List of museum ships

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List of museum ships is a comprehensive, annotated list of museum ships around the world. Ships marked (not a museum ship) do not strictly fit the definition in that article: see also List of classic vessels for non-museum classic ships.

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A

HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen — Den Helder, Netherlands, minesweeper
CSS Acadia — Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia — hydrographic survey and patrol ship of 1913
HMAS Advance — Sydney, Australia — attack patrol boat
USS Alabama (BB-60) — Mobile, Alabama — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
USS Albacore — Portsmouth, New Hampshire — experimental submarine
Alexander Henry — Kingston, Ontario — icebreaker
HMS Alliance — Gosport, England — Amphion-class submarine
Alma — San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California — 1891 built scow schooner
Alose — Comex, Marseille, France — Naiade-class submarine of 1904
HNoMS Alta — Oslo — minesweeper
SS American Victory — Tampa, Florida — Victory ship
Amsterdam (replica) — Amsterdam — East Indiaman
Arctic Corsair H320 — Hull, England — side-fishing trawler
Arctic Penguin — Inveraray, Scotland — steel-hull schooner
Argonaute — Cité des Sciences, Paris — submarine
USS Arizona (BB-39) — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — Battleship sunk by Japanese aircraft in the attack on Pearl Harbor
Aurora — St Petersburg, Russia — Cruiser involved in the October Revolution

B

B 15 — New Westminster, Canada — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B 39 — San Diego — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B-80 — Den Helder, The Netherlands — Soviet Zulu (611)-class submarine
B-143 — Zeebrugge, Belgium — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B-413 — Kaliningrad, Russia — submarine
B-427 — Long Beach, California, USA — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine (named Scorpion)
Balclutha — San Francisco, California — steel hulled square-rigged sailing ship
USS Barry — Washington, D.C. — destroyer
Batavia (replica) — Lelystad, The Netherlands — East Indiaman
USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma — Balao-class submarine
Bauru, ex USS McAnn — Rio de Janeiro — destroyer escort
USS Becuna — Philadelphia — submarine
HMS Belfast — London — light cruiser
Berkeley — San Diego — double-ended steam-powered ferryboat
German Biber midget submarine — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport — German midget submarine of WWII
KNM Blink — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum Horten, Norway — motor torpedo boat
Bluenose II — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia — racing schooner
ORP Błyskawica — Gdynia, Poland — 1936 destroyer
HNLMS Bonaire — Den Helder, Netherlands — Royal Netherlands Navy steam frigate of 1877
HMS Bounty (replica) — Sydney — Mutiny ship
USS Bowfin (SS-287) — Pearl Harbor — submarine
Brandtaucher — Museum of Military History, Dresden — Wilhelm Bauer submarine of 1850
HMY Britannia — Leith (by Edinburgh) — former royal yacht
HMS Bronington — Birkenhead — minesweeper
HNLMS Buffel — Rotterdam — 1868 turret ram

C

USS Cairo — Vicksburg, Mississippi — ironclad gunboat
HMS Calypso (1883) — Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador — Calypso-class corvette "cruiser" launched in 1883
HMS Caroline — Belfast — WWI cruiser, awaiting decommissioning
Carpentaria — Sydney — lightship
USS Cassin Young — Boston, Massachusetts — Fletcher-class destroyer
HMAS Castlemaine — Williamstown, Victoria — 1941 corvette/minesweeper
HMS Cavalier — Chatham — "C" class destroyer
HMVS Cerberus — Black Rock, Victoria — ironclad warship launched 1868 (semi-sunken hulk awaiting restoration)
Charles W. Morgan — Mystic, Connecticut — whaler
USS Charrette (DD-581) — Poros, Greece — 1942 destroyer, later named HNS Velos (D-16)
Chi Lin (103) — Chinese Naval Museum at Qingdao — former Soviet Type 7 destroyer Retivy of 1940
USS Clamagore (SS-343) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Cold War Balao-class submarine
HM CMB 4 — Imperial War Museum Duxford — coastal motor boat of 1916, commanded by Augustus Agar in VC-winning action in 1919
USS Cod — Cleveland, Ohio — submarine
Colbert — Bordeaux, France — last French cruiser
USS Constellation — Baltimore, Maryland, sloop of war — last wooden warship built in US
USS Constitution — Boston, Massachusetts — sailing frigate, oldest commissioned warship afloat
HMS Courageous — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth — Churchill-class nuclear submarine
Cutty Sark — Greenwich, London — only surviving clipper ship

