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Spanish galleons on display
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Landlocked Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier in China
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Possibly a copy or model of the Varyag, a carrier that they bought from Russia.

Delfin class submarine HDMS Springeren (S329)
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The Delfinen class of submarines was the last class of submarines of the Royal Danish Navy designed and built entirely by Danish architects. The first three boats of the class were financed by Denmark. The fourth was financed by the United States (where it was known as SS-554) under the Cost Share program.

Seehund static display
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Seehund (seal) midget submarine on display at the Marinearsenal, Wilhelmshaven.

USS Croaker
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At Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park. Launched in 1943. Decommissioned in 1971.

America's Cup yacht Jayhawk
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Bill Koch is a wealthy American businessman, sailor, and collector. His boat America³ was the winner of the America's Cup in 1992.
Koch, a native of Wichita, Kansas, donated the ship he used in qualifying for the America's Cup races, The Jayhawk, to the Wichita Boathouse.

Delta Philippine Dream
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Philippine Dream, hotel ship in Lapu-Lapu City in Mactan Island, Philippines, was originallyTowada Maru built in 1966 by Uraga H.I. in Yokosuka for the Japanese Dept. of Railways. She was sold in 1989 to Nippon Ryokyaku Sen K.K., Japan, and renamed Japanese Dream. Since 1992 she has been floating hotel at the the Cebu Yacht Club.

Ship used in 'Master and Commander'
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. It is adapted from three novels in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
Captain Jack Aubrey follows a French frigate into the Pacific Ocean in a chase that leads to a bloody climax. A subplot involves his friend Stephen Maturin's desire to explore the Galapagos to examine its fauna and flora; the hunt of Acheron repeatedly frustrates this desire in spite of Aubrey's intentions. This leads to tension between the two friends as Maturin accuses Jack (who has, it appears, far exceeded his original commission) of needlessly pursuing the Acheron in order to satisfy his own pride.

Lake freighter SS William A Irvin museum ship
The SS William A Irvin is a lake freighter which sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the depression in 1938 until 1975 and then as a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978. Currently, this queen of the silver stackers is resting comfortably in Duluth, Minnesota, a well maintained example of a classic laker.

The island off the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2)
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Steamship Ticonderoga at Shelburne Museum
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The restored 220-foot steamboat Ticonderoga is a National Historic Landmark and the last walking beam side-wheel passenger steamer in existence.

USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) museum ship
The USCGC Sundew (WLB-404) is a 180-foot (55 m) sea going buoy tender (WLB). An Iris, or C-class vessel, it was built by Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth, Minnesota. Sundew's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth. On 29 November 1943 the keel was laid. It was launched on 8 February 1944 and commissioned on 24 August 1944. The original cost for the hull and machinery was $861,589.
Sundew is one of 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942-1944. All but one of the original tenders, the USCGC Ironwood (WLB-307), were built in Duluth. Like all of these tenders, the Sundew was named after a plant, in this case the sundew, a carnivorous plants from the genus Drosera.
In 1958, the Sundew was assigned to Charlevoix, Michigan, and the following November helped in the rescue of two survivors from the SS Carl D. Bradley when it sank in a storm on Lake Michigan 47 miles (76 km) west-northwest of Charlevoix. The Sundew remained at Charlevoix until 1980.
Sundew served 60 years for the Coast Guard and was decommissioned and retired on May 27, 2004. As part of the decommissioning, the vessel was given to the city of Duluth, its last home port, to be used as a museum ship. The services provided by the Sundew were taken up by USCGC Alder (WLB 216).

U Boat Wilhelm Bauer
The Wilhelm Bauer (originally designated U-2540) is a Type XXI U-boat which was completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. It is the only floating example of a XXI U-Boat.
In 1957, after more than 10 years on the floor of the Baltic sea near Flensburg, it was raised, overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel, and commissioned as a research vessel in the Bundesmarine. It is at this time that it was named after Wilhelm Bauer, the designer of the first German U-boat Brandtaucher built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850.
It served in the Bundesmarine until 1980. In 1983 it was restored to its original World War II configuration and became a museum ship as part of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.

German Navy museum ships Destroyer Mölders (D186) & Mine Hunter Völklingen (M1087)
D186 Mölders was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the second ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F. Adams class.
On March 3, 1965 Bath Iron Works got the order to build Mölders and her keel was laid down on April 12, 1966 with the hull number DDG-29. April 13, 1967 Mölders was launched and chistened for Luftwaffe Oberst (Colonel) Werner Mölders by his mother Anne-Marie Mölders. Mölders was commissioned on February 23, 1969 into the 1. Zerstörergeschwader (first destroyer squadron) based in Kiel.
During her 33 years in commission 14000 sailors served on her under 16 different commanders, and she traveled 675,054.6 nautical miles. The Mölders was decommissioned May 28, 2003 in Wilhelmshaven.
Unlike her sisters Lütjens and Rommel, Mölders was preserved and is now on display as museum ship in Wilhelmshaven (Marinemuseum), although ironically, she was never stationed in Wilhelmshaven during her active career.

PT Boat 659
PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol "PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".
PT 658 is at the Naval Reserve Center, Portland, OR. PT 659 is at the Oregon Military Mus., Portland, OR. The PT 658 is being restored, using some parts from the '659. Save the PT Boat, Inc. and PT Boat Restoration, Inc. are involved in the restoration. The 659 boat is to be moved to the Fort Vancouver National Historical Site in Vancouver Washington.

