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A PICTORIAL TREASURY OF THE

MARINE MUSEUMS
OF THE WORLD

BRANDT AYMAR
A GUIDE TO THE MARITIME COLLECTIONS,
RESTORATIONS, REPLICAS, AND MARINE

MUSEUMS

CROWN

IN

TWENTY-THREE COUNTRIES

PUBLISHERS,
Mc

rin

INC.

County Free Library

Civic Center Administration

Building

San Rafael, California

NEW YORK

To

JOHN MARSHALL

in appreciation of his

photographic

contributions to this book

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1967, by Brandt

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Number: 67-27032

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS
Introduction

vi

Acknowledgments

PART
MARINE MUSEUMS
MARITIME COLLECTIONS
I

viii

AND
l

United States

Argentina

78

Australia

82

Belgium

85

Canada

88

Denmark

92

England

97

Finland

116

France

119

Germany

126

Holland

137

Iceland

147

Israel

148

Italy

152

Japan

163

Norway

165

Portugal

Scotland

171

Spain

177

Sweden

182

Switzerland

190

U.S.S.R.

192

Yugoslavia

193

PART

RESTORATIONS

II

AND

69

REPLICAS

197

United States

198

Canada

221

England

223

Sweden

229

Switzerland

232

SPECIAL MARITIME EXHIBITS

233
IN THE UNITED STATES

PART
Index

III

244

INTRODUCTION
Each year millions of people of

ages pass

all

tory

from ancient Egyptian funeral barges

to trans-

through the inviting portals of the marine museums

atlantic

of the world and embark on a voyage of discovery

dean merchantmen, Viking ships, ships used

such as Columbus or Magellan never dreamed. For

discovery of

opened

to

them

is

the vast

from those

heritage of the sea,

cient

man

of logs

dawn

panorama of the whole

early days

on

fearlessly put to sea

first

whipped together with

when

an-

the

to tell the story of

Of

the sea as exhibited in these maritime collections.

power

almost equal interest are the figureheads from ships

at-

past glories of the sea: voyages of discovery,

where

men and

drawn

as if

nations:

all

carved

exquisitely

figureheads

known and unknown men and women,

them. Here one can relive the

unknown

lands, men-of-war, carracks, clip-

But ship models only begin

of

ships sailed into the

in the

seemingly endless.

list is

tree branches, to the

There are many reasons why these museums

visit

new

covering Greek triremes, Ju-

per ships, whalers, trawlers, battleships, yachts

has been harnessed for the use of mankind.

who

liners,

a crude raft

of the atomic era, in which nuclear sea

tract those

luxury

of

of grotesque

animals, of massive birds, of fierce war gods. This

was the sculpture of the

and an ageless

sea,

art

in itself.

by an invisible magnet; daringly fought sea battles

one nation against another

that pitted

in

The

never-

brought

scarce

search

whale

of

advent of

necessities

many hungry

luxuries to
in

between different

electricity;

oil,

as

civilizations

well

as

fishing fleets that

ered ships of today.

Men

the sport of yachting and boating; and the pleasure

With

of

different

exhibits,

models,

restorations, paintings, books,

jects

dioramas,

to life all this

gation,

could not navigate ships without the aid

no matter how crude. Thus, marine museums

are literally stacked with priceless exhibits in this

replicas,

latitude,

all

chronometers, sextants, charts, compasses,

telescopes,

and the entire progression of navigational

aids as they

visitor.

Ship models are the backbone of nearly

actual engines themselves

category, covering ancient astrolabes for measuring

museums bring

and more for the eager

The

millions

and innumerable ob-

salvaged from the seas, these

mari-

It

developed through the centuries.

would be impossible

of every different exhibit in

of the Elizabethan men-of-war, the Spanish galleons,

of the world. Each

and the frigates of the United

and exhibits of exclusive

sails,

details

of

their

hull

States

Navy. The

structures,

show

riggings,

gunports, cannon, figures of the fighting sea-

make

to

time collections. Perhaps the most popular are those

intricate

advent

of navigational instruments and a knowledge of navi-

as well as a livelihood for themselves;

vacation cruises and foreign travel.

vessels, the

drawings of the whole or parts of them.

to

the sea in any weather to provide food for their

countrymen

manned by

ships

are preserved for posterity, as well as models and

before the

went out

detailed exhibits:

pre-

of steam, the turboliners, and the atomically-pow-

unheard-of

countries; long expeditions

badly needed

technologically

is

long era of the sailing

oars, the

and

of propellants

many

sented by

ending power struggle; sea commerce that opened up

vital trade routes

story

all

museum

detailed

list

the marine

museums

own

surprises

has

items.

its

Whaling museums,

in detail every aspect of the

whaling industry,

including beautifully carved and etched scrimshaw

from whalebone. Many

men, and insignias inflame the imagination of the

made by

viewer and vividly

contain pieces of rare china, pottery, and porcelain,

past.

In

many

recall the titanic sea battles of the

of these museums, a progression of

sailors

decorated with scenes of the

ship models portrays the development of ship his-

sea.

collections

No museum

is

without marine paintings, drawings, and lithographs.

vi

For

book we contacted the

this

seums, maritime collections, ship replicas and

torations,

the visitor

more than one hundred marine mu-

of

curators

and

directors

in

twenty-three countries

Each has been kind enough

and information on

his

of

at

most popular exhibits,

many

where no photographs were

available, the director

had them made expressly for

this

book. In some instances,

graphs ourselves in order to

was needed. Thus,

section

and

a tantalizing

when he

can see

this

visits

we

took the photo-

in

what we thought

fill

book

is

restoration,

is

both those

museums

marine

museums

nological
lections.

museums which
and

general

II

is

on

many which were

a historical society

museum,

covered

briefly

location, telephone

For
will

are

science

devoted to actual

lost or

have

the

replica, or

highlights

number, days and hours open,

and admission charges,

Part

if

any.

who browse through

all

add

visit

exclusively

and

all

its

book,

and

trust this

replicas,

book

hope

seum,
their

as well as

who

plan to

or restorations

will prove to be

mu-

whetting appetites to see more of

contributions

to

the ever-fascinating heritage

of the sea.

cases

Brandt Aymar

vii

it

to further en-

mystical lore. For those

any of the museums,

of practical value in finding the way to that

col-

restorations

broken up. In

this

to their love of the sea

pictured herein,

tech-

of famous ships of history and to faithful replicas

of

himself.

museums which have major maritime

Part

marine collection of

diversified cross

organized into three parts.

covers

group

of what each has to offer, plus practical information

joyment of

The book

special

within the two other sections, such

fall

In the text accompanying each

sampling of what a traveler

these

have included a

or an art gallery.

his

cases,

In

do not

as a special

most valuable exhibits, and his most unusual exhibits.

will. In Part III

that

supply photographs

to

allowed to go aboard and roam around

of interesting marine exhibits in the United States

res-

world.

the

is

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I

would

like to

thank the following directors and cura-

museums,

tors of the

who

in this book,

restorations,

who

graphs and information, and

my

text

and

replicas included

me

so kindly supplied

with photo-

so diligently checked

and caption material for accuracy: Karl Kortum,

San Francisco Maritime Museum; Howard

Smithsonian Institution
tur

Chapelle,

I.

Claire E. Brou, Truxton-Deca-

Naval Museum; Charles

Burden, Bath Marine

E.

Museum; D. Bradford Wetherell, Penobscot Marine

Museum; Captain Dale Mayberry, United States Naval
Academy Museum: William A. Baker, Francis Russell
Hart Nautical Museum; Robert N. Frazer, Cohasset
Maritime Museum; Philip F. Purrington, New Bedford
Whaling Museum; M. V. Brewington, Peabody Museum
of Salem; Robert E. Lee, Dossin Great Lakes Museum;
Rose D. Hawley, Mason County Museum; Herbert Jennings, Seamen's Church Institute Marine Museum; Edward Fountain, Sag Harbor Whaling Museum; Catherine B. Remley, Campus Martius Museum Rolf Klep,
Columbia River Maritime Museum; Edward M. Davis
III, Civic Center Museum; John W. Jackson, Philadelphia Maritime Museum; Marshall W. Butt, Portsmouth
;

Naval Shipyard Museum

Museo Naval de

Enrique Gonzalez Lonzieme,

Nation, Buenos Aires; R. H. Fowler,

la

Academy of the Arts and Sciences of Dubrovnik;

Knut M. Haugland, kon-tiki Museum, Oslo; Johan
slav

Knap, Sandefjord Sjofartsmuseum

Joao Maria Pereira

Museu de Marinha, Lisbon; A. S. E. Browning,

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum; Jose M. MartinezHidalgo, Museo Maritimo, Barcelona; Captain S. Notini,

Braga,

Sjofartsmuseum,

Goteborg;

von Busch, Marin-

Peter

museum, Karlskrona; Goran Sundstrom, Statens Sjohistoriska Museum, Stockholm; M. Kuleshov, Navy
Museum, Leningrad Paul H. Johnson, United States
;

Coast Guard Academy Museum,

Manx Museum,

Cubbon,

Isle

of

New London

Man;

A.

H. Hayes,

Bartlett

Addison Gallery of American Art; Elizabeth

Jr.,

M.
B.

Drewry, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; B. Collingwood

Stevenson, turbinia, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Many others graciously contributed to this book: ClinM. Arnold, Cabrillo Beach Marine Museum Barbara Eastwood, United States Navy Memorial Museum;
Dundas Leavitt, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum;
Mary Desmond, Boston Museum of Science; W. Ripley
Nelson, Nantucket Whaling Museum; Ralph Carpentier,
East Hampton Town Marine Museum; Bache Bleeker,
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum; Doris B. Morton, Skenesborough Museum
Gordon Brennen, Seattle
Museum Fred Rawlinson, The Mariners Museum, Newton

Institute of

Applied Science of Victoria;

J.

Van

National Scheepvaartmuseum, Antwerp; Robert

Vancouver City Museum;

Museum;

Munthe

B.

P. R.

Lindo,

Beylen,

New

J.

Drake,

Brunswick

af Morgenstierne, Orlogsmuseet,

News;

port

S.

Broome, Pitkin

Pictorials, Ltd.,

London;

Museum, London; D. J. Bryden.

J.
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh Alma Eshenfelder,
Mystic Seaport; Jim Gray, bounty, St. Petersburg; Lt.
Cdr. Robert M. Hartian, u.s.s. Arizona Memorial, Pearl
Smart, Science

E.

Knud Klem, Danish Maritime Museum,

Helsingor; Lt. Cdr. T. M. Dorrien Smith, Valhalla Maritime Museum W. E. May, National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich; T. A. Hume, City of Liverpool Museum;
John Bartlett, Kingston-on-Hull Maritime Museum;
John T. Shaw, Sunderland Museum; Captain A. J Pack,
Copenhagen

Victory
Sjofarts
time,
Paris;

Museum, Portsmouth; Gunner Boman, Alands

Museum, Mariehamn F. Reifuane, Musee Mari;

Marseilles;

Dan

Lailler,

Schiffahrtsmuseum,

Altonaer

R.

C.

Musee de

Vichot,

Musee de Saint-Malo;
Brake/Unterweser

Marine,

la
F.

Carstens,

Jiirgen

Meyer,

Museum, Hamburg; Dr. Vollmar, Deutsches

Museum, Munich; G. A. Cox, Nederlandsch Historisch

Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam; B. C. W. Lap, Maritiem

Museum

Eldjarn,

"Prins

National

Hendrik,"

Museum

Rotterdam;

of Iceland;

Kristjan

Arie Ben-Eli,

Maritime Museum, Haifa; Caterina Marcenaro, Museo

Navale, Genoa; Mauro de Pinto, Museo del Mare, Trieste; G. B. Rubin de Cervin, Museo Storico Navale,
Venice; Josip Luetic, Maritime

Museum

of the Yugo-

Harbor;

Lt.

ton;

Lawrence Couter, Mayflower

E.

(jg)

J.

C.

Grew,

Captain C. B. Jennings,

u.s.s.

constitution, Bosii,

Plymouth;

north Carolina, Wil-

u.s.s.

Museum; Parke

mington;

Bradley

Rouse,

Jamestown Foundation, Williamsburg;

Smith,

Shelburne

P. H.
keno, Dawson; C. J. Davis and D. T.
Waller, Wiggens, Teape & Co. Limited, Croyden, EngJr.,

Schonenbach,

s.S.

land; Bengt Ohrelius, wasa, Stockholm; Ulba Andersen,

s.S.

skjelskor, Lyngby

way queen,
Library and

T.

J.

E.

Compton, med-

Isle of Wight; Theda Bassett, Submarine

Museum, Groton John K. Tennant, Mer;

chant Marine Exhibit, Washington; Lucy

ton

Museum

the City of

of Fine Arts; Ruth

New

York; Richard

P.

Kezar, Bos-

M. Loud, Museum
S.

Cunliffe; Daniel

of
J.

Gene Guerny; and the personnel of the followmuseums: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museo Naval,

Foley;
ing

Madrid;

Museum

of

Transportation,

Transport Museum, Lucerne.

Tokyo;

Swiss

THE SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME

Gold Rush of

Since the

MUSEUM

San Francisco, California

1849, San Francisco has

been the shipping center of the Pacific Coast. The

Museum was

San Francisco Maritime

1951

and present

to preserve

to the public the history

of this maritime heritage.

On

the 15-foot-high beakhead

and

commerce,

schooner

the

first floor,

trail

around

boards from the

are ranged other significant

the complete stern section of a scow schooner;

relics:

fife

established in

and mast section of the schooner

gaff,

rail,

forester; the windlass from the ship star of

France; and figureheads, photographs, ship models,

and nameboats of West Coast

Room

ing Steamship

are

vessels. In the adjoin-

models of men-of-war and

merchant steamers. The second floor displays include

Bay

the story of whaling, shipwrecks, river steamers,

ferries,

steam schooners, tugs, and shipbuilding. Also

on display are nautical instruments, and scrimshaw or

sailors'

work.

fancy

excellent

selection

The

of

research

maritime

library

titles,

has

an

including a

complete run of Lloyd's Register of Shipping and a

number

of rare books and manuscripts.

floor

occupied by the

is

extensive

maritime

file

office

The

third

and the museum's

of photographs covering

all aspects

of
Figurehead of the extreme clipper

interest.

DAVY CROCKETT,

by George Greenman & Co. at Mystic, Connecticut, in 1853. The DAVY CROCKETT ran between New
York, San Francisco, and Liverpool until 1882, running

built

Foot of Polk

Street.

and Sunday 10 a.m.

Telephone:
to 5

PR

6-1175.

Open

p.m. Admission free.

daily

close races with her principal competitor, the equally

celebrated extreme

figurehead was

clipper

YOUNG

AMERICA.

This

New

York.

made by Jacob Anderson

of

H. Michaelis photo

opposite, top:
fife rail and wheel pumps with a section
mizzenmast from the four-masted schooner
FORRESTER, built in Alameda in 1900. Behind this dis-

Foreground,
of

the

a 19th-century builder's model of the

ZENOBIA. The murals were painted by Hilaire

play,

brig
Hiler

under the Federal Art Project of the WPA.

H. Michaelis photo

opposite, bottom:

View of the main

INDEPENDENCE,
vessel ever built,

The mammoth anchor is from the American ship of the line,

beakhead from the schooner COMMERCE, a model of the largest sailing
the five-masted ship PREUSSEN, and the wheel from the U.S.S. ALBANY.
floor lobby.

the

Transom of the scow schooner CHARLES W., one of a once numerous type of shallow-draft
and other products between San Francisco and upriver communities.
The large photograph at the right shows the CHARLES W. loading hay in the "delta country"
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
H. Michael is photo

vessel used to carry hay

MUSEUM

CABRILLO BEACH MARINE

in a

both a maritime and a marine museum

broad sense. On the second floor of the museum

the

maritime

This

San Pedro, California

is

includes

section

paintings

historical

tracing the history of San Pedro and the early port of

Los Angeles. Thirty ship models trace the story of

from the days of the Vikings and

sea travel

American Indians
American

vessels

Viking

of

replica

times, including such

"old ironsides"

as

witch, the English

Ericsson's

modern

to

tea clipper

ship,

sailing

and

sea

cutty sark,

Lief

whaling

ship

early

an exact

vessels,

captain's

cabin,

ships'

wheels, figureheads, scrimshaw, bells, nautical equip-

ment, and mementos of Captain Harry Pigeion's solo

voyage around the world in 1927.

of the

museum,

a collection

of

as

an introduction

varities of

ing

showrooms,

leatherback

to

turtle,

the

local

Southern California

visitors

sea

see

grotto,

first floor

marine

15,000 foreign and

and 100
the

On

an

life,

are

seashells

fish.

Enter-

1,100-pound

native

California

shore birds, artifacts, even fossil animals.

(Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los

Angeles). 3720 Stephen White Drive. Telephone:

TE

Open

1-3207.

daily 9

a.m.

to

p.m.

(daylight

view of part of the museum's displays of 30

saving time 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) Admission free. Swim-

Interior

ming, picnic

ship models tracing the history of sea travel from Vik-

facilities, fishing,

boating.

ing days to

modern

times.

A few

of the

floor,

ranging from tiny grunion to a life-size specimen of a pigmy sperm whale and a 400-

pound

more than one hundred

sunfish.

varieties of

Southern California

fish

displayed on the

first

Exterior of the Cabrillo

foreground

is

Beach Marine Museum.

the statue of Juan Rodrigues

the Portuguese soldier, explorer,

In the

Cabrillo,

and navigator who

Cabrillo

Beach Marine

Museum

SOVEREIGN OF THE
war, 7637. Charles

SEAS,
I

model of an

ordered

struct the largest ship afloat,

remained supreme

English man-o'-

his shipbuilders to

and so they

for the next

con-

did. This ship

750 years.

SANTA MARIA, model

of Christopher

Columbus'

flagship, 1492.

She was 77

5 inches at the waterline, 26 feet in beam, with a draft of 6 feet 11 inches.

feet 5 inches overall, 51

feet

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Founded

in 1846 with a bequest from the will of

James Smithson,

a distinguished

Smithsonian

the

scholar,

United States national

Among

tion.

newest

Housed here

is

English

largest

and cultural

institu-

first

buildings and functions, the

Museum

of History and Technology.

are

two magnificent maritime

collec-

Hall of American Merchant Shipping, and

the naval history exhibits in the Hall of the

Forces of the United States.

The emphasis

models, from Viking ships to luxury

addition

and

and

the

scientific

scientist

many

its

the

is

tions: the

Washington, D.C

there

are

Armed
on ship

is

but in

liners,

many mementos

America's

of

naval history: uniforms, arms, technological develop-

ments, nautical instruments, engines, as well as the

sole surv iving

warship of the American Revolution,

Philadelphia. In the Hall

the Continental gondola

of

American Merchant Shipping the

the evolution of sail, steam,

visitor will see

and motor

vessels of all

kinds: models that include fishing ships, cargo and

passenger ships, river and lake vessels, local watercraft

from

actual

all

Here

parts of the United States.

the

1,000-horsepower steam engine, designed and

built in

1906 by John

F.

and Horace

E.

Dodge and

one of two that drove the 100-foot yacht,

hi, at

is

35 mph. In the Hall of the

models

of

warships

present, historic

names

from
like

Armed

colonial

hornet

Forces are

days

to

the

bon homme richard,

CONSTITUTION, DELAWARE, ALABAMA, and HARTFORD.

Constitution

N.W.

Avenue between 12th and 14th

Streets,

Telephone: 628-1810. Open daily 9 a.m. to 5

p.m. Admission free. Cafeteria available.

Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution

CHALLENGE, model

of

China

1851 by William H.

was,

trade.

Built in

when launched,

world.

clipper ship

used

in

the

Webb, she

the largest merchant ship in the

Smithsonian Institution

DELAWARE, model

of the 74-gun warship launched in

She served periodically in the Mediterranean
and South Atlantic and was destroyed in the burning
of the Norfolk Navy Yard in 7867.

1820.

ALABAMA, model

C.S.S.

commerce

BON HOMME RICHARD, model

gun commerce
Paul

lones

flagship.

of the Continental 42-

raider, formerly the

man DUC DE DURAS

(1765)

by King Louis

of the famous Confederate

raider during the Civil War.

French East India-

and presented

XVI.

She served

to
as

John
his

BRITANNIC, model of the British motor liner built in 1930 for the White Star Line. She was 712
and ran at 17 knots. During World War II she transported more than 180,000 men.

feet long

BUCKEYE STATE, model of the 260-foot sidewheeler built in 1849

Company. She captured the all-time speed record

cinnati Packet

these two

cities.

for the Pittsburgh

in

and Cin-

1850 for a run between

TRUXTUN-DECATUR NAVAL MUSEUM

The Truxtun-Decatur Naval Museum
voted

to

nation. It

who

is

named

Commodore Thomas Truxtun,

for

distinguished himself in the brief naval

with France in

1798-1800, and for

Stephen Decatur,

Jr.,

War. Located
the

museum

a naval hero of the Tripolitan

house which he

in the rear of the

facing Lafayette Square at the corner of

built

Because the quarters are small, the exhibits

Street.

are

war

Commodore

what was Decatur's carriage house,

in
is

de-

is

and maritime history of the

naval

the

Washington, D.C

changed from time

They incorporate

time.

to

displays depicting the history and traditions of the

Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant

U.S.

Marine

as well as the

Navy. Since 1926 the Naval

Historical Foundation has been collecting and pre-

serving for display

all

types of naval and maritime

Navy from

materials depicting the U.S.

Revolution to the present day.

The

the

American

entire collection

of the Foundation includes ship models,

artifacts,

photographs, engravings, paintings, documents, ofrecords, personal papers, uniforms, weapons,

ficial

and

a large collection of

at the

books housed

museum. The most valuable

Foundation

is

collection

prints, etchings, engravings,

and seascapes of the 15th

of

in the

is

Truxton, copy o
by Bass Otis (1784-1861), Philadelph

acquisition of the

some

1,500

naval

and lithographs of ships

to

20th centuries.

the

Donated by Mrs. Mary T. V. Eberstadt

priceless collection

Commodore Thomas

in a library

in 1937, this

one of the largest of

its

kind

world.