D

Dar Pomorza — Gdynia, Poland — sailing frigate
HMAS Diamantina — Brisbane, Australia, — River-class frigate
RRS Discovery — Dundee, Scotland — Used by Antarctic explorers Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton
Drazki (alternate spelling: Druzki) — Varna, Bulgaria — torpedo boat
USS Drum — Mobile, Alabama — submarine

E

USS Edson (DD-946) — Sheboygan, Wisconsin — Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of 1958
Edwin Fox — Picton, New Zealand — convict ship, built Calcutta, 1853
Elissa — 1877 iron barque
Elizabeth II (replica) — Manteo, North Carolina — A replica of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony ship Elizabeth
HM Bark Endeavour (replica) — Sydney, Australia — A replica of Captain Cook's 1770s ship.
Espadon S637 — Saint-Nazaire, France — French Narval-class submarine, launched 1958
SS Explorer — Leith, Edinburgh — steam trawler

F

ORP Fala — Kolobrzeg, Poland — patrol craft
Falls of Clyde — Bishop Museum, Honolulu — four-master
Fenian Ram — Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey — John Philip Holland submarine of 1881
Finngrundet lightvessel — Stockholm, Sweden — operated in the Baltic Sea during summer months from 1903 until 1969
SS Forceful — Brisbane, Australia — ocean-going tugboat
Fram — Oslo — Norwegian polar exploration built 1892, vessel of Fridtjof Nansen (North pole expedition), and Roald Amundsen (South pole expedition), part of Bygdøy maritime museum complex
MS Fryken — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — 1938 coastal freighter[link]

G

HMS Gannet — Chatham — 1878 screw sloop
TCG Gayret (D352) — Izmit, Turkey — former USS Eversole (DD-789) of 1946 [link]
Georgios Averoff — Athens, Greece — only surviving armored cruiser of the early 20th century
Gipsy Moth IV — Greenwich — 54ft ketch of Sir Francis Chichester
Glenlee — Glasgow — 1896 steel barque
Gorch Fock I — Stralsund, Germany — three-masted barque
SS Great Britain — Bristol, England — first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller

H

HMCS Haida — Hamilton, Ontario — Tribal-class destroyer
Hajen — Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden — "Ubåt No. 1", 1904 submarine
PNS Hangor — Pakistan — 1968 submarine
USS Hazard (AM-240) — Omaha, Nebraska — minesweeper
RV Hero — Newport, Oregon — National Science Foundation polar research vessel
Hiddensee — Fall River, Massachusetts — Tarantul I class missile corvette
HNoMS Hitra — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum Horten, Norway — submarine chaser, Shetland bus
HMS Holland 1 — Gosport, England — first Royal Navy submarine
USS Hornet — Alameda, California — WWII aircraft carrier
Huáscar — Talcahuano, Chile — restored 19th century battleship
Huron — Port Huron, Michigan, lightship

I

USCGC Ingham (WHEC-35) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Treasury-class US Coast Guard Cutter
USS Intrepid (CV-11) — New York City, New York — WWII Essex-class aircraft carrier

J

James Caird — Dulwich College, London — boat
James Craig — Sydney, Australia — 1874 barque
Jarramas — Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden — 3 masted tall ship of 1900
SS Jeremiah O'Brien — San Francisco, California — WWII Liberty ship
SS John W. Brown — Baltimore, Maryland — WWII Liberty ship
Joseph Conrad — Mystic, Connecticut — Sailing ship from the late 1880s
USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) — Fall River, Massachusetts — Post-WWII destroyer
Julius C. Wilkie — Winona, Minnesota — Stern-wheel riverboat; one of the last surviving sternwheelers
Jylland — Ebeltoft, Denmark — Screw frigate

