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.

Contents: Top - 0–9 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

[edit] A

HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen — Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands — minesweeper
CSS Acadia — Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — hydrographic survey and patrol ship of 1913
HMAS Advance — Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia — Attack-class patrol boat
Af Chapman (1888) — Skeppsholmen island, Stockholm, Sweden — steel full-rigged ship
Akishio SS 579 — JMSDF Museum, Kure, Hiroshima — Japanese Yushio-class submarine, launched 1985
USS Alabama — Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, USA — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
USS Albacore — Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA — experimental submarine
Alexander Henry — Marine Museum of the Great Lakes, Kingston, Ontario, Canada — icebreaker
HMS Alliance — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — Amphion-class submarine
Alma — San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California, USA — 1891 built scow schooner
Alose — Comex, Marseille, France — Naiade-class submarine of 1904
HNoMS Alta — Oslo, Norway — minesweeper
RV Aluminaut — Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA — 1964 Deep Submergence Vessel
SS American Victory — Tampa, Florida, USA — Victory ship
Ambrose — South Street Seaport, New York, New York, USA — lightship
Amsterdam (replica) — Amsterdam, The Netherlands — East Indiaman
PLAN Anshan 101 — Chinese naval museum, Qingdao, China — Gordy class destroyer
Arctic Corsair H320 — Kingston upon Hull, England — side-fishing trawler
Arctic Penguin — Inveraray, Scotland — steel-hull schooner
Argonaute (S636) — Cité des Sciences, Paris, France — submarine
USS Arizona (BB-39) — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA — Battleship sunk by Japanese aircraft in the attack on Pearl Harbor
Arthur Foss — Seattle, Washington, USA — tugboat
Aurora — Saint Petersburg, Russia — Protected cruiser involved in the Battle of Tsushima, symbol of the October Revolution
Cutter Alert — Seattle, Washington, USA — 1927 Cutter

[edit] B

B 15 — New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B 39 — San Diego, California, USA — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B-80 — Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Soviet Zulu (611)-class submarine
B-143 — Zeebrugge, Belgium — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
B-413 — Kaliningrad, Russia — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine [1]
B-427 — Long Beach, California, USA — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine (renamed Scorpion)
B-430 — Vytegra, Russia — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine
Balclutha — San Francisco, California, USA — steel hulled square-rigged sailing ship
USS Barry — Washington, D.C., USA — destroyer
Batavia (replica) — Lelystad, The Netherlands — East Indiaman
USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA — Balao-class submarine
ORP Batory — naval port at Hel, Poland — patrol craft
Bauru, ex USS McAnn — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — destroyer escort
USS Becuna — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — submarine
HMS Belfast — London, England — light cruiser
RV Ben Franklin — Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1968 Deep Submergence Vessel [2]
Bergantim Real — Maritime Museum (Lisbon) — 1778 Portuguese royal barge
Berkeley — San Diego, California, USA — double-ended steam-powered ferryboat
Biber class — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — German midget submarine of WWII
KNM Blink — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — motor torpedo boat
USS Blueback — Portland, Oregon submarine
Bluenose II — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada — racing schooner
ORP Błyskawica — Gdynia, Poland — 1936 destroyer
HNLMS Bonaire — Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands — Royal Netherlands Navy steam frigate of 1877
HMS Bounty (replica) — Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia — Mutiny ship
USS Bowfin — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA — submarine
Brandtaucher — Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany — Wilhelm Bauer submarine of 1850
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) — Port Huron Michigan
HMS Bremön (M55) — Karlskrona, Sweden — minesweeper [3]
HMY Britannia — Leith (by Edinburgh), Scotland — former royal yacht
Brocklebank — Merseyside Maritime Museum — 1964 steel motor tug [4]
HMS Bronington — Birkenhead, England — minesweeper
HNLMS Buffel — Maritime Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands — 1868 turret ram

