phone: 815-838-5080
Jan-mid Dec daily 1300-1600, closed holidays and Thanksgiving week
INDIANA
Anderson
United States Merchant Marine Museum
Closed. The collection
has gone to the American Victory in Florida.
Jeffersonville
Howard Steamboat Museum
1101 E. Market St.
Phone:
812-283-3728
IOWA
Clinton
City of Clinton Towboat turned showboat
Davenport
St. Genevieve Steam dredger
Des Moines
Queen Passenger steamboat
Landed, awaiting restoration.
Dubuque
Fred W. Woodward Riverboat Museum
Mississippi River Museum
2nd St., Ice Harbor
Phone: 319-557-9545
William M. Black Sidewheeler dredge
Upper
Mississippi navigational history including a collection of vessels.
Keokuk River Museum
Victory Park
Phone: 319-524-4765
Mid-Apr-Nov
0900-1700
George M. Verity Steam sternwheeler
Museum of the Mississippi and riverboats.
Le Clair
Buffalo Bill Museum
200 N. River Dr.
Phone:
319-289-5580
Summer daily 0730-1630, winter Sat-Sun 0730-1630
Lone
Star Steamer Riverboat
Includes displays on upper
Mississippi water transportation. Lone Star is one of the few surviving wood
riverboats.
KANSAS
Olathe
Old Olathe Naval Air Museum
1 Navy Park Drive, Industrial
Airport
Phone: 913-381-3939
History of Olathe NAS.
KENTUCKY
Eddyville
Mamie S. Barrett Steam towboat
No
longer there - moved and left derelict in Vicksburg.
Louisville
4th St. and River Rd.
Phone: 502-625-2355 or 502-582-2547
Belle of Louisville Steamboat
Built in
1914, now makes day trips. Carries museum about steamboats.
Naval Civil War Museum of the Western Theater
USS Louisville Replica ironclad (building)
Warsaw
Wake Robin Steam buoy tender
Awaiting restoration.
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Naval War Museum
305 S. River Rd.
Phone: 504-342-1942
FAX: 504-342-2039
http://www.premier.net/~uss_kidd/home.html
Daily 0900-1700, closed Christmas
Kidd DD 661
Kidd is a Fletcher class DD, the only one still in WWII form. Includes displays of the defunct Louisiana Maritime Museum. Also a P-40 fighter, as part of a display on the Flying Tigers.
Lockport
LCVP KA 33-21 Association
Higgins boat replica/rebuild
New built, using vintage engine, salvaged parts.
Madisonville
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum
Phone: 985-845-9200
New Orleans
Pioneer Confederate submersible
D-Day Museum
945 Magazine St.
MAINE
Augusta
Maine State Museum
Contains contents of now-closed Allie Ryan Museum.
Bath
Maine Maritime Museum
243 Washington St.
Phone: 207-443-1316
http://www.bathmaine.com/
Sherman Zwicker Schooner
Restored shipyard, plus >100 small craft. Recently completed a massive new museum bulding, housing a large collection of maritime art and various research archives. Zwicker is privately owned.
Castine
Allie Ryan Museum
This museum has been closed, and its contents sent to the Maine State Museum in Augusta.
Eastport
Border Historical Society
1 Capen Ave.
Phone: 207-853-2328
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.
Phillipsburg
"Maine's first ship -1607"
http://www.mainesfirstship.org/
Building a reconstuction of Popham Colony's pinnace Virginia.
Portland
Portland Observatory
The Observatory, a 65 foot shingle wooden tower, was built in 1807 and served as a marine signal station until 1924. The tower was equipped with a powerful telescope to identify incoming ships and a signal flag system to announce their arrival to subscribing ship owners at their wharf side offices. In the last century such towers were common throughout the world. Reputed to be the last such observatory on the east coast.
Rockland
Shore Village Museum
104 Limerock St.
Phone:
207-594-0311
Lighthouse artifacts.
Searsport
Penobscot Marine Museum
5 Church St.
Phone: 207-548-2529
FAX: 207-548-2520
Memorial Day to October 15
Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700
http://www.acadia.net/pmmuseum/
Admission: $5, Seniors $3.50, children 7 to 15 $1.50, 6 and under free
Fishing and seafaring history. Paintings and small boats on display. Museum consists of 8 buildings.
South Portland
Portland Harbor Museum
Southern Maine Technical
College
Fort Rd.
Phone: 207-799-6337
http://www.portlandharbormuseum.org/
Thurs-Sun 1300-1600
Small admission fee, free for kids under 12
Museum of the port of Portland. Includes part of the bow of clipper ship
Snow Squall, built in Portland.
Thomaston
Maine Watercraft Museum
4 Knox St.
Phone: 800-923-0444
or 207-354-0444
May - Oct daily, by appointment Nov - Apr
Admission $4,
seniors and students $2, children under 5 free
http://www.midcoast.com/~oldboats/
Small craft museum with collection representative of Maine's boatbuilding
heritage.
MARYLAND
Annapolis
U. S. Naval Academy
Preble Hall
Phone: 410-263-6933
Bookstore: 410-298-6110
Mon-Sat: 0900-1700, Sun: 1100-1700
Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Museum
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.
Annapolis Maritime Museum
133 Bay Shore Drive
Phone: 410-268-2689
http://www.annapolismaritimemuseum.org/
Saturdays 1100-1600
No admission charge
The museum has the definitive collection of the maritime history of the Annapolis area including the sailing and yachting history of the Chesapeake Bay. For information contact Mike Miron spacreek@aol.com
Baltimore
Baltimore Harbor
Pier 1
Constellation Dock
Phone: 410-539-1797 or -1798
http://www.constellation.org/
Constellation Sloop of war (ex-IX 21)
Constellation is last wooden warship built in US. The US Navy used funds appropriated for repair of vessels to completely rebuild/replace frigate Constellation of War of 1812 fame.
Constellation is being rebuilt and has returned to her dock.
Living Classrooms
Baltimore Maritime Museum
http://www.livingclassrooms.org/nhs/title.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1056/torsk.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/maritime/ltship.html
Torsk AGSS 423
Taney WHEC 37 (USCG cutter)
Chesapeake Lightship #116
Torsk has been drydocked and received needed repairs and a new paint job. Taney is
the last remaining armed ship afloat, Japanese or American, from the Pearl Harbor attack (she was at Honolulu).