1610

daily,

except

Street,

N.W. Telephone: ST

Monday, 10:30 a.m.

to 4

3-2373.

Open

p.m. Admission

free.

Official U.S.

Navy Photographs

Entrance to the Truxtun-Decatur Naval

13

ing.

Adjoining

it is

Museum

build-

the Stephen Decatur historic house.

In the foreground is the 5-inch, 25 caliber, wet-type

deck-gun mount removed from the submarine U.S.S.
TIGRONE, which fired the last shore-bombardment
round of World War II. In the background is the
5-inch, 38-caliber dual-purpose mount removed from

the light cruiser U.S.S.

RENO.

portion of the collection of ship models

President john

F.

Kennedy.

owned by

NAVY MEMORIAL MUSEUM

U.S.

The huge 625-feet long building

Washington, D.C.

with 47,576

square feet of exhibition space was once the breech-

mechanism shop of the Navy Yard.

major

guns ever produced for the U.S. Navy were

caliber

processed here.
filled

All

1828. Today

dates back to

It

with documents,

and memorabilia that

weapons,

paintings,

tell

it

is

relics,

dramatically the story of

the vital part played by the U.S.

Navy

in helping to

gain America's independence in the Revolutionary

War

and

preserve

to

it

ever

Exhibits

since.

1775 with

arranged chronologically beginning in

John Paul Jongs' deathless words,

begun
such
space

to fight."

John

President

action,

Among

flights.

"I have not yet

They end with naval

Vietnam

as

and

the thousands of exhibits are

Kennedy's

F.

events today,

submarines,

Polaris

are

collection; pieces of the

famous ship-model

sunken submarine thresher,

recovered from a depth of 8,000 feet by the Trieste;

an ordnance section with torpedoes, mines, guns; and

dioramas to highlight the achievements of America's

naval heroes.

From

the Revolutionary

War

era are

Paul Revere's commission as a messenger and a

bottle salvaged

the Civil

War

from
era

is

a ship
a

sunk

the Spanish-American

Yorktown. From

diorama of the

monitor and

ironclads, the

at

War

the

rum

first battle

of

merrimac. From

era are a chronometer

and other gear from the battleship Maine, a bulletpierced

Rough

Dewey, and

Rider's hat, a death

$30,000 gold cup presented

the City of

New

through

historic

mask of Admiral

York. The

museum

is

to

him by

French Empire "dolphin" sofa which was part of the

furniture on board the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION. Next to the sofa is a 42-pounder "long Tom"
gun used during the War of 1812.
original

approached

gateway designed by Latrobe,

then past the parade ground flanked by ancient guns.

#76, Washington Navy Yard. Telephone:

Open daily Monday through Saturday 9 a.m.
p.m. Closed Sunday. Summer hours, iveekdays

Building

OX 8-2631.
to

9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission

free.

Official U.S.

Navy Photographs

ll>6
15

60

Model

of the U.S.S.

CONSTELLATION,

36-gun

frigate built in 1797.

U.S.

Navy Memorial Museum

Diorama depicting the famous Civil War battle of the first ironclads between the C.S.S.
VIRGINIA (known as the C.S.S. MERRIMAC) and the U.S.S. MONITOR on March 9, 1862,
as viewed from the deck of the U.S. frigate MINNESOTA.

Exterior

17

view of the U.

5.

Navy Memorial Museum.

SERVIA, an

oil

painting of a ship built by Houghton Brothers of Bath, surrounded by marine

instruments and personal possessions of her skipper, Captain Charles

R.

Reed of Richmond,

Maine.

18

BATH MARINE MUSEUM

Bath, Maine,
shipbuilding

The

city.

Popham

by the

America's oldest,

is

Bath,

Maine

active

still

30-ton pinnace VIRGINIA, built

was the

colonists in 1607,

first

ocean-

going vessel built by English-speaking people in the

New World
that

and the

have since gone

first

of nearly 5,000 vessels

down ways

Bath

in the

Between 1862 and 1902, almost half the

vessels built in

America were launched

at

area.

sailing

Bath where

more than 200 shipbuilding concerns have

flourished

over the years on this stretch of the Kennebec River

known

as

story

told at the Bath

is

"The Long Reach." This 360-year-old

established in

4,000

May

Marine Museum which was

of 1964 and

now

displays over

plus extensive library, archival, and

artifacts,

photographic collections. Emphasizing Bath's unique

maritime heritage and specializing

tribution

made

to

in the

American maritime

major con-

history by the

Adam) was the last

of Bath. Launched
Brothers
Houghton
by
ship
largest
in 1891, this 2,495-ton vessel was one of the
three-masted ships ever built in Maine. Her life was
from
a short one, for she burned while carrying coal

PARTHIA

(painting by Edouard

built

lower Kennebec River Valley, the

entire

covers

all

aspects of the great years of sail

drafting board to launching,

final

museum

voyage.

from

from commissioning

to

Twenty-eight rooms on three floors

feature paintings, models, half -models, ship's fittings,

photographs, superb antiques, period pieces, collector's items,

and related maritime memorabilia. The

museum's most popular

is

single collection, however,

housed in the unusual Children's

artifacts are either noisy or

everything

963
daily

is

Room where

all

maneuverable and where

marked please touch.

Washington

Street.

Telephone: 443-6311.

and Sunday, May 30th

to

Open

September 30th, from

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by special appointment the

rest

of the year. Admission $0.30 adults, $0.25 children 6 to

18, free to

members.

colonists, arriving at the mouth of the Kennebec

River then called Sagadahoc in 1607, built the pinnace
VIRGINIA under the leadership of a shipbuilder named

English

many of the colonists died,

who were left sailed the VIRGINIA

Digby. During the winter of 1608

and

19

back

in

the spring those

to England.

Liverpool to San Francisco

in

1895.

Robert McEachern photo

Bath Marine

The

Museum

double room on the basement floor oi the

is devoted to ship lore
the arts of wooden

museum

ship construction, sailmaking, rigging,

and navigation.

Pictured here are typical items from these instructive

exhibits:

Replica

of

typical

countinghouse

interior

full

tool

box and caulking instruments.

)ohn Marshall photos

where

shipping records were kept, sales made, and financial

transactions

carried out,

turn-of-the-century

most interesting

this

contains

artifacts.

shipyard office of the

some

of

the

museum's

John Marshall photo

CORSAIR, model of the luxury yacht built at the Bath Iron Works in 1930 for /. P. Morgan.
In World War II, she served the U.S. Navy as a convoy ship and was bought thereafter by
private interests. She was wrecked off Acapulco, Mexico, in 1940. Model bv Frank S. Oliver.

Robert McEachern photo

PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM

Opened

community museum

in 1937, this

faring

artifacts

of

the

coastal

region

dedi-

is

and

cated to perpetuating the shipping records

Searsport,

sea-

Maine.

of

Following the American Revolution, the town of

Searsport became an active maritime port, producing

over

50

sailing

more

boasting

the United

vessels

of

substantial

museum now

has

To

preserve

three

completely restored old

separate

"Town

Hall"

1845

plus

The

houses

portraits, exhibits

"The Captain's

objects of nautical crafts-

manship, oriental items brought home

trade,

in

this

buildings.

of ship chandlery, and knot work.

House" (1816) displays

heritage,

this

and half-ship models,

full-rigged

town

sea captains than any other

States.

and

size

(somewhat unnautical)

in the

China

collection of

200 covered butter dishes of early American pressed

glass
It

and

a collection of pressed-glass sugar bowls.

also houses a

and

rabilia

captains.

Room

unique collection of whaling memo-

photographs

of

some

The "Yellow House"

286

offers

Searsport

Research

with logbooks, shipping registers, ships'

ac-

count books, and other manuscripts, and a gallery for

special exhibitions.

Telephone: 548-6634. Open

Church

Street.

to early

September daily and holidays 9 a.m.

Sunday

late

]une

to 5 p.m..

p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $0.50 adults, $0.25

children.

An example

21

of a figurehead from a Penobscot vessel.

Maine

B.

AYMAR, New

York, and Captain Benjamin Carver

entering the Texel October 16, 1840, an

on

oil

painting

by an unknown Dutch artist. Built at SearsMaine, by John Carver in 1840, she hailed from
Loan from the Clifford N. Carver
York.

glass

port,

New

Collection.

Carved eagle from the

scot steamboat.

189

mples of scrimshaw by Maine sailors.

Photo by Douglas Armsden

house of an old PenobPhoto by Douglas Armsden

pilot

The exterior of the Naval Academy Museum Building.

fx

A marble

bust of John Paul Jones by Houdon.

The

flag

hoisted by Oliver Hazard Perry

of Lake Erie,

at the Battle

on which are emblazoned the immortal

words of the dying James Lawrence.

On

display in

Bancroft Hall.

D0NTGIVEU1
24

NAVAL ACADEMY MUSEUM

U.S.

This

museum

an inspiration

serves as

Annapolis, Maryland

to all by

providing tangible evidence of the most glorious

episodes in U.S. Naval history.

of

Its collection

more

than 50,000 individual items contains some of the

finest

ship models

world,

the

in

from the famous Rogers

many

maritime

13

Collection,

Edward Moran,

paintings by

including

the largest collection in

the world of items relating to the

life

and work of

John Paul Jones, the table from the mess deck of

the battleship Missouri on which

instrument of surrender ending

was signed the

World War

II,

and

thousands of significant items relating to the history

Navy and

of the U.S.

Naval Academy. Museum

the

items in Bancroft Hall

include the flag with

immortal words of James Lawrence, "Don't Give

the Ship."

There are

and

in the chapel crypt

Academy
significant

when
the

museum

in the library.

items

historic

since

Up

items on display

The Naval

has had the responsibility of

preserving

February

9,

1849,

President Polk signed an order directing that

captured

all

also

the

flags,

Naval School

display.

The

Telephone:

standards,
at

present

CO

and

colors be sent to

Annapolis for preservation and

museum was completed

8-7711,

ext.

538.

in 1939.

Open Monday through

Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission
All

free.

photos courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy

Museum

A saddle presented to Admiral Halsey by the Reno

Chamber of Commerce early in World War II.

The three buildings of the museum fronting on

St.

Michaels Harbor.

Photo by H. Robbins Hollyday

A corner

of the Log Canoe Room, showing three log

canoe models and one of a bugeye. Both these craft,
developed from the Indian dugout canoe, are of
Chesapeake Bay origin.
Photo by C. C. Harris

CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME

Founded

in

May

1965, this

growing one dedicated

traditions of the

museum

is

Its

St.

Michaels Harbor, Maryland

new and

to preserving the history

Chesapeake Bay region.

MUSEUM

and

exhibits

include models and full-sized boats and artifacts of

the Bay, log books of

and research
Replicas,

are

ships, pictures,

bulletins. In Part II, Restorations

listed

exhibits: the J. T.

bottom,

Chesapeake Bay

topmast

two of

this

Leonard,
oyster

and

museum's famous

the last of the round

sloops,

and

the

restored

Hooper Strait Lighthouse.

Navy
to 4

Point. Telephone: 745-2725.

Open

daily 10 a.m.

p.m. (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in summer), except

Mon-

day, but open on a holiday Monday. Admission $0.50

adults,

$0.25 children 12 to 18 (except children 12 to

18 accompanied by adults free).

PRESIDENT WARFIELD, in the center, is one of three models of the vessels of the Old Bay Line
which plied between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. She was later renamed
EXODUS and carried refugees from Germany to Haifa. Collection of Robert Burgess.
Photo by C. C. Harris

Revolving

Fresnel

lens,

originally

in

lighthouse

at

Navesink Highlands, N. ). It was first lens in country

to be lighted with electricity. A porthole allows view
of

its

motor.

Miniature diorama of Donald McKay's shipyard. East

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1850, birthplace of
of

nation's

Steel

finest

Company.

clipper

ships.

Gift

of

some

Bethlehem

MUSEUM OF

SCIENCE

Boston, Massachusetts

This large science

museum

many and

varied collections,

by

houses

among them one on

transportation

Highlight of the exhibit on the history of

sea.

marine transportation

a replica of a ship's

is

bridge

which looks out over the busy Charles River, thus

giving the illusion of actually being in the pilot

house

of

Aboard

10,000-ton

radar, course recorder,

rudder-angle

master gyro compass,

Nearby

to the ship's

gyro

bearing

indicator,

and

bridge

years in the lighthouse at

radio
is

finder.

the giant Fresnel lens

it

did for 51

Navesink Highlands,

New

9,000,000-candlepower beam was the

New

first

York.

collection of ship models, all built to scale for

Mayflower,

easy comparison of size, include the

Greek trireme
B.C.),

(500 B.C.),

display

are

Viking ship

moon

Henry Hudson's half

the record-breaking clipper

On

repeater,

direction

sight to be seen by ships approaching

The

depth

pilot, loran, sonic

of Navesink Light, revolving just as

Jersey. Its

upriver.

the latest marine navigation equipment:

is

recorder,

heading

vessel

(900

(1609), and

flying cloud (1851).

two 20th century

ships,

luxury

yacht and a sailing vessel used in research.

Science Park

on the Charles River (betiveen Boston's

HI-ESMARO,

fully

equipped, working scale model

West End and Lechmere Square). Telephone: Rich-

of this luxury yacht. This 273-foot vessel

mond

the finest examples of the

2-1410.

Open

10

a.m.

to

p.m.

Tuesday

the years

through Sunday, Friday nights

day,

Thanksgiving,

Christmas,

to

10 p.m. Closed

New

July 4. Admission $1 adults. $0.50

16,

$0.25

children

under

12.

Year's

to

was one of

large yachts built in

I.

Day, and

young people 12

Free

following

Mon-

many
World War

to

members and

children under 5. Parking facilities available.

Exterior of

end of

Museum

of Science overlooking the west

the Charles River Basin.

FRANCIS RUSSELL HART NAUTICAL

This museum, under the
chusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Massa-

jurisdiction of the

of Technology's

Institute

MUSEUM

Department of

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, was

established

show ship and marine engineering

to

developments to the students of M.I.T.

the public as well.

On

merchant

and

vessels

Viking ship

ranging

warships

prints,

and ship

the later ship models are the motor

ship selandia,

the passenger and cargo ship

excalibur, and the

s.s.

john

saint

The museum

Company.

contain

files

designers.

Allan

Among

Forbes

the

well-known 20th century

special

Collection

from

working drawings of

to the present, as well as

yachts and small craft by

s.s.

of the Eastern

paintings, prints, photographs, and ship plans

1600

from about 1850, engines

and engine models, photographs,

Steamship

from

models of

to those of the present, half

Among

open to

display are rigged models of

yachts and merchant vessels

plans.

It is

of

collections

paintings

are

and

Doorway

to the Francis Russell Hart Nautical

Museum.

the

prints

pertaining to whaling, the Captain Arthur H. Clark

Collection of prints pertaining to types of vessels

through the ages, and plans of ships in 1840-1870.

Massachusetts Institute

of

Technology, 55 Massachu-

setts

Avenue. Telephone: 864-6900,

daily

and evenings 9 a.m.

and xveekends

at

to

ext.

5942.

Open

10 p.m. (entrance evenings

77 Massachusetts Avenue.) Admission

free.
S.S.

SAINT JOHN,

the Eastern Steamship

model of the
Company.

last

ship built by

TECUMSEH, model of famous clipper ship out of Boston, actually made aboard on her
maiden voyage 1869-1871 by First Mate Samuel P. Bates of Cohasset and the ship's carpenter
whose name, unfortunately, is not known. Bates's uncle was the ship's master, Captain lames
Collier, of Cohasset.

Exterior

of

the

Cohasset Marine

Museum

formerly the John Bates's chandlery.

building,

COHASSET MARITIME MUSEUM

The Maritime Museum
of

the

Cohasset Historical

1780

between

and

1800

Chandler) and warehouse

7

first

floor contains

models,

the

tecumseh,
tory.

of

at

one of three buildings

and was

Society

Bates

the

as

built

Ship's

Cohasset Harbor.

marine exhibits,

The

and ship

relics,

most famous being the clipper ship

related to Cohasset's maritime his-

all

The second

history

is

floor houses exhibits relating to the

community from the

this

Indians to the advent of affluent

known

first

summer

visitors.

The

other two buildings are the Historic House,

built

around 1800 and furnished

period,

Cohasset Village, Massachusetts

as a

home

and the Independence Building,

1850, housing one of the finest

gown

of that

built

in

collections in

Cohasset

drum

the country.

in

Post
St.

alphabetically.

of the drum.

Elm

Street.

Open from

week

in

only,

1:30 p.m.

September,
to

the last

week

in

June

to the first

Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday

4:30 p.m. Admission for each build-

ing $0.25 adults, $0.10 children.

Office

from

lohn's store

1873-1875,

where

sheet of glass

revolving

were arranged
was placed in hont

letters

WHALING MUSEUM

Nantucket, Massachusetts

For nearly two centuries Nantucket was

gaged

in

whaling and for many years considered the

The

leading whaling port of the world.

reached

home

en-

its

industry

when Nantucket was

height in 1842

the

port for 86 ships, two brigs and schooners.

From then on

it

and

declined,

1869 the

in

last

whaleship, the oak, sailed from Nantucket. In the

early 1920's,

began

dent,

relating to

Edward

F.

collect

to

summer

implements

and

resi-

material

Nantucket whaling, and thus the begin-

museum emerged.

nings of a permanent

opened

Sanderson, a

It

finally

1930, under the auspices of the Nantucket

in

Historical Association, in an old brick candle house

built

in

1847. Today,

collections of

ment,

its

kind

it

in the

world: whaling equip-

logbooks,

prints,

portraits,

houses one of the rarest

scrimshaw, and mementos of

There

is

a replica of a

room showing

many

documents,

foreign lands.

whaling merchant's counting

the vault door and keys, along with

chairs

historic

old

and

clock,

plus

an

The Whaling Museum viewed from the southeast.

old-fashioned

"stand up" counting-room bookkeeper's desk. In the

Scrimshaw

Room

is

an unusual collection of over

many

1,500 pieces. There are

craft shops: shipsmith's,
loft,

replicas of

whaleboat,

sail loft,

and cooper's shop. The South Seas

tains a rare collection of articles

whaling
rigging

Room

con-

brought back from

the Pacific and South Sea Islands by the

whalemen.

Sanderson Hall houses the collection donated by Mr.

Sanderson, and
the only

many

other unusual items, including

known remaining

spermaceti press, a fully

equipped veteran whaleboat, and the 18-foot jaw of

a

sperm whale.

Broad
daily

Street.

Open May 29th

and Sunday, 10 a.m.

adults,

to

October 12th inclusive,

to 5 p.m.

$0.25 children under 12

Admission $0.30

when accompanied by

an adult.

All

35

photos courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Society

The
and

rigging loft
tools,

showing ropes,

chains, rigger's

hooks, blocks, ring irons, and other

necessary to the rigger's trade.

bench
articles

Nantucket Whaling

Museum

WHALING MUSEUM
During the great days of
1800-1900, millions of

ing,

bone were brought

New Bedford, Massachusetts

New

dollars

Bedford whalworth of

oil

and

At the height of the

to this port.

whaling era some 400 ships were registered out of

New
in

Bedford. But with the discovery of petroleum

1859 and the introduction of kerosene for

ing, the

light-

whaling industry started to decline. During

War many

the Civil

ships were sunk and

the

in

1870's more ships were caught in Arctic

ice

The

great days of American whaling

to a close.

The

last

whaling voyage was made from

ford in 1925.

New

Bed-

The Whaling Museum was founded

Old Dartmouth

by the

drew

packs.

Historical Society to preserve

the heritage of America's whaling industry. Included

oustanding collection of whaling memorabilia

in

its

is

the largest ship

model

the world,

in

lagoda. The whole story of whaling

is

the bark

told in relics

and paintings: from harpooning and capturing the

whale through every operation of peeling the blubber
off the
as

whale

hauling aboard

the large slabs

"blanket pieces," cutting them up,

foot chunks

or

"horse pieces,"

into two-

first

then into smaller

pieces or "bible leaves."

These were reduced

boiling in large pots.

The

into large barrels.

On

Of

whaling ship

barrels or about

special interest are the

tacular collection of

to oil by

was then funneled

good voyage

would return with 2,000

gallons.

oil

known

64,000

museum's

scrimshaw and the

spec-

illustrated

logbooks with sketches of scenery, ships, and

little

whales which recorded the catch. Also on display are

New

from

figureheads and stern boards

Bedford

whalers; magnificent ship models, especially those of

French merchant ships and men-of-war and a bone

model made
1812;

cut,

in

Dartmoor

pressed,

Prison,

Figurehead from the

New

Bedford whaleship LEON DAS.

I

England, about

and blown glassware;

Stafford-

shire pottery and porcelain; pewter; East India china;

costumes;

house

room

interiors;

and a

replica of a counting-

interior.

18 Johnny Cake Hill. Telephone: 997-9687. Open daily

and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except closed Monday,

October through May. Admission $1.00 adults, $0.25

children.

All

photos courtesy of the Whaling

Museum

37

New Bedford Whaling Museum

Portrait of a typical

Exterior

view of the

New

Bedford Whaling

whaling master, Captain John Howland.

Museum

building.

38

This half-scale

model

of the bark

LAGODA

is

world. Complete and accurate in every detail,

New Bedford around 1850.

LAGODA was owned by Jonathan

out of

building to the

museum.

Visitors

54 feet long, the largest ship model

it

is

typical of

the whaleships which

may go aboard and roam around. The

Bourne,

whose

family

presented

this

in

the

sailed
original

model and

the

*
New

Bedford Whaling

Museum

Unusual examples of scrimshaw, carvings, and en-

gravings on whale bone: a sculpture called The Proposal,

whale,

and pie crimpers in the shape of

a horse, and a bird made
from

whale's tooth.

lI

'

a
a

sperm
sperm

Full-size

reconstruction

of

the

dining

saloon

of

CLEOPATRA'S BARGE.