[edit] C

USS Cairo — Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA — ironclad gunboat
HMS Calypso — Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada — Calypso-class corvette "cruiser" launched in 1883
MS Cap San Diego — Hamburg — 1960s era break bulk freighter [5]
HMS Caroline — Belfast, Northern Ireland — WW1 light cruiser, last survivor from the Battle of Jutland, currently RNVR housing ship, awaiting decommissioning
Carpentaria — Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia — lightship
USS Cassin Young — Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer
HMAS Castlemaine — Williamstown, Victoria, Australia — 1941 corvette/minesweeper
C.A. Thayer (1895) — San Francisco, California, USA
HMS Cavalier — Chatham, England — "C" class destroyer
USS Cavalla — Galveston, Texas USA — Gato-class submarine
Cervia — East Kent Maritime Museum, Ramsgate — steam tug, launched 1946 [6]
Charles W. Morgan — Mystic, Connecticut, USA — whaler
USS Charrette — 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
City of Adelaide — in the possession of the Scottish Maritime Museum — composite hull clipper, launched Sunderland, 1864
City of Milwaukee - Manistee, Michigan Railroad Car Ferry, 1931
USS Clamagore — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Cold War Balao-class submarine
HM CMB 4 — Imperial War Museum Duxford, England — coastal motor boat of 1916, commanded by Augustus Agar in VC-winning action in 1919
USS Cobia — Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA — Gato-class submarine
USS Cod — Cleveland, Ohio, USA — submarine
Colbert — Bordeaux, France — last French cruiser
USS Constellation — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — sloop of war — last wooden warship built in US
USS Constitution — Boston, Massachusetts, USA — sailing frigate, oldest commissioned warship afloat
Coronet (yacht),— Newport, Rhode Island, USA — wooden hulled schooner ship
HMS Courageous — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, England — Churchill-class nuclear submarine
USS Croaker — Buffalo, New York, USA — Gato-class submarine
Cutty Sark — Greenwich, London, England — clipper ship (partially damaged by fire in 2007)

[edit] D

D-2 Narodovolets — Saint Petersburg, Russia — Soviet Dekabrist class submarine of World War II
Daniel Adamson — Merseyside — 1903 steam tug tender [7]
Dar Pomorza — Gdynia, Poland — sailing frigate
Delfin (S-61) — Torrevieja, Spain — Daphné-class submarine
Linieschip De Delft — Rotterdam (Delfshaven), the Netherlands — (replica) ship of the line (1783 - 1797) [8]
De Wadden — Merseyside Maritime Museum — 1917 Arklow trading schooner [9]
HNLMS De Ruyter — Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands — Deck and radar of the 1974's guided missile destroyer
HMAS Diamantina — Brisbane, Australia, — River-class frigate
RRS Discovery — Dundee, Scotland — Used by Antarctic explorers Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton
Dom Fernando II e Glória — Maritime Museum (Lisbon) — 1843 sailing frigate
Drazki torpedo boat (alternate spelling: Druzki) — Varna, Bulgaria — torpedo boat
USS Drum — Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, USA — submarine
Duchesse Anne — Musée portuaire (Maritime Museum) of Dunkerque (France) — 1901 square-rig

[edit] E

Edmund Gardner — Albert Dock, Merseyside Maritime Museum — 1953 Port of Liverpool pilot vessel
USS Edson — Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA — Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of 1958
Edwin Fox — Picton, New Zealand — convict ship, built Calcutta, 1853
Elissa — Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston, Texas, USA — 1877 iron barque
Elizabeth II (replica) — Manteo, North Carolina, USA — A replica of Sir Walter Raleigh's colony ship Elizabeth
Emma C. Berry (sloop) Mystic Seaport Connecticut
HM Bark Endeavour (replica) — Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia — A replica of Captain Cook's 1770s ship.
Enrico Toti S506 - an Toti class submarine in Milan, Italy
Eppleton Hall (1914) — San Francisco, California, USA — paddlewheel tug
Espadon S637 — Saint-Nazaire, France — French Narval class submarine , launched 1958
USS Everett F. Larson (later ROKS Jeong Buk (DD-916) — Gangneung Unification Park, Gangneung, South Korea — 1945 Gearing-class destroyer
Eureka (ferryboat) — San Francisco, California,USA — side-wheel paddle steamboat
SS Explorer — Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland — steam trawler

