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This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.
The following is a list of museum ships of the United States military, specifically the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard. It represents a subset of the list of museum ships comprising museum ships located worldwide.
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Relatively few ships are preserved beyond their useful life, due to the high cost of maintaining them against the ravages of the elements. Most are broken up and sold for scrap, while a relative handful are sunk as naval target practice, scuttled to create artificial reefs, and so on. Some survive because of historical significance, but more often ...
Typically the visitor enters via gangplank, wanders around on the deck, then goes below, usually using the original stairways, giving a sense of how the crew got around. The interior features restored but inactivated equipment, enhanced with mementos including old photographs, explanatory displays, pages from the ship's logs, menus, and the like. S...
HMS Victory: the only ship of the linethat is preserved.Jylland: the only wooden screw frigatethat is preserved.Georgios Averof: the only armored cruiserthat is preservedUSS Salem: the only heavy cruiserthat is preserved.Aymar, B. (1967). A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world; A guide to the maritime collections, restorations, replicas, and marine museums in twenty-three countries. New York: Crown.Evans, M. H., & West, J. (1998). Maritime museums: A guide to the collections and museum ships in Britain and Ireland. London: Chatham Pub.Stammers, M. (1978). Discovering maritime museums and historic ships. Discovering series, no. 228. Aylesbury [England]: Shire PublicationsSullivan, D. (1978). Old ships, boats & maritime museums. London: Coracle Books.Media related to Museum shipsat Wikimedia CommonsHistoric Naval Ship Visitors' Guide (from the international Historic Naval Ships Associationwebsite)Kossuth Museum Ship - Budapest. The almost 100-year-old Kossuth steamboat is of outstanding value in itself being the only paddle steamer which survived in its original form in Hungary. On the boat an exhibition of interesting navigation relics awaits the visitors.
A museum ship is an original ship that has been preserved and opened to the public as a museum, in other words, the structure of the ship is itself the museum. Some are also in a sailing condition.
A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, a magyar közbeszédben gyakran csak „Nemzeti Múzeum” országos múzeum, mely a magyar történelem tárgyi emlékeit gyűjti és mutatja be. Főépülete Budapest VIII. kerületében, a Múzeum körúton található.
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A museum ship is an original ship that has been preserved and opened to the public as a museum, in other words, the structure of the ship is itself the museum. Some are also in a sailing condition.