CLEOPATRA'S BARGE,
phrodite brig, built
America's

first

in

model made in 1955 by Richard Orr, of the Crowninshield hermaSalem by Retire Becket and launched October 21, 7876. She was

ocean-cruising private yacht.

42

PEABODY MUSEUM

Salem, Massachusetts

The Peabody Museum of Salem

outgrowth of material gathered from

the

is

direct

over the

all

world by members of the East India Marine Society,

organized in 1799 by a group of Salem captains and
supercargoes. East India Marine Hall was built in

1824 and

in

1867 renamed

are arranged in three

ethnology,

main

collections

marine

categories:

its

his-

and the natural history of Essex

The maritime

County.

honor of one of

George Peabody. The

great benefactors,

tory,

in

history exhibits include

one

of the nation's largest collections of ship models;

marine paintings; maritime photographs; shipping

manuscripts;

shipbuilders, riggers,

ing

devices;

instruments;

nautical

used

tools

and sailmakers; shipboard

portraits

of

captains

by

light-

and merchants;

paintings and seaports; figureheads, and the unusual

the saloon and

full-size reconstruction of

on

Captain

George

Cleopatra's barge,

Crowninshield,
built in 1816.

exhibits tie in beautifully with the

for

here

are

the

strange

bedroom

Jr's.,

The

yacht,

ethnological

marine

and wonderful

exhibits,

objects

brought back from the four corners of the globe by

the ships out of Salem. In the East Hall are PolyneCaptain George Crowninshield,
sian,

Melanesian, and Micronesian utensils, dress,

adornments, weapons,

On

art,

the gallery are similar objects

one of the world's

objects

from North and

finest collections

from Japan, and on the

Essex Street.

Weld

Hall

of ethnological

gallery are Chinese,

Siamese, East Indian, Tibetan, and

161

CLEOPATRA'S BARGE,

Morse.

canoe models, and such.

South America, Africa, and Indonesia. In

is

of

Korean

displays.

Telephone : 745-1876. Open week-

days 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday and holidays 2 p.m. to

5

from November 1st to March 1st ivhen

hour is 4 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving, Christ-

p.m., except

the closing

mas, and

New

Year's Day. Admission free.

CONSTITUTION, built
model was presented to the

U.S. frigate

This

43

at Boston in 1797.
East

India

Society by Captain Isaac Hull, U.S.N., in 1813.

Marine

in

Jr.

(17661817), owner
portrait

by

S.

F.

B.

Clipper ship
rier at

worth

DREADNOUGHT,

Newburyport. Painted

in

built

by William Cur-

1853 by

J.

E.

Butters-

for the builder.

44

Diorama of the Salem wharf. A Salem brig of 1820

Oriental merchandise upon her arrival

discharges

from the
ginger,

East: rich

cargoes of

and porcelain.

tea, silk,

pepper, coffee,

La Salle window and forward bay of the Gothic Room, which was removed from
OF DETROIT III of the D & C Line. Now completely restored and installed in

Ship models of Great Lakes vessels from dugout canoe

to self-unloaders,

all

to

one

scale,

Va inch

foot.

the S.S. CITY

the

museum.

DOSSIN GREAT LAKES

MUSEUM

The marine heritage of the Great Lakes

now housed

in this

museum, which opened

Detroit,

Michigan

is

in July

I960. Since 1701 Detroit has seen the growth of

freshwater shipping: the voyagers, the fur traders,
the fighting fleets of 1812, the graceful schooners and
palatial passenger steamers.

Today

giant freighters

and ocean carriers ply the world's busiest inland

waterway. Each step in the evolution of freshwater
shipping
scale

is

represented in the museum's display of

model Great Lakes

ships.

Visitors

can view

Detroit's skyline through a submarine periscope, or

listen

to

the chatter on ship-to-shore radio.

Other

exhibits feature marine paintings, shipboard relics,

navigational equipment, and a

tional exhibits.

Miss

pepsi,

One wing

unlimited

vessel to clock over

of the

class

100

number

mph

museum

hydroplane,
in

contains
the

Gold Cup

Belie Island Park. Telephone: 567-7441.

Wednesday through Sunday

of demonstra-

Open

first

racing.

all

year

11 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Ad-

Pilot

house reconstruction overlooking the Detroit

River.

mission free. Free parking.

Exterior of Dossin Great Lakes

MASON COUNTY MUSEUM

The marine

exhibits in

this local history

Ludington, Michigan

museum

cover the early equipment of the United States Coast

Guard, ship models of

car ferries, sailing craft,

and

steamboats, and a collection of Florida shells and

tropical sea items.
relics,

303

and

East

There are many photographs and

complete history of

Filer

Street.

Telephone:

Wednesday and Friday 2 p.m.

July, every
to

local ships.

to

843-4375.

day except Sunday 10 a.m.

5 p.m. July

Open

p.m. April 1st to

and August. Admission

to

noon, 2 p.m.

free.

Exterior of the

Mason County Museum

building.

A composite photograph of several of the interesting marine subjects in the museum. The
framed oil painting is that of a Pere Marquette Railroad Company train ferry which sank in
Lake Michigan in 1910. The Mars model of the three-masted schooner was made by Henry
Young, a sailor on the ship in the lumber era. In front of it is a lifesaving board from riverboat 4f 14, and a lifesaving jacket from the U.S.S. ALABAMA. To the right are breeches buoy
equipment used by the Coast Guard in Ludington for over fifty years with torpedoes used
for shooting the rope. The oil painting is of the J. H. RUTTER, wrecked off Ludington on
November 1, 1879. Forty men are hanging to the shrouds; they were frozen to the ropes
all

night.

EAST

This

HAMPTON TOWN MARINE MUSEUM

new museum

dates

its

1966 and

late in

is

to

1640, was opened

sponsored by the East

The

Historical Society.

New York

whaling town, which

in an old

whaling days back

Amagansett, L.L,

Hampton

two-story building looks out

over the Atlantic Ocean at a spot where Amagansett's

whaling operations
include an ancient
craft,

Indian

were centered.

once

wagon and beach

relics

and

tackle,

boat, other small

and descriptive wall

panels dealing with whaling operations.

floor

is

The second

devoted to modern fishing, with displays of

shellfishery,

such.

Exhibits

lobstering,

Modern

showing

its

codfishing,

fishing gear

uses.

is

trawling,

and

displayed with murals

Other exhibits cover navigational

instruments and the art of netmaking.

Hand Lane and Atlantic Avenue.

Telephone: 267-6160. Open daily 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Bluff

Road

betiveen

Front view of the East

Hampton Town Marine Museum.

Admission charged.
o

Photos by John Marshall

Actual whaleboat with whaling instruments on panels behind the boat

East

Hampton Town Marine Museum

behind which are panels with

equipment used by present inhabitants' an-

local fishing boat

fishing
cestors.

50

MUSEUM

THE WHALING

Over a century ago Cold

Cold Spring Harbor,

Spring was the

home

port of a small fleet of whaling vessels.

Between

1838 and 1858 they did a flourishing trade

in

In 1942 the Whaling

oil.

lished

museum

this

whaling

activities.

1875.

in

Society estab-

to preserve the story of

their

Prominent among the exhibits

from the whaling

a whale boat

Setauket

Museum

whale

brig daisy, built at

model of

Bartholomew gosnold

is

is

the whaling bark

by

Henry

famous ship-model maker. Many other

Culver,

exhibits in-

clude old prints and photographs of whales, whaling

vessels

and equipment, and whaling implements;

360 pieces of scrimshaw; small local treasures; oil

portraits of the principal figures in the administration

Whaling Company, and

of the Cold Spring

documents pertaining

more than 700

ships

in

to its operations; collections

sailors'

bottles;

of

weaves, splices, and knots;

and

numerous

other

marine

categories.

Main

Street.

Open Wednesday,

Sunday 2 p.m.

to 5

(except on a holiday
adults,

All

Friday, Saturday,

and

p.m. Admission free on Wednesday

Wednesday), other days $0.25

$0.10 children over

6.

photos by John Marshall

Exterior of

Whaling Museum building.

L.I.,

New York

e Cold Spring Harbor

Whaling

>

John H. Jones 1785-1859, a

portrait bv Shepard

Mount

of

the

and manager of
Spring Whaling Company.
director

the

Cold

MARINE MUSEUM OF THE

SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF
Here

in this

house

visitor will find

Ship

floor.

NEW YORK

New York, New York

welcome

for seamen ashore the

2,000 years of marine history on one

models,

and other

paintings,

objects

graphically portray the development of water trans-

from

portation

museum

is

earliest

days

to

the

The

present.

divided into four sections. Staying Afloat

begins with the reed rafts and includes canoes that

Columbus when he

greeted

World. Viking
and

lateen

vessels,

ships,

rigs

medieval

arrived

craft, caravels,

show how man,

all

New

the

in

in

square

minute

began his conquest of the mastery of the

sea.

Sailing on Schedule opens the era of the packet boats

and clipper ships with

tion,

harsh economic competi-

shanghaiing, slave ships, piracy, and inhuman

abuses.

new

its

At Sea Today presents the development of

techniques in ship construction and operation:

steam, diesel, atomic power. Native and

Work

Craft

includes fishing craft, gondolas, ferries, indigenous

and

special

purpose

vessels.

Sailors'

models,

broidery, knot tying, nautical instruments,

em-

and charts

complete the exhibits.

25 South

Street.

Telephone:

BO

9-2710.

Open week-

days 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

5

p.m. Admission free.

p.m. to

Exterior

of Seamen's

the Marine

Church

Institute

which houses

Museum.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, model

of an Isbrandtsen freighter.

Marine

Museum of the Seamen's Church

Model

of a Bethlehem Steel

Institute

Company

trawler.

Figurehead from an unknown ship.

teakwood model of a 16th-century

model exactly reproduces the
ship which sailed from the Adriatic as far
and North America. Gift of Marshal Tito of

ARGOSY,
carrack.
original
as

India

This

Yugoslavia.

fine

30-inch

Three kettles for boiling whale

ship carried two, but
fectly

in

this

oil.

Usually a whale-

case the three are per-

matched.

Elisa of Mandel,
Sweden's marine

museum by

Norway,
artist,

Captain

painting

Sjostrom.

R.

It

attributed

was given

Christensen's

to

to the

Museum and

schooner used by Norwegian whalers

in Arctic waters. The painting was personally presented by Major Kjeld Hanson.

shows

a type of

SUFFOLK COUNTY WHALING

As you enter

this

museum,

MUSEUM

Sag Harbor,

New York

established in 1936,

you pass between the jawbones of a whale, thus

museum's theme. In the

setting the scene for the

room, the Parlor,

first

number of logbooks

whaling ships are on display.

many

of

large case contains

exquisite examples of scrimshaw, carvings or

engravings on whale teeth and whale bone. In the

and brick wall simulate a colonial

Kitchen

a fireplace

kitchen

with cooking and other utensils of those

In the Rear Hall are

days.

whaling

trade.

many

The Gun Room

collection of firearms.

boasts an outstanding

Each room has many marine

paintings. Outside, on the

actual whaleboat

of the

exhibits

and a

museum

grounds,

is

an

set of three large kettles for

extracting whale oil aboard a whaling ship.

Main

May

Street.

30th

2 p.m.

to

Telephone:

725-0770.

October 12th, 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

Admission $0.50

Open

iveekdays

to 5 p.m.,

Sunday

adults, $0.25 children

innnmlimni
lllllllllllllllllllll

immimmiiiiii

6 to 16, free under 6 years of age.

All

photos by John Marshall

Exterior

of

the

building

County Whaling Museum.

Temple.

A whaleboat
ton

bark

believed to have

CONCORDIA. She

port of Sag Harbor on

May

come from

first

the 265-

sailed out

of

the

20, 1837, for thee South

command of her owner, Captain

Woodward Thomas Brown. She was engaged in the

Atlantic under the

whaling industry until 1870.

which houses the Suffolk

was formerly the Masonic

It

Suffolk

County Whaling Museum

SKENESBOROUGH MUSEUM
Because the first ship
was

the liberty,
fleet

in

of the

in

harbor,

"The Birthplace of

the United States

Arnold, captured the

and caused her

British ship,

Skenesborough,

at

was
as

Navy." Built

command

from putting an

ships

British

first

War

known

is

early

in

of Benedict

enterprise,

to strike her colors to the

built

fleet,

town

this

1772, the liberty, under the

This

and because the only

built here,

its

New York

U.S. Navy,

first

action during the Revolutionary

constructed

Whitehall,

Americans.

stopped

end

the
the

to

American Revolution by intercepting them on Lake

Champlain
11-13,

Valcour Island October

in the Battle of

The theme

1776.

of this

museum

the

is

heritage of Whitehall (formerly Skenesborough) as

it

pertains

naval,

to

lake,

and canal

exhibits include ship models; scale

borough Harbor

in

1776,

its

history.

The

models of Skenes-

shipyards,

Exterior of the

Skenesborough Museum on the boulevard

side.

sawmills,

and other buildings; mementos of Admiral William

P.

Potter's

famous

trip

around the world with the

U.S. Navy; scale models and pictures of lake boats; a

scale

mule
U.s.S.

model of
barns,

a canal with three locks plus boats,

and mules; and the remains of the

ticonderoga

Other rooms contain

and guns,
history of

tools,

at

the

rear

of

the

museum.

portraits, Revolutionary

swords

maps, dolls (in a separate room)

Whitehall

in pictures,

and

a Civil

the

War

display.

Telephone: 499-0716. Open daily from last iveek in

to Labor Day 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment.

June

Admission $0.60

adults, $0.25 students, free to children

with adults. Free picnic area.

Shipyard of 1776.

A diorama showing where

the

first fleet

of the United States

Navy was built. It pictures the seven

ways on which gondolas and row galleys were constructed in various stages, and also the peg bridge over Wood
Creek, the sawmill, the blockhouse, and other buildings
and ships.

innni.

59

Skenesborough

SARATOGA,

Museum

1 4-inch scale model built by Edward Farmer. She was Macdonough's flagship during

U.S.

the Battle of Pittsburgh in 1812.

Detail of shipyard

bloomeries
LIBERTY.

with

showing
workmen,

the sawmill,
a

one of the
and the

storehouse,

CAMPUS MARTI US MUSEUM

Marietta,

Ohio

Marietta's first settlers came by way of the

Ohio

River.

tural contacts

The town's

and

early commercial

with the East and South were

the Ohio-Mississippi waterways, often

made on

on Marietta-

constructed ships outfitted for ocean trade.

Ohio

serve this important phase of

cul-

To

pre-

history, a River

Museum was established on the lower level of

Campus Martius Museum. Exhibited here are
liope,

the

the
cal-

wheels and whistles, models and mementos of

Ohio River steam

Other

era.

local

history

is

The

preserved

in

the

Putnam house on

its

museum,

from pioneer

in

Ohio

domestic

Marietta, and

Ohio before the

Washington and Second

life

is

in

Streets.

the

Civil

Campus
Museum.

Martius

Museum which
Photo bv

S.

houses

the

Durward Hoas

furnished with

Old Northwest,

War.

Telephone: 373-3730.

Open Monday through Saturday 9

1

River

Other exhibits provide

families.

a picture of

Sunday

Rufus

the

original foundation. This oldest-

known home preserved

items

including

a.m.

p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission free.

to

p.m.,

JOHN FARNUM,
William Knox

mand

in

model

of the ship built by Captain

Marietta in 1846.

of Captain Asa

Under the com-

Waters, she sailed from

New

Orleans, carrying grain valued at $9,500 for faminestricken Ireland.

61

COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM

Astoria,

Oregon

In 1962, exactly 170 years after Captain Robert

Columbia

Gray's 83-foot armed merchant vessel

out of Boston discovered the river he

his

ship,

this

named

Museum was founded

to

after

tell

the

maritime history of the Northwest, the great river

and

its

tributaries,

Founder and president

"objects nautical."
illustrator

who

the sea, and the fascination of

his

boyhood

in

Astoria.

museum's highlights are the "old

Head revolving

technical

USNR

Rolf Klep, commander

spent

is

(Ret.),

Among

light" of

the

North

room and

sur-

rounding reminders of riverboating and days of

sail,

in the center of a

with a selection of models from pioneer Captain

Ainsworth's collection of rivercraft. In other rooms

are paintings, early charts, relics

from

coastal wrecks,

an important and encompassing Northwest fishing

industry exhibit, a whaling cannon and whaling and
sealing artifacts, navigation instruments, and inter-

esting memorabilia of both bar and river pilots.

museum's
veteran

largest

sentinel

artifact

is

Lightship

no.

The
88,

of the Columbia River entrance.

View of the Columbia River Maritime Museum building, which was formerly the old City Hall of Astoria,
built in 7906 on the site of the burying ground of
historic Fort Astoria.

Open
Closed Christmas Day and Monday

16th and Exchange Streets. Telephone: 325-2325daily 10:30 to 5:00.

from Nov.
COLUMBIA.

to

May. Admission

free.

Entry fee to ship

Founder Rolf Klep presents one of the museum's most famous and
valuable exhibitspart of the loan by the U. 5. National Bank of
Oregon of ship models from the Ainsworth Collection. Here are
some of the fascinating stern-wheelers which plied the Columbia
and tributaries, such as the Willamette, Cowlitz, and the Snake.

Whaling implements and a 90 mm Kongsberg whale

gun and harpoon with explosive head. The seascape
by Joe Knowles, the "Frederick Remington" of the
Lower Columbia, was painted about 1917-18.

BAILEY GATZERT, a "river queen" of her day and a

with passengers traveling from Portland to
Astoria and the North Shore between 1899 and 1917.
favorite

MUSEUM

CIVIC CENTER

museum has been

This

tory

an international showcase

more than

for Philadelphia for

and the treasures

sixty years. Its his-

in its collections are associated

with a number of world's

and international

fairs

expositions at the turn of the century.

collection,

major

and Treasures,

Ships

called

museum

Constructed for the

Its

unique

offers

ten

one on ship models.

starting with

exhibits,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

in

1908-1912, these

models, 55 of them, dramatize man's conquest of

global trade routes from the

Many

the age of steam.

crafts

brought

One

of civilization to

of the exhibits are of native

America from the Orient, Africa,

to

the Philippines, Siberia, and Latin

the South Seas,

America.

dawn

exhibit features the regional

complex

surrounding the port of Philadelphia, with samples

of major imports passing through the port realistically

grouped on a

pier.

On

the ground floor

is

Philadelphia panorama.
South

54th Street and Convention Avenue. Telephone:

6-9700.
5 p.m.
All

Open

daily

Admission

9 d-m.

to 5 p.m.,

Sunday

Pacific

artifacts

featuring

MU

p.m. to

free.

photos by Vincent Primavera

Exterior

view of the Philadelphia Civic Center which houses the museum.

carved figures

and bowls.

MUSEUM

PHILADELPHIA MARITIME
Founded
time

in I960, this
the

heritage of

country

Delaware River Valley

exhibits include rare

museum

are

stresses the mari-

and the

general

in

Hundreds of

in particular.

and valuable ship models, docu-

ments, prints, paintings, and

exhibits

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

artifacts.

The permanent

arranged chronologically from Henry

Hudson's discovery of the Delaware capes

in

1609,

through Colonial days, the Revolutionary War, the

China trade, the

War

of 1812, the invention of the

steamboat, right up to the launching of the nuclear

ship

savannah.

Special exhibits provide fascinating

glimpses of early whaling, sailmaking, shipbuilding,

navigation, and naval weapons.

Delaware River and Bay, including

history of the

the ports of Philadelphia

\21
s

-^

and Wilmington.

Chestnut Street. Telephone:

/69.

10 a.m.

Open
to

Others depict the

in the

p.m.,

winter

V
\\

Sunday noon

to

summer Monday through Saturday 10

Sunday noon

to 5

3-5440 or

Monday through
5

WA

Saturday

p.m.

During

a.m. to 5 p.m.,

p.m. Admission $0.50 adults, $0.35

children 8 to 16, children under 8 accompanied by an

adult, free.

School and Scout groups admitted

free.

Exterior

view showing the entrance to the Philadel-

phia Maritime

Half

model

of a 74-gun

1777. Designed by Joshua

American ship of the line,

Humphreys, a Philadelphia

Quaker and one of the leading naval

architects of his

He designed both the CONSTITUTION and

UNITED STATES. In 1890 he was appointed the

day.

chief

naval

constructor of

the

the
first

United States Navy.

Museum.

Hand-carved ivory model of a Chinese pleasure boat,

to
America
(he Chinese Government
Commission for the Pltitadelphia Centennial Exhibi-

brought

tion in 1876.

Philadelphia

Maritime

end of the museum's main hall showing mid-19th-century figureheads hanging from
and several famous ship models in cases: HALF MOON, Henry Hudson's ship in which
he discovered Delaware Bay in 1609; KALMARE NYCKEL, which brought over to America the
first permanent Swedish colonists to Fort Christiana (now Wilmington, Delaware) in 1638.

Front
walls

Whaling implements and scrimshaw form part of the

exhibits.

Museum

MUSEUM

THE MARINERS
On

the bronze doors

largest marine museums
the words: "This

of the sea and

and

of this

museum, one of

Museum

is

devoted to the culture

its

M. Huntington whose

by Archer

man

conquest by

Founded

influence on civilization."

its

the

in the world, are inscribed

tributaries ...

its

Newport News, Virginia

in

1930

father started the

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company,

it

enjoys today, through the magniture of

tions,

an international

collection

reputation.

The figurehead

The

saga of the sea, which unfolds

in its eight galleries, includes vignettes of

history, the building of

Jamestown,

all

collec-

numbers 85, the most famous being the

Lancaster Eagle.

prints

its

the

maritime

Noah's Ark, the landing

bathyscaphe,

deep-sea

at

scrimshaw,

and paintings numbering 12,000, models of

kinds of ships through the ages, a large display

on submarine development,

historical relics

and ship

equipment (including parts of the h.m.s.

bounty

and the

u.s.s.