[edit] F

ORP Fala — Kolobrzeg, Poland — patrol craft
Falls of Clyde — Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA — four-master
Fenian Ram — Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey, USA — John Philip Holland submarine of 1881
Finngrundet lightvessel — Stockholm, Sweden — operated in the Baltic Sea during summer months from 1903 until 1969
Finnmarken — Coastal Express (Hurtigruten) Museum, Stokmarknes, Norway — 1956 coastal steamer
SS Forceful — Brisbane, Australia — ocean-going tugboat
Fram — Oslo, Norway — Norwegian polar exploration built 1892, vessel of Fridtjof Nansen (North pole expedition), and Roald Amundsen (South pole expedition), part of Bygdøy maritime museum complex
Fireboat No. 1 (Tacoma, Wash.) — Tacoma, Washington, USA — fireboat
Le Fougueux P641 — Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, The Netherlands — 1953 ex-French Navy submarine chaser [10]
MS Fryken — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — 1938 coastal freighter[11]

[edit] G

HMS Gannet — Chatham, England — 1878 screw sloop
Garlandstone — Morwellham Quay, Devon — 75 ft ketch, 1909 [12]
TCG Gayret (D352) — Izmit, Turkey — former USS Eversole (DD-789) of 1946
Georgios Averoff — Athens, Greece — only surviving armored cruiser of the early 20th century
Gipsy Moth IV — formerly at Greenwich, England — 54ft ketch of Sir Francis Chichester
Gjøa — Norwegian Maritime Museum, Bygdøy, Oslo — Roald Amundsen's exploration sloop, built 1872, formerly at San Francisco, California
Glenlee — Glasgow Harbour, Glasgow, Scotland — 1896 steel barque
Gorch Fock I — Stralsund, Germany — three-masted barque
Granma — Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba — motor cruiser used by Fidel Castro in 1956
SS Great Britain — Bristol, England — first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller

[edit] H

HA. 19 (Japanese Midget Submarine) — National Museum of the Pacific War at Fredericksburg, Texas — Japanese Ko-hyoteki class submarine
HMCS Haida — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada — Tribal-class destroyer
Hajen — Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden — "Ubåt No. 1", 1904 submarine
PNS Hangor — Pakistan — 1968 submarine
USS Hazard — Omaha, Nebraska, USA — minesweeper
MV Heland (M5V) — Sunnmøre Museum, Norway — 1937 "Shetland bus"
Hercules — San Francisco, California USA — 1907 tug
RV Hero — Newport, Oregon, USA — National Science Foundation polar research vessel
Hiddensee — Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — Tarantul I class missile corvette
Hikawa-Maru — Yokohama, Japan — Ocean Liner — Launched 1929
HNoMS Hitra — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — submarine chaser, Shetland bus
HMS Holland 1 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — first Royal Navy submarine
USS Hornet — Alameda, California, USA — WWII aircraft carrier
Huáscar — Talcahuano, Chile — restored 19th century Turret ship
Huron — Port Huron, Michigan, USA — lightship

[edit] I

USCGC Ingham — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Treasury-class United States Coast Guard Cutter
USS Intrepid — New York City, New York, USA — WWII Essex-class aircraft carrier

[edit] J

Jacinta — Fleetwood Museum, Wyre Dock Marina, Fleetwood, Lancashire — 50 metre stern trawler, built 1972 [13]
James Caird — Dulwich College, London, England — whaleboat from the Endurance
James Craig — Sydney, Australia — 1874 barque
Jarramas — Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden — 3 masted tall ship of 1900
SS Jeremiah O'Brien — San Francisco, California, USA — WWII Liberty ship
PLAN Nan Chong 502 — Jiangnan class frigate — Chinese naval museum, China
PLAN Yintang 531 — Jiangdong class frigate — Chinese naval museum, China
SS John W. Brown — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — WWII Liberty ship
Joseph Conrad — Mystic, Connecticut, USA — Sailing ship from the late 1880s
USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. — Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — Post-WWII destroyer
Joshua — Musée maritime de La Rochelle, France — 1962 12 metre ketch sailed by Bernard Moitessier
Julius C. Wilkie — Winona, Minnesota, USA — Replica of a stern-wheel riverboat; the original, destroyed by arson in 1984, was one of the last surviving sternwheelers
Jylland — Ebeltoft, Denmark — Screw frigate