Project Liberty Ship
Phone: Ship: 410-558-0646, Office: 410-661-1550
FAX: 410-558-1737
http://www.liberty-ship.com/
0900-1500 Wed and Sat when in port - call ahead
John M. Brown Liberty ship #312
Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Highway
http://www.charm.net/~bmi/
Pride of Baltimore II Sailing ship
Baltimore Tug
Aubrey L.
Higgins Lighthouse tender
Pride is an interpretation of a "Baltimore Clipper". The first was lost at sea some years ago; there is a monument nearby, with one of her masts.
Radcliff Maritime Museum
201 W. Monument St.
Phone: (301) 685-3750
Minnie V Skipjack
Cambridge
Richardson Maritime Museum
401 High Street
Phone: 410-221-1871
Unique collection of Chesapeake Bay workboat models--many models
built by the owners of the boats themselves. Tools and memorabilia of working
watermen and of Jim Richardson, the Museum's namesake. Active and growing
boatworks facility where classic Chesapeake Bay boats are restored or
reconstructed. Modeler's Guild that teaches construction of radio-controlled
model skipjacks (an oystering boat unique to the Bay.)
Oral Histories Project
to capture and document stories of local boatbuilders, an area tradition that
goes back to clipper ship designs that influenced boatbuilding throughout the
world.
Chesapeake City
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Museum
Second St. and Bethel Rd.
Phone: 301-885-5621
Cumberland
C&O Canal National Historic Park
Western Maryland
Station Center
Canal St.
Phone: (301) 722-8226
Harve de Grace
Harve de Grace Maritime Museum
http://www.graf.com/hdg/maritime
Mary W. Somers Skipjack
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
Mill St., Navy Point
Phone: (401) 745-2916
Daily 0900-1800, fall/spring daily 0900-1700,
winter Sat-Sun, holidays 0900-1700
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New
Year's
http://www.cbmm.org/
Victory Chimes Ram type schooner
More than 80
vessels and small boats.
Exhibits trace the history of the Bay including
boatbuilding, fishing, yachting, waterfowling, and navigation. Features include
a 19th-century screwpile-type lighthouse, restored log-bottom bugeye, skipjacks,
a racing log canoe, collection of Bay boats, decoy and waterfowling, propulsion.
The Victory Chimes will offer public cruises in the fall and spring.
Salisbury
Ward Museum
History of waterfowling, primarily in Chesapeake Bay area, and local maritime culture.
Solomons
Calvert Marine Museum
Routes 2 and 4
Phone: (410)
326-2042
Daily 1000-1700
http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/
Drum Point Lighthouse and number of small craft.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/choh/
Canal
runs from Rock Creek in Georgetown, DC to Cumberland, Md. There are visitor's
centers in Georgetown and Great Falls Tavern, Hancock, and Cumberland, MD.
MASSACHUSETTS
HMS Bounty (replica)
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/
Boston
Boston National Historical Park
Phone: (617) 242-5670
(Constitution)
Phone: (617) 242-5644 (Cassin Young)
Phone: (617)
426-1812 (Museum)
Open daily 0900-1700, Constitution 0930-1530
http://www.ussconstitution.navy.mil/
http://www.nps.gov/bost/home.htm
Constitution Sail frigate
Cassin
Young DD 793
Constitution is oldest ship on US
Navy lists, and is the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world.
Crewed by Navy personnel wearing period uniforms. She is newly rebuilt, and was
sailed in July 1997.
Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum
Congress Street Bridge
Phone: (617)
388-1773
Beaver II Replica brigantine http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/
All about the Boston Tea Party. Beaver II is a replica of one of the ships
involved.
NOTE: Due to a fire in the museum building, the museum is
currently closed, and expects to reopen in 2004.
Nobska Passenger steamboat
Undergoing
restoration
Luna Tugboat
http://www.tugboatluna.org/
Undergoing restoration.
Buzzard's Bay
New York Central railroad tug
Landed
Cambridge
Hart Nautical Gallery
Bldg. 5, 1st floor
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
http://web.mit.edu/museum/www/collections/hart.html
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.
Charlestown
New England Historic Seaport
This museum has closed.
Nantucket II WLV 613
Last lightship built in the
US, and served on the last lightship station. Moored in drydock #2 at the
shipyard, a few hundred yards from USS Constitution (just outside the
National Park). She is capable of getting underway under her own power.
Cohasset
Cohasset Historical Society's Maritime Museum
Elm Street
Phone: 781-383-1434 (Society phone)
Email: tlg@dreamcom.net
June-Sept only, 1330-1630 Tue-Sun
Housed in Bates Ship Chandlery, from
the 18th century.
Specializes in the maritime history of the Town of
Cohasset. Artifacts from the "age of sail" and includes exhibits relating to
19th century shipbuilding, fishing, navigation, shipwrecks and lifesaving, ship
carvings and the story of Minot's Ledge Lighthouse. Also featured are general
collections of historical artifacts from Cohasset.
Fall River
Battleship Cove
Phone: (508) 678-1100
http://www.battleshipcove.com/
Massachusetts BB 59
Joseph P. Kennedy,
Jr. DD 850
Lionfish SS 298
Hiddensee Corvette
PT 796
PT 617
LCM
Self-guided tour of all ships except Hiddensee, which is guided and
scheduled. There is also a small section of the bow of the cruiser Fall
River. Hiddensee is a former East German Tarantul class corvette, and
was donated by the US Navy. She was formerly known as Rudolf Edelhofer.
There are new submarine and PT boat exhibits aboard the Massachusetts,
and several pallets of 16" shells have been added in one of the magazines.
Massachusetts has received a desperately needed overhaul.
Marine Museum of Fall River
70 Water St.
Phone: (508) 674-3533
http://www.marinemuseum.org/
History
of Fall River Line, steam power. >100 models, including a 28' Titanic.
Gloucester
Cape Ann Histoical Association
27 Pleasant St.
Phone:
(508) 283-0455
Fishing and works of Fitz Hugh Lane
Harbor Loop
Phone: (508) 281-8079
Adventure
Fishing schooner
Last old-time Gloucester schooner still sailing.
Currently undergoing a rebuild.
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
Several important vessels, including
one of the last WWII chase boats.
