Museum/Program/Site Type: Vessels - Historic
Historic Ships in Baltimore is the steward of the US Sloopsloop-of-War war Constellation, US Submarine submarine Torsk, US Coast Guard Cutter Taney, Lightship 116 Chesapeake, and Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse.…
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was founded in 1965 on Navy Point in St. Michaels, a Talbot County riverfront village on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus was…
The Lightship Overfalls, located in Lewes DE, is one of only 17 remaining lightships out of a total of 179 built from 1820 to 1952. Designated a National Historic Landmark…
Located on the historic Rondout waterfront, the Hudson River Maritime Museum was established in 1980 to collect, preserve, research, exhibit, and interpret a collection of historical artifacts related to the…
The schooner Ernestina-Morrissey is the official vessel of Massachusetts, and a partner of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (nps.gov/nebe/). She is designated by the Department of the Interior as a National…
Lilac is a retired Coast Guard cutter that carried supplies to lighthouses and maintained buoys on the Delaware River from 1933 to 1972. USCGC Lilac is America’s only surviving steam-powered…
The Waterfront Museum is located aboard a covered wooden railroad barge of 1914, moored at Garden Pier 45 at the mouth of the Erie Basin in Brooklyn, New York. The…
The South Street Seaport Museum, founded in 1967, engages visitors and students in the history of the Port of New York, a place where goods, labor, and cultures are exchanged…
The schooner Pioneer was built in 1885 in Marcus Hook, PA, as a sloop, to carry sand mined near the mouth of the Delaware Bay to an iron foundry in…
Mystic Seaport is the nation’s leading maritime museum. Founded in 1929, the museum is home to four National Historic Landmark vessels, including the Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest commercial ship and…
Lettie G. Howard is the sole surviving example of a Georges Bank fishing schooner. Built in Essex Massachusetts, she exemplifies the type of craft used widely from Maine to the…
Built in Copenhagen in 1883 and named for Georg Stage as a memorial to the young son of Frederik Stage, a prominent ship owner, the vessel was designed to accommodate…
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 on the Hudson River in Manhattan, offers a variety of unique exhibits exploring the past and future of sea,…
Built in 1883, Christeen is a 40-foot oyster sloop. Fully restored in 1999, Christeen now sails from the WaterFront Center, located at the former site of Jakobson’s shipyard in Oyster…