[edit] K

K-19 — Snezhnogorsk, Russia — Soviet submarine Hotel-class, purchased in 2006 by Vladimir Romanov for restoration
K-21 — Severomorsk, Russia — Soviet World War II K-class submarine
K-77 — Providence, Rhode Island, USA — Soviet submarine Juliett-class (Nato: "Juliett 484")
Kalmar Nyckel — Wilmington, Delaware, USA — brought Swedish immigrants to Delaware (replica)
ROKS Kang Won (DD-922) formerly USS William R. Rush (DD-714) — Jinhae, South Korea — Gearing-class destroyer launched 1945
FNS Karjala — Forum Marinum, Turku, Finland — Turunmaa class gunboat of 1968
SS Keewatin — Keewatin Maritime Museum, Douglas, Michigan, USA — Great Lakes steamship of 1907
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, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer
Kiev — Tianjin, China — ex-Soviet aircraft carrier
Kon-Tiki — Oslo, Norway — 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
Kranich P6083 — Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven, Germany — S-Boot, launched 1959 [14]
Krasin — Saint Petersburg, Russia — icebreaker
Kruzenshtern (1926) — Kaliningrad, Russia — four masted barque and tall ship
INS Kursura — Visakhapatnam, India — Soviet Foxtrot (641)-class submarine

[edit] L

L. A. Dunton (schooner), Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, U.S.A.
USS Laffey — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
Lajta / Leitha — River Danube, Budapest, Hungary — 1871 river monitor of Austro-Hungarian Navy (hull only)
SS Lane Victory — San Pedro, California, USA — Victory ship
HMS LCT (3) 7074 — Warship Preservation Trust, Birkenhead, England — last surviving landing craft tank that took part in D-Day
Lehigh Valley 79 (Barge)— The Waterfront Museum Brooklyn, NY-railroad barge
Lembit — Tallinn, Estonia — mine-laying submarine
USS Lexington — Corpus Christi, Texas, USA — Essex-class aircraft carrier
Lenin - Murmansk, Russia - icebreaker
Lettie G. Howard (schooner) — South Street Seaport Museum, New York, New York, USA
USS Ling — Balao-class submarine — New Jersey Naval Museum, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
USS Lionfish — Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — 1943 U.S. Navy submarine
USS Little Rock — Buffalo, New York, USA — guided missile cruiser
LR 3 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — ocean survey and repair submersible of 1982
USS LST 325 — Chickasaw, Alabama, USA — landing ship tank
USS LST 1008 — Chinese Naval Museum at Qingdao — landing ship tank, launched 1944
LV 101 — Lightship Portsmouth — Portsmouth, Virginia, USA — Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum
LV 116 — Lightship Chesapeake — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — Baltimore Maritime Museum
Lydia Eva — Great Yarmouth, England — steam powered herring drifter of 1930 [15]

[edit] 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)
Maillé-Brézé — Nantes, France — French destroyer T47 class
USCGC Mackinaw — Mackinaw City,Michigan USCGC Coast Guard cutter
USS Marlin — Omaha, Nebraska, USA — 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, Italy — 1916 Italian torpedo boat which sank SMS Szent István
MAS-96 — Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Italy — WWI torpedo boat of Gabriele D'Annunzio
USS Massachusetts — Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
Mayflower II — Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA — replica of the Pilgrims' ship, crossed Atlantic
May Queen — Hobart, Tasmania — 1867 Tasmanian sail trading ketch [16]
USCGC McLane — Muskegon, Michigan, USA — Prohibition-era coast guard cutter
Medea (yacht) — San Diego Maritime Museum, San Diego, California, USA — 1904 steam yacht
Mercator — Ostend, Belgium — training ship
SS Meteor — Superior, Wisconsin — 1896 "whaleback" freighter
USS Midway — San Diego, California, USA — Midway-class aircraft carrier. First post-WWII carrier.
Mikasa — Yokosuka, Japan — battleship, Admiral Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima. Last surviving pre-dreadnought battleship.
Mikhail Kutuzov — Novorossiysk, Russia — Sverdlov class cruiser, launched 1952
Minsk — Sha Tau Kok, Shenzhen, China — ex-Soviet aircraft carrier
USS Missouri — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA — WWII Iowa-class battleship[. Site of Japanese surrender
Modesty — Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville, New York USA — sloop
Mölders — Wilhelmshaven, Germany — destroyer
USCGC Mohawk (WPG-78) Key West, Florida
SS Milwaukee Clipper — Muskegon, Michigan, USA — second oldest non-ocean liner in America

