List of museum ships

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

• 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 — Amphion-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

• 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)
• Batavia (replica) — The Netherlands
• 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 — Balao-class 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 — light cruiser
• Bluenose II — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia — racing schooner
• ORP Blyskawica — Gdynia, Poland — destroyer
• USS Bowfin (SS-287) — Pearl Harbor — submarine
• 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
• Calypso (1882) - Canada - British cruiser
• USS Cassin Young — Boston, Massachusetts — Fletcher-class destroyer
• HMAS Castlemaine — Williamstown, Victoria — 1941 Minesweeper
• Carpentaria — Sydney — lightship
• HMS Cavalier — Chatham — C-class destroyer
• Charles W. Morgan — Mystic, Connecticut — whaler
• 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
• Cutty Sark — Greenwich — only surviving clipper ship
• HMS Courageous — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth — Churchill-class nuclear submarine

D

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

E

• Elizabeth II - Manteo, North Carolina

F

• ORP Fala — Kolobrzeg, Poland — patrol craft
• Falls of Clyde — Honolulu — four-master
• 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

G

• 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, England — first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller.

H

• HMCS Haida — Hamilton, Ontario — Tribal-class destroyer
• USS Hazard (AM-240) — Omaha, Nebraska — minesweeper
• HMS Holland 1 — Gosport, England — First Royal Navy submarine
• USS Hornet — Alameda, California — WWII aircraft carrier
• Huascar — Talcahuano, Chile — battleship
• Huron — Port Huron, Michigan, lightship

I

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

J

• James Caird — Dunsmore College, London — boat
• 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

K

• 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

L

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

M

• HMS M33 — Portsmouth, England — British monitor (awaiting resoration as museum ship)
• 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 museum ship - salvaged wreck and artifacts)
• USS Massachusetts (BB-59) — Fall River, Massachusetts — battleship
• Mayflower II — Plymouth, — replica of the Pilgrims' ship, crossed Atlantic
• USCGC McLane W-146 , Muskegon, Michigan — Prohibition-era coast guard cutter
• USS Midway — 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

N

• USS Nautilus — Groton, Connecticut — first nuclear submarine
• Ned Hanlan — Toronto, Ontario — tugboat
• 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

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 Otway - Holbrook, NSW — Oberon class submarine
• HMAS Ovens — Fremantle, Western Australia — Oberon class submarine

P

• USS Pampanito (SS-383) — San Francisco, California — Second World War submarine
• Passat — Travemunde, Germany , clipper ship at Travemunde Maritime Museum, owned by Flying P line
• Peking — New York, New York at South Street Seaport Museum , clipper ship, owned by Flying P line
• HMS Plymouth — Birkenhead — Royal Navy frigate - took part in the Falklands War
• Pilgrim — Dana Point, California — Richard Dana vessel
• SS Polly Woodside — Melbourne — 1885 three-masted barque
• Pommern — Mariehamn, Finland at Museifartyget Pommern , owned by Flying P line
• Pride of Baltmore II — Baltimore, Maryland — clipper replica
• Puglia - protected cruiser (section)

Q

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

R

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

S

• HMCS Sackville — Halifax — corvette
• RCMPV St. Roch — Vancouver — auxiliary police schooner
• USS Salem — Quincy, Massachusetts — post-WWII cruiser [1]
• HNLMS Schorpioen — Den Helder, Netherlands — 1868 ironclad ram
• SS Shieldhall — Southampton — cargo ship (sludge boat) (not a museum ship)
• Sigun — Turku, Finland — wooden barque
• USS Silversides (SS-236), Muskegon, Michigan — WWII submarine
• 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
• Stettin — Hamburg — icebreaker
• Spurn — Kingston-upon-Hull marina — lightship [2]
• Stewart (DE-238) — Galveston, Texas — World War II-era destroyer escort
• HMS Sultana — Chestertown Maryland — replica of 18th Century Royal Navy schooner
• USCGC Sundew (WLB 404) — Duluth — Buoy Tender
• Suomen Joutsen — Turku, Finland — sailing frigate
• Surprise (originally called Rose) — San Diego, California — Replica of the 18th century Royal Navy frigate HMS Rose .

T

• Tarmo — Kotka, Finland — oldest surviving icebreaker
• USS Texas — La Porte, Texas (near Houston) — battleship
• HNLMS Tonijn — Den Helder, Netherlands — submarine
• USS Torsk — Baltimore, Maryland — Tench-class submarine; last Pearl Harbor armed ship afloat
• HMS Trincomalee — Hartlepool, UK — 38 gun frigate from 1817

U

• U-1 — Deutsches Museum, Munich — First German submarine, commissioned 1906
• U-359 — Nakskov, Denmark — Soviet Whiskey-class submarine (in fact, S-359)
• U-505 — Chicago, Illinois — U-boat
• U-534 — Birkenhead — U-boat — sunk in 1945, but raised in 1993
• U-995 — Laboe, Germany — U-boat
• TCG Uluçalireis, ex USS Thornback — Istanbul, Turkey — submarine

V

• HMS Valiant — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth (planned) — Valiant-class nuclear submarine
• HMAS Vampire — Sydney — Daring-class destroyer
• 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 Wasa — Stockholm — 17th century Swedish battleship
• HMS Warrior (1860) — 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 — Bremerhaven — U-boat, ex-U-2540
• SS William G. Mather — Cleveland, Ohio — bulk freighter
• USS Wisconsin (BB-64) — Norfolk, Virginia — battleship

X

Y

• USS Yorktown — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — aircraft carrier

Z

External links

• Historic Naval Ships Visitors' Guide
• List of museum submarines
• Maritime Museums in Britain and Ireland - Vessels