Hull
Hull Lifesaving Museum
6 Circuit Ave.
Phone: (617) 925-5433
http://www.bostonharborheritage.org/
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
Whaling Museum
2 Union St.
Phone: 617-228-1894
http://www.nantucket.net/
Nantucket Life Saving Museum
Polpis Road
Phone: (617) 228-2413
0930-1600 June 15-Columbus Day
Other times by special arrangement
http://www.nantucket.net/museums/lifesaving
Admission fee, group discount
Various lifesaving equipment on display
New Bedford
10 Union St.
Phone: (508) 992-4900
http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/caboverde/ernestina.html
Ernestina Schooner
New
Bedford Lightship
Ernestina fished the Grand
Banks, sailed in the US Navy, and worked carrying immigrants between New England
and Cape Verde Islands.
New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
Phone: (617) 997-0046
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/
Half-size model of whaler Lagoda in main building.
Newburyport
Custom House Maritime Museum
25 Water Street
Just
past Market Square
Phone: 978-462-8681
http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/resorct/MC0224.htm
Museum in city that was a major ship exporter in the 17th and 18th
centuries.
Collection includes objects brought back from the Orient and the
South Seas
Activities: Lectures; gallery talks; concerts; formally organized
education programs for children; school loan service; temporary, loan and
traveling exhibitions.
Plymouth
Plimoth Plantation
Replica of Mayflower in recreated Pilgrim settlement and Wampanoag Indian village.
Quincy
Nantucket Lightship Museum
Nantucket I WLV 612
The lightship is located at the Marina Bay development on the
site of NAS Squantum, the birthplace of Naval Reserve Aviation. She is fully
operational and is registered as a privately maintained aid to navigation.
U.S. Naval and Shipbuilding Museum
739 Washington Street, by the Fore River bridge
Phone: 617-479-7900
FAX: 617-479-8792
Summer:1000-1600
daily
Admission fee. Groups should phone ahead.
http://www.uss-salem.org/
Daily
1000-1600
Admission fee. Groups of ten or more are asked to call ahead to
schedule.
Guided and self-guided tours available. (Guided tours subject to
tour guide availability.)
Salem CA 139
U-5075 German "Seehund" minisub
At former Fore
River shipyard. Guided and self-guided tours available, subject to tour guide
availability. Ship is being maintained as she would have been in service.
USNSM also conatins a "Military Archives and Ordnance Collection" with a
vast collection of military records, documents, artifacts, etc. ranging from the
Revolution to the present.
Salem
Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
Phone: 508-745-1876
http://www.pem.org/
The nation's oldest continuously operating museum, founded in 1799. Largest collection of marine art in US.
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
174 Derby St.
Phone: 508-744-4323
Scituate
The Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum
Phone: 781-545-1083
FAX: 781-544-1249
New museum being built by the local Historical Society, will focus on the history of local marine industry and shipwrecks.
Sharon
Kendall Institue at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
27 Everett St.
Phone: 617-784-5642
http://www.kwm.org/ - note that this will redirect you
Tue-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1300-1700, Mon Fed holidays 1000-1700
Admission fee
Now merged with New Bedford WM - see above.
MICHIGAN
Alpena
Aspen USCG cutter
Raised from its shallow resting place of many years, near Charlevoix, Michigan, and headed to
Alpena to serve as a public maritime research vessel.
Bay City
Saginaw Valley Ship Museum Committee
Working to obtain DDG-2, Charles F. Adams.
http://netview1.com/cfadams/index.htm
Detroit
Dossin Museum, Great Lakes Maritime Institute
100 Strand, Belle Isle
Phone: 313-852-4051
Wed-Sun, 1000-1700
http://www.glmi.org/
Admission fee
History of Great Lakes transport, focusing on Detroit.
Steamer Columbia Foundation
http://www.steamercolumbia.org/index.html
Columbia Passenger steamboat
Awaiting restoration.
Frankfort
Northwest Michigan Maritime Museum
324 Main St.
Phone: 616-352-4122
City of Milwaukee Steam rail ferry
Awaiting restoration
Glen Arbor
Sleeping Bear Point Lifesaving Station
Public road of M209
Phone: 616-326-5134
Beebe-Mclellan and Higgins-Gifford type surfboats
The B-M is a reproduction, the H-G was built circa 1880. Multiple buildings on site. The station is no longer active.
Harrisville
Sturgeon Point Lighthouse
Phone: 517-724-6297
Memorial Day to Labor Day: Mon-Fri 1000-1600, Sat-Sun 1200-1600
Mackinaw City
Mackinaw City Marina
Phone: 616-436-5563
Replica
of British sloop of war from around 1775 is centerpiece.
Old Mackinaw Point Lighthouse
Built 1892.
Muskegon
Great Lakes Naval and Maritime Museum
1346 Bluff, Pere
Marquette Park
Phone: (616) 755-1230 or (616) 9117
FAX: (616) 755-5883
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/preserve/phissite/silversi.html
Open Jun-Aug and by request
Crockett PG 88
Silversides SS 236
McLane
WMEC-146 - Coast Guard cutter
LST-393 Landing Ship,
Tank under restoration
Milwaukee Clipper Passenger steamship
Undergoing
restoration.
Paradise
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Whitefish Point Road
Phone: 800-SHIPWRECK (800-635-1742)
FAX: (906) 492-3392/3436
http://shipwreckmuseum.com/
Port Huron
Huron Lightship Museum
Pine Grove Park
Museum of Arts
and History
1115 Sixth St.
Phone: 313-982-0891
May-Jun, Sep
Weekends, Jul-Aug Wed-Sun 1300-1630
Huron Lightship
Saugatuk, near Douglass
SS Keewatin Marine Museum
Tower
Marine
Blue Star Highway and Union St., off I-196
Phone: 616-857-2151,
ext. 26
Keewatin Passenger steamer
Reiss Steam tug
Helen
McLeod Fishing boat
South Haven
Michigan Maritime Museum
260 Dyckman Ave.
Phone:
616-637-8078
Open year round.
MINNESOTA
Duluth
Canal Park Marine Museum
600 Lake Avenue S.
Phone:
218-722-2497
Daily 0700-2300
http://sparky.nce.usace.army.mil/behind/excencan.html
Summer daily 1000-2100, spring/fall 1000-1630, winter Fri-Sun 1000-1600
History of Duluth and Lake Superior in shipping, and the US Army Corps of
Engineers work on the nation's waterways.
Duluth Arena-Auditorium, Hwy 61
350 Harbor Dr.
Phone: (218) 722-7876
William A. Irvin Iron ore carrier
Lake commerce
and boat technology.