K

Kalmar Nyckel — Wilmington, Delaware — brought Swedish immigrants to Delaware (replica)
FNS Karjala — Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland — Turunmaa class gunboat of 1968
SS Keewatin — Keewatin Maritime Museum, Douglas, Michigan — Great Lakes steamship of 1907 [link]
Khufu ship — Giza pyramid complex, Egypt — a 43.6 m long vessel from the Khufu burial around 2,500 BC
USS Kidd — Baton Rouge, Louisiana — destroyer
Kiev — Tianjin, China — ex-Soviet aircraft carrier
Kon-Tiki, Oslo, Balsa raft sailed from South America to Polynesian islands by Thor Heyerdahl, part of Bygdøy maritime museum complex
Kosmonavt Viktor Patsayev (alt. spelling: Cosmonaut Viktor Patsayev), Kaliningrad, Russia
MV Krait — Sydney, Australia — commando boat
Krasin — St Petersburg, Russia — icebreaker

L

USS Laffey (DD-724) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Sumner-class destroyer
Lajta / Leitha — River Danube, Budapest — 1871 river monitor of Austro-Hungarian Navy (hull only)
SS Lane Victory — San Pedro, California — Victory ship
HMS LCT (3) 7074 — Warship Preservation Trust, Birkenhead — last surviving landing craft tank that took part in D-Day
Lembit — Tallinn, Estonia — mine-laying submarine
USS Lexington (CV-16) — Corpus Christi, Texas — Essex-class aircraft carrier
USS Ling (SS-297) — Balao-class submarine — New Jersey Naval Museum, Hackensack, New Jersey
USS Lionfish (SS-298) — Battleship Cove, Massachusetts — 1943 U.S. Navy submarine
USS Little Rock — Buffalo, New York — light cruiser
LR 3 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport — ocean survey and repair submersible of 1982
USS LST 325 — Chickasaw, Alabama — landing ship tank
USS LST 1008 — Chinese Naval Museum at Qingdao — landing ship tank, launched 1944
Lydia Eva — Great Yarmouth — steam powered herring drifter of 1930 [link]

M

HMS M 33 — Portsmouth, England — British monitor (under restoration as museum ship)
M 261 — Krasnodar, Russia — Soviet Quebec class submarine
M 302 — Odessa, Ukraine — Soviet Quebec class submarine
HTMS Maeklong — Chulachomklao Fort, Thailand — gunboat
PS Maid of the Loch — Loch Lomond, Scotland — paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
USS Marlin — Omaha, Nebraska — submarine
Mary Rose — Portsmouth, England — Tudor carrack (not a complete museum ship - salvaged wreck and artifacts)
MAS-15 — Museo del Risorgimento Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome — 1916 Italian torpedo boat which sank SMS Szent István
MAS-96 — Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda — WWI torpedo boat of Gabriele D'Annunzio
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) — Fall River, Massachusetts — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
Mayflower II — Plymouth, — replica of the Pilgrims' ship, crossed Atlantic
USCGC McLane W-146 — Muskegon, Michigan — Prohibition-era coast guard cutter
Mercator — Ostend, Belgium — training ship
USS Midway (CV-41) — San Diego, California — Midway-class aircraft carrier. First post-WWII carrier.
IJMS Mikasa — Yokosuka, Japan — battleship, Admiral Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima
Mikhail Kutuzov — Novorossiysk, Russia — Sverdlov-class cruiser, launched 1952
Minsk — Sha Tau Kok, Shenzhen, China — ex-Soviet aircraft carrier
USS Missouri (BB-63) — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — WWII Iowa-class battleship. Site of Japanese surrender
Mölders — Wilhelmshaven, Germany — destroyer

N

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) — Groton, Connecticut — First nuclear submarine
Ned Hanlan — Toronto, Canada — tugboat
USS New Jersey (BB-62) — Camden, New Jersey — WWII Iowa-class battleship
Nippon Maru — masted training ship, Yokohama, Japan
SS Nomadic — tender to Titanic, awaiting move to Belfast
MS Norgoma — Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario — Great Lakes passenger ship
USS North Carolina (BB-55) — Wilmington, North Carolina — WWII North Carolina-class battleship
Nusret — Çanakkale Park, Tarsus, Turkey — minelayer at Battle of Gallipoli