Replica of the Batavia
The Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and had 24 cast-iron cannons. The Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors. A twentieth century replica of the ship is also called the Batavia.
A replica of the Batavia was built at the Bataviawerf in Lelystad in the Netherlands. The project lasted from 1985 to 7 April 1995, and was conducted as an employment project for young people under master-shipbuilder Willem Vos. The shipyard is currently reconstructing another 17th century ship, which, in contrast to the merchant ship Batavia, the new replica is a man-of-war, the Zeven Provinciën; Michiel de Ruyters' flagship.
This Batavia replica was built with traditional materials, such as oak and hemp and using the tools and methods of the time of construction of the original ship. For the design, good use was made of the remains of the original ship in Fremantle (and of the Vasa in Stockholm) as well as historical sources, like 17th century building descriptions (actual building plans were not made at the time) and prints and paintings by artists (who at the time generally painted fairly true to nature) of similar ships.
On 25 September 1999, the new Batavia was transported to Australia by barge and moored at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney. In 2000, the Batavia was the flagship for the Dutch Olympic Team during the 2000 Olympic Games.
On 12 June 2001, the ship returned to Bataviawerf in Lelystad and is currently on display to visitors.

Wreck of the USS Oklahoma (BB-31)
Laid down: March 9, 1909
Launched: December 23, 1909
Commissioned: August 31, 1911
Decommissioned: September 5, 1944
Struck: November 13, 1944

Conning tower from the USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN624)
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624), a Lafayette-class ballistic missile submarine.
The Sail is part of Deterrent Park.

Seute Deern - three-masted sailing vessel
The SEUTE DEERN is one of the last surviving historic wooden cargo sailing vessels, not only in Germany, but in all of Europe. It is the flagship and outstanding attraction of the museum harbour of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) and has become the trademark of Bremerhaven. As a museum ship and floating restaurant, the windjammer has been berthed in the Old Harbour – the oldest harbour of Bremerhaven and the site of the city's origin – since 1966. The barque SEUTE DEERN was the inaugural object of Germany's first open-air maritime museum, from which the DSM developed. Furthermore, the wooden sailing ship represents the local shipbuilding tradition, within whose framework over 250 deep-water sailing vessels were built – initially of wood, later of steel – in the shipyards on the Geeste, particularly Rickmers and Tecklenborg. Finally, the present-day flagship of the DSM demonstrates the international character of sailship construction and navigation.
Originally the four-masted schooner ELIZABETH BANDI, this ship was built in 1919 in the American gulf port near the mouth of the Mississippi for the transport of wood. From 1931 she sailed under Finnish flag until being acquired by the Hamburg shipowner John T. Essberger in 1938. In 1939, Essberger had the schooner altered to a barque by the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss; now she was to serve as a cargo-carrying training ship for junior nautical officers. By 1944 she had made many a journey on the Baltic Sea and the end of the war found her berthed in her winter quarters in Lübeck. Following alterations carried out in Travemünde (1946-47) the SEUTE DEERN operated until 1954 as a hotel ship in Hamburg. Subsequently, until 1964, she rode at anchor under Dutch flag in Delfzijl, now as the youth hostel ship PIETER A. KOERTS. Following a short stay in Emden, the ship reached Bremerhaven. The SEUTE DEERN has been at her present berth in the museum harbour in front of the main building of the DSM since 1975.
Due to severe damages to the main deck and hull, the floating cultural monument is being restored in 2001-2002. The DSM is undertaking every effort to preserve for posterity one of the last existing wooden cargo sailing ships in Europe as a living testimony to our maritime cultural heritage.
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PT Boat 659
PT-659, a 78 foot Higgins, located in Vancouver, Washington, and is slated to be taken to the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana for complete restoration there, and eventual inclusion into that museum.

Julius C. Wilkie steamboat replica
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This replica steamboat was demolished in July 2008 after it deteriorated beyond repair. It was built in 1981-83 to replace the original Julius C. Wilkie steamboat which burned to the ground at this same spot in March 1981.
Both the original and the replica boat served as a steamboat museum and hosted various parties, weddings, and gatherings. The replica was closed to the public in 2006 for safety reasons. Efforts to raise enough money to repair the boat stalled, and the city council eventually voted to demolish it.

USS Midway (San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum)

USS Mississippi Willow
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SS Nenana at Alaskaland
The Nenana ran Alaska's rivers from 1933 to 1952 bringing supplies, news, employment and transportation to each of its stops. It now rests in state at Alaskaland.

Australian Attack-class patrol boat HMAS Advance (P 83)
HMAS Advance (P-83) was an Australian Attack-class patrol boat laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland in March 1967, launched on 16 August 1967, and commissioned on 24 January 1968.
During her career, Advance performed many duties, including costal surveillance, customs and immigration enforcement, training, and rescue.
Advance was paid off on 6 February 1988 and was transferred to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.
Advance portrayed the fictional HMAS Ambush in in the ABC TV series Patrol Boat.