Excelsior
Minnesota Transportation Museum Lake Minnetonka Division
328 Lake Street
Phone: 952-474-2115
Fax: 952-474-2192
E-mail:
lmdminne78@qwest.net
http://mtmuseum.com/
Minnehaha Lake steamboat
Minnehaha: built 1906,
sank to the lake bottom 1926, raised in 1980 by private individuals, left to rot
for 10 years, obtained by the Museum in 1990 and restored by 1996. Engine: 127
horse power vintage 1930s steam engine. Boiler: 1995 Cleaver-Brooks Package
boiler. Run on 180 pounds of pressure. Wooden hull, 70 feet long, 14 fee in the
beam. 55 tons.
Moorhead
Heritage Hjemkomst Interpretive Center
202 1st Ave. N
Sault Ste. Marie
Soo Locks Visitor's Center
http://sparky.nce.usace.army.mil/behind/excensoo.html
Film, videos, photos and artifacts of the history and operation of the
locks. There is a working model of a lock and a relief map of the Great Lakes.
Sault Ste. Marie
Johnson and Water Streets, just east of Soo Locks
Phone: 906-632-3658
Valley Camp Lake ore
freighter
Contains a museum of Great Lakes shipping. In dry dock.
Two Harbors
Edna G Steam tug
Undergoing
restoration
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
3201 Clay St.
Phone:
601-636-2199
FAX: 601-638-7829
Cairo Ironclad
riverboat
Union boat that sank in the Mississippi. She was propelled by a
split stern wheel arrangement.
The Gray and Blue Naval Museum
1102 Washington St.
Phone:
601-638-6500
FAX: 601-638-8746
Mon - Sat 0900-1700
EMAIL:grayblue@bellsouth.net
Admission fee
Displays include: 86
models of Civil War gunboats, 250 square foot diorama of the Siege of Vicksburg,
"Life on the River" including models of riverboats, and a display called "The
Mississippians" of 55 vessels with names related to the Mississippi.
MISSOURI
Kansas City
Steamboat Arabia
400 Grand Avenue
Phone:
816-471-4030
http://www.1856.com/
Mon-Sat 1000-1800, tours 1/2 hourly until 1630, Sun 1200-1700, tours 1/2
hourly until 1530
Closed Christmas Eve and Day, New Year's Day, Easter,
Thanksgiving
Admission fee
Contains memorabilia from the sidewheel river
steamboat Arabia, which sank in 1856.
NEBRASKA
Brownville
Missouri River History Museum
Brownwille Recreation Area
Phone: 402-825-3341
Captain Merriwether Lewis Dredge
Omaha
Freedom Park
Omaha Military Historical Society
2497
Freedom Park Road
Phone: 402-345-1959
FAX: 402-451-3835
Marlin SST 2
Hazard AM 240
LSM 45 was gifted to Marine Corp Museum of the Carolinas in Jacksonville, NC.
Peru
Meriwether Lewis Museum
Brownville State Recreation Area
Phone: 402-872-3815
Capt Meriwether Lewis
Corps of Engineers dredgeboat
Museum is aboard, boat is landed.
NEVADA
Laughlin
Museum
Ramada Express Hotel/Casino
Phone: 702-298-4200
WWII, Korea, Viet Nam and Desert Storm. Some ship models.
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: Tue-Sun 1000-1800
Oct - Dec: Tue-Sun 1000-1700
Tour of several buildings, plus a ride on a canal boat.
Camden
On the waterfront, south of the Tweeter Center
http://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/
New Jersey BB 62
Cape May
Atlantis Concrete ship (wrecked)
The wreck lies on the west side of Cape May island, a few dozen meters off
the beach.
Cape May Lighthouse
Park grounds are open dawn to dusk. There is a fee to climb the lighthouse steps - 218 of them.
Also nearby on the beach is the remains of a coast defence gun emplacement.
Durung WWII it was on a bluff, but time and erosion have moved the beach back so
that it is now in the surf.
Edgewater
Binghamton Steam ferry
Now a restaurant.
Hackensack
New Jersey Naval Museum
River and Court Streets
Phone: 201-342-3268
http://www.njnm.com/
Ling AGSS 297
Vietnam PBR
Japanese Kaiten suicide torpedo
German WWII Seehund
Torpedo, plus Regulus, Talos and other missiles on lawn. Submarine-oriented museum. They are looking for 40mm shells for display purposes.
Highlands
Twin Lights Historic Site
Lighthouse Road
History of twin lights of Navesink and navigation.
Sandy Hook
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/maritime/sandyhk.html
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 are stuck in
the ground.
Lakehurst
NAWC Lakehurst, Visitor's Center
History of USN Lighter-Than-Air.
Lower Township
NAS Wildwood Naval Aviation Museum
Cape May County
Airport
http://www.usnasw.org/
HH-52A, T-33, A-4, Stearman, MiG-15
Middletown, Jersey City, Camden
Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum
Society
http://www.bb62museum.org/
The Society has a prescence aboard the Battleship New Jersey Museum in
Camden. There is also a small display in the Central New Jersey Railroad
Terminal in Liberty State Park in Jersey City.
Monmouth
Monmouth Beach Life Saving Station
Morristown
Canal Society of New Jersey Museum
Waterloo Village
Phone: (201) 235-8454
Building in the Village Museum dedicated to three
major canals in New Jersey, including the Morris Canal.
Paterson
Great Falls Historic District
Paterson Museum
Rogers
Locomotive Building
Spruce and Market Sts.
Phone: (201) 279-9587
(Historic District phone number)
Boat #1 Sub
Fenian Ram Submersible
Boat #1 is the first
Holland sub, launched 1881. John Holland was a citizen of Paterson.
Pine Bluff
Farragut Marine Museum
Admiral Farragut Academy
Phone: (201) 349-4829
Sea Girt
New Jersey National Guard Militia Museum
Intelligent
Whale Early submarine
The sub was built by the
American Submarine Co. in Newark.
Toms River
Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum
1868 Joseph
Francis Estate Carriage House
Hooper Ave. & E. Water St.
Phone:
(732) 349-9209
Tues. & Sat. 1000-1400 & by appointment
Groups:
Up to 45 by appointment
Admission: By Donation
NEW YORK
Albany
Slater DE 766
Quay Street, just
north of Dunn Memorial Bridge, Rts. 9 and 20.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6260/
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/slater/slater.html
Thu-Sun 1100-1600, until mid-Nov
Winter quarters at Port of Albany, open
Sunday only
$4.00 Adults, $3.00 Seniors, $2.00 children (5-12), under 5 free
Served Greece as AEtos.