[edit] N

USS Nautilus — Groton, Connecticut, USA — First nuclear submarine
Nantucket LV-112 — Oyster Bay, New York, USA — lightship
Nash (harbor tug) — H. Lee White Maritime Museum Oswego, New York
Ned Hanlan — Toronto, Ontario, Canada — tugboat
USS New Jersey — Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, Camden, New Jersey, USA — WWII Iowa-class battleship
Nippon Maru — masted training ship, Yokohama, Japan
SS Nomadic — Belfast, Northern Ireland — White Star Line tender to RMS Titanic
MS Norgoma — Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario — Great Lakes, Canada passenger ship
HMS Nordkaparen — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — 1962 Draken class submarine [17]
USS North Carolina — Wilmington, North Carolina, USA — WWII North Carolina-class battleship
Nusret — Çanakkale Park, Tarsus, Turkey — minelayer at Battle of Gallipoli

[edit] O

HMS Ocelot — Chatham, England — Oberon-class submarine
USS Olympia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — protected cruiser, Spanish-American War, flagship of Admiral Dewey
Olympias — a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme. Constructed in 1987 and now an exhibit in a dry dock in Faliron, Athens, Greece.
HMCS Onondaga — Musée de la Mer, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada — Oberon-class submarine
HMAS Onslow — Sydney, Australia — Oberon-class submarine
HMS Onyx — Birkenhead, England — Oberon-class submarine - took part in the Falklands War
HMAS Otama — Hastings, Victoria, Australia — Oberon-class submarine
HMS Otus — Sassnitz, Germany — Oberon-class submarine
HMAS Ovens — Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia — Oberon-class submarine
HMAS Otway — Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia — Oberon-class submarine

[edit] P

USS Pampanito — San Francisco, California, USA — WWII Balao-class submarine
Pasopati — Soerabaya, Indonesia — Soviet Whiskey class submarine (from 1994)
Passat (1911) — Travemunde Maritime Museum, Travemünde, Germany — four masted barque , a Flying P-Liner
Peking (1911) — South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, USA — four masted barque, a Flying P-Liner
Peral — Cartagena, Spain — submarine of Isaac Peral, 1887
Philadelphia (gundelo), National Museum of American History, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Pietro Micca — Fiumicino, Italy — steam powered tug, schooner class, 1895. The oldest Italian merchant ship in existence. [18]
Pilgrim — Dana Point, California, USA — Richard Dana vessel
HMS Plymouth — Birkenhead, England — Royal Navy frigate, took part in the Falklands War
Polly Woodside — Melbourne Maritime Museum, Melbourne, Australia — 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 — Oakland, California, USA — Presidential yacht of Franklin D. Roosevelt
ARA Presidente Sarmiento — Buenos Aires, Argentina — steam frigate.
SAS Pretoria (ex HMS Dunkerton; ex HMS Golden Firefly) — Hout Bay, South Africa — Ton class minesweeper
Pride of Baltimore II — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — clipper replica
Priscilla — Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville, New York USA — sloop
PT-617 — Battleship Cove, Massachusetts — PT boat
PT-796 — Battleship Cove, Massachusetts — PT boat
USS Pueblo, Pyongyang, North Korea, used as a tourist attraction after its capture in 1968; Technical research ship
Puglia — Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Italy — protected cruiser (bow section)
Pyronaut — Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum, Bristol, England — fireboat