Anchor of the Amoco Cadiz
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The Amoco Cadiz was a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), owned by Amoco, that split in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles (5 km) off the coast of Brittany (France), on 16 March 1978, resulting at that time in the largest oil spill ever, currently the fifth-largest in history (though this ranking may vary depending on criteria).

PTF-17 torpedo boat
Built as high speed craft, the PTF "Trumpy Boats" were powered by two Napier Deltic 3100 horsepower diesel engines. They were able to travel at speeds up to 40 knots. Their mission was patrol and surveillance of coastal and inland waters. They were employed for this purpose in Vietnam.
Immediately prior to her decommissioning, PTF 17 was homeported at Little Creek, Virginia. She was assigned to Coastal River Division 21 which was headquartered at Great Lakes Naval Base near Chicago.
PTF 17 arrived at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park in 1979. The tank landing ship USS Fairfax County was visiting Great Lakes cities on a goodwill cruise in August 1979, and carried her from Norfolk to Buffalo.

Arctic Corsair (H320)
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The Arctic Corsair (H320) is a deep-sea trawler that was converted to a museum ship in 1999. It is berthed in the river Hull in Hull, England, and is part of the city's Museums Quarter.

Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Alexander Henry
CCGS Alexander Henry is a former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and currently a museum ship preserved at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario.
Built at Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur, she was commissioned into the Department of Transport's Marine Service as CGS Alexander Henry using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship". She was transferred in 1962 to the newly-created Canadian Coast Guard and is named after Alexander Henry, an 18th Century British explorer and fur trapper.
CCGS Alexander Henry served her entire coast guard career on the Great Lakes. She was launched in 1958, commissioned in 1959, and retired from service in 1984 after CCGS Samuel Risley entered service.

KZ1 'Big Boat' - 1988 Americas Cup Yacht
The KZ1 yacht was the 1988 America's Cup challenger from New Zealand.
KZ1, designed by Bruce Farr, was skippered by David Barnes along with a crew of 40 from the Mercury Bay Boating Club in Whitianga. The KZ1 was given the nickname of the Big Boat or Big Beauty by financial backer, Sir Michael Fay. Many saw the size and wide deck gave the boat a nick-name of The aircraft carrier.
KZ1 prompted American skipper Dennis Conner to build a catamaran Stars & Stripes (US-1). Conner won the challenge, but most of the battle was fought in court. The KZ1 is now on display near the National Maritime Museum in Auckland.

Aurora
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Protected cruiser Aurora was laid down in 1896, launched in 24 May 1900 and commissioned 29 July 1903. She took part in battle of Tsushima on 27 and 28 May 1905 and was one of the few Russian ships to survive sinking or capture by the Japanese and also one of two combatants of that battle still in existence (the other one is admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa preserved at Yokosuka, Japan).
On 25 October (7 November in Gregorian calender)) 1917, a blank shot from her forecastle gun signalled the start of the attack on the Winter Palace, which was to be the first episode of the October Revolution. Since 1947 Aurora has been permanently anchored on the Neva in Leningrad (now: St. Petersburg) as a monument to the Great October Socialist Revolution and in 1957 she became a museum-ship.

Daigo Fukuryū Maru - boat contaminated by hydrogen bomb test
Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸, Daigo Fukuryū Maru? Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954.
Kuboyama Aikichi, the boat's chief radioman, died a half a year later, on September 23, 1954, suffering from acute radiation syndrome. He is considered the first victim of the hydrogen bomb.
The Daigo Fukuryū Maru was saved in 1976 and is now on display in Tokyo at the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryū Maru Exhibition Hall.

Concrete Ship “Paul Kossel”
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Submarine USS Silversides (SS-236) & USCGC McLane
USS Silversides was commissioned into the U.S. Navy eight days after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. During World War II, the submarine served in the Pacific Fleet along Japan's coasts, in the East China Sea, and through key enemy shipping routes around the Marianas, Carolines, Bismarck Archipelago, and along the Solomons to Guadacanal. Its mission was to stop raw materials and supplies -- oil, bauxite, rubber, coal, food, and iron ore -- from reaching Japan. Silversides completed 14 war patrols and sank 23 ships, the third highest total of enemy ships sunk by a U.S. submarine during the war.
After the war, Silversides served as a reserve training boat near Chicago. Decommissioned in 1969, the vessel was saved from scrapping by the Great Lakes Navy Association in 1972. Virtually unmodified since her last refitting at Pearl Harbor in 1945, Silversides is on display in Pere Marquette Park along the Muskegon Lake Channel. Silversides conducts youth group overnight encampments.
USCGC McLane was authorized during Calvin Coolidge's administration as one of a class of 33 "Rum Chasers" for use during prohibition. She and her sisters were the last military vessels built for the U.S. Government that carried an auxiliary sail rig. Until the onset of World War II, McLane was based at a number of West Coast stations.
Her World War II duties took McLane to Ketchikan, Alaska where she was manned by a Coast Guard crew, but under Navy operational control. On July 9, 1942, working with a Coast Guard manned Navy patrol craft, she established sonar contact with a Japanese submarine known to be in the area. After a day long chase during which she dropped numerous depth charges, a large oil slick appeared on the surface, and no further contact with the sub was to be had. Sources indicate the Japanese submarine RO-32 was lost in the area at this time, and McLane is generally credited with the sinking.
Following the War, McLane resumed her law enforcement and search and rescue duties, operating out of Sitka, Alaska; Aberdeen Washington; and finally Brownsville, Texas. She was decommissioned in 1969, and acquired by a Sea Scout group in Chicago. She was acquired by the USS Silversides and Maritime Museum in 1993.