Ammagansett
East Hampton Town Marine Museum
Bluff Road
Phone:
(516) 267-6544
About the nautical history of the South Fork of Long Island.
Blue Mountain Lake
Adirondack Museum
Phone: (518) 352-7311
Collection of >200 small boats.
Buffalo
Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Servicemen's Museum
1
Naval Park Cove, foot of Pearl St.
Phone: (716) 847-1773
http://www.buffalonavalpark.org/
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 flight training aircraft carriers during
WWII (other was Sable.) Several static displays on the grounds of various
military equipment.
Canadiana Passenger steamboat
Awaiting
restoration
Chittenango
Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum
7010 Lakeport Rd.
Phone: (315) 687-3801
Jul-Aug daily 1000-1600, Apr-Jun and Sep-Oct
Sat-Sun 1300-1600
Nov-Mar first Sat 1300-1600
Admission $1, children 12
and under $.50
Clayton
Antique Boat Museum
750 Mary St.
Phone: (315) 686-5794
World's largest recreational boat museum.
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
Main St.
Phone: (516) 367-3418
Tue-Sun 1100-1700
Daily Memorial Day to Labor
Day
Collection includes over 700 scrimshaw pieces.
Croton-on-Hudson
New Netherlands Museum
181 South Riverside Ave
Phone 914-271-3462
http://www.novagate.com/~schoonerman/halfmoon.htm
Half Moon Sailing ship
Replica of Henry
Hudson's exploration vessel. Small museum on history of New Netherlands colony.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum
Lighthouse Point
Drive North, off Rt. 5
Phone: (716) 366-5050
East Hampton
East Hampton Marine Museum
101 Main St.
Phone:
(516) 324-6850
Fishing, boatbuilding, whaling and sportfishing history.
Freeport
Seaport Marine Museum and Education Center
Phone: (516)
378-0510
Multiple small vessels, both sail and powered.
High Falls, near Rosendale
Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum
Mohonk
Rd, 1 block east of Rt. 213
May 30-Labor Day Thu-Mon 1100-1700, Sun
1300-1700
May, Sep-Oct weekends
http://www.mhrcc.org/kingston/kgndah.html
Donation suggested: $2, children $1
History of the D+H canal.
Highland Falls
Phone: (914) 446-7171
Commander
Merchant vessel
Served with the US Navy during WWI. Tours, parties and a
floating classroom. Only WWI ship still in original configuration and
operational.
Greenport, Long Island
East End Seaport Maritime Museum
Foot of 3rd
St., One Bootleg Alley
Phone: (516) 477-2100 or -0004
May-Dec Fri-Sun
1300-1700
Summer Wed-Sun 1100-1700
Admission: $2, children $1
http://www.greenport.com/maritime/welcome.htm
The "Whisper Fleet", made up of private sailing yachts, was organized here
to be lookouts for U-boats near Long Island, New York.
King's Point, Long Island (near NYC)
American Merchant Marine Museum
US Merchant Marine Academy
Phone: (516) 773-5515
http://www.usmma.edu/museum/
Tue-Fri
1000-1530, Sat-Sun 1300-1630. Closed Federal holidays and July
Small museum
on history since WWI.
Kingston
Hudson River Maritime Center
1 Rondout Landing
Phone:
(914) 338-0071
FAX: (914) 338-0583
Daily, May - Oct, 1100-1700
Admission: $2, seniors $1, children 6-12 $1, 5 and under free
http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/
Mathilda Steam tug
Tug is from 1898. Various
other vessels. They offer boat trips to the Rondout lighthouse in the summer.
North River Tugboat Restorations
Catawissa Ocean-going steam tug
Lake George Village
Phone: 518-668-5777
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 York City, The Bronx, Fort Schuyler
Maritime Industry Museum
SUNY Maritime College
Phone: 212-409-7218
http://www.sunymaritime.edu/
Mon-Sat 0900-1700, Sun 1300-1600, closed holidays
Empire State V Training ship
General Philip Schuyler Training tug
Evolution of seafaring and a history of the Merchant Marine. Both vessels sail during the summer. Large scale model of Brooklyn Navy Yard at the end of WWII.
New York City, Manhattan
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. Most of the island is now in New Jersey, but the museum part is in NY.
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Pier 88, West 46th and 12th
Phone: 212-245-0072
FAX: 212-245-7289
May 1 to Sep 30 Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1000-1800
Oct 1 to Apr 30 Wed-Sun 1000-1700
Admission fee, reduced for seniors, children, and serving military in uniform
http://www.intrepidmuseum.com/
Intrepid CV/CVA/CVS 11
Edson DD 943
Growler SSG 577
Lightship Frying Pan
Elizabeth M. Fisher Research/school ship
Hackensack Tug
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.
Frying Pan is privately owned.
Tamaroa, ex-Zuni WMEC 166, ex-ATF 95, US Coast Guard fleet tug
Nantucket Lightship has reportedly been moved to Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
Museum of the City of New York
103rd St & Park Ave
Wed-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1300-1700. Preregistered groups only Tue 1000-1400
Closed legal holidays
Admission free: suggested donations
http://www.netresource.com/mcny/
Permanent display: Maritime New York - artifacts (some large), photos,
models, paintings
South Street Seaport Museum
East side, just south of Brooklyn Bridge
Phone:212-748-8600
http://www.SouthStSeaport.org/
Apr 1 - Sep 30: 1000-1800
Oct 1 - Mar 31: 1000-1700
Peking Square-rigged four-masted cargo sailing ship
Wavertree Square-rigged sailing ship
Ambrose Lightship
Lettie G. Howard Fishing schooner
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. Extensive galleries and collections. Ongoing urban archaeology can be viewed nearby.
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.
New York City, Staten Island
Staten Island Ferry Museum
St. George
Ferry Terminal
Phone: (212) 390-5240
New York City, Queens, Hyde Park
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.
Oswego
H. Lee White Marine Museum
Foot of W. First St. Pier
Phone: (315) 342-0480
LT-5 Army tug
Derrick
barge
It has some interesting exhibits, especially on the War of 1812. The
tug was previously know as the Major Elisha K. Henson, then the John
F. Nash. They are currently fundraising to drydock her for repairs.
Poughkeepsie
12 Market St.
http://www.clearwater.org/
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. E
Phone: (315)
471-0593
FAX: (315) 471-7220
Daily 1000-1700
http://www.syracuse.ny.us/Activities/Features/eriemus.html
Housed in the only remaining canal weigh station in the world. Display
includes replica canalboat in the weighlock.