Maine), an

exhibit of sailors' handi-

Exterior of the

work. The exhibits of ship decorations and accessories include billet heads, stern boards, ship's china,
glass, silver,

and pewter

items,

exhibits cover maritime coins

and trophies. Other

and medals, lighthouse

models and lifesaving equipment, every

sort of navi-

gational equipment, and models of the ships of the

United

States

Navy.

unique exhibition

tree Collection of sixteen miniature

is

the Crab-

model ships pain-

stakingly built piece by piece from the keel up.

Telephone: 393-0368.

Sunday noon

to 3

Open weekdays 9

a.m. to 3 p.m.,

p.m. Closed Christmas Day. Admis-

sion $0.30 adults, $0.23 children 6 to 16, $0.23 service-

men, children under 6

jree.

Prearranged group rates:

$0.23 adults, $0.10 children.

Christopher Columbus, a famous life-size portrait by

Joaquin Sarolla y Bastida. showing the great mariner
standing on the

MARIA,

70

to the

as

New

poop deck

of his

leaves Palos, Spain,

ft

World.

on

flagship,
his

first

SANTA
voyage

Mariners

Museum

building.

Figurehead of the U.S. Navy steam frigate LANCASTER

dominates the main display gallery of the Mariners
Museum. This wooden eagle has a wing spread of 18
feet and weighs 3,200 pounds. It was carved by John
Haley Bellamy of Kittery Point, Maine, in the 1880's
when the LANCASTER was rebuilt at the Navy Yard
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

72

Life-size

diorama of an antarctic scene.

This figurehead of King Neptune, mythical

god

of the

above the main entrance

the visitors into the
welcomes
museum
and
to the
domain of Neptunus Rex.

sea, adorns a lofty position

Cape Charles Lighthouse

by

F.

Barbier, Paris,

lens

France.

and equipment, made

service in the Cape

In

Charles Lighthouse on Smith Island until 1963,

stands in the

museum's main

it

now

gallery.

Photo by John

R. La

Flamme

73

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD MUSEUM

This

museum portrays

the history of the nation's

oldest naval shipyard (established in

British flag), the

Portsmouth, Virginia

Portsmouth

area,

1767 under the

and the armed

forces of the locality, including the history of the

world-famous

merrimac

muskets
early

her conversion

before

Confederate ship).
forms,

Virginia (known as the

c.s.s.

On

an ironclad

to

display are ship models, uni-

and arms of

flags,

to

u.s.s.

all

from

types,

early

to the Polaris missile. In addition, there are

regional maps, prints, and

memorabilia.

Naval

history

sorts of

all

been

has

Navy

written

at

Portsmouth: the U.S. Frigate Chesapeake was built

here; the U.S.S.

1833, the
the

first

u.s.s.

Delaware was drydocked

here in

ship drydocked in the United States;

shangri-la,

an

aircraft

carrier,

was

launched here in 1944, one of 101 naval vessels

built

at

the shipyard

during World
ships are

War

on display

the years

in

II.

preceding and

Models of many of these

at the

museum.
Exterior

view of museum, showing waterfront and

and U.S. flag on

four flags in front of the building

High

Street

on

the

Elizabeth

River.

Telephone:

393-^009. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to

5

p.m.,

Sunday 2 pm.

Admission

free.

to

p.m.

Closed Monday.

side of building.

Room showing
model

Catling gun beside case with a large

of a sailing ship.

are in background.

Other smaller ship models

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

This

room

original

MAC

gun case, above which is the

model from which the frigate MERRI-

features a

half

was

Museum

built.

U.S.S.

DELAWARE,

a large

model

of the

first

vessel to

be dry-docked in the United States. In the background is the eagle stern emblem from the U.S.S.

HARTFORD.

MUSEUM

THE SEATTLE
On February
was

settled by pioneers, this

Industry

Museum

Washington

after Seattle

of History and

was opened. In June 1959 a Maritime

Wing was added

preserve

to

heritage of this Pacific

this

100 years

15, 1952, just

Seattle,

Northwest

marine department

figureheads,

artifacts

models,

ship

rich

area.

the vast H.

is

maritime

of

collection

the

The

core of

W. McCurdy

begun

navigation

maritime

in

1921:

instruments,

lighthouse and lifeboat accessories, and thousands of

photographs of vessels, shipyards, crews, shipwrecks,

Many

and harbors.

other exhibits have been added

In the Joshua Green-Dwight

to this initial collection.

Wing

Merrill Maritime

you can hear the sound of

an old ship's bell, or see the flickering light of a

many-prismed lens used

Strait in

1884. Visitors

in a lighthouse

may

train a

on Rosario

World War

II

Entrance to the loshua Green-Dwight Merrill Maritime

attack

submarine periscope on Lake Washington and

Wing.

surroundings, or view a reconstruction of the slo-

mo-shun

iv,

the world's most famous unlimited

racing hydroplane.

McCurdy Park on Lake Washington. 2161 East Hamlin

Street. Telephone: EA 4-1123. Open Tuesday through
Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to

Sunday noon

to 5

Thanksgiving Day,
Day. Admission

.5

p.m.,

p.m. Closed Monday, Christmas Day,

New

Year's

Day, and Memorial

free.

Photos courtesy of Seattle

Museum

View of the

exhibit

The United

States

Navy on Puget

MUSEO NAVAL DE

LA NACION

Tigre, Provincia

de Buenos Aires

Founded

one of the clubrooms. Since 1948

in 1882,

museum was

Club, this

Officers'

the same time as the Naval

at

N
T

first

housed

The

shops of the Argentine Navy.

museum

and

are large

diversified.

progressing up to
aircraft carriers.

modern

in

has been located

it

in the renovated historic buildings of the first

models beginning with ancient

at

work-

collections of this

There are 150 ship

rafts

and canoes and

transatlantic

Argentine naval history

ships
is

and

depicted

in paintings, maps, uniforms, arms, and an especially

of 45

interesting collection

Navy

battleflags of ancient

coffers

ships.

containing the

Museum

highlights

include two bone-and-ivory ship models of the 1810's;

the uniform of Admiral

1857), known

Navy"; and
Argentine

coast,

as

the

William Brown (1777-

"Father of the

collection

of ancient

drawn by Spanish

Argentine

maps

pilots

of

the

during the

18th century.

Paseo Victoria 602, Tigre (Provincia de Buenos Aires),

Argentina.

Telephone:

Sunday 2 p.m.
8 a.m. to

to 6

749-0608.

Open

Saturday and

p.m. Other days groups are admitted

noon. Admission free.

SANTISIMA TRINIDAD,

bone-and-ivory model of

Captain Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros,

Aires.

It

is

believed

this

who

model belonged

later

to him.

this

Spanish man-of-war,

became

commanded by

the last Spanish viceroy in Buenos

Museo Naval de la Nacion

LA ARGENTINA,

oil

painting by

E.

Biggeri, 1962, of

Captain H. Bouchard's frigate rounding the Cape of

Good Hope,

1817.

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE OF VICTORIA

Founded

in 1870,

has as

this institute

purpose to give emphasis and

clarity

its

primary

to

applied

science of the past. Theoretical science of today

often becomes
this

applied

science

museum's policy of

up

stantly

to

On

date.

alongside

the

con-

savannah and nau-

ii,

Symington's

steamboat,

of 1801.

model of mariner

it

display are models of the

first

charlotte dundas

most

tomorrow; thus

acquisition keeps

atomic power-driven vessels

tilus

of

Melbourne

As well

as offering

the space vehicle which

telemetered data from Venus, the institute displays a

realistic replica
is

wide

of a telescope used by Galileo. There

diversity of subjects in the

hibits in addition to

Of

rabilia.

its

museum's

emphasis on marine

ex-

memo-

interest to those astronomically inclined

is

the 120-seat planetarium beneath a 33-foot diameter

fiber glass

dome, featuring constellation

aurora, artificial satellites, meteors,

304-328 Stvanston

Street,

Australia. Telephone:
to 5 p.m.,

Two
to

M.S.

Institute of

DUNTROON

Swanston Street frontage of buildings which contain

the State Library and the Institute of Applied Science.

and comets.

Melbourne.

C.l,

Victoria,

32 4811. Open weekdays 10 a.m.

Sunday 2 p.m.

ship models are

the

pictures, the

on

to 5

p.m. Admission free.

either side of the entrance

Applied Science: on the left the

and on the right the PS. WEE-

ROONA.

Fi

i]

111

82

THERMOPYLAE, a model
among the world's best.

of the famous clipper ship,

CHARLOTTE DUNDAS,
himself

in

right

is

model made by Symington

1801, heralds the advent of jteam.

On

the

model of Britten-Norman CC2 Cushioncraft.

Institute of

An
the

exhibit of ships

powered by wind.

A
In the center,

THERMOPYLAE; lower left, the LOCH MAREE;

right, the CONSTITUTION.

lower

Applied Science of Victoria

corner of the ship section of exhibits.

NATIONAAL SCHEEPVAARTMUSEUM

Antwerp

Situated near the River Scheldt and the world

of Antwerp, this

port

museum

is

housed

"Steen," the oldest building in Antwerp.

many

functions

the building

Antiquities.

of navigation

thirteen exhibit

Room,
which

the meeting
is

as a

Museum

of

established in

in

western Europe from pre-

20th century steam navigation.

rooms begin with the Council

room of the Naval Academy,

followed by the room showing the decora-

tion of ships since

but the

Serving

in 1958. Its collections tell the

historic times to the

Its

1864

in

museum was

present

1952 and enlarged

story

the

as a fortification, a castle, a prison

was opened

The

in

many

Viking times, not only figureheads

other sculptures used, especially in the

17th century, to add beauty and

pomp

to the ships.

Another room displays seamen's customs:

models, underglass paintings,

mental knots, objects and

flags,

handiwork, orna-

utensils, souvenirs

back from distant voyages.

votive

Rooms

brought

are devoted to

Yachting, including a model of a boyer-yacht from

the late 18th century; Inland Navigation with models

of barges, otters, spitsbek, canal boats, westerlings,

baquets, and others; Fishery; Cartography; Navigation;

Ship Development; Belgian Maritime History;

and, finally, a

Room

of Honors in which important

acquisitions are temporarily displayed.

Steenplein

Open

1,

Antwerp. Belgium. Telephone: 32 08 50.

daily except

Monday 10

January 1st and 2nd,

ber 1st and 2nd,

May

1st,

a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed

Ascension Day, Novem-

December 25th and

26th. Admission

free.

An 18th-century rudderhead.

85

National Scheepvaartmuseum

General view of the

Scheepvaartmuseum.

south

side

of

the

National

Painting by Egide Linnig of the launching of the Bel-

gian clipper ship

SUCCES

at

Antwerp

in

1856.

View of

Hall

XII

with

exhibits

relating

to

Belgian

maritime history.

View of the city of Antwerp between 1518 and 1540

by an unknown painter.

VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM

This mid-20th century

museum

tells

the story

of Canada's great west coast port, and of the

and ships that made possible

from

its

community

a tiny saw mill

r

to the world's largest

Vancouver

spectacular

men

growth

100 years ago

just

wheat exporting port of today.

Displays set forth the different facets of the maritime

history

museum

of
in

Canada's
her

west

coast.

Alongside

permanent drydock

Canadian 104-foot

is

ship, the r.c.m.p. st.

the

famous

roch. This

ship had an unequalled record of Arctic voyaging.

She made the

first trip

sage from west to

Nova
and

Scotia,

was the

8,

east,

Vancouver

Dartmouth,

to

June 23, 1940 to October 11, 1942,

first

America. She was

April

through the Northwest Pas-

ship

moved

to

North

circumnavigate

to her present location

1958. Built in 1828

at

North Vancouver, she has been

on

Burrard Dry Dock,

restored to her origi-

nal rig and accommodations.

Interior

North foot of

Cyprus

Street.

Vancouver

Columbia, Canada. Telephone: 731-8188.

to

9,

British

Open 10

a.m.

featuring

view of the
a

display

Vancouver Maritime Museum

entitled

"Products

Harvested by Man."

10 p.m. during summer and special exhibitions, other

times 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission $0.33 adults, $0.10

children during special exhibitions.

Exterior

view of the

museum and

the

ST.

ROCH

shelter.

of

the

Sea

NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM

THE

The Marine Gallery,

history of

New

departments

St.

John,

New Brunswick

representing the maritime

Brunswick,

in this general

one of the intriguing

is

museum.

It

forms one of

the finest marine collections in Canada. In the early

1880's, Saint

John ranked fourth among the ports of

Empire. This collection

registry in the British

those days in paintings by famous

recalls

models of

artists,

schooners and woodboats, and the figureheads of the

sailing

vessels

during the nine-

particularly

built,

teenth century, in the shipyards of Saint John and

New

other coastal and river places in

The most famous

exhibit

polo, which was

built in

Smith

at

Marsh Creek,

is

the

Brunswick.

model of the MARCO

1851 in the yard of James

Saint John. Several relics and

two contemporary paintings of

this ship are also in

the gallery; along with models of side-wheel steamers

made by Wellington

Vail and Captain A. T. Mabee,

there are examples of woodcarving by John Rogerson

Sketch of the

and Robert Graham, and outstanding marine paintings

of ships built in and captained by

277 Douglas Ave. Saint ]ohn,

New

New

Brunswickers.

Brunswick, Canada.

Telephone : 693-1196. Open daily in summer 10 a.m.

to

5 p.m., evening 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. except Saturday,

Sunday 2 p.m.
5

p.m.

members

to

Admission:

p.m. In winter, daily 2 p.m. to

$0.23

adults,

$0.10

children;

free.

Janus head from Easter Island. Too small to have

served as a mask,

it

is

unique example of

and tapa technique peculiar

bulrush

to this island. This

only such Easter Island relic known.

is

the

New

Brunswick

Museum by

Basil

B.

Stead.

The

MARCO

POLO,

model

New Brunswick Museum

of the speedy cargo carrier built in Saint John in 1851. She

was

ac-

quired by lames Baines of the Black Ball Line to carry immigrants to Australia and radically

shortened the sailing time

for

that voyage.

The Pine Lady, the figurehead from the barque TlKOMA, carved by John Rogerson, probably the leading ship's carver of the Saint John area. The TIKOMA
was built in 1877 in the Jardine yard in Richibucto,

New

Brunswick.

ORLOGSMUSEET
The collection of

Copenhagen

ship

Danish Navy was founded

models
in

1670.

rv
1^

of the Royal

To

this

have
hand-

weapons, sea mines, torpedoes, ship equipment, and

been added many other collections:

royal chalups.

the Danish

large part of this vast collection of

Navy

is

now housed

in the

Naval Museum, which was opened

located in the Set. Nicolai

Copenhagen.

Among

its

Church

exhibits

collections of ancient ship

Set.

guns,

is

in

Royal Danish

1957 and

is

K.

in the center of

one of the

Open

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Saturday,

daily,

and the

A
1

finest

models in the world.

Nicolai Church. Copenhagen, Denmark. Telephone :

Palae 8209.

^1

jj^

January 6th to August 31st,

rest

1^

of the year, daily except

p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission d.kr.

1.-.

ELEPHANTEN, model

of

launched

model was

in

1687. This

the

shipbuilder, Francis Sheldon,

from 7686 to 7690.

Royal pleasure
built

frigate

by the English

who worked

in

Denmark

An unusual

exhibit

Councillor of the

from Peter Skram,

Realm, written to King Frederick
is

this

letter

The Royal barge of the Danish King Frederik

It was given the museum by King Frederik

180839.

VI,
IX.

II of Denmark.
It was written on August 26, 1565, in
Laholmen in Halland Countv, Sweden. Both sides o}
the letter are shown.

V&

zr

^r**

(vuMy'T)

^/^tT

ff

^^^ ^

<&*cJHi4

ROLF KRAKE, model

of the

first

big armored ship in

the Danish Navy. Built in England in 1863, her length

was 180 feet, beam 37 feet, draft 10 feet, 1 inch, displacement 1,350 tons, armor iron 4.5 inches, engine
power 700 hp, four pieces 60 p.88 ct. guns in two
towers. She was broken up in 1907.

94

DANISH MARITIME MUSEUM

This huge marine

museum

Helsing0r

has 25 spacious rooms

devoted to Danish commerce and shipping, and the

trades connected with them,
to

from prehistoric times

steam and motor vessels of the 20th century.

Numerous

found

pictures of ships

in rock carvings

how dependent Denmark has always been

sea. During the Viking Age shipping soared

indicate

on the

and

to great heights,

1472 Christian

in

sent an

expedition to the northwest which reached southern

Mementos

Greenland.

of

these

museum's "early" rooms. The

times

history of

are

in

the

Danish ship-

ping continues chronologically from room to room

with exhibits covering the 17th-century wars with

Sweden,

the

Skanic

War, the

Asiatic

Company,

Danish possessions in the East Indies, the China run,

trade with Guinea and the

West

Indies, the Green-

land trade, the period of the paddle steamers after

1814,

the

Danish

great

rooms devoted

sailing

ships.

There are

to exhibits of shipbuilding, naviga-

tional equipment, charts, training ships, ferry serv-

icebreakers, lighthouses, salvage ships. Finally,

ices,

Room 25
Room 26
Kronborg

is

devoted to steamships 1850-1900, and

to

steam and motor vessels after 1900.

Castle,

borg. Helsing0r,

Open
to

Handels-Og Sofartsmuseet, Paa KronDenmark. Telephone: (03) 210685.

every day of the year except Christmas Day.

September 9:30 a.m.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
to 3

May

5 p.m., April to October

and November

to

March

11

a.m.

p.m.

Marine astrolabe,
uring altitude,

95

to

a rare

made

type of instrument for meas-

of brass around 1600.

Exterior of

front

Kronborg

Danish

Maritime

space of the

to

Museum

castle.

the outer moat in

"crown work." The

Castle, with

and the entrance

the

occupies

half

the

floor

Brick

from the monastery of Vor Frue (Our Lady)

drawing of a Carrack scratched in the

Elsinore, with a
soft clay

by the brickmaker, about 1450.

96

BUCKLER

HARD MARITIME MUSEUM

Beaulieu, Hampshire

Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Mountbatten

formally opened this museum on April 6, 1963. It

New

was once the

two

Inn, one of

shipbuilding.

of

during

Where

once the inn's sign had hung, there

thirsty

days

now

merry salcombe, an

stands a figurehead from the

early- 19th-century

N
G

hostelries in the

hamlet

the

sailing ship,

and by the door

Navy

used in the Royal

carronade

first

Inside the

museum

Hard and

the Beaulieu River:

in

1779.

are exhibits relative to Buckler's

maps, original ship-

building plans and documents, ship models, prints,

paintings, drawings of Beaulieu-built ships in action

and of the famous naval

them.

on view

Also

Nelson's

relics:

officers

are

baby clothes, a ring which he

his

agamemnon

number of Horatio

gave to Lady Hamilton, and a

the

who commanded

letter

requesting

he wrote aboard

further

of

supplies

cordage. Also records of Francis Chichester's ocean

voyages.
The Maritime Museum.
Beaulieu,

Open
November

Hampshire,

England.

Telephone:

Beaulieu

daily April to October 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

374.

March on Saturday and Sunday 10

to

a.m.

to 3

p.m. Admission 2/- adults, 6d children. Free park-

ing.

Mulberry Tea Gardens and Master Builder's House

Hotel and Restaurant. Boat

trips.

model of the 30-gun ship was

museum's workshop. The original vessel
by Henry Adams and launched at Buckler's

H.M.S. BEAULIEU. This

built

in

the

was built
Hard in 7797. Bought by the Admiralty
it

took part

and

in

in

the

Battle

1801 she captured

of
a

for

Camperdown

12,250,
in

French corvette.

1797,

Buckler's Hard Maritime

Museum

VICTORY on which Horatio Nelson served from 1803 to 1805 and which was his flagwhen he died of a wound from a French sniper's bullet. The rudder of this
model is made from a piece of oak taken from the VICTORY during her restoration.
H.M.S.

ship at Trafalgar

Henry Adam's design drawings for the H.M.S. ILLUSTRIOUS, a 74-gun ship which was launched at Buckler's Hard in 1789.

"
-

VALHALLA MARITIME MUSEUM

been nearly

There

have

wrecked

in the Isles of Scilly

corded. This unique

museum

thousand

ships

which have been

re-

has some forty of the

figureheads and ornaments from these shipwrecks.

The

oldest object in the

the middle of the

museum

is

said to date

from

17th century, but most of the

of 19th-century origin. This collection of

relics are

figureheads has been judged by experts to be one

of the finest in the world.

T re sco

Abbey,

Isles of Scilly,

Cornwall, England. Tele-

phone: Tresco 276. Open weekdays 10 a.m.

Admission
3

hours,

1/-.

to 4 p.m.
Travel from Penzance: steamer 2l/2 t0

helicopter

20 minutes,

to

St.

Marys

Island,

thence by boat to Tresco, 20 minutes.

Some

of the figureheads in the collection.

Exterior of the Valhalla Maritime

Museum.

