List of museum ships: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a 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. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen — Den Helder, Netherlands, minesweeper
• HMAS Advance — Sydney, Australia — attack patrol boat
• USS Alabama — Mobile — battleship
• USS Albacore — Portsmouth, New Hampshire — experimental submarine
• Alexander Henry — Kingston, Ontario — icebreaker
• HMS Alliance — Gosport, England — A-Class submarine
• Alta — Oslo — minesweeper
• SS American Victory — Tampa, Florida — Victory ship
• Arctic Corsair H.320 — Hull, England (link) — side-fishing trawler
• Arctic Penguin Inveraray, Scotland — steel-hull schooner
• USS Arizona — Pearl Harbor — Battleship sunk by Japanese aircraft
• Aurora — St Petersburg — Cruiser involved in the Russian Revolution

• B-15 — New Westminster, Canada — 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
• MV Balmoral — Glasgow (not a museum ship)
• USS Barry — Washington DC — destroyer
• USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma — submarine
• Bauru, ex USS McAnn — Rio de Janeiro — destroyer escort
• USS Becuna — Philadelphia — submarine
• Berkeley — San Diego — double-ended steam-powered ferryboat
• HMS Belfast — London — cruiser
• Bluenose II — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia — racing schooner
• ORP Blyskawica — Gdynia, Poland — destroyer
• USS Bowfin (SS-287) — Pearl Harbor — submarine
• Britannia — Leith (by Edinburgh) — former royal yacht
• HMS Bronington — Birkenhead — minesweeper
• HR MS Buffel — Rotterdam — 1868 turret ram

• USS Cairo — Vicksburg, Mississippi — ironclad gunboat
• USS Cassin Young — Boston — destroyer
• HMAS Castlemaine — Williamstown — 1941 Minesweeper
• HMS Cavalier — Chatham — destroyer
• Charles W. Morgan — Mystic, Connecticut — whaler
• USS Cod (SS-224) — Cleveland, Ohio — submarine
• FS Colbert — Bordeaux, France — last French cruiser
• USS Constellation — Baltimore, Maryland, sloop of war — last wooden warship built in US
• USS Constitution — Boston — sailing frigate, oldest commissioned warship afloat
• Cutty Sark — Greenwich — only surviving clipper ship

• Dar Pomorza — Gdynia, Poland — sailing frigate
• Derski (alternate spelling: D'rski) — Varna, Bulgaria — torpedo boat
• HMAS Diamantina — Brisbane, Australia, — frigate
• USS Drum (SS-228) — Mobile, Alabama — submarine

• ORP Fala — Kolobrzeg, Poland — patrol craft
• Falls of Clyde — Honolulu — four-master
• SS Forceful — Brisbane, Australia — ocean-going tug
• 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

• HMS Gannet — Chatham — 1878 screw sloop
• Georgios Averoff — Athens, Greece — only surviving armored cruiser of the early 20th century
• SV Glenlee — Glasgow — 1896 steel barque
• SS Great Britain — Bristol

• HMS Holland 1 — Gosport, England — First Royal Navy submarine
• HMCS Haida — Hamilton, Ontario — destroyer
• Huascar — Talcahuano, Chile — monitor
• USS Hornet (CV-12) — Alameda, California — WWII aircraft carrier
• Huron — Port Huron, Michigan, lightship

• USS Intrepid (CV-11) — New York City — WWII aircraft carrier

• SS Jeremiah O'Brien — San Francisco, California — Liberty ship
• SS John W. Brown — Baltimore, Maryland — Liberty ship
• Joseph Conrad — Mystic, Connecticut
• Julius C. Wilkie — Winona, Minnesota — stern-wheel riverboat; one of the last surviving sternwheelers
• Jylland — Ebeltoft, Denmark — screw frigate

• Kalmar Nyckel — Wilmington, Delaware — brought Swedish immigrants to Delaware (replica)
• USS Kidd — Baton Rouge, Louisiana — destroyer
• PS Kingswear Castle — Chatham — paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
• 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
• HMAS Krait — Sydney, Australia — commando boat
• Krasin — St Petersburg, Russia — icebreaker

• SS Lane Victory — San Pedro, California — Victory ship
• Lembit — Tallinn, Estonia — mine-laying submarine
• USS Lexington (CV-16) — Corpus Christi, Texas — aircraft carrier
• USS Little Rock (CL-92) — Buffalo, New York — light cruiser
• USS LST-325 — Chickasaw, Alabama — landing ship tank