[edit] Q

RMS Queen Mary — Long Beach, California, USA — Ocean liner

[edit] R

Ra II — Bygdøy maritime museum, Oslo, Norway — replica Egyptian reed craft sailed across the Atlantic Ocean by Thor Heyerdahl
Radium King — Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada — tugboat
Ralph J. Scott (fireboat), Los Angeles Maritime Museum, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Rau IX — Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven, Germany — harpoon whaler of 1939
HNoMS Rap — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — 1873 torpedo boat
USS Razorback — Little Rock, Arkansas, USA — Balao-class submarine
Reaper — Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Fife, Scotland — fifie herring drifter of 1901
SS Red Oak Victory — Richmond, California, USA — WWII Victory ship, cargo ship
Redoutable — Cité de la mer, Cherbourg, France — French nuclear submarine of 1971
USS Requin — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — submarine of 1945-1971
Riachuelo — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — submarine
Rickmer Rickmers — Hamburg, Germany — 1896 tall ship
SS Robin — West India Quay, London, England — steam coaster of 1890

[edit] S

S 194 — formerly Sweden, currently in refit (2007), Jesada Technik Museum Thailand — Soviet Whiskey class submarine
S 359 — Nakskov, Denmark — Soviet Whiskey class submarine (also termed, "U-359")
SA-42 midget submarine, Cartagena Spain
HMCS Sackville — Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — WWII Flower-class corvette
RCMPV St Roch — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — Auxiliary police schooner
Sabino (passenger steamboat), Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, U.S.A.
USS Salem — Quincy, Massachusetts, USA — Cold War Des Moines-class cruiser
Sand Man — Olympia, Washington, USA — 1910 tugboat
Sang-o Class submarine — Gangneung Unification Park, Gangneung, South Korea — North Korean coastal submarine of the Special Naval Infiltration Unit of the Reconnaissance Bureau of the General Staff Department, Korean People's Army.
SS Sankt Erik — Stockholm, Sweden — Icebreaker launched 1915, in service until 1977
HNLMS Schorpioen — Dutch Navy Museum, 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, Muskegon, Michigan, USA — 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 — Albany, New York, USA — Cannon-class destroyer escort, launched 1944
HMS Småland — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — Swedish Navy destroyer
SS Soldek — Gdańsk, Poland — Coal and ore freighter. First built after WWII
Sölve — Gothenburg Maritime Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden — 1875 coastal defence monitor
SAS Somerset — Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town — boom defence vessel
Southern Actor — Sandefjord, Norway — whale catcher.
HDMS Springeren (S324) — Aalborg Maritime Museum, Denmark — 1963 Delfinen class submarine
HMS Spica — Stockholm, Sweden — torpedo boat
Spurn Lightship — Kingston upon Hull, England — lightship
Star of India — San Diego Maritime Museum, San Diego, California, USA — barque, possibly oldest merchant ship afloat
Stettin — Hamburg, Germany — icebreaker
Stralsund — Wolgast, Germany — train ferry [19]
USS Stewart — Galveston, Texas, USA — Edsall-class destroyer escort
USS The Sullivans — Buffalo, New York, USA — destroyer
HMS Sultana — Chestertown, Maryland, USA — Replica of 18th Century Royal Navy schooner
USCGC Sundew — Duluth, Minnesota, USA — United States Coast Guard Buoy Tender
Sundowner — East Kent Maritime Trust, Ramsgate, Kent, England — 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, USA — Replica of the 18th century Royal Navy frigate HMS Rose
Suur Tõll — Tallinn, Estonia — icebreaker