West Sayville, Long Island
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
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/maritime/default.htm
Marine Corp Museum of the Carolinas
LSM 45 Landing ship
Ship moved from Nebraska.
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.
Rodanthe, Hatteras Island
Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station
Phone:
252-987-2401
Tue, Thu, Sat
Beebe-Mcclellan type surfboat
Southport
Southport Maritime Museum
http://www.webcom.com/~rudd/things/museum.html
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 BB North Carolina
exhibit in Wilmington.
Wilmington
Eagle Island
Phone: 910-251-5797
FAX: 910-251-5807
http://www.battleshipnc.com/
May 16 - Sep 15: 0800-2000 daily
Other times: 0800-1700 daily
North Carolina BB 55
Well done display, with a Living History crew.
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
Cincinatti
Mike Fink Steam towboat
Now a
restaurant
Cleveland
1001 E. 9th St. Pier
Phone: (216) 574-6262
May Fri-Sat
1000-1700 Sun 1200-1700
Memorial Day to Labor Day Mon-Sat 1000-1700, Sun
1200-1700
Sep-Oct Fri-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700
http://little.nhlink.net/wgm/wgmhome.html
Admission: Adult $4.50, seniors $3.50, student $2.50
William G.
Mather Great Lakes bulk ore carrier
N. Marginal Road
Phone: (216) 566-8770
http://www.usscod.org/
Cod SS 224
May-Sep 1000-1700
Admission fee.
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. Because of this,
there are no stairs so access is by ladder. A Navy cameraman who shot COLOR film
of the Cod's last patrol, July-August, 1945, donated the film and his
camera to the 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, Port Authority building
Phone: 918-226-2291
FAX:
918-266-7678
Mon-Fri 0800-1630
Admission free, donations accepted
http://www.tulsaweb.com/port/
About
the river's maritime history.
Muskogee
USS Batfish Park
Phone: 918-682-6294
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/8345/wm-park.html
Mar 15 - Oct 15, Mon-Sat 0900-1700; Oct 16 - Nov 30 Fri-Sun, weather
permitting
Batfish AGSS 310
Museum is sub
oriented.
OREGON
Astoria
Columbia River Maritime Museum
1792 Marine Drive
Phone:
503-325-2323
FAX: 503-325-2331
Daily 0930-1700 except Christmas and
Thanksgiving
http://www.ohwy.com/or/c/columrmm.htm
Columbia Lightship
Artifacts from battleship
Oregon, the bridge of Knapp, DD 563, 'scopes and conn of
Rasher, SS 269, local Indian canoes, Lewis and Clark artifacts, whaling.
Gold Beach
Mary D. Hume Steam tug
Apparently this vessel has sunk and no effort is planned to raise her.
Hammond
Fort Stevens State Park Museum
http://www.visitftstevens.com/history.htm
Site of attack by Japanese sub I-25 during WWII. Photos and artifacts
in display.
Newport
Hero Research vessel
Phone:
541-574-6710
http://www.heroshiptours.com/
Summer: Daily 1000-1700
Port Orford
Port Orford Head's Coast Guard Lifesaving Station
Portland
Oregon Maritime Center and Museum
113 SW Front Ave.
Phone: 503-224-7724
http://www.bb62museum.org/www.oregonmaritimemuseum.org
Portland Steam tug
Oregon's nautical history.
Tug is steel-hulled sternwheeler. Along seawall across street.
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
1945 SE Water Ave., corner of SE
Clay St.
Phone: 503-797-4600 or 800-955-6674
http://www.omsi.edu/explore/sub/
Daily 0930-?, closed Christmas
Blueback SS 581
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 multimedia presentations (sound
tapes and light shows). Children (and adults) are allowed to touch much of the
equipment.
Reedsport
Umpqua Discovery Center
409 Riverfront Way
Phone:
541-271-4816
http://www.ohwy.com/or/h/hero.htm
Hero Research Vessel
Performed research in
Antarctic waters.
Yaquina Bay State Park
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
May-Sep daily
1100-1700
Oct-Apr weekends 1200-1600
Lighthouse served 1871 to 1874
PENNSYLVANIA
Easton
Hugh Moore Historical Park
200 South Delaware Dr.
Phone:
(215) 250-6700
Josiah White Canal boat
American
canal history and technology. The White travels a restored section of the Lehigh
Canal.
Erie
Erie Maritime Museum
Bayview Commons
150 E. Front St.
Phone: (814) 452-2477
http://www.brigniagara.org/
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.
Prow
of steamship USS Michigan, later Wolverine, broken up in 1949.
Philadelphia
Independence Seaport Museum
Penn's Landing
211 S.
Columbus Ave., between South and Vine
Phone: (215) 925-5439
Call for
hours - different hours for different areas of the museum
http://www.libertynet.org/seaport/onboard.html
Admission fees
Olympia CL 15, ex-Cruiser 6
Becuna SS 319
Olympia was Dewey's
flagship at Battle of Manila Bay in Spanish American War, and is the last ship
left from the "new Navy" of the 1890s. Note that 8 in. turrets are fabrications,
as originals were replaced with open 5" mounts during WWI. She is undergoing a
major restoration, and needs more funding.
Moshulu Maritime Exhibit
Phone: (215) 925-3237
Moshulu Sailing ship
Served Germany as the Kurt
during WWI, seized by US.
Philadelphia Maritime Museum
321 Chestnut St.
Maritime US history, 30
small boats, 10,000 artifacts.
Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
Chestnut St. and Delaware Ave.
Gazela of Philadelphia Barkentine
Jupiter Tug
Barnegat lightship
Port of History Museum
Delaware Ave. and Spruce St.
Phone: (215)
925-3804
Emphasis on Atlantic coast.
South American Passenger steamship
Awaiting
restoration
SS United States Superliner
Will be restored and
returned to service by Norwegian Cruise Lines!!!
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Science Center
Phone: (412) 237-1550
http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/family/requin.asp
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.
PUERTO RICO
San Juan
Museum de Historia Militar y Naval de Puerto Rico
Naval de
Puerto Rico, Fort Saint Gerome
Phone: (809) 724-5477
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. She takes on passengers during the summer, but
it's very expensive.