Baltimore Harbor Inspection Tugboat
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From www.cr.nps.gov:
Baltimore is the oldest operating steam tugboat in the United States. Built by Skinner Shipbuilding of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1906, the tug spent its entire career in and around Baltimore, Maryland, moving barges and workboats, breaking ice and carrying city and harbor commissioners and other VIPs for harbor inspection tours.
Baltimore is an inspection tug, a variant form of harbor tugboat, designed to operate in several roles as a municipal tug, an auxiliary fireboat, an icebreaker during the winter months, and a VIP launch for harbor commissioners to view harbor improvement work sites. Inspection steamers were intended to transport harbor officials to work sites and other areas where decisions might be
affected by local conditions.
As a municipal tug Baltimore helped welcome new arrivals to the port and helped tow city barges and other vessels when required. One notable special visitor welcomed to Baltimore was the German blockade running cargo submarine Deutschland in July 1916 before the United States entered the war. This vessel was the first submarine to cross the Atlantic solo, eluding British and French patrols that might have caught a surface ship. Baltimore, and the city quarantine tug, Thomas F. Timmins, patrolled the area around the submarine to assure that American neutrality would not be broken. After Deutschland exchanged cargoes, the two city tugs escorted the sub out of Baltimore waters for the return trip to Germany.
Baltimore has been berthed at a pier behind the Museum of Industry since her return from oblivion. After eight years of work, a dedicated group of highly skilled volunteers and helpful companies have restored the tug back to operating condition and continue to improve her condition and appearance. The Maryland Historical Trust financed hull repair expenses and holds a preservation lien upon the tug. Baltimore is licensed to carry guests and she steams about Chesapeake Bay three or four times a year.
Also see www.steamtug.org and scard.buffnet.net/tugbaltimore/.

Brazil Maru
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Brazil Maru, a 10,100 dwt cargo and passenger liner, was launched on July 10, 1954. She made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Brazil on July 30, 1954. In November 1972, the Brazil Maru retired as Japanese emigration to South America declined. She then served as a maritime pavilion called the "Toba Brazil Maru" at Toba from 1974 until 1996, when it was sold to China.

'S.S. Columbia'
Early 20th century themed dining at Tokyo Disney Sea.

Walter Submarine Turbine
Air Independent Propulsion for Submarines

3-mast sailing ship Duchesse Anne
Formerly a German training-ship called Grossherzogin Elisabeth, built in 1901. She was saved from scrap by the City of Dunkirk in 1981. With an overall length of 90 m, she is the biggest tall ship preserved in
France.

HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen
Abraham Crijnssen, launched in 1936, is a Royal Netherlands Navy minesweeper, famous for its escape from Surabaya, Java in 1942, disguised as a tropical island. After the war, she cleared many minefields in the East Indies, then returned to the Netherlands and became a net-guardian ship. Decommissioned in 1961, she was then operated by the Dutch Naval Cadet Corps. In 1995 she was designated for preservation, and opened for visitors in July 1997 at the Dutch Naval Museum (Marinemuseum).

Remains of the 'Lottie Cooper'
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This 131 feet long wooden schooner sank in a storm on April 9, 1894. It was made of white oak in 1876 in nearby Manitowoc. It's remains were discovered in 1990 during preparations for building a new marina. It was raised in 1992 and is displayed in a nearby park along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Submarine USS Bowfin (SS-287) Museum and Park
USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bowfin, a fresh water fish of the eastern United States.
Bowfin was laid down by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine on 23 July 1942; launched on 7 December 1942 by Mrs. Jane Gawne, wife of Captain James O. Gawne.; and commissioned on 1 May 1943, Commander Joseph H. Willingham in command.
Bowfin departed New London, Conn., 1 July 1943 and arrived at Brisbane, Australia 10 August 1943. Between 16 August 1943 and 4 July 1945 she completed nine war patrols operating from the Netherlands East Indies to the Sea of Japan and the waters south of Hokkaido. Bowfin sank 15 merchantmen and one frigate for a total of 68,032 tons. She also shared credit with Aspro (SS-309) for a 4,500-ton merchantman.
Bowfin sunk Tsushima Maru, an evacuation ship for schoolchildren, on her way from Okinawa to Kagoshima on August 21, 1944 . 1,484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren were killed.
Leaving Pearl Harbor 29 August 1945 Bowfin sailed to the east coast, arriving at Tompkinsville, N.Y., 21 September. She operated with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve at New London, Conn., 12 February 1947.
Bowfin was decommissioned on 12 February 1947 and placed in reserve at New London in Connecticut, until recommissioned on 27 July 1951. She was decommissioned again on 22 April 1954 and placed in reserve at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. She was recommissioned on 10 January 1960 and served as a pierside trainer at Seattle, Washington. She was redesignated an Auxiliary Research Submarine, AGSS-287, in 1962.
On 1 December 1971, Bowfin was decommissioned for the final time and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. She is preserved as a memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Bowfin was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her 2nd offensive war patrol and the Navy Unit Commendation for her 6th offensive war patrol and eight battle stars for her World War II. In addition, she was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

S/S Duke of Lancaster
Duke of Lancaster is one of the last surviving railway steamers in the UK. She was built in 1956 to carry railway passengers over the Irish Sea from Heysham to Belfast. She was also used for cruising on European waters until 1966. In 1970 she was converted to a car ferry. She was laid up in 1978 and sold to a company for use as static amusement ship, known as "Fun Ship". It has been slowly rusting and deteriorating for many years and her future seems uncertain.