Isles of Scilly

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

By an Act of Parliament
as

museum

maritime history of

to illustrate the

was established
Great Britain,

in 1934 this

G reenwich, L ondon

exemplified by the works of the

Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, and the Fishing

Fleet.

was opened by King George VI on April

It

27, 1937. In the Queen's

House the

maritime pictures, models, and

and 17th

relics

of the

Also seascapes, ship

centuries.

battle pieces painted

and

visitor will see

by

portraits,

of Holland.

artists

16th

The

Caird Gallery exhibits a collection of pictures of

shipping painted en

Van Willem de

many by

grisaille,

the elder

Velde, while Gallery 3 continues the

chronological arrangement of the museum's exhibits

through the reign of Queen Anne. Then come the

18th-century wars, illustrated by the works of Eng-

marine

lish

Sir

and portrait

artists

painters,

including

Joshua Reynolds. The many ship models include

own model

Lord Anson's

which he

sailed

flat-bottomed

centurion,

of the

in

around the world, and those of the

boats

from which General Wolfe's

army captured Quebec.

section contains material

dealing with Captain James Cook, including pictures

of the Pacific area painted during his second voyage

and the portrait of him by Nathaniel Dance. The

Print

Room

contains the

Macpherson Collection of

over 10,000 prints, several thousand marine drawings,

and nearly 200,000 photographs and

In the Navigation

Room

is

cuttings.

comprehensive display

of instruments used in navigation and the study of

astronomy and survey, including a number of early

telescopes

and

theodolites

and

four

timekeepers

made by John Harrison (1693-1776) which,

the

first

time, enabled longitude to be calculated at

1735.

The coat worn by Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson when h

was fatally wounded at Trafalgar. The bullet hole i
the shoulder is clearly seen. The four decorations ar
The Bath, St. Ferdinand & Merit, The Crescent, an

for

St.

opposite:
Harrison No.

Timekeeper, completed

lohn Harrison's No. 4 that

finally

It was
him the
Covernment to

in

won

20,000 prize offered by the British

anyone solving the problem of discovering the longitude

at

for

sea.

joachim.

National Maritime

Museum

View looking down upon the museum from outside

the Old Royal Observatory. Its two wings are joined
by colonnades to the Queen's House in the center.
The Thames River can be seen between the two
buildings of the Royal Naval College behind the
museum.

sea with sufficient accuracy.

contain

relics,

clothing,

The Nelson

Galleries

and paintings of the great

Old Royal Observatory founded

in

"in order to the finding out of

1675 by Charles

longitude of

the

admiral, including his portrait by Abbott, painted in

places and for perfecting navigation and

1800 when Nelson was 42 years

Here

Hall are large objects such

Neptune's

old. In

as figureheads, guns,

and

are

many

Astronomy."

of the astronomer's original instru-

ments in the position which they occupied, not

least

big ship models. In the Barge Hall are four state

important being the Airy Transit Instrument which,

barges, the one built for Frederick, Prince of Wales,

by international agreement, defines the Greenwich

being 63-feet long and richly carved. In the East

Meridian. There

Wing

sail

steel,

and

gives

way

to steam,

and wood

to iron

and
Greenwich,

this display brings the exhibits

action of the Royal

War

II.

On

and Merchant Navies

the hill above the

museum

up

to the

in

World

stands the

is

London

also a small planetarium.

S.E.

10.

England.

01-858 4422. Open weekdays 10 a.m.

2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed on

Good

to

Telephone

6 p.m., Sunday

Friday, Christmas

Eve, and Christmas Day. Admission free.

Lord

George Graham

William Hogarth,

The Death of Lord Nelson,

ton.
a

It

pictures the

musket

ball, fired

a painting

is

in

His

Cabin,

painting

by

the conversation piece of Gallery 4.

by Denis Digh-

moment, about 1:30 p.m., when

from the enemy ship REDOUBT-

ABLE, struck the admiral as he was pacing the quarterdeck of the

VICTORY

with Captain Hardy.

103

Li

National Maritime

One
ture

o/ the museum's most unusual exhibits, a miniacannon made in 1828. For size comparison it is

shown
of

Captain James Cook, a painting by Nathaniel Dance.

Cook

in three famous voyages explored vast

ocean and made known a new continent.
He was the foremost navigator and chartmaker of

Captain
tracts

of

against the rim of a sixpence with a diameter

of an inch (the

word

"six"

is

barely 'la-inch long).

Museum

CITY

OF LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

The maritime collection

of this

museum

is

Liverpool

the

third largest in the country, but only a small portion

is

on display. The collection consists of models of

steamers and sailing ships, and they range in date

17th century to the present day. There

from the

late

are also

paintings,

some manuscript
larly

rich

in

large

material.

The

collection

relics,

and

particu-

is

coastal

19th century, and there are repre-

models of sailing

of the world,

number of

models of British fishing and

craft of the late

sentative

dhows from

from many

craft

parts

the Persian Gulf, a junk

from North China, and many canoes from Ceylon.

At Liverpool the emphasis has always been on mer-

museum does have a remarkable

models made by French prisoners interned

chant ships, but the

series of

in

England during the Napoleonic Wars,

tion to a

few examples of warship models

the Royal dockyards.

Finally,

the

in addi-

built in

museum

is

for-

tunate to possess a group of working-model reciprocating marine steam engines,

which cover marine

engine design from 1837 to 1937.

Exterior

William

Brown

Street,

Liverpool

3,

England.

of

the City of

Liverpool

Museum

building.

Tele-

phone: North 0001. Open Monday through Saturday

10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Admission
free.

GREAT EASTERN.
in

1858

(five

day) dwarfs

TANNIA,

This

model

of the

huge ship

built

times larger than any other ship of her

the

model

built in 1840.

of

the early Cunarder,

BRI-

City of Liverpool

Museum

steam whistle from the White Star motor

built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast
in 1930. Acquired by the museum in 7967 when the
ship was broken up.

The

liner

tri-tone

BRITANNIC,

WILLIAM

S.

MILNER,

rigged

model

of

Manx

lugger built about 1850.

SAPPHO,

model

of the schooner yacht built in 1867 by C.

1871 she successfully defended the America's Cup.

and

R.

Poillon of

New

York. In

SWAN

and ISABELLA in the Arctic,

Ward. The ISABELLA made her
first voyage from Hull in 1786, commanded by Captain Ross, who was the leader of the whaling fleet
in 1818. She was wrecked in the ice during May 1835.
Hull

Whalers

painting by John

Figurehead of the SIRIUS, the

the Atlantic

Ocean

wrecked on January
Ireland.

to

New

first

York.

steamship to cross
Built

in

1837 and

29, 1847, near Ballycotton Head,

MARITIME MUSEUM
The maritime museum
presented to the
Pickering,

is

Kingston-on-the-Hull

1912 by the

city in

a building

late

Christopher

The

trawler owner.

local

in

housed

collections

include relics of the fishing and shipping industries.

These are arranged

an evolutionary sequence, and

in

range from the prehistoric sewn boat (model) from

North

Ferriby, East Yorkshire,

period

1500-1200

B.C., to

and ascribed

modern

to the

One

steamships.

of the most important sections illustrates the whaling

for the

trade,

first

northern whale fishery in

declined

trade

and

scarcity of whales,

baleen,

finally
in

1598. After

1853. There

and whalebone.

What

is

teeth,
is

1820, the

trawl

fishing.

the

to

a large col-

walrus tucks,

considered one of

the largest industries in present day Hull,

sea

the

to

owing

ceased,

scrimshaw on whale

lection of

from Hull

ship sailed

comprehensive

set

is

deep-

of

ship

models shows the evolution from the early fishing

smack

to the latest stern trawler.

Pickering

Park,

Hessle

Road,

England. Telephone: 27625.

to

p.m.,

Christmas

Sunday 2:30 p.m.

Day and Good

Kingston-on-the-Hull,

Open weekdays 10
to

4:30 p.m.

a.m.

Closed

Friday. Admission free.

Ship chandler's sign from the shop of Mr. Harrison,

Nautical Instruments, Charts, and Ship's Stores No. 6
Street, Hull. The firm occupied these premises
1838
until the early 1900's. The figure represents
from
a naval lieutenant in the early-19th-century uniform,

Dock

holding an octant.

Exterior of the Hull Maritime

Museum.

109

View of port broadside, with

hull,

rigging,

of an Elizabethan Galleon circa 1600.

and

sails,

MUSEUM

SCIENCE

South Kensington, London

The impressive maritime collections

are part

museum's general collection covering

of this large

and development of sciences and

the history

nology.

The

(as the

South Kensington

collections

first

were opened

Museum),

tech-

1857

in

as a result of

1851. In 1909 they were

the Great Exhibition of

separated from the art collections and became the

Science

Museum. The

extensive maritime collections

begin with Sailing Ships: Evolution from Ancient

Times. This exhibit includes models of the

santa

maria, an Elizabethan galleon, 42 warship models

from 1670
those

to 1842,

Nelson's h.m.s. victory, and

showing the development of the clipper

ship.

In the Small Crafts exhibits are models of yachts,

fishing

boats,

Chinese junks, and others

trawlers,

showing lifeboat and rivercraft development.

models

the

Steamers

the

in

section

devoted

to

Among

View of the

east front of the

Merchant

and Motor Ships are paddle and early

screw steamers, modern turbine and motor ships,

cargo

vessels,

steamers,

oil

tugboats,

tankers,

and

narrow-seas

dredgers.

and

Subjects

river

which

comprise other major collections include Steamships

of

War, Marine Engineering, Marine

Propellers,

Docks of Harbors and Diving. In the Navigation

collection are sextants,
logs,

compasses, binnacles, ships'

sounding equipment, lighthouses and buoys, a

ship's bridge

and charthouse with radar equipment,

and a harbor radar. Over 25,000 square feet house

more than 2,500 maritime exhibit

South

Kensington,

S.\Y/

London

phone: KENsington 6371.

pieces.

7,

England.

Tele-

Open weekdays and bank

holidays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Closed
free.

Good

Friday and

Tearoom on

Christmas Day.

Admission

third floor.

The engine of the

111

P.S.

COMET,

built in

1812

museum

building.

Science

Museum

A diorama of a meeting of the Admiralty Board in

1677 at which they are inspecting a model of a ship
currently under construction.

A view

of the Sailing Ships Gallery.

112

SUNDERLAND MUSEUM
This
but

museum
it

is

not primarily
number

does have a

a marine

Sunderland,

Durham

museum,

of maritime exhibits.

There are models of four Sunderland-built sailing

two iron fully-rigged

ships, including
built

1876 and

boats built

mowhan

built

ships,

bhotan

1892; ten cargo

between 1877 and 1913; and four naval

vessels built

1914-1918.

On

view are a number of

ship engines built in Sunderland

between 1888 and

1939, a case of ships' instruments, and an extensive

marine and river scenes,

collection of paintings of

including works of

S.

H. Bell (1823-1896),

Carmichael (1800-1868), T.

J.

W.

M. M. Hemy (1852-

Mark Thompson (died 1875). In addimuseum has extensive records relating to

1937), and
tion,

the

Exterior

Sunderland-built ships, plans and drawings.

Borough Road, Sunderland, Durham, England. Telephone: 70417.

Open Monday

to

Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.,

bank holidays 10 a.m.

to 3

p.m. Admission free.

Photos by Taylor's (Photographers)

Several cases showing the

museum's ship models.

view of the Sunderland Museum.

114

MUSEUM

VICTORY

As part of the
victory,

on July 29,

On

Museum

first

building was opened

and featured the magnificent

1930,

panorama painting by
Trafalgar.

scheme for the h.m.s.

restoration

museum's

this

Portsmouth, Hants

July

W.

Wyllie of the Battle of

L.

Here

was opened.

building

new

the

1938,

25,

Victory

housed

are

hundreds of exhibits relating to Lord Nelson and

career;

his

victory;

the

to

to

relics

and furniture of h.m.s.

and models of other famous

relics

British fighting ships; to naval uniforms, figureheads,

Many

navigational instruments, and ship equipment.

personal effects, silverware, manuscripts, paintings,

prints, the

death mask of Lord Nelson, medallions,

gunnery equipment, and other mementos

heritage

the

waves."

of

The

constructed

the

Navy

to

once

that

interior of this

museum

to

attest

"ruled

the

has been

re-

harmonize with the period of the

mid- 18th century. In the center of the main hall

the state barge of Charles

is

II,

body of Nelson from Greenwich

on January

8,

used to convey the

to

Whitehall

Stairs

1806.

H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth, Hants, England.

Tele-

phone:

Portsmouth

Open

October

1st to

or 1
1

22331,

April

1st,

is

to 3

earlier,

p.m.

Sunday

hour before sunset, whichever

earlier.

April 1st to October

5 p.m.,

Sunday

3090.

weekdays 10 a.m.

hour before sunset, whichever

p.m. to 5 p.m. or

3d

extension

1st,

weekdays 10 a.m.

is

to

p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission 6d adults,

children.

H.M.S. VICTORY, a model

in

her original state

in

7765.

The Panorama of Trafalgar, painted by W. L. Wyllie, R. A., is the feature exhibit of the
museum. It is housed in the annex, designed to represent the stern portion of the 80-gun
French ship NEPTUNE. The visitor looks through the stern ports and sees the panorama of
the Battle of Trafalgar at its height, at 2 p.m. on October 21, 1805.

Pirate flag. Said to

have been

in

use on one of the

pirate ships of the so-called Barbary States.

home from

Brought

the Mediterranean coast of Africa by a

seafarer.

Original saloon from the four-masted barque

116

HERZOGIN

CECILIE.

ALANDS SJOFARTSMUSEUM
The aland nautical club was formed
having among

its

Mariehamn

in 1935,

principal aims to bring about

and

maintain an Aland maritime museum. This was

made

possible through generous donations, mainly

from

the

Aland shipowners. The building was completed

in 1949,

for the

and the museum was opened

first

time in 1954.

to the public

The museum

possesses

1,400 exhibits, the principal ones being: figureheads,

the half deck of a sailing ship with original equip-

ment, the bridge of the steamer gottfrid,

fo'c's'le

and galley from the barque HELMI, original saloon

from the four-masted barque herzogin cecilie,

showcase of ship's bells which strike a tune when a

krona or 50 penni coin

is

inserted in a slot machine,

hobby work, souvenirs, paintings of

ships, pictures,

equipment, instruments, and many others.

ship's

Instrument

Mariehamn, Finland. Telephone: 11930 (private 11729).

Open June through September

Sunday

room.

Contains

instruments

and other

navigation equipment, mainly from the sailingship era.

iveekdays noon to 4 p.m.,

p.m. to 4 p.m. During the rest of the year

access to the

museum

mern

is

as the

museum.

is

by special request.

The POM-

open June through September the same hours

Exterior

view of the Alands Sjofartsmuseum building

POMMERN at her mooring.

with four-masted barque

Alands Sjofartsmuseum

On

LOCH LINNHE,

Glasgow in
HERZOGIN CECILIE, built as a German school ship at Bremerhaven in 1902, it was stranded on
the coast of Devonshire in 1936 and became a wreck. H.R.H. Crown Princess Cecil ie von
Preussen was the model for the figurehead. Both these vessels belonged to the fleet of the
well-known sailingship owner, Gustaf Erikson.
Figureheads.

the

left,

from the three-masted barque

1876, lost in the Xland archipelago in 1933.

Sailor's

bag,

On

built in

the right, from the four-masted barque

hobby work, made by

the sailmaker of

MOSHULU.

Such bags
were in everyday use, usually somewhat more simply
made, for holding tools when doing boatswain's
work in the rigging.
the four-masted steel barque

pocket watch, a gift from H.R.H. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden to the pilot who guided his ship
through the Xland Archipelago early in the 1900'
during the prince's voyage to St. Petersburg to pay
his respects to the Russian Grand Duchess Maria.

Silver

SOU DEO GLORIA

MUSEE MARITIME

Marseilles

The marine museum of Marseilles was

in

1936 by the Chamber of Commerce.

located in the Pare Chanot, but

moved

of being

to the Palais

collection are almost

ings,

is

now

de

la

It

created

was

first

in the process

Bourse. In

its

20,000 items, including paint-

drawings, engravings, ship models, and nu-

merous other exhibits dealing with the commercial

and maritime history of Marseilles and

its

port, as

well as the former French Colonial Empire.

Palais de la Bourse.

Telephone 20-89-65. Open every

working day, except Saturday afternoon, 8:00 a.m.

to

5:30 P.M.

LE

MARSEILLOIS, model of the 74-gun vessel offered

French Royal Navy by the Marseilles Chamber

to the

of
LE

Commerce in 7767. Rechristened that same year as

VENGEUR, she became famous in an engagement

in 1794.

Model
the

of a galley.

home

From 7665

to

1748 Marseilles was

port of French galleys. The Calley Squadron

numbered up

to

40

ships.

Musee Maritime

Galley

in

the Roads of Marseilles, painting from the

end

of the 17th century.

MUSEE DE LA MARINE
The thousands of treasures
French Naval Museum stand as

Paris

in

this

gigantic

monument

French sea power and French ventures on the

The museum

illustrates

Merchant Marine, but

and pleasure

only

the

sea.

Navy and

also fishing fleets, yachting

Some

craft.

not

to

of the models in

vast

its

collection are centuries old. In a

permanent sports

exhibition every phase of sport

represented,

is

from

international races for seagoing yachts to underwater

exploration.

There are works by well-known and

little-known

artists

and craftsmen, including

of paintings by Joseph Vernet (1765)

a series

known

as the

"Ports of France," offering a colorful panorama of

French naval
historic ship

life in the

models

is

Among

18th century.

the gloire, the

first

the

steam-

driven battleship in the world. In the lower gallery

there

are

examples of work produced in French

dockyards, submarine wonders, pleasure and fishing

boats,

liners,

sectional

cargo and mail boats, a 25-foot-long

view of the transatlantic

In the sports section

Dr.

Bombard

is

consists

days across the Atlantic.

drifted 65

Many

oceans.

who

of

exotic

relics

normandie.

the rubber raft on which

unique collection given to the

Paris

liner

museum by Admiral

models from far distant

of the great French navigators

carried the French flag

all

over the world across

uncharted seas are on view.

Palais

de Chaillot, Paris (XVI), France. Telephone:

727-96-51.

Open

every day 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (6 p.m. in

summer), except Tuesday and

May

1st.

Open

until 11

p.m. Wednesday and until 6 p.m. Sunday and public

holidays.

Admission nf 1,50.

LA VILLE DE DIEPPE, a model in ivory presented to

Napoleon on the occasion of the Empress Josephine
giving birth to his son, later the King of Rome.

Musee de

Bataille

du Texel fought by lean

Bart in 1694; painting

by

E.

la

Marine

Isabey, 79th century.

CANOT

IMPERIAL,

the

long

white

barge

adorned

with gold used by Napoleon to enter the harbor of

Antwerp, and afterwards, under the Second Empire,

by Empress Eugenie when she visited Brest.

7"

LA FAUVETTE, painting on porcelain of

123

motor

Exterior

yacht.

view of the Musee de

la

Marine building.

MUSEE DE SAINT MALO

One of the great natural
mouth of

near the

dungeon of

great

Malo has

the Ranee, Saint

maritime heritage

its

its

Malo

ports of France,

by and on the sea for generations.

that

Saint

lived

thus fitting

It is

today lodged in the

is

ancient chateau, constructed in

1424. In these spacious granite rooms are maritime

and planispheres and

19th century

of the

relics

manuscripts attesting to the

the

and second

first

unusual exhibits as a figurehead of

floors are such

On

and privateers.

coverers

of both dis-

activities

17th-century corsair, a tapestry depicting an

gory of the sea by Gromaire.

works

On

alle-

the third floor are

illustrating the history of the corsairs

during

the Revolution and the Empire, ship models, and

popular maritime art such

as ships in bottles, snuff-

The

boxes, maps, and souvenirs of trips.

third floor

also features the great shipping days of Saint

in the 17th

of the

and 18th centuries, including the voyages

Compagnie des Indes, expeditions

Arabia,

Malo

and the

China,

Pacific,

and

to

Guinea,

historic

indi-

vidual exhibits, such as a Portuguese cannon taken at

Rio by Monsieur Duguay, a clock from the British

ship,

an ensign from a gunboat.

On

the fourth floor

Middle Ages and of the

are exhibits of trade in the

adventures of Jacques Cartier on his trip to Canada.

In the

Tower

of the Mills

the Great Fishery

floor

are

shown

at

is

unfolded the history of

Terreneuve, and on the

first

the activities of the three-masted

schooners going to Terreneuve.

Chateau de
to

St.

Malo, Saint Malo, France. Open Easter

October 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m.

October

to Easter

2 p.m.

to

to

6:30 p.m.

5 p.m. Admission charged.

above:

General

view of

the

Chateau

de

St.

Malo which

houses the museum, showing the Great Pavillion, the

Tower of

124

the Mills,

and the General Tower.

captain's figure from a large privateer (circa 1830).

Partial

view of an

oil

painting

on

canvas representing the capture of

the

KENT by LA CONFIANCE,

7800.

Painted by Louis Carneray, lieutenant of Surcouf

navy,"
tle.

GRANDE HERMINE,

model

of the 120-ton ship in

which Jacques Cartier made his famous voyage of

discovery to Canada 1535-36. This model, built to
current scientific specifications, rests on a wooden
frame, a relic taken from the wreck of one of the
Cartier ships, found in 1843 near Saint Laurent.

who

and "painter of the

participated in the bat-

SCHIFFAHRTS-MUSEUM
At the beginning
to the

ports

Brake/Unterweser

of the 19th century, a latecomer

world of shipping emerged. The Oldenburg

of Brake and

Elsfleth

began a tremendous

evolution in shipbuilding and sea trade. For the next

hundred years the Oldenburg ensign

a blue

ground

was

seen on

world and in

all

Samoa, from

Hong Kong

whaling ships

off

all

great seaports,
to

from Trinidad

these

Weser

is

and on

Elsfleth could

The

history of

during their hundred years of

ports

maritime glory

sailing ships.

to

South Seas.

in the

Between 1870 and 1880 Brake and

280

on

the oceans of the

Valparaiso,

Greenland and

boast of a fleet of

a red cross

housed

in the

telegraph station built in

Oldenburg. Included in

tower of an old

1846 by the Count of

this

museum's

collections

are superb paintings of local marine subjects and

ships flying the red

and blue ensign, and paintings

of marine subjects painted on porcelain.

Mitteldeichstrasse

36,

Telephone: Brake 2383

Brake/Unterweser,
u.

Germany.

679.

View of the Telegraph building of the

the Weser River.