O

HMS Ocelot — Chatham — Oberon class submarine
USS Olympia — Philadelphia — protected cruiser, Spanish-American War, flagship of Admiral Dewey
HMAS Onslow — Sydney — Oberon class submarine
HMS Onyx — Birkenhead — Oberon class submarine - took part in the Falklands War
HMAS Otama — Hastings, Victoria — Oberon class submarine
HMAS Otus — Sassnitz, Germany — Oberon class submarine
HMAS Otway — Holbrook, NSW — Oberon class submarine
HMAS Ovens — Fremantle, Western Australia — Oberon class submarine

P

USS Pampanito (SS-383) — San Francisco, California — WWII Balao-class submarine
Passat — Travemünde, Lübeck, Germany — four masted barque at Travemunde Maritime Museum, a Flying P-Liner
Peking — New York City at South Street Seaport Museum — clipper ship, a Flying P-Liner
Peral — Cartagena, Spain — submarine of Isaac Peral, 1887
Pietro Micca — Fiumicino, Italy — diesel tug of 1895 [link]
Pilgrim — Dana Point, California — Richard Dana vessel
HMS Plymouth — Birkenhead — Royal Navy frigate, took part in the Falklands War
Polly Woodside — Melbourne Maritime Museum, Melbourne — 1885 three-masted barque
Pommern — Mariehamn, Åland at Museifartyget Pommern — a Flying P-Liner, the world's last four-masted steel barque still in original condition as a cargo ship
USS Potomac (AG-25) — Oakland, California — Presidential yacht of Franklin D. Roosevelt
ARA Presidente Sarmiento — Buenos Aires, Argentina — steam frigate.
Pride of Baltmore II — Baltimore, Maryland — clipper replica
Puglia — Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda — protected cruiser (bow section)

Q

RMS Queen Mary — Long Beach, California — Passenger liner

R

Ra II — Bygdøy maritime museum, Oslo — replica Egyptian reed craft sailed across the Atlantic Ocean by Thor Heyerdahl
Radium King — Fort Smith, Northwest Territories — tugboat
HNoMS Rap — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — 1873 torpedo boat
Reaper — Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Fife — fifie herring drifter of 1901
SS Red Oak Victory (AK-235) — Richmond, California — WWII Victory ship
Redoutable — Cité de la mer, Cherbourg, France — French nuclear submarine of 1971
USS Requin (SS-481) — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — submarine of 1945-1971
Riachuelo — Rio de Janeiro — submarine
Rickmer Rickmers — Hamburg — 1896 tall ship
SS Robin — West India Quay, London — steam coaster of 1890

S

S 359 — Nakskov, Denmark — Soviet Whiskey class submarine (also termed, "U-359")
HMCS Sackville (K181) — Halifax, Canada — WWII Flower-class corvette
RCMPV St Roch — Vancouver, Canada — Auxiliary police schooner
USS Salem (CA-139) — Quincy, Massachusetts — Cold War Des Moines-class heavy cruiser [link]
Sand Man Olympia, WA. 1910 tugboat
SS Sankt Erik — Stockholm, Sweden — Icebreaker launched 1915, in service until 1977
HNLMS Schorpioen — Den Helder, Netherlands — 1868 ironclad ram
SS Shieldhall — Southampton, England — Cargo ship (sludge boat) (not a museum ship)
Sigyn — Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland — 1887 wooden barque
USS Silversides (SS-236), Muskegon, Michigan — WWII Gato-class submarine
SS Sir Walter Scott — Loch Katrine, Scotland — screw steamer (not a museum ship)
KNM Skrei — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum Horten, Norway — Tjeld class motor torpedo boat
USS Slater (DE-766) — Albany, New York — Cannon-class destroyer escort, launched 1944
SS Soldek — Gdansk, Poland — Coal and ore freighter. First built after WWII
Sölve — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — 1875 coastal defence monitor
Southern Actor — Sandefjord, Norway — whale catcher.
Spurn Lightship — Kingston-upon-Hull, England — lightship [link]
Star of India — San Diego, California — barque, possibly oldest merchant ship afloat
Stettin — Hamburg, Germany — icebreaker
USS Stewart (DE-238) — Galveston, Texas— WW II destroyer escort
HMS Sultana — Chestertown, Maryland — Replica of 18th Century Royal Navy schooner
USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) — Duluth, Minnesota — US Coast Guard Buoy Tender
Sundowner — East Kent Maritime Trust, Ramsgate, Kent — Admiralty steam launch of 1912 commanded by Charles Lightoller in Operation Dynamo, 1940
Suomen Joutsen — Turku, Finland — sailing frigate
Surprise (originally called Rose) — San Diego, California — Replica of the 18th century Royal Navy frigate HMS Rose