Submersible vessel, Star III
In front of Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institute.

German barque Gorch Fock
The Gorch Fock I (ex Tovarishch, ex Gorch Fock) is a German three-mast barque. Originally built as a school ship for the German Reichsmarine in 1933, she was taken as war reparation by the USSR after World War II. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the ship sailed under the Ukrainian flag from 1992 to 1993. In 1995, she was transferred to Newcastle-upon-Tyne for repairs, which however, somehow never even began. In 1999, she was moved to Wilhelmshaven and finally acquired by private sponsors and transferred to her original home port Stralsund, Germany, where she was re-baptized Gorch Fock on November 29, 2003. She is a museum ship today, and although efforts are being made to reactivate her, it is doubtful whether she will sail ever again.
The Gorch Fock served as a training vessel for the German Reichsmarine. During the second World War, she was a stationary office ship in Stralsund, until she was officially reactivated on April 19, 1944. On May 1, 1945, the crew scuttled her in shallow waters off Rügen in an attempt to avoid capture by the Russian troops.
However, the Russians raised and salvaged her in 1947 and restored her from 1948 to 1950. The ship was newly named the Tovarishch ("Comrade" in Russian) in 1951 and put into service as a training vessel again. Her new home port was Odessa. Under the name Tovarishch she participated in many Tall Ships' Races and cruised far and wide on the seven seas. She made a voyage around the world in 1957 and won the Operation Sail race twice, in 1974 and 1976.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Tovarishch sailed under the Ukrainian flag (home port was then Cherson) until 1993, when she was deactivated due to a lack of funds. In 1995, she sailed for the last time from Cherson to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where private sponsors wanted to have her repaired. This enterprise failed due to the high costs, and in 1999, the ship was transported to Wilhelmshaven in Germany, where she stayed in dock for four years until she finally was transferred to Stralsund, Germany in 2003. On November 29, 2003 the ship was re-baptized Gorch Fock. Currently, she serves as a museum ship.

Clyde Puffer 'Spartan'
The Clyde puffer is essentially a type of small steamboat which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland, stumpy little cargo ships that have achieved almost mythical status thanks largely to the short stories Neil Munro wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy.
"Spartan" was built in 1942 by J Hay & Sons of Kirkintilloch and launched into the Forth & Clyde canal; she was built for war service as VIC 18.
At the end of the war the VIC fleet was sold off, and Hay's the original builder bought back VIC18 and registered her as "Spartan" on the 24th September 1946, this was to join their fleet of puffers. Spartan was the third vessel of the Hays fleet to hold the name Spartan, Hay's had a tradition of naming their puffers after tribes other vessels owned by them carried the names Saxon, Celt, Briton, Trojan, Slav etc. Spartan was soon used to carry coal and general cargoes around the Firth of Clyde and as far as Mull, Iona and Islay.
Spartan ended her working career in 1980, when she was laid up at Bowling harbour.
Spartan can be seen at the Scottish Maritime Museum Irvine.

Icebreaker SS Sankt Erik
The SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker, and a museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
She was launched in 1915 as the Isbrytaren II, and was a conventionally constructed Baltic icebreaker, with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull. She also has heeling tanks which can be filled and emptied with seawater in turn to rock the ship to widen the channel. Her reciprocating steam engines are the most powerful functioning ones in Sweden.
Although she was the country's first large icebreaker, she was owned by the city of Stockholm and used to keep the channels around it clear of ice. She was also sometimes used outside of the Stockholm area by the Swedish government since they had contributed towards her cost.
She was renamed in 1958 during an extensive refit, which saw her converted from coal to oil, the bridge was enclosed to protect the deck crew from the weather, and radar and radio fitted.

Clearman's Galley - Restaurant in a boat on land
Originally a San Francisco-to-Alaska mail service ship launched in 1913.

Diamond Princess
Built 1952 for the coastal express service along the Norwegian coast, the Hurtigruten. Sold in 1982 to become a hotel and restaurant ship in the port of Oslo. Today hotel and party centre in Antwerp, Belgium.

Russian submarine U-359
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The U-359 was built in 1953, was in active service until 1989 and took part in the Cuban missile crisis. The U-359 is of the same type as the submarines whic were detected in the southern swedish archipelago.

Whiskey class submarine S 359
Ex-Soviet Whiskey class submarine S 359 on display at Nakskov, Denmark. The Danes call it "U 359".

Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum)
The Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) is a museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. It is part of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The main museum building was opened on September 5, 1975 by then-president Walter Scheel, though scientific work already had started in 1971. In 2000, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the museum, the Hansekogge, a ship constructed around 1380 that was found in the Weser river in the 1960s, was presented to the public after undergoing a lengthy process of conservation in a large preservative-filled basin.
The museum consists of the building planned by Hans Scharoun as well as several museum ships in the Old Harbour of Bremerhaven, including the Seute Deern windjammer and the Wilhelm Bauer U-boat.