Museum on

Schiffahrts-

small sailing craft of the "Fisch Ewar" type used in

coastal shipping about 1880.

An example

of sailing ships painted

onshire porcelain.

on

English Dev-

Photo by Woltje

Schiffahrtsmuseum

ELISE

OF

ELSFLETH, model of

brig built

in

1842.

Photo by Woltje

View of Brake in the year 1850 with the signal tower

equipped with alarm-signal apparatus for semaphore.
Litho (detail) by C. j. Fedeler.

Slt.l
A

ANNA,
North

bark out of Brake

Atlantic.

Oldenburg East
and was under

in

India

the

Shipping

command

Company
of

Captain Luder Schulken. Painting,

Fr.

Muller,

1853.

hurricane in

The 178-ton bark belonged

a
oil

local

to

of

the

the

Brake

skipper.

on canvas, by

ALTONAER MUSEUM
The collections
sively cover

of the Altonaer

subjects.

Cultural Historical Collections

coastal

Marine

Highlight of the
that of the Ship
its

type in

sailing

on models and pictures of

accessories

pictures, original tools,

sailmaking,

ceramics,

and oceangoing

vessels,

ships, as well as sections

ships.

toys,

shipbuilding exhibits cover models of

its

rivercraft,

is

folk art and

Department. Foremost of

Fisher)'

Germany,

life,

farm houses, costumes,

and many other pertinent

and

exten-

Included are mul-

coastal area.

of prehistory, folk

tiple exhibits

handicraft,

Museum

both the cultural and natural history of

North German

the

Hamburg

are

shown with models,

and examples of rope making,

and the manufacture of pulleys and

pumps.

An

formed.

Now

exhibit of galleon figureheads

open

is

the

being

is

North Sea Fishing

collec-

showing the development of fishing

vessels,

both coastal and deep sea, from sailing to

modern

motor

its

tion,

ships,

along with fishing gear and

Baltic Sea Fishing

Museumstrasse 23,

department

Hamburg

is

50,

uses.

Exterior

view of the Altonaer

Museum

building.

in preparation.

Germany.

Tele-

phone: 39 10 74 83. Open Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday,

and Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. to
7 p.m.,

Saturday 10 a.m. to

Admission

p.m.,

closed

Monday.

free.

STRALSUND, model

of a trawler out of

Hamburg,

built in 1913.

Altonaer

Museum

Altonaer

ERNST LORENZ,
shipyard.

a brig

Oil painting

on the ways of Ernest Dreyer's

about 1845, artis f unknown.

Museum

Photographs by Friedrich Hewicker

MUSEUM

DEUTSCHES

This museum, founded

Munich

1903, presents in 26

in

extensive departments masterpieces of natural science

and technology, of which

its

As one

impressive part.

marine exhibits form an

enters the department of

Navigation of Ships, he sees in the middle of a

huge

hall the last

original

"Ewer," or fishing

form and condition of 1880. To the

are models

1819 was the

first

left

evolution of the ship

the

illustrating

from the 3rd Century B.C.

in

vessel, in its

to the

savannah, which

steamship to cross the Atlantic

Ocean. Special arrangements show voyages of

covery and great naval battles.

motor boat by G. Daimler,

On

view

built in 1886.

the

is

disfirst

Downstairs

are actual-size replicas of passenger cabins; marine

engine models;
steering

fully-equipped

ship's

bridge;

wheel of an 8,000-ton ship (which

are allowed to operate)

diorama of

resistance, cavitation,

visitors

a shipbuilding

yard with demonstrations explaining ship's

wave

stability,

and the development of

the propeller and steering rudder.

Other exhibits

cover lifesaving equipment and methods, navigational

instruments, submarines

and

their

weapons, diving

apparatus, and a diorama showing the raising of a

foundered submarine. The

last nautical exhibit is a

reproduction of the gun deck of a warship

at the

end

of the 17th century.

Replica
Piccard.

Munchen 26, Munich, Germany. Telephone:

22 45 66. Open weekdays and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday,
May 1st, ]une 17th, Whitsunday, second Monday in
June, Corpus Christi Day, November 1st (All Saints
Day), December 24th, Christmas Day. December 31st
8000

and Sunday and Tuesday of carnival closed at 1 p.m.

Closed until 10:30 a.m. March 19th, June 29th, Day
of repentance and prayer, December 8th. Admission

dm
six

.-

adults,

months'

133

dm JO

ticket.

tourist parties, per visitor,

dm

6.-

of

the

diving bell of Auguste

and Jacques

Deutsches

Museum

7,

the sectioned original submarine, the

built for the

These minutely detailed ship models appear to best

advantage

135

in

well-lighted display cases.

German Navy.

It

first

was launched

in

to

be

1906.

Deutsches

Museum

The

last

"Ewer,"

of Germany's most popular sailing ship, the

she was seen in 1880. These fishing

on the lower part of the Elbe River, in
Sea and the North Sea, and from there to

just as

vessels sailed

the East

England.

Actual

German U-Boat

of 1944-45, type "Seal.'

NEDERLANDSCH HISTORISCH SCHEEPVAART MUSEUM

The Society Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart
Museum was founded in 191 6 after Her Majesty
Queen Wilhelmina,

temporary shipping exhibi-

expressed a wish that means be found to estab-

tion,
lish

at a

permanent collection of maritime

1922 the

objects. In
cles,

society, assisted

had collected enough material

museum

historical

by shipping
to

open

it.

cir-

The

a private institution. Its collections contain

is

about 300 contemporary ship models (about 200 are

exhibited)

1930.

covering

Then

period

there are about

from

1580

until

200 half models, con-

drawings of about

structional

1650

the

1,500

ships

(from

1910), and 200 paintings and 4500

until

drawings and prints of nautical subjects. Also globes

from 1541 (Mercator)

until 1800, instruments, ship

ornaments, and atlases and charts from 1482 onwards.

The

books) on
etc.,

from

library has

15,000

titles

(about 50,000

travels, shipbuilding, rigging, navigation,

late-

16th-century authors to books pub-

lished today.

Exterior

view of the

museum

building.

Corn. Schuytstraat 57, Amsterdam, Holland. Telephone:

72 67 84.
1

Open weekdays 10

a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Sunday

p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission 50 centimes. Reduced rate

for groups.

Ornaments from 19th-century Dutch

larger

figure

in

the

rivercraft.

middle of the top row

is

The
the

rudderhead of a "Kofschip." On either side are rudderheads and wooden mast tops of smaller vessels.
In the center of the bottom row is a mast shield,
which was fixed to the foreside of the mast. On
either side are decorated plugs for the windlass holes,
and on the outside are more mast tops.

DEN ARY, model

of the

bow

of an East India

Com-

The figurehead is a Javanese female

figure representing Charity. The cutwater supported
the bowsprit by means of gammoning and bobstay,
while two round holes in it allowed the two foretacks to pass through. On each side of the bow, a
cathead was fitted on which the anchors were hoisted.

pany

The
tail

Battle of Gibraltar, a small de-

of the painting by Corn. Claesz.

van Wieringen (1580-1635). At

this

1607 the Spanish fleet was

annihilated, but the Dutch admiral,
Jacob van Heemskerck, was killed.
On the extreme left is the large
battle in

ship of the Spanish vice-admiral in

combat with some Dutch

138

ships.

ship, 1725.

Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart

Museum

Attack with Fireships

in

the Battle of Solebay, June

7,

1672, an oil painting by William van de Velde, the

younger. Jan Danielsz van de Rijn aboard the

successfully

attacks

Edward Montagu,

the

Earl of

ROYAL JAMES,

VREEDE

flagship

of

Sandwich.

Chinese bowl of "mandarin porcelain," depicting an

agency of the Dutch East India Company in Canton
about 1775.

139

Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart

Museum

The West Indian Paskaert of Johannes Loots, printed

on parchment around 1710 and measuring 77 cm. by
98 cm. This extremely rare Mercator projection chart

was used in navigating the American and African

areas where the trade monopoly had been obtained
by the West India Company founded in 7627.

140

Amsterdam

RIJKSMUSEUM

The Rijksmuseum was founded

in

1808 by Louis

Napoleon. The present building was inaugurated

1885.
18th,

The
and

graphic

collections

19th century painting,

Asiatic

arts,

Dutch

concerning

and

arts,

National

naval history.

The

consists of the

Navy

17th,

cover medieval

is

reopening

is

in progress

and

scheduled for 1970.

Hobbemastraat 21, Amsterdam

Open weekdays 10

fi.0.50,

de-

closed to the public.

its

Sunday

emphasizing

At present the

rearrangement of the displays

collection

ship models, which covers the

and holidays

crafts,

nucleus of the naval collection

partment of National History

73 21 21.

17th,

6th,

and

large

History

18th, and 19th centuries.

is

arts

in

Z.,

Holland. Telephone:

a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday

p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission Saturday and

other days

fl.l.-.

Admission free for

children under 18 accompanied by their parents.

Exterior

view of the Rijksmuseum. The department of

is in the left wing of the building.

National History

PRINS WILLEM,
in

model of the East-lndiaman built

model in existence of a known
She served both as an East Indiaman and
a

1659, the earliest

Dutch

ship.

a ship of war.

She was

lost in. a

7667. The detail of the stern

storm

off Mauritius in

shows Prince William

of Orange, the coat of arms of Middleburg, the

of the United East India Company, and
view of the city of Middelburg.

II

initials

panoramic

141

Zemblya, Russia. This is the oldest evidence of the

problem of measuring time and distance in the early
period of the European age of geographical discovery.

Escutcheon
(the former

from

the

NASEBY

British

built

in

ship

ROYAL CHARLES

1655),

tured by the Dutch fleet in the

which was cap-

Medway

in

7667.

Chatham Cup with cover

in enameled gold by NichoLoockermans 7668, presented to Admiral Michiel

Adriaensz. de Ruyter in recognition of his part in the
raid against the British fleet on London River June

laas

21, 22,

Clockwork and

firing

mechanism designed by Robert

Fulton for use in his harpoon torpedo as described

in his

New

work

"

Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions/'

York 1810.

and

23, 7667.

BUFFEL, a builder's model of a coastal defense vessel built in 1867 by R. Napier & Sons at
for the Royal Dutch Navy. Dimensions 62.70 x 72.26 x 7.60 meters, displacement
2,198 tons. Powered by two compound steam engines of 2,200 Ihp, speed 12 knots: Main

Glasgow

armament two guns

Painting by Willem van

fleet at

of 23 cm. in turret.

de Velde the elder of

DE EENDRACHT.

of the

first

ironclads in the Royal Dutch Navy.

Dutch

anchor, 7668. The ship in the foreground

the flagship

One

is

MARITIEM MUSEUM "PRINS HENDRIK"

This museum, the oldest maritime museum

in the

was founded

in

1873 by the Royal Nether-

lands Yachting Club.

It

acquired the private collec-

country,

tion

of the chairman of

Hendnk,

H.R.H. Prins

club,

H.M. King Willem

a brother of

name

has since carried the

the

of

Rotterdam

III,

and

benefactor. In

its first

1885 the museum was taken over by the municipality

of Rotterdam, and until 1948

Museum

building as the

it

occupied the same

of Ethnology.

increased steadily, and in 1948 the

to

its

present quarters.

to distribute

especially

The aim

knowledge of the

with

regard

to

The

collection

museum moved

of the

museum

is

history of navigation,

the

Netherlands.

Ship

models, paintings, drawings, prints, maps, atlases,

globes, and a variety of other objects of navigational
interest are

museum

permanently on display. The excellent

library consists of a large

number of old

and modern works on the history of navigation and

shipbuilding, maritime history, etc.
collection contains maps, atlases,

very important

and books on the

history of discoveries

and cartography.

Burg. S'jacobplein

Rotterdam, Holland. Telephone:

0.

10-140044.

8,

Open

daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission

jl.0.23.
Portrait of Prince

Hendrik of the Netherlands, 1820-

1879, founder of the Maritiem

drik." Painting

Front view of the

museum

building.

by Chr. Bisschop.

Museum

"Prins

Hen-

Two-masted Rijnklipper

sailing

vessel

of

the

River

about 1885; 340 tons and 42 meters

long. This model was built in the museum workshop
in about twenty months.
Rhine,

built

ZEELANDIA, model

of a Dutch man-of-war built 1653

Veere for the Admiralty of Zeeland. Dimensions
136 x 34 x 14 feet, 54 guns, 260 crew. From 1653
to 1664 it served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral
Johan Evertsen.
at

146

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND

The National Museum
1863 but

in
all

its

of Iceland was founded

obtained a building of

first

1950. Since Iceland

activities in

island, the inhabitants

Reykjavik

its
is

own

for

an ocean

have always depended upon

the sea for communications both with foreign coun-

and within the country

tries

itself.

E
L

Their major

industry has always been fishery. For these reasons

it

is

be

natural that a department in the

devoted

to

museum should

and fishing equipment.

boats

On

exhibition are an actual fishing boat of middle size

and large models of different types of boats. Addi-

tional exhibits are all kinds of fishing gear, characteristic

of the age-old

fishing

methods of Icelandic

fishermen up to the 19th century,

when modern

and equipment were adopted. The main aim of the

department
this

is

to

show

as

clearly as possible

to the

economy of the people through the

Reykjavik, Iceland. Telephone: 16779 or 13264.

]une through August dally 1:30 p.m.

the

rest

Saturday

of the year
1

to

4 p.m.

on Sunday, Tuesday,

Exterior of the National

Museum

of Iceland building.

what

important fishing industry was like and what

meant

boats

it

ages.

Open
Open

Thursday,

:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Admission free.

Model

of an Icelandic fishing boat of the 19th century.

Corner view

in

the

Marine Archaeological section.

Indo-Persian qibla-indicator

ludean merchant ship, 3rd century A.D. Reconstructed

after

wall-painting in a Jewish catacomb

Shearim, near Haifa.

148

in

Beit-

18th

century.

MARITIME MUSEUM
In the short time

it

Haifa

has been in existence this

maritime museum, founded by Arie L. Bew-Eli, has

gathered a rich and rare collection of historical and
scientific

objects

in

dating

navigation,

connection with

from

nean, the

Red

sea

and

to

the

times

prehistoric

present, with particular emphasis

the

on the Mediterra-

Sea, the Persian Gulf,

and the Indian

Ocean. Over one hundred scale models of ships are

They cover the time from

displayed.

navigation to present-age ships, through

prehistoric

King

Solo-

mon's famous Tarshish ships; Phoenician, Greek,

and

Roman

Roman

warships; and

corn ships, which

between Ostia near Rome, Caesarea

sailed

and Alexandria

The

in Egypt.

in Israel,

pride of this model

collection are three original Egyptian funeral boats

Among many

about four thousand years old.

valuable collections in this
charts,

and

atlases dating

museum

back

are: rare

to the

Elizabethan silver medal,

other

commemorating

the defeat

of the Spanish Armada, 1588.

maps,

15th century,

and old maps of the Holy Land; old prints of the

country, seashore, sea battles,

and famous

ships; rare

and unique coins and medals dealing only with the

sea; antique

and modern navigation instruments; and.

many undersea
2,

Hanatnal

Open

daily

archeological finds.

Street,

Haifa,

Israel.

Telephone: 69021.

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (except

days). Admission

official

holy

20 Aguroth.

Egyptian funeral boat with

1800 B.C.

figures

of servants, circa

Haifa Maritime

Museum

The Middle East after Claudius Ptolemaeus (87-178

C.E.) Ulm, 1482; woodcut.

chart of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean by

Pier

Coos, noted Dutch cartographer, of Amsterdam,

circa 1660,

copper engraving.

152

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MUSEO NAVALE
museum was

This naval

Pegli and housed in the

Genoa-Pegli

founded

in

1928

16th-century Villa Doria,

surrounded by gardens and a grand park. The

was originally
been altered

many

was donated

who gave
colors,

built

to

in

villa

by the Centurione family, but has

times.

The

nucleus of

its

collection

by the naval engineer, Fabio Garelli,

Genoa

engravings

water

his precious collection of

and

etchings,

paintings,

ship

models, and a full documentation of the navies of

Europe from the end of the 15th century

beginning of the 20th century.

To

to

the

have been

this

added other private collections and many exhibits

from the Museum of History and Art of the Palazzo

Bianco, such as the great painting by Grassi of a view

of

Genoa and 16th-century paintings representing

the excavating of the port of Genoa, the island off

the city of Scio,
tion,

artillery

centuries are
charts

and the island of Tabarca. In addi-

pieces

of the

15th,

6th,

on view. In other rooms

and 17th

are nautical

and navigational instruments.

Piazza Bonavino, Genoa-Pegli, Italy. Telephone: 480022.

Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday, Saturday

10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.

to

All

noon. Closed Monday. Admission free.

photographs by Renato Gasparini

Exterior

Navale

view of the
housed.

Villa

Doria

in

which the Museo

is

Figurehead from

a ship of the 19th century.

153

Museo Navale

SANTA MARIA, model

of the flagship of Christopher Columbus.

Decoration from the poop deck of

Genovese

gal-

leon of the 17th to 18th centuries. Designed by Gre-

gorio de Ferrari.

Model

of a

Genovese

galley of the 17th to 18th centuries.

Museo Navale

Model

of a Venetian warship of the 17th century.

156

MUSEO DEL MARE

The maritime museum

Trieste

of Trieste was founded in

1930 by the Adriatic Society of Sciences with the

support of the urban administration.

It

was devel-

oped from a few small private collections and

now
ing

divided into several sections.

is

formed by

to the present

a series of

The most

is

second

shows the fishing smacks, fishing instruments

Italian Military

represented by the complete series of models

for each class

from the beginning of the century

the present day.

The Museum

collection of nautical

instruments of the

centuries,

relief

models of harbors and shipyards,

and

nautical

a large

18th and

log-books,

charts,

number of

to

also contains a rich

19th

library,

interest-

day built by the shipyards of Trieste

and techniques of the Adriatic. The

Navy

is

models dating from 1750

before laying the vessels on the stocks.

section

it

several

a specialized

pictures of nautical

interest.

Via

Sat?

Giorgio N.

3, Trieste, Italy.

Telephone: 23092.

Entrance to the

157

Museo

del Mare.

Museo

ROMA, model

del

Mare

of a 41,650-ton battleship built in Trieste in

Nautical instruments of the 18th century donated by

the Empress Maria Teresa of Austria
Institute of Trieste

on

its

founding

to

the Nautical

in 1754.

MUSEO STORICO NAVALE

Formerly
moved

into

the old Arsenal,

in
its

this

this

museum

1964. Located

present quarters in

on the Riva degli Schiavoni,

Venice

building was once

a storehouse for the threshed grain of the Venetian

Republic. In
are

its

exquisite

extensive collection of ship models

examples of

17th century galleons,

1 STth

century votive models, ironclad cruisers, and

many

others.

Located in

II

Conservatory

opposite:
Early-18th-century

votive

model

of

an

unknown

Neapolitan vessel.

New

160

premises of the Naval Museum.

MARIA PIA, contemporary model of the 4,600-ton ironclad cruises built

ernment by Forges et Chahtiers de la Mediterranee in 1862. Broken up

for the Italian

in

1904.

Gov-

Museo Storico Navale

Model

of a 17th-century Venetian Galleass (late-19th-

century reconstruction.)

BUCINTORO, model
finally

162

of

the

last

State

was destroyed by the French

broken up in 1824.

original ship

barge.
in

The

1798 and

TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM
The exhibition rooms
transportation

Japan's

the

with

second

Japan

Museum. When

Museum,

were added. The

floors,

as

the

January 1946 the Minisits

operation over to the

its

name

ships, automobiles,

museum

and

to
air-

has a floor space of

The maritime

7,197 square meters.

ing

in

1921

in

Bureau and changed

Travel

Transportation
craft

opened

originally

It

Transportation turned

try of

occupy three

to

marine transportation collections on the

floor.

Railw ay

museum devoted

of this

history

Tokyo

collections, total-

15,000 items, include railway ferryboats, ship

models,

and

bridges.

Many

replicas

of

lighthouses,

tunnels,

of the models can be operated

and
by

visitors pressing buttons.

25, 1-chome, Kanda-Sudacho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, Japan.

Telephone : 251-8440. Open daily 9 a.m.

Monday. Admission 70
school students, 30

adults,

to 4

p.m. Closed

junior high

50

Models of old ships

children.

NIPPON-MARU,
fighting vessel.

model

of the famous 16th-century

in

the style Sengoku-Bune.

Transportation

The famous hero Yoshitsune aboard warship. Woodblock print about '1850.

Museum

KON-TIKI

MUSEUM

Oslo

The Kon-Tiki Museum was

name and

balsa raft of that

built

house the

to

collections brought back

by Thor Heyerdahl on subsequent expeditions to the

Pacific.

To prove

that aboriginal peoples

America could reach the

rafts, a

Pacific

from South
on balsa

islands

made

crossing in kon-tiki was successfully

1947 from Callao

Peru

to Raroia in Polynesia,

a journey of 4,300 miles in

101 days. In 1953 a

in

in

shorter expedition to the Galapagos discovered earth-

enware
itants

vessels that provided proof pre-Incan inhab-

had indeed made the 600-mile sea voyage to

1955-56

the islands. In

a third expedition

was made

to Easter Island to solve the riddle of the giant stone

statues. Excavations revealed that Easter Island

been inhabited

at

one thousand years

least

than the 14th century claimed by

in

the

Kon-Tiki

kon-tiki,

are

Museum,

scientists.

along

many unusual

items

with

had

earlier

Housed
the

raft

brought back

from these expeditions.

Bygdoynes,

Oslo

Open

May

daily

p.m.,

2,

Norway. Telephone: 55

65

52.

15th to September 1st 10:30 a.m. to

September

1st to

September 30th 11 a.m.

to

5 p.m., October 1st to April 15th 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

April 16th

#30

to

May

15th 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Take Bus

from Radhusplassen. During the summer

Town Hall Quay. Admission 1 kr.

run from the

50 are children.
Marquesas Cod, an example of huge lava sculptures
on Easter Island, carved by the ancestors of the
present inhabitants and transported and erected
their present sites

many hundreds

on

Photos by Nerlien

of years ago.