• M33 - British monitor
• PS Maid of the Loch — Loch Lomond, Scotland — paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
• USS Massachusetts (BB-59) — Fall River, Massachusetts — battleship
• Mayflower — Plymouth, — Pilgrims ship (replica), crossed Atlantic
• USS Midway (CV-41) — San Diego, California — aircraft carrier
• IJMS Mikasa — Yokosuka, Japan — battleship, Admiral Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima
• Minsk — Shenzhen, China — ex-Soviet aircraft carrier
• USS Missouri — Pearl Harbor — battleship

• USS Nautilus — Groton, Connecticut — first nuclear submarine
• USS New Jersey (BB-62) — Camden, New Jersey — battleship
• Norgoma — Sault-Ste-Marie — Great Lakes passenger ship
• USS North Carolina (BB-55) — Wilmington, North Carolina — battleship

• USS Olympia — Philadelphia — cruiser, Spanish-American War, flagship of Admiral Dewey
• HMAS Onslow — Sydney — Oberon-class submarine
• HMAS Ovens — Fremantle — Oberon-class submarine

• USS Pampanito (SS-383) — San Francisco, California — submarine
• Pilgrim — Dana Point, California — Richard Dana vessel
• SS Polly Woodside — Melbourne — 1885 three-masted barque
• Pride of Baltmore II — Baltimore, Maryland — clipper replica
• Puglia - protected cruiser (section)

• RMS Queen Mary — Long Beach, California — Passenger liner

• Ra II — Bygdøy maritime museum, Oslo — Replica Egyptian reed (plant) craft sailed across the Atlantic Ocean by Thor Heyerdahl,
• SS Red Oak Victory — Richmond, California — Victory ship
• Riachuelo — Rio de Janeiro — submarine

• HMCS Sackville — Halifax — corvette
• RCMPV St. Roch — Vancouver — auxiliary police schooner
• HNLMS Schorpioen — Den Helder, Netherlands — 1868 ironclad ram
• SS Shieldhall — Southampton — cargo ship (sludge boat) (not a museum ship)
• Sigun — Turku, Finland — wooden barque
• SS Sir Walter Scott — Loch Katrine, Scotland — screw steamer (not a museum ship)
• S/S Soldek — Gdansk, Poland
• Star of India — San Diego, California — barque, oldest seaworthy vessel, possibly oldest merchant ship afloat
• Spurn — Kingston-upon-Hull marina — lightship [1]
• Suomen Joutsen — Turku, Finland — sailing frigate
• HMS Surprise (originally called HMS Rose) — San Diego, California — Replica 18th century Royal Navy frigate

• Tarmo — Kotka, Finland — oldest surviving icebreaker
• USS Texas (BB-35) — La Porte, Texas (near Houston) — battleship
• HNLMS Tonijn — Den Helder, Netherlands — submarine
• USS Torsk — Baltimore, Maryland — last Pearl Harbor armed ship afloat

• U-359 — Nakskov, Denmark — Soviet Whiskey-class submarine (in fact, S-359)
• U-505 — Chicago, Illinois — U-boat
• U-995 — Laboe, Germany — U-boat
• Uluçalireis, ex USS Thornback (SS-418) — Istanbul, Turkey — submarine

• HMAS Vampire — Sydney — Daring class destroyer
• Vesikko — Helsinki, Finland — submarine
• HMS Victory — Portsmouth, England — oldest commisioned warship
• Vitiaz (alternate spelling: Vityaz, Vitjaz) — Kaliningrad, Russia — science ship of former Soviet Academy of Science.

• HMS Wasa — Stockholm — 17th century Swedish battleship
• HMS Warrior — Portsmouth, England — first ocean-going iron-hulled armoured battleship
• PS Waverley — Glasgow, sea-going paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
• HMAS Whyalla — Whyalla, South Australia - minesweeping corvette
• Wilhelm Bauer, ex U-2540 — Bremerhaven — U-boat
• SS William G. Mather — Cleveland, Ohio — bulk freighter
• USS Wisconsin (BB-64) — Norfolk, Virginia — battleship

• USS Yorktown (CV-10) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — aircraft carrier