HM Submarine Ocelot (S17) submarine in drydock
HMS Ocelot (S17) was an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 17 November 1960, launched on 5 May 1962 and commissioned on 31 January 1964. Joined the 3rd Flotilla based at Faslane Naval Base.
HMS Ocelot paid off in August 1991 as the conventional submarine fleet of the RN began to decline, making way for the nuclear fleet. She was sold in 1992 and preserved as a museum in Chatham Historic Dockyard.

Submarine USS Marlin
USS Marlin

Wreck of the USS Arizona (BB-39)
Laid down: March 16, 1914
Launched: June 19, 1915
Commissioned: October 17, 1916
Sunk on December 7, 1941
Decommissioned: 29 December 1941
Struck: December 1, 1942

Nippon Maru
The Nippon Maru Ⅱ was built in 1984, replacing the former Nippon Maru which was engaged in training of merchant marine cadets for over half a century.
The former Nippon Maru was built in 1930, brought up 11,425 trainees over a little more than 54 years to retirement, and completed about 1,830,000km voyage.
Although the former Nippon Maru had continued the brilliant voyage participating in ceremony of the 200th U.S. founding of the country anniversary (1976) etc., after 1974 with superannuation, it reduced the scale of ocean navigation and was continuing the temporary voyage.
1981, The investigation about construction of The Nippon Maru Ⅱ was started and the construction basic concept was summarized.
The fixed plans of construction was as follows.
* Fundamental engineering education etc. was taken into consideration based on The former Nippon Maru and The other sailing ship Kaiwo Maru.
* In consideration of years of operation, it had a fine sight as it was strong, and it considers as a dignified thing.
* It took into consideration enough also about hull intensity, restitutive force, a trim, sound isolation, vibration-proof, and heat-proof.
* While being equipped fully with educational equipment required for training adaptability, discipline, a sense of cooperation, and international mindeness that were indispensable elements for ship's officers.
* It took into consideration of a comfortable environment and living space on the ship in which people enable to live healthfully as much as possible.
1982, The budget about construction of The Nippon Maru Ⅱ was accepted, and it became progress of construction. The schedule from planning to complete the construction was as follows.
* 11th APR. 1983 :Keel lay at Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
* 16th SEPT. 1983 :Block loading was started..
* 14th DEC. 1983 : The first mast (a jigger mast, mast at the tail end) was carried.
* 15th FEB. 1984 : Launching ceremony was celebrated in the presence of the Crown Prince and Princess.
* 16th SEPT. 1984 : Construction was completed and it was handed over. The first trainee was accepted and the maiden voyage was started.

90-ton scale model of the 'Majesty of the Seas'
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USS Razorback
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Barque 'Dame de Serk'
Copy of an 18 th Century barque resting in one of London’s few remaining dry docks built in 1952 as a French training ship.
It is now 'Traders Bistro' (closed).

Building replica sailing ship
Replica of the eighteenth century Ship of the Line 'De Delft' being built at Shipyard ‘De Delft’, Rotterdam.

HMS Jagaren Småland (J19)

Scale model of a battleship
Update - Wisconsinosity.com reports that this is no longer on display.

Monitor Sölve (1875)
A monitor was a type of warship used by some navies between the 1860s and the Second World War. The monitors of the 19th century were turreted ironclad warships inspired by USS Monitor; as well as coastal ships which closely followed her design, the term 'monitor' also encompassed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship. In the 20th century, the term 'monitor' was revived for shallow-draft armoured shore bombardment vessels, particularly those of the British Royal Navy.

Derrick Barge 'Lance Knapp' on land
The Derrick Barge was built in 1925 for dredging, lock repair and lifting heavy boats on the Barge Canal system. Power came from a steam boiler engine manufactured by the Ames Ironworks company of Oswego. The Barge's long, triangulated derrick was capable of lifting 150 tons.
Following 60 years of service, the Barge was retired and donated to the Museum in 1984 by the New York State Department of Transportation. Shortly after its arrival in Oswego in January 1985, it sank in a severe winter storm.
The Barge was rechristened the "Lance Knapp" at its reopening dedication ceremony in 1990.

Model New York Fire Boat
At the New York, New York Casino

Schooner Frances E. Waters
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Land Locked Boat
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This boat is on the mini-golf course at Outdoor World campground near Moody Beach, Maine

USS Little Rock (CG-4)
USS Little Rock (CG-4 — ex-CL-92, ex-CLG-4) was a United States Navy Cleveland class light cruiser that was later converted to a Galveston class guided missile cruiser. She was laid down by Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 6 March 1943; launched 27 August 1944.
After her decommissioning, Little Rock was taken to Buffalo, New York, where she is open to public touring at the Buffalo Naval & Military Park.

Wey Barge 'Reliance' at Dapdune Wharf
Dapdune Wharf is a former wharf on the Wey and Godalming Navigations in Guildford, England, UK, close to the Surrey County Cricket Club ground. It is now maintained by the National Trust.
Although no longer used as a goods transshipment point, the wharf is the starting point for boat trips, including boat hire and horse-drawn boat trips. The Visitor Centre has interactive displays, a smithy, a stable, and an original Wey Barge, the Reliance.