Front view of the KON-TIKI

Museum.

jerries
adults,

O
R

W
A
Y

SANDEFJORD SJ0FARTSMUSEUM
Opened
model

in

1957,

this

Sandefjord

maritime museum's ship-

collection covers the history of the sailing ship

from the Gogstad Viking Ship, about 800 A.D.,

which, incidentally, was found in Sandefjord, to the

machine-age ships of today. The sailing ship exhibits

Regency building,

are housed in the

built in

1830

by Lars Christensen's grandfather, and are the gift

of shipowner Lars Christensen himself. In 1964 the

museum

acquired

Helmer Hanssen's Roald Amund-

sen collection. Hanssen was

Amundsen's mate and

captain in the expeditions through

the

Northwest

Passage to the South Pole and through the Northeast

Passage.

He

Sandefjord,

was an inveterate
Norway.

collector.

Telephone:

65211.

Open May

through September, weekdays noon to 5 p.m., Sunday

noon

to

noon

to 4

6 p.m.

October through April, Sunday only

p.m. Admission free.

Exterior

view of the new building of the museum,

opened

in

The old-wing

7966.

exhibits.

Exterior

view of the old building of the museur

KOMMANDOR CHR

CHRISTENSEN'S HVALFANGSTMUSEUM
Sandefjord

Founded in 1927 by shipowner Lars Christensen in

memory of his father, who was one of the pioneers
in Antarctic whaling, this

natural sciences, arts

Its

library

is

and

museum's
crafts,

collection covers

and cultural

history.

probably one of Scandinavia's most

complete on the subject of Arctic and Antarctic

literature.

The museum

tions dealing

Sandefjord,

has issued a series of publica-

with Antarctic natural

Norway.

Telephone:

through September, weekdays noon

noon

to

noon

to

science.

63251.
to

Open May

5 p.m.,

Sunday

6 p.m. October through April, Sunday only

4 p.m. Admission free.

Front and side view of the

museum

building.

Top

floor exhibits.

168

MUSEU DE MARINHA
Some of the most beautiful
world are exhibited
ships

of

discovery

vessels of the

in this

of

the

Lisbon

ship models in the

museum. They include

15th

century,

fighting

6th to 18th centuries, and colorful,

luxurious royal barges of the 18th century.

Praga do Imperie, Lisbon, Portugal. Telephone 612541.

Open

daily

Admission

10

a.m.

to

5:30

p.m.

Closed

Monday.

escudos adults, 2 escudos and 50 centavos

children; admission free on

W ednesday.

Exterior

Figurehead from

the

ship of Paulo da

Cama

sailing

vessel

view of the

SAN RAFAEL,

of the 15th century.

1_

museum and

planetarium.

MUSEUM

ROYAL SCOTTISH

The Royal Scottish Museum is

prehensive museum of science and
in the

painting)
are

displays

the largest com-

United Kingdom. Under one roof

covering the

decorative

and technology.

geology,

from

over the world and of nearly

from lighthouse engineering

Japan.

The beginnings
first

all

museum

of the

natural

exhibits

to

are

periods of
prehistoric

date back to

completed portion of the present

building was opened in 1866. In 1904

the Royal Scottish

arts,

Its

time,

1854, and the

(excluding

arts

history,
all

Edinburgh

Museum.

In

its

it

was named

Department of

Technology are extensive marine exhibits and working scale models of

power machines. The Hall of

Shipping contains a large number of models, ranging

from galleons,
craft

coastal fishing boats,

and older water-

modern warships and passenger

to

vessels.

Lighthouse engineering, a field in which Scots have

done much pioneering work,

presented

is

in

the

Navigation Gallery, where a unique collection of

historical

equipment

is

enlivened by electrical illumi-

nation of the optic units. In the Geology Department

there

is

fishes,

an internationally famous collection of

fossil

while the Natural History Department has an

outstanding collection of whale material, including

a 78-foot-long articulated skeleton of Balaenoptera

Musculus (Linnaeas) found stranded

at

North Ber-

Scotland.

Telephone:

wick, Scotland, in 1831.

Chambers

Edinburgh

Street,

1,

CALedonian 1554/5. Open weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Christmas Day and

New

Year's Day. Admission free.

Tearoom open

daily

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Sunday.

Photos courtesy of the Royal Scottish

British

Crown

Museum

copyright.

Lighthouse optic from Inchkeith Lighthouse. This was

stepped lens to be used in a British lightwas installed in 1835 and was in use until
1890. Made by Isaac Cookson of Newcastle to the
design of the Edinburgh engineer, Alan Stevenson.

the

first

house.

171

It

Photo by A. G. Ingram,

Ltd.

Exterior of the Royal Scottish

Photo by

Tom

Scott

Museum

building.

Royal Scottish

D'BATAVIASE EEUW, model

of a

Dutch

fast

Museum

India-

about 1718 to commemorate the

centenary of the founding of Batavia by the Dutch

man

hull

built

East India Company. The rigging is a restoration,

based on 18th-century Dutch practice.
Photo by A. G. Ingram, Ltd. (1882.28.18)

GREAT MICHAEL, a model

Newhaven, Scotland, which

of a ship built in 1511 at

cost the King of Scotland

30,000 apart from her artillery

and the

ordnance. She carried a crew of 300,

ners,

and 1,000 men

officers.

(1926.20)

of

war

in

six

rest of her

score gun-

addition

to

her

A model

of an inventor's experimental ship, built by Robert Wilson of

1826 to demonstrate ship propulsion by stern screw

The hull houses

in

A model compound marine engine, one

models.

collection
Built

in

clockwork engine, which can drive either the side paddles or the stern

screw. (1955.11)

seum's

Dunbar, Scotland,

place of the traditional side paddles.

in

of

the

of the

push-button-operated

museum workshops,

contemporary model of an
produced in 1875 by John

mu-

working
this

is

,800-horsepower engine
Elder, Glasgow.
1

Photo by A. G. Ingram,

Ltd.

Model

of the quadruple expansion engine from

BUENOS

AIRES, built by Dennys

H.M.S.

FINISTERRE,

Battle class

in

the

1887.

model

of

one of the large

end of

destroyers completed toward the

the 1939-45 war. She was built in 1944 by Fairfield

Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.

H.M.S.

QUEEN MARY,

Clyde-built at

John

Brown's

famous yard in 1936, won the Blue Riband of the

Atlantic from France before the war. Between 1942
and 1945 she carried thousands of American soldiers.
This model, whose hull was made for experimental
work by the shipbuilders, is 17 feet long.

PU
i

174

i iI i

GLASGOW ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM

Ship

models and shipping

ment of Technology
also includes

are part of the Depart-

in this

huge museum, which

Departments of Archaeology, Ethnog-

raphy, and History; Natural History; and Art.

Kelvingrove Collection of ship models

more than 500, ranging from

modern passenger
few inches

Glasgow

liners.

The

now numbers

early sailing ships to

Their size varies from a

to over seventeen feet in length.

They

are

arranged according to type: sailing ships, warships,

paddle steamers, and so on. Emphasis

20th-century shipping since

owe

their

fame

is

on 19th- and

Glasgow and the Clyde

to this period.

Around

the walls are

many photographs and drawings of shipping

jects.

In another

room

sub-

are models of Clyde Steamers.

Remarkable models of sailing ships are included in

the Spencer Collection.

The model

Rome (1881)

the transition

steam:

typifies

of the city

from

sail

eighteen knots with a

h.m.s.

battleship

collection

hundred.

of

is

half -block

models

the largest of the

feet in length.

numbers

The Engineering Gallery

over

displays

types of steam engines, propellers, rudders,

A
a

many

and ship

Other large-models of modern ships include

those Of H.M.

FINISTERRE

(1944), R.M.S.

mary (1934), custodian (1961),

liner

at

24-foot-diameter propeller.

howe

model warships, being some 15

fittings.

to

Four-masted and schooner rigged, she had

machinery to develop 11,890 hp which drove her

The

of

QUEEN

modern cargo

with special heavy derrick equipment.

Kelvingrove, Glasgow, C.3, Scotland. Telephone: Kelvin

1134/3/6. Open daily 10 a.m.

2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

From May

to

to

p.m.,

Sunday

September the Saturday

hours are extended to 9 p-m. Admission free.

H.M.S.

175

OXFORD, model

of a frigate launched in 1727.

The Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum by

floodlight.

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum

The Launch of the CHRISTIAN, illustration of an

shipbuilding scene on the Clyde about 1818.
shows Scott's yard at Greenock.

CITY OF

GLASGOW,

unrigged builder's model of

Clyde-built sailing ship, constructed by Barclay, Curie

&

Co. for the City Line. Recently rebuilt

in

the

eariy

This

KING EDWARD, model of a Clyde steamer, the first

commercial turbine vessel in the world, built in 1901
by Wm. Denny Bros, for Turbine Steamship Syndicate,
then transferred in 1926 to William-Buchanan, Ltd.

mu-

seum's workshops.

176

MUSEO MARITIMO

Barcelona

Formerly a naval factory built in

Ages, this old building, known as Las
was deeded

to the city

founded by James

King

I,

1936.

in

the

Atarazanas,

was

It

Middle

originally

Aragon and Count of

of

Barcelona, in the 13th century and later enlarged by

Pedro IV. In January 1941

museum. In

naval

it

formally became a

26,000 square meters

its

is

housed

an extensive collection illustrating the many aspects,

over the centuries, of man's effort to achieve mastery

over the waters

of the earth.

It

gathering and conserving historical,

entific

elements

Spanish marine

emblazoned

pertaining

life.

with

to

colorful

artistic,

the

The towering

dedicated

is

sea,

to

and

sci-

especially

entrance walls are

heraldic

and

banners,

niches contain statues of Spain's naval heroes.

Huge

halls

devoted to shipbuilding contain ancient blocks

and

tackles, 'anchors,

chandlery.

seamen's

Capmany Hall

knots,

exhibits

and

ship

include sailing-

ship models, while the Marquis of Comillas Hall

shows the changes brought about by steam navigation.

All varieties of vessels are in this

replica, painting, or

museum,

in

The Hall

of Pedro

Roman, and medieval

its

own.

Practically

including fishing,

lore,

vessels

and their equip-

fascinating collection of nautical charts has

room of

is

no phase of maritime

missing,

even to

finely

carved figureheads, a lavish array of ships in bottles,

and crudely fashioned votive offerings carved and

decorated by seamen grateful for their survival from
the perils of storm or fire at sea.

Puerta

de

la

2217449. Open
p.m.,

177

Paz

1,

Barcelona,

daily, except

and 4 p.m.

the

entrance

to

the

to 6

Spain.

Telephone:

Monday, 10 a.m.

to

p.m. Admission 5 pesetas.

1:30

Maritime

Museum

of Barcelona, once the Royal Shipyard, where the

galley REAL was built. She was the flagship of D.
Juan de Austria at the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.

IV

emphasizes the evolutionary characteristics of Egyp-

ment.

of

engraving, dating from Faraonic

times to the 20th century.

tian,

Tower

Sailor's

chest of the 19th century.

partial

view of the towering Marquis of Comillas Hall, devoted to exhibits of mechanical

from models of side-wheel steamers to the nuclear ship SAVANNAH (in the

propulsion,

center of the

hall.)

INFANTA ISABEL DE BORBON,

the ships of the
ice ran

Compahia

from Spain

to

model of one of
whose serv-

Trasatlantica,

South America.

178

REAL CARLOS, showing the rear of the poop deck of

model of this ship built in 1787.

navigator's globe about 1540.

A medal presented by the U.S. Congress in

December 1846 to the Spanish Guardia Marina,

Briant,

for

off Veracruz.

Rare china from the factory of Pasajes, made in 1843,

depicting Spanish ships on voyages to the South Seas.

the rescue

of

the

SUMMERS

MUSEO NAVAL
The
but

museum was

idea for this

it

was not

Madrid

conceived in 1792,

November 1843

until

Don

that

Martin Fernandez de Navarrete brought together

works and materials

the existing

museum. After being housed

was

moved

finally

in

1930

fjFr.

..

Jt-

all

to create a naval

in various buildings,

1I LIT & .if rf T

it

I]

to the building of the

Through

Ministry in the Paseo del Prado.

ft'

years of

research a great deal of maritime materials, books,

Spain have been collected.

rooms
the

now open

On

to the public are

display in

its

Jm

six-

to the

Spanish Navy: exquisite ship models of both fighting ships

rare

and those used

china illuminated

voyages, portraits

maritime

1!

of

ships

globes

and

charts,

and many other marine

^
1

m
UPC...

ji

and

Library, Archives,

and Research

medals,

exhibits.

Room

The

.1

Vlu. u'l T

.ftlflK

aWttm

contain over

100,000 documents from the 12th century to the

present time,

about

10,000 printed volumes, and

Exterior of the Maritime
houses the museum.

1,700 manuscripts.

Montalban

Open

2.

Madrid,

every day except

Admission 5 pesetas.

Spain.

Monday

Telephone:

Ministry

building

which

221.04-19-

10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Portrait of a

Spanish seaman

in

uniform painted by

D. Quirico Aristizabal y Lequeira, 1791.

TSmY Wtr

voyages of discovery,

with scenes

i
!

and sculpture of important Spanish

personages,

figureheads,

in

itliiQ U
'

mm m m m

but a part (but

most important part) of exhibits relating

photographs, and examples of sea lore indigenous

to

j
t>

.1

The Maritime Museum with The Seaman's Tower, a

monument dedicated to the Swedish

200-foOt-high
sailors

An

The remains of

who

lost

their

during

lives

electric elevator carries visitors

World War

I.

to the top.

Galtab'ack boat from about 7700.

FINLAND,

model

of the Swedish East Indian

pany's largest ship, built in 7767.

STOCKHOLMSHAXAN, known
holm.

Built

Sweden.

in

as the witch of Stock-

7876, she was the

first

steamship

in

Com-

Goteborg

SJOFARTSMUSEET
Founded in

floor are a

old anchor, and

Goteborg

this

museum moved

on July

building

three-story

ground

1913,

number

new

On

the

of ship figureheads, an

two old guns salvaged from a sunken

privateer

Here

frigate.

aquarium, library, and lecture halls.

is

1933.

14,

its

into

Memorial Hall, devoted

On

to ships

are

the

first

floor

also

the

and

significant

events in Swedish maritime history. In the center

a

model of the Swedish East India Company's

Finland. The evolution of

ship, the

is

largest

sailing ships,

from the Viking age to the present, occupies adjacent

rooms, complete with pictures, drawings, and

relics

dating back to the middle of the 17th century and

18th century. Here also

the beginning of the

is

model of the 115-foot calmare nyckel, the

first

Swedish vessel to take colonists to North America

in 1638. In the

18th century

of the Swedish East India

model of

many

are

Company,

exhibits

a 200-year-old

Chinese junk, etchings by the Swedish

marine painter

Swedish

room

J.

sailors.

Hagg, and items brought home by

room

In another

are exhibits

from

the remarkable voyage of A. E. Nordenskiold in the

polarship

vega round Europe and Asia

The southwest wing

in

1880-81.

contains an elaborate

model of

the Port of Goteborg.

On

the third

floor

is

the

Brostrom Memorial Hall with models and prints

showing the history and growth of Sweden's largest

shipping concern, the Brostrom Shipping Company.

There are rooms devoted

to

other shipping com-

panies, to exhibits of canal shipping

holm and Goteborg,

to the

to yachts, to

Swedish Navy,

to

between Stock-

model

privateers,

to

shipyards,
firearms,

swords, and shells from bygone days to the present.

Goteborg V, Sweden. Telephone:

147560 or 145271.

Open weekdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to

4 p.m. From September 15th to April 30th open weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission kr. 2:00 adults, kr. 0:50 children.

183

Model

of a Chi nese junk of the 18th cen

Figurehead from the end of the 19th century.

-

Figurehead
figureheads
at

Gallery
all

the Karlskrona

in 1828.

these

Dockyard from 1781

AH belonged

Chapman Room is a series of four contemporary models of a ship of the line, built in
Dockyard of Karlskrona under the leadership of Frederik Henrik af Chapman. Ten such
ships and ten frigates were built in the years 1782-1785. Pictured here is one of them standing in frames and then fully rigged. From the laying of the keel to the launching took 45 days.

contains

world-famous

carved by one man, johan Tornstrom,

to

his

death

to ships built in this dockyard.

In the

the

184

MARINMUSEUM
This marine

museum

is

Karlskrona

one of the oldest museums

in

Sweden. In 1752 King Adolf Fredrik established

its

beginnings

Karlskrona by ordering the preser-

at

and machines used

vation of models of ships

shipbuilding.
rapidly,

From then on

basing

its

museum grew

purpose on illustrating Swedish

its

marine development
voting

the

in

in general

and

specifically de-

and work of bygone

exhibits to the life

generations in the dockyard of Karlskrona. Uniquely,

all

museum

the objects in this

The

the periods illustrated.

ity

is

are contemporary to

oldest shipbuilding activ-

perpetuated in collections of ship, machinery,

and dock models,

as

well as old hand tools. Other

departments cover weapons, guns and

ma-

artillery,

Exterior

of

the

Marinmuseum

building,

built

1878-

1881 as barracks for ship's boys after a design by the

rine techniques, navigation,

and uniforms.

famous Swedish

architect,

A.

the collections of 200 years

Karlskrona,

Sweden.

Telephone:

Monday through Saturday 10

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

During

July,

0455-133 41.

Open

a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday

Monday through

Friday

10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to

4 p.m. Admission kr.

1:50 adults,

kr.

0:75 children.

Reduced fee for groups.

Reconstruction of a maneuver turret of

submarine

of 1938-42 with a periscope through which the visitor

can view the harbor, town, and neighboring archi-

185

pelago.

the military dockyards.

Hj.

Kumlien.

In

1954

were moved here from

STATENS SJOHISTORISKA
The entire ground floor
museum

devoted

is

to

the

Stockholm

of this large marine

of

history

Royal

the

Swedish Navy, while the entire second floor carries

exhibits

Navy

Royal

Swedish Mercantile Marine. The

the

of

1680) with many

many

years ago.

with

le JON;

model

recovered from ships sunk

The rooms then

order:

chronological

1772)

relics

Room (1521-

Vasa

history begins in the

are arranged in

The Caroline Room (1680-

model of the 70-gun ship gota

Room (1772-1815) with

Inshore Navy Room
175 6

Gustavian

the

frigates;

the

1815); the Mast and Battery

Rooms (1815-1880)

showing an original battery from

19th-century

frigate; the

Ocean Room (1880-1907) with models

of coastal

defense ships with figures deployed in

various

duties

aboard

the

ship;

Sverige

Room

Exterior

(1907-1939) with models of

craft carriers;

of

battleships

and

air-

and two rooms which bring the history

Sweden up

to today.

The second

cover Sweden's Mercantile

Marine from the Viking

Models of ships and

ship to diesel-motored vessels.

relics

of the trade with China

East

India

Company

floor exhibits

make up

exhibits.

the Swedish

Several

rooms are

devoted to coast-survey, piloting, and lighthouses.

Shipbuilding and shipyards and engines and machinery are presented in the basement.

Djurgavds

brunnsvagen 24,

Telephone: 22 39 80.
to 4

Open

Stockholm
daily

Sweden.

p.m. Admission kr. 2:00 adults, kr. 1:00 children.

Relics of

187

No.,

and Sunday 11 a.m.

cooking and eating utensils

at the captain's table.

ll!ill

|!IJi>i!!i

view of the National Maritime Museum.

Model

of a Bellona-class frigate,

one of ten

built at

Karlskrona from 1782 to 1785 by Chief Naval Architect

and

189

later

Admiral of the Dockyard

F.

H. at

Chapman.

SWISS TRANSPORT
A unique museum

MUSEUM

Lucerne

that covers both the history and

the contemporary development of all forms of sea,

land,

and

The

air transport.

transportation

is

section

on inland water

introduced by a historical panorama

and ocean

boats,

liners.

They cover

the period of the

great discoveries in the 16th century, the sea battles

end of the Middle Ages, and the development

at the

of world trade to the present time.

of lake and river navigation in Switzerland. Magnifi-

of the steamship rigi, which

cent old engravings, photographic panels, navigation

rant,

is

now

The

restoration

serves as a restau-

the oldest existing steamship in Switzerland.

documents, and items of old equipment show the

shipping activities on the Rhone River and on Lake

Geneva.

In

barges, tugs,

addition

there

are

models of Rhine

and tankers; pictures and drawings of

port installations; large scale models of the Rhine

port at Basel and of the locks near Birsfelden.
special

room houses the

detailed

models of

rich collection of beautifully

galleys, early

Photos courtesy of the Swiss

men-of-war, cargo

Lidostrasse 5, Lucerne, Switzerland. Telephone: (041)

daily

a.m.

15th,

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.,

Sunday 10 a.m.

to 6

24th and 25th) and

January

Museum

of Transportation and Communications.

Garden view of the museum showing the steamship RIGI on the

Open March 16th to November 15th,

to 6 p.m. November 16th to March

3 94 94.

left.

1st).

p.m. Closed Christmas (December

New

Admission

jr.

Year's (December 31st and

2.50 adults,

jr.

1.-

children.

NAVAL MUSEUM
This

is

Leningrad

a large, combined marine and

museum which

houses in

13 rooms

its

military

exhibits of

pre-revolutionary history, but predominantly those of

The

post-Czarist Russia.

first

room

of the famous "Admiralty Needle," and

adorn the

walls. In other

model

contains a

rooms are

fleet

flags

artifacts of the

various periods. Paintings by famous Russian

artists,

such as Seseleznyev and Podkevwirin, depict revolutionary victories, including the Russian defense by

the Baltic
forces

Fleet against the onslaught of

Hitler's

and the heroic defense of Sevastopol by the

View of the

Black Sea Fleet.