T

USS Tacoma (PF-3) — frigate donated to South Korean Navy as museum ship in 1973.
USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) — Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore Inner Harbor — 1936 USCG cutter
Tarmo — Kotka, Finland — one of the oldest surviving icebreakers
USS Texas (BB-35) — La Porte, Texas — WWI and WWII New York class battleship
USS The Sullivans (DD-537) — Buffalo, New York — Fletcher-class destroyer, launched 1943
Tiburón-I SA-51 — Science Museum, Barcelona — Spanish submarine, launched 1957
Tiburón-II SA-52 — Cartagena, Spain — Spanish submarine, launched 1957
HNLMS Tonijn (S 805) — Den Helder, Netherlands — Cold War submarine
USS Torsk (SS-423) — Baltimore, Maryland — Tench-class submarine. Last Pearl Harbor armed ship afloat
Trieste — Naval Historical Center, Washington D.C. — deep-diving research bathyscaphe
Trieste II (DSV-1) — Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, Washington — deep-diving research bathyscaphe
HMS Trincomalee — Hartlepool — 38 gun frigate from 1817
Turbinia — Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne — first steam turbine powered steamship, 1894

U

U 1 — Deutsches Museum, Munich — first German military submarine, commissioned 1906
U 9 — Technikmuseum Speyer, Speyer — a post war Type 205 submarine
U 10 — Deutsches Marinemuseum, Wilhelmshaven — another Type 205
U 11 — Burgstaaken, Fehmarn; a Type 205a
U457 — Folkestone, Kent — Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine "U457" or ? B-39 [link]
U 505 — Chicago, Illinois — Type IX U-boat
U 534 — Birkenhead — Type IXC/40 U-boat — sunk in 1945, but raised in 1993
U 995 — Laboe, Germany — only surviving Type VII U-boat
U 2540/Wilhelm Bauer — Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Bremen — Type XXI U-boat
TCG Uluçalireis, ex USS Thornback — Istanbul, Turkey — submarine
HMS Unicorn — Dundee, United Kingdom — one of two surviving Leda class sailing frigates
ARA Uruguay — Buenos Aires, Argentina — steam corvette
HnoMS Utstein — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — Kobben class submarine

V

HMS Valiant — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth (planned) — Valiant-class nuclear submarine
HMAS Vampire — Sydney — Daring-class destroyer
Vasa — Stockholm — 17th century Swedish battleship
Vesikko — Helsinki, Finland — submarine
HMS Victory — Portsmouth, England — oldest commissioned warship
Vitiaz (alternate spelling: Vityaz, Vitjaz) — Kaliningrad, Russia — science ship of former Soviet Academy of Science

W

HMS Warrior — Portsmouth, England — first ocean-going iron hulled armoured battleship
PS Waverley — Glasgow, sea-going paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
HMAS Whyalla (J153) — Whyalla, South Australia - minesweeping corvette
Wilhelm Bauer — Bremerhaven — U-boat, ex-U 2540
SS William G. Mather — Cleveland, Ohio — bulk freighter
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) — Norfolk, Virginia — battleship

X

HMS X 24 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport — X class submarine of WWII

Y

Yavari — Puno, Lake Titicaca, Peru — 1861 steamship
USS Yorktown (CV-10) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Essex-class aircraft carrier

Z

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