Unterseeboot 10 (S189) Submarine on display
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Lightship Texel
Lichtschip nummer 10, Texel, was built in 1952 and served until 1994. Since then she has been museum ship at Den Helder.

Foxtrot B-39 (U 475) submarine
Foxtrot B-39 (U 475) was built in 1967, and used specifically for training foreign submariners - Libyan, Cuban and Indian.
She was in active service with the Russian Baltic Fleet until April 1, 1994, having spent 27 years in active service.The vessel arrived in London from the naval base in Riga, Latvia, in July 1994 under the command of its Captain Vitalij Burda who bid official farewell to his second home for the last 23 years. She was at Long's Wharf, Thames Barrier untill 1998 and then moved to Folkestone.

Steamship Valley Camp museum ship
The SS Valley Camp is a freighter boat that served on the Great Lakes for almost 50 years and is currently serving as a museum ship in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
The Valley Camp was launched in Lorain, Ohio, in 1917 as the Louis W. Hill for the National Steel Corporation. She sailed for this company for 38 years hauling iron ore and coal until 1955 when she was sold to the Wilson Marine Transit Company. It was in this fleet that she received her current name. For this company she carried a wider array of bulk goods including grains and stone. The Valley Camp was a member of the Wilson Fleet only until 1959 when the Republic Steel Corporation bought her and several of her Wilson fleetmates, including her identical sister the Silver Bay (formerly the Albert Heiken of National Steel). Republic kept the Valley Camp's name, and for that company she hauled iron ore and coal to their mills in Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and Indiana Harbor, Indiana. In 1967, the Valley Camp sailed her last. Her age was not an issue at this time, it was her triple expansion engine that was still being fed by coal burning boilers that doomed her to an early retirement.

'Medea' and 'Pilot'
Named after a woman in Greek mythology, the Medea has a past almost as colorful as her namesake. Originally, the steam yacht was built for William Macalister Hall of Torrisdale Castle, Scotland, to be used for entertaining and hunting trips around the waterways in western Scotland.
She was completed on August 29, 1904, in a record building time of 51 days. Built of steel and furnished with imported teak and quarter-sawn oak, the Medea is an impressive and beautiful little boat. She has served in two world wars, under three navies and six national flags.
Launched on August 7, 1914, Pilot served as San Diego Bay’s official pilot boat for commercial ships entering and leaving the harbor for 82 years. Harbor pilots are responsible for steering large vessels safely into and out of the bay; the pilot boards the ship, takes command, and returns the vessel to the captain after it has docked or left the bay.

Japanese Yushio-class submarine Akishio (SS 579)
The Yushio was a Japanese diesel-electric submarine class operated by the JMSDF - they have now been retired or are only used for training. The design is an evolution from the Uzushio class being slightly larger.

Noah's Ark replica
This full-sized replica of Noah's Ark opened to the public in July 2012. It was built by Johan Huibers from 2009-12. In 2007, he completed a smaller replica of the ark.
This ark measures 135 meters long, 30 meters wide, and 23 meters tall. Inside it is a museum with historical exhibits, cinemas, and even some live animals.

Magic Kingdom - Donald Duck's boat Miss Daisy on static display
In Mickey's Toontown.

HDMS Sælen (S323)
HDMS Sælen (S323) is one of the three Tumleren-class small coastal submarines of the Kongelige Danske Marine (Royal Danish Navy). She was built as a Type 207 submarine by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke of Emden, Germany in 1965 for the Royal Norwegian Navy and served for 25 years as KNM Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990. Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until June 2003. December 21, 2004 she was handed over to the Royal Danish Naval Museum.

Lightship Weser
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Lightship Sandettie
Active lightship from 1949 until 1989.

Fireboat No. 1
After 54 years of service in waterfront fire protection, harbor security patrols, search and rescue missions, and water pollution control, Fireboat No. 1 was put up on on a permanent dry berth at a public beach near Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. She is one of only five fireboats designated as a National Historic Landmark. Visitors are able to walk around her exterior, but her interior is closed to the public.

Ned Hanlan (tugboat)
The Ned Hanlan is a steam-powered tugboat that spent her career in Toronto, Ontario. She displaces approximately 200 tons, and is currently mounted beside a former nautical museum housed in the old Stanley Barracks on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.
The Ned Hanlan is in reasonably good shape, with little rust, and a slight dent in her port gunwale just fore of the wheelhouse. The screw and rudder have been removed.
The tugboat is named after Ned Hanlan, a 19th century Toronto resident, and world champion rower.

Galleon replica 'Renaissance'
At Tokyo Disney Sea.

Paddle steamer Princess Elizabeth
Built in 1927, for the Red Funnel Line, as a ferry between Southampton and the Isle of Wight.
After twelve years as a ferry and excursion steamer in Bournemouth and the Solent area, at the outset of World War II, Princess Elizabeth was taken over by the Admiralty and converted into a minesweeper (No. J111). A year later, she was on her way to Dunkirk where her first task was to clear the mines from the narrow channel off the beaches, which was the only escape route. Only then could the work of embarking the waiting troops begin. Many of her sister ships, including the Brighton Belle, the Devonia and Gracie Fields were sunk at that time.
Among others, she brought back to Dover 500 Frenchmen that day. Before the end of the war, she served as an anti-aircraft vessel. Then, in 1946, she returned to her civilian occupation.
When she was superseded as an excursion boat by more modern vessels, like many old timers, she enjoyed brief fame as a film star, and appeared in the Walt Disney film The Castaways.
In 1970, she was moored just up-stream of London Bridge as a restaurant.
She is now owned by the City of Dunkerque.