[edit] T

USS Tacoma — frigate donated to South Korean Navy as museum ship in 1973.
USCGC Taney — Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1936 USCG cutter. Last warship present at Pearl Harbor afloat.
Tarmo — Kotka, Finland — one of the oldest surviving icebreakers
USS Texas — La Porte, Texas, USA — World War I and WWII New York-class battleship
USS The Sullivans — Buffalo, New York, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer, launched 1943
Tiburón-I SA-51 — Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain — Spanish submarine, launched 1957
Tiburón-II SA-52 — Cartagena, Spain — Spanish submarine, launched 1957
Ticonderoga (steamboat), 1906. Dry Berthed at the Shelburne Museum, VT, USA.
HNLMS Tonijn (S 805) — Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands — Cold War submarine
USS Torsk — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — Tench-class submarine
Trieste — Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C., USA — deep-diving research bathyscaphe
Trieste II (DSV-1) — Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, Washington, USA — deep-diving research bathyscaphe
HMS Trincomalee — Hartlepool, England — 38 gun frigate from 1817
Turbinia — The Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, England — first steam turbine powered steamship, 1894
USS Turner Joy — Bremerton, Washington — 1958 Forrest Sherman-class destroyer

[edit] U

U-1 — Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany — first German military submarine, commissioned 1906
U-9 — Technikmuseum Speyer, Speyer, Germany — a post war Type 205 submarine
U-10 — Deutsches Marinemuseum, Wilhelmshaven, Germany — another Type 205
U-11 — Burgstaaken, Fehmarn, Germany — a Type 205a
U457 — Folkestone, Kent, England — Soviet Foxtrot class submarine "U457" or ? B-39 [20]
U461 — Peenemunde, Germany — Soviet Juliett class submarine
U-505 — Chicago, Illinois, USA — Type IX U-boat
U-534 — Birkenhead, England — 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 Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremen, Germany — Type XXI U-boat
TCG Uluçalireis, ex USS Thornback — Istanbul, Turkey — submarine
HMS Unicorn — Dundee, Scotland — 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

[edit] V

HMS Valiant — Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, England (planned) — Valiant-class nuclear submarine
HMAS Vampire — Sydney, Australia — Daring-class destroyer
Vasa — Stockholm, Sweden — 17th century Swedish battleship
Vesikko — Helsinki, Finland — submarine — prototype for Type II U-Boat
VIC 18, also known as "Spartan" — Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, Scotland — Clyde puffer of 1940
VIC 27, also known as "Auld Reekie" — Inverary Maritime Museum, Scotland — Clyde puffer
VIC 56 — Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent — Victualling Inshore Craft of 1945 [21]
VIC 72, also known as "Vital Spark", formerly "Eilean Eisdeal" — Inverary Maritime Museum, Scotland — Clyde puffer
HMS Victory — Portsmouth, England — oldest commissioned warship
MV Vita (H95B) — Kystmuseet i Sør-Trøndelag (South Trøndelag Costal Museum), Hitra, Norway — 1939 "Shetland bus"
Vityaz (alternate spelling: Vitiaz, Vitjaz) — Kaliningrad, Russia — science ship of the former USSR Academy of Sciences

[edit] W

HMS Warrior — Portsmouth, England — first ocean-going iron hulled armoured battleship
PS Waverley — Glasgow, Scotland — sea-going paddle steamer (not a museum ship)
Weilheim M1077 — Wilhelmshaven, Germany — Class 331 B German minesweeper
HMAS Whyalla (J153) — Whyalla, South Australia — minesweeping corvette
Wilhelm Bauer — Bremerhaven, Germany — U-boat, ex-U 2540
SS William A Irvin — Duluth, Minnesota — 1938 lake freighter
SS William G. Mather — Cleveland, Ohio, USA — bulk freighter
HMS Wilton — Essex Yacht Club, Leigh-on-Sea (partially converted into clubhouse) — prototype glass-reinforced plastic minesweeper, launched 1972
PS Wingfield Castle — Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, Hartlepool — 1934 paddle steamer
USS Wisconsin — Norfolk, Virginia, USA — battleship
WT Preston — Anacortes, Washington, USA — paddle steamer dredger, launched 1929

[edit] X

HMS X24 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — X class submarine of WWII
HMS X51 "Stickleback" — Imperial War Museum Duxford — midget submarine
HMS XE8 "Expunger" — Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent — 1945 midget submarine

[edit] Y

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