International Yacht Restoration School
449 Thames St.
Phone: 401 848
5777
FAX: 401 842 0669
Admission free
Coronet 167 ft grand Victorian yacht
Pre-12
meter America's Cup racing yacht
Cigarette 1920s
high speed cabin cruiser
Dedicated to the preservation and restoration of
classic wooden sailing and motor yachts.
Naval War College Museum
Coasters Harbor Island
Enter through Gate
Number 1
Phone: (401) 841-4052
Mon-Fri 1000-1600, Jun-Sep weekends also
1200-1600
http://www.ids.net/~nwcird/museum.htm
Evolution and technology of sea warfare, including a history of the
development of the torpedo in the US.
Providence
USS Saratoga Museum Foundation
Phone: 401-831-8696
FAX: 401-831-8707
http://www.saratogamuseum.org/
USS Saratoga CV-60
B-77/K-77/U-484 Former Russian Juliett sub
The
sub was leased to a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures for the filming of "K-19:
The Widowmaker".
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston
Charles Towne Landing
1500 Old Towne Rd.
Phone: (803)
556-4450
Adventure Ketch (replica)
Mt.Pleasant (near Charleston)
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum
40 Patroits Point Road
Phone: (803) 884-2727
Daily, open 9:00, close
various depending on season
Admission: $10, Senior citizens and military $9,
children $5, 5 and under free
http://www.state.sc.us/patpt/
Yorktown CV 10
Laffey
DD 724
Clamagore SS 343
Ingham WHEC-35 (USCG Cutter)
Yorktown
hosts the Congressional Medal of Honor Museum. Laffey survived 5
Kamikazes and 3 bombs in a single hour. Ingham served in the Atlantic in
WWII on U-boat patrol.
NOTE: NS Savannah was moved to the James River Reserve Fleet.
The submersible CSS Hunley has been raised and is undergoing an
archaeological examination. Here is one site about the work:
http://www.charleston.net/pub/index/hunley_index.shtml
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls
Battleship South Dakota Memorial
12th and Kiwanis
Streets
Phone: (605) 339-7060
Open all year
No admission fee
Displays items from and about the ship, including parts of her, models of
the ship and engines, objects from the Battle of Savo Island. Very large scale
Kingfisher model (4' wingspan).
A 16" gun barrel will shortly become part of
the exhibits.
TENNESEE
Germantown
PT Boats, Inc.
Phone: (901) 755-8440
FAX: (901)
751-0522
Memorabilia of WWII PT Boats. Open by appointment only. The 2 PTs
on display at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA belong to PT Boats,Inc.
Memphis
Mud Island
Btw. Wolf and Mississippi rivers
Go by
monorail
http://www.mudisland.com/
The River Walk: 30" to 1 mile scale model of Mississippi R. from Cairo, Ill.
to the Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River Museum: Rooms about: development of
the river, pre-Columbian, Spanish and French periods, the commercial periods
before and after the Civil War, the Civil War, the great floods, life along the
river (the musical history of the river has a room)and the modern era.
Each
period has a room with boatmodels, all to the same scale, ranging from flatbed
canoes to modern towboats, with Spanish galleys, stern and side wheelers, and at
least one example of most if not all of the Civil War belligerents gunboats and
rams. Full scale model of the fore half of a Union Navy Cairo class gunboat,
built based on the lines of the recovered vessel in Vicksburg. Full scale mock
up of the fore half of a sternwheeler at the height of the steamboat era. Small
aquarium.
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.
Lexington on the Bay Museum
2914 N. Shoreline Blvd., Surfside exit of US
181
Phone: (512) 888-4873 or (800) 523-9539
FAX: (512) 883-8361
http://www.usslexington.com/
Daily
0900-1700 except Christmas
Admission fee
Lexington
CV/CVA/AVT 16
Displays include: WWII actions, aviation training.
Helo flights off the flight deck for an aerial tour of the Corpus Christi
Bay area.
Also replicas of Columbus' ships - 2 at the museum in dry dock,
Santa Maria and Pinta under repair (damaged about 2 years ago by a drifting
barge), can be toured by museum visitors. Nina is moored at the Marina and sails
regularly. Ships purchased from Spain. $8 entry fee to tour ships.
The
Columbian ships are in trouble, and need work. They may be moved to Houston.
Fort Worth
Pate Museum of Transportation
MSB 5
Fredricksburg
Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War
Phone:
210-997-4379
HA-19 Japanese mini-sub
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. The museum
is housed in the restored Nimitz Steamboat Hotel, built 1852.
Defenders of America Naval Museum
http://www.defendersofamerica.org/
PT-309
PT-305
LCP(L)
Houston Maritime Museum
Mixed displays, run by an individual from his
home.
Galveston
Seawolf Park
Phone: (409) 744-5738
http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~nstevens/cavalla.html
Cavalla AGSS 244
Stewart
DE 238
Self-guided tours. Nearby lies the wreckage of the concrete ship
Selma. The park is named after the sub Seawolf, lost during WWII.
Texas Seaport Museum
2016 Strand
Phone: 409-763-1877
Daily
1000-1700
http://www.phoenix.net/~tsm
Elissa Bark
Iron hulled, built 1877.
La Porte, Houston
San Jacinto Battleground Historical Complex
3527
Battleground Rd., off Texas Hwy 134
Phone: 281-479-2411
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/battlesh/battlesh.htm
http://usstexasbb35.com/
Daily
1000-1700, closed Christmas Eve and Day
Admission fee for adults, students,
school groups; under 6 free
Texas BB 35
Self-guided tours. Recently 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.
Orange
Southeast Texas War Memorial
Orleck
DD
Gearing class, served in WWII and later in Turkish Navy.
Rockport
Texas Maritime Museum
1202 Navigation Circle
Phone:
361-729-1271
FAX: 361-729-9938
http://www.texasmaritimemuseum.org/
Texas maritime history. Several Texas coastal workboats, including La
Tortuga, a new-built "Texas scow sloop".
Rio Hondo
Texas Air Museum
Island of the LPH USS Iwo Jima
Seabrook
VERMONT
Shelburne
Shelburne Museum
Route 7
Phone: 802-985-3346 or 800-639-3840
Late May to late October: daily 1000-1700
Limited Winter schedule
Ticonderoga Passenger sidewheel steamer
Colchester Reef lighthouse. Boat is "dry-docked" on the lawn miles from any water it could float upon.
Vergennes
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Basin Harbor Rd.