HM Bark Endeavour replica
The guiding principle in building Endeavour was to produce as accurate a replica of Cook's ship as possible and the layout of cabins and attention to detail reflect years of dedicated historical research, considerable building skills - and a great deal of time and money!
Below decks you enter the 18th-century world of Captain Cook, his officers and seamen. As you descend to the crew's mess deck and pass the firehearth where John Thompson, the one-handed cook, prepared meals, you are immediately immersed in the crowded space where seamen ate, drank and slept amongst sea chests and hammocks. The rich smell oakum, tar and canvas hangs in the air and as you explore each cabin, it is easy to imagine that Cook and his men have just walked ashore.

Submarine USS Silversides (SS-236)
USS Silversides (SS/AGSS-236) is a Gato-class submarine.
Her keel was laid down on 4 November 1940 by the Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California. She was launched on 26 August 1941 and commissioned on 15 December 1941.
USS Silversides received twelve battle stars for World War II service, and was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. She is credited with sinking 23 ships, the third-most of any allied World War II submarine, behind only the USS Tang and USS Tautog. The tonnage of the ships sunk by Silversides amounted to 90,080 tons, second only to the Tang's total. Judged by such standards, Silversides has the most prolific combat record of any still-extant American submarine.
Silversides was used for exterior scenes in the 2002 film, Below to depict the fictional USS Tiger Shark. She was towed in Lake Michigan for filming. The movie was a total flop, earning only $589,000 at the box office and went almost unnoticed to film goers across the globe.

Lightship Deutsche Bucht
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Lightship Kemi in Drydock
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Planet
Defence trials ship Planet of the Ozeanographische Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr (OFBw). She was launched in 1965 and entered service in 1967. In 2003 she was withdrawn from service and in 2006 she sold to a buyer in St. Vincent and Grenadines to be converted to a yacht but that didn't happen and since April 2007 she has been preserved at Wilhelmshaven.

Three galleons of the Cantabrian mariner Vital Alsar Ramírez

Donald Duck's Boat
At Disneyland Tokyo.

HMS Cavalier (D73)
HMS Cavalier (D73) is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944.[1] She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

Steam ferryboat 'Berkeley'
The Berkeley is an 1898 steam ferryboat that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay. A California State Historic Landmark, and a National Historic Landmark.
During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Berkeley carried thousands of survivors to safety. Her captain and crew, not knowing the fate of their own families, worked night and day to help victims escape the burning shores of San Francisco. Their unwavering and unselfish efforts saved many, many lives.

French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (D627)
Maillé-Brézé (D627) is a T 47 class destroyer (escorteur d'escadre) of the French Navy. She was built by Arsenal de Lorient in Lorient, commissioned on 4 May 1957 and named after French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé (1619–1646).
In 1988 she was decommissioned and became a museum ship in Nantes.

PS Comet - Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
The paddle steamer PS Comet was built for Henry Bell, hotel and baths owner in Helensburgh, and began a passenger service in 1812 on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.

SS Meteor
SS Meteor is the unique surviving ship of the experimental "whaleback" design. The design, created by Scottish captain Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), enabled her to carry a maximum amount of cargo with a minimum of draft. Whalebacks were also called "pig boats", among other names, due to their appearance. The Meteor was built in 1896 in Superior, Wisconsin and, with a number of modifications, sailed until 1969. She is currently a museum ship in her birthplace, the last of the whalebacks.

Jylland
The Jylland is the world's last screw-propelled steam frigate. During the Second War of Schleswig in 1864, it won a battle against the Austrian-Prussian fleet in the Battle of Heligoland. In Danish, the ship is known as simply Fregatten Jylland, although several ships have used this name.
The ship has been restored and is currently on display in the town of Ebeltoft, Denmark. It is advertised as one of the world's largest wooden ships. (from Wikipedia)

Stella Polaris
Norwegian cruise ship Stella Polaris was built in 1927 by AB Götaverken, Gothenburg. She was laid up at the beginning of WWII and used by Kriegsmarine mostly as support and barracks ship 1940-45. After the war she continued cruising and after several changes of ownership she was sold in 1969 to International House Co. Ltd., Tokyo and used as floating hotel Scandinavia in Kisho, Japan. Sold to Swedish owners Petro-Fast A/B in 2006 (for continued use as hotel), but sank Sept. 2-2006 while in tow to a shipyard in China in order to be prepared for voyage to Sweden, about 280 n. miles southwest of Tokyo.

Elbe
"Elbe" was originally a salvage tug launched in 1959. In 1976 she was converted to pilot tender for the Association of Maryland Pilots, Baltimore, Usa, and renamed "Maryland". In 1985 she was sold to Greenpeace and renamed "Gondwana" and in 1989 "Greenpeace". Since 2002 she is part of the Maritieme Collectie Rijnmond and is being restored to her original condition as "Elbe".