Phone: 801-475-2022
Daily 1000-1700
Admission fee
Revolutionary War museum. Replica of gunboat Philadelphia, plus numerous small boats.
VIRGINIA
Dahlgren
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Newport News
The Mariners' Museum
100 Museum Drive
Corner Warwick and J. Clyde Morris, exit 258-A off I-64
Phone: 1-800-581-SAIL (7245) or 757-596-2222
Daily 10-5, except Dec. 25 and Thanksgiving day
http://www.mariner.org/
Artifacts from US Civil War ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, ex-USS Merrimac
Shipmodels, scrimshaw, figureheads, working models of classic steam engines, small craft from around the world.
Research library contains over 75,000 volumes and 350,000 photos, considered one of the finest in the world. It's open Mon-Sat
0900-1700
Newport News Shipbuilding
4101 Washington Ave
Phone: 757-380-2000 (Company phone)
Dorothy 1899 steam tug
Landed
Norfolk
Hampton Roads Naval Museum
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center
One Waterside Drive, on the Elizabeth River
Phone: (757) 664-1000
http://www.nauticus.org/
Wisconsin BB 64
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.
Wisconsin is only open on the main deck. Admission is free, and the ship can be reached without passing through the rest of the museum.
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 (804) 444-8971.
Bay Towing Corp.
Huntington Tug
Phone:
757-627-4884
Small admission fee
Still in service.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
2 High St.
Phone:
804-393-8591
America's first naval shipyard. Lightship Portsmouth is nearby.
Quantico
US Marine Corp Air-Ground Museum
USMC Development & Education Command
Phone: (703) 640-2606
Apr 1 to Nov 28, Tue-Sun
Free admission
Virginia Beach
The Old Coast Guard Station and The Life-Saving Museum
24th St. and Atlantic Ave.
Phone: 757-422-1587
FAX: 757-491-8609
Tue-Sat 1000-1700, Sun 1200-1700
Admission fee. Group rates available
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve and Day
Only existing life-saving station in Virginia. History of the Life-Saving service and Coast Guard.
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.
Watermen's Museum
309 Water Street
Phone: 757-887-2641
FAX: 757-888-2089
http://www.watermens.org/
Interprets the story of the watermen of the lower Chesapeake Bay. Models and full sized examples of the unique style boats used both currently and historically, methods and tools used.
WASHINGTON
Aberdeen
Gray's 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.
Anacortes
R Avenue, foot of 7th Street
Open daily
W.T.
Preston Stern-wheel dredge/snagboat
Former US Army Corps of Engineers boat. Landed.
Bellingham
Whatcom Museum of History and Art
201 Prospect Street
Phone: 360-676-6981
FAX: 360-738-7409
H. C. Hanson Naval Architecture Collection
Life's work of naval architect Harold Hanson, including vessels for the Navy, Coast Guard, and Army, plus many civilian vessels.
Bremerton
300 Washington Beach Ave., moving to 508 Pacific Ave.
Phone: 360-479-7447
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 Korea.
Tours are NOT given of naval graveyard.
Bremerton Boardwalk, north of the Washington State Ferry Dock
Turner Joy DD 951
http://www.hnsa.org/ships/turnerjoy.htm
Ilwaco
Nearby, on Columbia river
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
Maritime museum - most northwesterly point Lewis and Clark reached.
Keyport
Naval Undersea Museum
610 Dowell St. - follow signs in
Keyport from Hwy 308
Phone: 360-396-4148
FAX: 360-396-7944
http://www.tscnet.com/tour/museum/
Trieste II DSV I
Adjacent to Navy torpedo test
facility. Has models of support ships and boats. Also has actual research and rescue subs.
Port Townsend
Fort Worden State Park
200 Battery Way
Phone: 360-385-4730 ext. 430
FAX: 360-385-7248
http://www.hevanet.com/1860colt/worden.html
Coast artillery fort complex.
ex-Coast Guard Cutter 83527 83', built 1944
Jefferson County Historical Society
Museum and Research Library
540 Water Street
Mon-Sat 1100-1600, Sun 1300-1600
Museum and Library are closed to the public weekdays in January and February.
Admission fee, free for members
Located in Port Townsend's original City Hall building.
Seattle
Center for Wooden Boats
1010 Valley St.
Phone: 206-382-2628
Wed-Mon 1200-1800
http://www.eskimo.com/~cwboats/
Boatbuilding shop, boat livery, display of many small boats. Hands-on.
Coast Guard Museum/Northwest
Pier 46
1519 Alaska Way S.
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.
Submarine Attractions Inc.
Pier 48
Foxtrot class SS
Kalakala Foundation
http://www.kalakala.org/
Kalakala Ferry
First streamlined ship, first commercial vessel equipped with radar. Being restored.
Odyssey Contemporary Maritime Museum
Sci/tech cneter, mostly for kids.
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
2700 24th Avenue East
Phone: 206-324-1126
Part of Museum of History and Science
Relief Steam lightship
Westport
Westport Maritime Museum
http://www.westportwa.com/museum/
WEST VIRGINIA
Keyser
USS Barr WWII Collection
Mary F. Shipper Library
Potomac State College
Collection of memorabilia from USS Barr,
named after Pvt. Woodrow Wilson Barr. Also memorabilia of Pvt. Barr himself, and other WWII displays.
Shepherdstown
Rumseian Experiment
Steam-propelled vessel
1987 replica of 1787 vessel
WISCONSIN
Gills Rock
Doors County Maritime Museum at Gills Rock
Hope Fishing tug
Seasonal museum, part of the
museum in Sturgeon Bay (see below).
Manitowoc
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
75 Maritime Drive
Phone: 414-684-0218
Daily
Admission fee, group rates
Cobia AGSS 245
Great Lakes maritime history. Cobia was recently cleaned and repaired, and refurbished and repainted closer to
her WWII appearance. She represents 28 subs built in Manitowoc during WWII.
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 replica of an 1800's 3-masted lake schooner.
Superior
Phone: (715) 392-5742
Meteor
Whaleback freighter
The last whaleback ship in existence. Sailed the Great Lakes for many years.
Sturgeon Bay
Door County Maritime Museum
120 N. Madison Ave.
Phone: 920-743-5958
http://dcmm.org/museum.html/
Daily: Memorial Day to Labor Day 0900-1800, 1000-1700 elsewhen
Artwork, history, models. A large display is dedicated to the raising of the ship George E. Humphrey.
Private museum off I-90/94.
PBR, sans engines and turrets