Rooms

eight through thirteen con-

of

USSR

marine and military high-

tain

exhibits

lights,

from World

of the

Communist

War

II on,

Party. In

ered gifts to the Soviet

and workers of other

thirteen are gath-

.p.

HOI

coa*n,

.............

c*rc 191S ro.,

government of the
Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, signed by
V. E. Lenin, ordering funds to be assigned to the

a cruiser, at her

4.

Facsimile of the resolution of the

cent to the

..

*%<r

AURORA,

,1

including

sailing ships.

reconstruction of the Naval

j*.

il till

Forces from soldiers

socialist countries:

models of submarines and

Museum

under the dominance

Room

Armed

central building of the Naval

from the River Neva.

Museum.

permanent mooring

Hnpcxoro Uytma

tllCIHl

R O-C

3TS>cin*

ipo-.o, itcmc apastj e-

pcx Zemm

C*iporp*m.

adja-

museum.
Exhibition

room

in

the

mariners

museum

building,

covering the history of the Russian Fleet prior to 7977

MARITIME MUSEUM OF THE YUGOSLAV ACADEMY OF THE

ARTS AND SCIENCES IN DUBROVNIK Dubrovnik
AS FAR BACK AS THE
was mated
actively

CENTURY, Dubrovnik

and by the 12th century was

to the sea,

engaged

$>TH

commercial

in

shipping

Mediterranean. Shortly after 1358,

became

a sovereign republic, she

on the

when Dubrovnik

assumed

a position

of prominence in international maritime activities.

By

the 16th century her oceangoing ships were as

important as those of Venice, and her shipbuilding

was famous

all

of the Republic of Dubrovnik was larger and

fortress

John's

museum

at

on the quay, which houses the

Dubrovnik.

medium

East

Adriatic

coasts

and

through

the

of the Slavonic peoples, Austria in the 19th

century became a world sea power. In

1939 Du-

brovnik registered about 200,000 BRT, almost half

of the total prewar Yugoslav shipping.
has preserved this heritage

brought

it

dating

up-to-date.

paintings

from 1500.

maritime shipping.

S.S.

GRT

OSKAR, tempera by unknown

View

193

artist

of this 1,266

ship in a Black Sea tempest in 1898.

of the

Dubrovnik steamshipping

exhibits.

in

its

collections

and

The following departments

filled

with

and authentic museum objects

First,

In

S
L

A
V

The museum

house the museum's vast exhibits, each

original

more

important than the merchantmen from Venice. By

occupying

over the world. During some decades

of the 17th and 18th centuries the merchant navy

St.

the story of Dubrovnik's

1806 she had about 280

Maritime

vessels

for Mediterranean and transoceanic

Here paintings and

portraits

in

Dubrovnik

traffic.

documents predominate:

original

shipowners and captains; pictures of

of

ships, sailors, uniforms, costumes. Several

models are

ship

Museum

in

this

important

along

department,

with

hundreds of original objects from ships of the 16th,

17th,

and 18th centuries and the beginning of the

19th century. Another department covers Dubrovnik's

sailing vessels of the 19th century, including

20

oils

by Yugoslav's greatest painter of sailing vessels and

steamships,

cover

V. Ivancovich.

nautical

Still

and

instruments

Dubrovnik's steamship history

other departments

maritime

to date,

maps,

and maritime

shipping in general by means of 250 genuine objects

used on ships ranging from the oldest tramps to
luxurious passenger liners.

The museum

serves as a

center of research and learning for scientific workers

and

St.

students.

John Harbor Fortress on

Yugoslavia. Telephone: 20-65.

I

p.m.,

Sunday 10 a.m.

to

the

quay,

Dubrovnik,

Open weekdays

noon. Admission:

8 a.m. to

2.- n. din.

Admiral A. Ohmucevic from the

century. Artist

first

half of the 18th

unknown.

A Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik

galleon

around 1550 by an unknown

artist.

194

3f8T

Maritime

Museum

in

Dubrovnik

PART
RESTORATIONS
II

AND
REPLICAS

C.A.
c.

THAYER

thayer,

A.

schooner,

lumber

a black-hulled, three-masted
in

built

1895

on Humboldt Bay near

Eureka, California, by Danish-born shipbuilder

Bendixsen. For seventeen years the

lumber from the

and

to

Pacific

San Francisco

Guaymas and Honolulu. In 1912,

storm damage, the

soon entered in a
carrying

Bristol

to

carried

Southern California, making occasional

shore trips to

Pete"

Northwest

thayer

Hans

men and

Nelson's

Bay

in

thayer was
new trade as
supplies to

three

Alaska.

salteries

On

laid up,

off-

after

but was

salmon packet,

owner "Whitehead
near

her return

the

head of

trips

to

San

thayer carried barrelled salmon. During World War I, when bottoms were scarce, she
made several voyages to Australia in the lumber
Francisco the

198

trade. In

1925 she began a new career

in that last

haven of the West Coast schooners, the Bering Sea

codfishery. After seven seasons of carrying
cial

commer-

fishermen and their dories to the codfish banks,

she was laid up in Seattle until put into service as

a

rigged-down

She then made

Army
five

codfishing grounds.
retired in

barge during

postwar

When

1947 she was the

trade. In the fall of

World War

trips to the

her

Bering Sea

sister ship

last sailing vessel in the

her port, Poulsbo, Washington, her hold

was her

last

trip,

wawona

1950 the thayer returned

capacity with 700,000

II.

pounds of

and with

it

filled

salted cod.

to
to

This

she closed out the

80-year history of American codfishing in the Pacific

and the age of commercial

sail

on the

Pacific Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME STATE HISTORIC PARK

San Francisco, California
Here, in one location adjacent
cisco

San Fran-

Maritime Museum, are four restorations of old

ships that once plied the waters of

and called San Francisco their

the

to the

balclutha,

is

moored

San Francisco Bay

home

port.

Another,

43, about a 10-

at Pier

minute walk from the museum. Each represents a

type

different

of

vessel

and

California's rich sea heritage.

oped,

built,

specific

fulness,

each

contributes

They were

and operated on the

all

to

devel-

which had them meticulously restored

their present condition. Visitors

four

historic

vessels

one

in

all

may now

to

see these

location

and go

aboard them. Under the guidance of the San Francisco

Maritime Museum, and through the continuing

efforts

of shipwrights,

restoration

seamen, and rigging boss,

and maintenance work

making these ships

true "living

carried on daily,

is

museums."

Pacific Coast for

purposes. Laid up after outliving their usethese ships

California,

were acquired by the State of

2905 Hyde Park.

885-1216.

Telephone:

Open

daily

including Sunday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

ALMA

Alma, scow

schooner, a type of shallow-draft vessel

with centerboard developed during the Gold Rush

(or possibly earlier) to carry hay and other products

between upriver communities and San Francisco.

It

has been estimated that about 600 of these nowextinct vessels

were

built

along the shores of San

Francisco Bay.

They were

ing

"hay-burning,"

of

the

as essential to the function-

horse-drawn

gasoline trucks are to the present era.

It

era

was

as

a rare

seascape of the Bay that did not include one of

these "hay scows," with
its

helmsman

its

towering deckload and

precariously perched

platform behind

it.

The

last

on an extension

scow schooner was

launched in 1905. Through the efforts of the San

Francisco Maritime

Museum,

1891, was floated off a

alma,

the

mud bank

on the Bay

midnight high tide in the early 50s,

was about

to

be enclosed by

fill.

built

in

at a

just before she

199

WAPAMA
wapama, wooden steam

schooner built

at St.

Helens,

Oregon, in 1915 for Charles R. McCormick Company.

to

Upon

completion of the hull, she was towed

San Francisco, where

a triple-expansion

wapama

825 hp was

installed,

of the 225

wooden steam schooners

Pacific Coast, a fleet of

be

known

lumber

as California's

these vessels were

is

engine of

the sole survivor

on the

built

carriers that

came

to

"Scandinavian Navy," for

manned by

so

many

Johnsons,

entiated

men had
be

by nicknames
"Midnight" Olson.

Open"

Gunderson,

Olsons, and Carlsons that the

to

differ-

"Safe-is-

scores of others,

modate about

"Port

wapama

Wine"
was

outfitted to accom-

thirty passengers, but her basic

was carrying lumber from the

and

Ellefson,

Pacific

work

Northwest

to

California, and she represents a type that supplanted

the three-masted schooners, such as c. a.

this trade.

The McCormick Company

in the early

thayer,

sold

in

wapama

1930s; she continued to be operated in

the coastwise trade by San Francisco owners. In the

late '30s

her registry was transferred to

name now changed

to

Seattle.

tongass, she entered the

Alaska trade. After a layup

in Seattle in the late '40s,

she was purchased for scrap by a Seattle firm.

owner withheld burning her for her metal

EUREKA

San Francisco Maritime

Museum

could

rangements for the State of California

eureka, walking-beam paddle-wheel

in

1890

ukiah
North

at

ferry-boat, built

Tiburon on San Francisco Bay

the

as

to carry railway cars for the San Francisco

Pacific Railroad.

declared in

1891 that

&

The

president of the railroad

at

16 knots she was "un-

doubtedly the fastest double-ended ferryboat

in the

world." In 1920 she was almost completely rebuilt

in

the Southern Pacific shipyard in Oakland,

when
the

she took to the water again two years later as

eureka, she was the

ferry

and

largest passenger-carrying

on San Francisco Bay, with

capacity

for

2,300 persons and 120 automobiles. In 1941 she

carried her last passengers

to

Sausalito

across

Bay from San Francisco, eureka then shifted

Southern

Pacific's

the
to

overland passenger train service

between the Oakland Mole and San Francisco's Ferry

Building.

When

of 1957, she

she

was the

made her
last

last

run in February

walking-beam ("pork-and-

beans" in the colloquialism of small boys around the

Bay)

side- wheeler operating in

North America.

her

Her

the last steam schooner, a uniquely

type of lumber-carrying vessel.

The

until the

make

ar-

to purchase

West Coast

BALCLUTHA

San Francisco, California

Built in Scotland

in

1886,

balclutha

spent her

first

thirteen years as a deepwater trader, carrying

coal

from

Cardiff,

whiskey from London, guano

from Iquique. Her voyages to Auckland, Calcutta,

New

York, Capetown, and other ports took her

around Cape Horn seventeen times. In 1906 she

joined the Alaska Packers "Star" fleet as

star of

Alaska. For the next 25 years she carried cannery

workers north to the Chignik cannery and salmon

The San

back to San Francisco.

Museum bought
1954.

With

Francisco Maritime

the disintegrating

the help of a

community

balclutha
effort, in

in

which

labor unions gave 13,000 hours of free time, and

business firms donated over
the

restored

supplies,

in

balclutha to the
deepwaterman. The authentic

museum

old-time

$100,000

state of

an

restoration

includes a captain's saloon with the Victorian fur-

nishings that
fo'c's'le

many

enlivened

"Mrs. Captain" chose, and a

by

sailors'

fancy

work

and

mementos of home. The 'tween decks area holds

museum
On

of Pacific Coast maritime history.

the Etnbarcadero at Pier 43- Telephone: 982-1886.

Open

daily including

Sunday 10 a.m.

to

10 p.m. Ad-

mission free to children under 6; 6-12, $0.25

$0.75.

over 12,

One end

of

which

old seafaring community comes

this

the

cobblestoned Seaport street along

ing the waterfront are shops

and

alive. Fac-

lofts typical

of those

from which square-rigged whalers and clipper ships

once were fitted out for long voyages at sea.
Photo by Louis

S.

Martel.

Inside view of the ship chandlery.

Photo by John Marshall

202

MYSTIC SEAPORT
Mystic Seaport
century

New

is

Mystic, Connecticut

re-creation

England maritime

of a mid- 19th-

village,

an activated

waterfront community of 37 acres that brings to

life

today a whole shipping community, pulsating with

the

daily

living

over a hundred years ago.

of

boasts of nearly sixty

formal

museum

It

major buildings, some of them

buildings housing collections of ship

models, paintings, prints, figureheads, navigational

equipment, and

relics

of the sea.

Many

others are

authentic and original buildings and lofts, restored

and

now

actively in use in various aspects of Mystic's

once flourishing shipbuilding industry.

The

visitor

will see the craftsmen in the

cooperage making by

wooden

casks that once held

hand

replicas of the

whale

oil

and ship

supplies. Forges at the shipsmith's

shop make miniature harpoons and lances. In the

woodcarver's shop original figureheads are carved

and old figureheads are restored. In the ropewalk

Anchor from the BENJAMIN

Bath, Maine, in 1883.

building the visitor

An

authentic

is

told the story of rope making.

ship chandlery,

N. G.

Fish,

F.

PACKARD,

built

in

Photo by John Marshall.

Prop.,

displays well-stocked shelves of paints, oils, canvas,

charts,

cordage,

Highlight of

fishing gear,

the

Mystic

and marine supplies.

Seaport

is

the

original

view of the sail loft, ship chandlery and the

Plymouth Cordage Company buildings.
Photo by Louis S. Martel.
Exterior

Mystic Seaport
morgan,

Charles w.
century

wooden whaleship

1841, she

is

105'6" long,

deep. Visitors

may roam

They may

decks.
vessels

only

the

in the world.
2 7' 7" in

the

oyster

sloop,

Arctic expeditionary ship,

Launched

in

beam, and 17'6"

also explore other

famed 124-foot Gloucester

19th-

above and below

at will

permanently moored

dunton;

surviving

famous original

the

at

Seaport:

fishing schooner,

the
l.

a.

nellie a ryle; the

bowdoin. Along

the cob-

blestone streets are authentic re-creations of other

buildings: a chapel, an apothecary shop, a tavern, a

general store, a countinghouse, a one-room school-

house, and other restored shops and structures.

training vessels, the

Joseph conrad and

Two

the bril-

liant, accommodate students learning the basics of

seamanship.

Greenmanville Avenue on the Mystic River. Telephone:

336-2631. Open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (6 p.m. during the summer).

Admission $2.50
under

adults,

$0.50

at all times for children

16. Free parking, restaurants,

dockage upon ad-

vance request, several souvenir and gift shops, and the

G.

9 a.m.

Blunt White Library open

to 5 p.m. at

Monday

to

Saturday

no charge, without paid admission

to the Seaport.

Figurehead of Admiral Farragut from the clipper ship

GREAT ADMIRAL

built in 7869.

Photo by John Marshall.

Armillary

sphere,

demonstrating

an

early

terrestrial

astronomical

and

celestial

device

for

relationships.

204

C.G.C.

EAGLE

New London,

Connecticut

The

eagle

c.g.c.

three-masted,

is

1936 by the German Navy and

barque built in

acquired by the United States after

a war reparation.

295-foot

It is

moored

World War

at the

II as

Academy's dock

throughout the year except during the cadets' sum-

mer

cruises

and during her annual layups

shipyard. Visitors

when

escorted by a cadet.

to visitors

Friday.

seum

from 8 a.m.

Over the

for the

museum
a

may go aboard

few

set

However,

to 4 p.m.

it

is

not open

Monday through
mu-

has been underway, and this

has recently been installed, temporarily for

States

new

Coast

443-8463- The Academy

to 6

the

this training ship

years planning for a marine

Academy

years, in the

United

at

Field House.

Guard
is

Academy.

open daily

Telephone:

to visitors

9 a.m.

p.m. throughout the summer, and 9 a.m. to sun-

during the

rest of the year.

Admission

free.

Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard.

C.G.C. EAGLE underway with

full sail.

206

PHILADELPHIA
This Continental
in

1776.

existence

It

is

Washington, D.C

gondola was

the oldest

built

American man-of-war

and symbolizes the indomitable

resourcefulness of those

who

Revolution. Built in barely

and sunk

spirit

in

and

fought the American

two months,

this

gunboat

was part of the Continental squadron, under the

command

of Benedict Arnold, which successfully de-

layed the British

on Lake Champlain, thus providing

a vital prelude to victory at Saratoga in 1777.

the

command

of

Under

Captain Rice, she was sunk

Valcour Island, after a five-hour

battle,

at

by a British

24-pound shot forward.

The Hall of the Armed Forces of the United States,

Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution,
Streets,
to 5

Constitution

N.W.

Avenue between 12th dnd 14th

Telephone: 628-1810. Ope'? daily 9 a.m.

p.m. Admission free.

Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.

Front view of the

cannon

at

PHILADELPHIA with

12-pounder

her bow.

view showing her interior with

cannon on port and starboard sides.
Side

9-

THE BOUNTY EXHIBIT

St.

Petersburg, Florida

This authentic replica of the original bounty

of 1787
the

city's

replica

is

moored

in picturesque

famed Municipal

of the ship seized

and men

voyage to the

adrift to face a 3,618-mile

Vinoy Basin near

Dutch East

She

rigging, the 18th-century furnishings below, weather-

Pier.

a faithful

is

from Captain William

worn

Indies. Visitors see the carefully tarred

sea chests,

pewter tableware, wooden hogs-

Bligh in 1789 by mutiny leader Fletcher Christian.

heads, barrels, hammocks, and the seamen's belong-

Completed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

ings. Captain Bligh's large cabin

Lunenburg, Nova
7,327-mile

Mutiny on

bounty

Scotia, the

voyage to
the

in a

Tahiti

Bounty.

bounty
for

Today,

in

I960

set sail

the

on a

filming

visitors

see

at

of

antiques

and Christian are

Wax

figures of Bligh

in each one's cabin.

the

345

in

British vessels.

furnished with

South Sea setting that even includes

an example of her original cargo, a breadfruit

On

from

is

display, too,

is

which Christian

tree.

a replica of the 23-foot longboat

set

BOUNTY moored

Bligh and 18 loyal

at

her exhibit dock.

officers

2nd Avenue North

Open

all

year

East.

from 10 a.m.

to

Telephone:

896-3117.

10 p.m. Admission $1.00

adults,

$0.50 children under 12 years of age, $0.50

service

men. Free parking.

ARIZONA MEMORIAL

U.S.S.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

This white memorial was dedicated on Memorial

Day 1962

who
7,

to the

memory

lost their lives

1941.

It

in Pearl

all

U.S. service

men

Harbor on December

has been built over the rusting hull of

the battleship

Arizona, which went

minutes after being

the

of

hit.

The

Shrine

to the

Room

bottom
wall of

Memorial contains the names of 1,177 Navy and

Marine Corps men killed when the Arizona sank.

The bodies of more than

a thousand of these

men

remain entombed.

Open

daily ex-

A Navy

operated

Telephone: (Navy number) 430-31293.

cept

Monday and

national holidays.

boat shuttles visitors to the

Memorial every half hour

1 p.m. and 3:30

between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., and

p.m. Admission free.

Official U. S.

Navy Photos.
The Shrine Room wall with 1,177 names of
killed aboard the U.S.S. ARIZONA.

View of the exterior of the Memorial commemorating

the sinking of the

December

7,

1941.

U.S.S.

ARIZONA

at

Pearl Harbor,

th

J.T.

LEONARD and HOOPER STRAIT LIGHTHOUSE

St.

The

j.

t.

Leonard

waterfront on

St.

is

moored

at

the

Michaels Harbor. She

museum's
is

the last

of the round -bottom, topmast, oyster sloops. Built in

1882 on Chesapeake Bay, she has worked every

when

winter up to that of 1966-67,

chased by the

Hooper

museum

as a

permanent

she was purexhibit.

strait lighthouse, one of the

last

cottage-type lights of Chesapeake Bay, was

to the

museum grounds

in

November 1966.

tion to the restored structure,

it

of the

moved
In addi-

will contain exhibits

of aids to navigation.

Photos by C. C. Harris

Navy
to

Point. Telephone: 745-2725.

Open

daily 10 a.m.

4 p.m. (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in summer), except

day, but

Mon-

open on a holiday Monday. Admission $0.50

adults, $0.25 children

12 to 18 (except children 12 to

18 accompanied by adults free).

Michaels Harbor, Maryland

CONSTITUTION ("OLD IRONSIDES')

U.S.S.

Charlestown, Massachusetts
Perhaps the best-known
can Naval history

is

Ameri-

fighting ship in

constitution.

the frigate u.s.s.

She was built under an act of Congress passed

in

1794 following the outbreak of war between France

and Great

Britain,

and commissioned on October 21,

War

1797. During the Tripolitan

1812 she captured 24 enemy

British

and the

War

vessels, including the

40-gun guerriere, for which Congress

warded the

officers

men

and

her day: Stephen Decatur,

re-

with $50,000 prize

money. She was commanded by many famous

in

of

Edward

officers

Preble, John

Thomas Macdonough, Wil-

Rodgers, Jacob Jones,

liam Bainbridge, and George Dewey,

"old iron-

sides" completed her final action as a fighting unit

of the U.S.

Navy

captured a

number of

when

in 1853,

ships

engaged

in

Navy Yard,

slave

illicit

From 1909

trade along the African coast.

anchored in the Boston

she intercepted and

1925,

to

she served as a

Naval Museum. In July 1931, after being restored

she was recommissioned

by an Act of Congress,

and went on a voyage in which she visited 90 ports.

She returned to Boston in 1934 and since 1940 has
served as the flagship for

Naval

District.

overall with a

The

u.s.s.

commandants of the

constitution

beam of 43

feet

is

First

204

6 inches and

feet

a ton-

nage of 1,576.

Boston Naval Shipyard.

daily 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Telephone: 242-1400.

Admission

The CONSTITUTION

Open

free.

under way

during

turn-around cruise into Boston Harbor.

her

annual

U.S.S.

CONSTITUTION

Naval Shipyard.

at

her mooring at the Boston

MAYFLOWER

AND PLIMOUTH PLANTATION

II

Plymouth, Massachusetts
On

April

manned by 33 staunch

20, 1957,

the command of Captain Alan

Mayflower II set sail from Plymouth,

seafarers

under

Villiers,

England,

and headed for Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

She had

been

built

Stuart

in

Upham's yard

in

Brixham, England, along the plans of William A.

Baker, naval architect,

who had

researched

data concerning the

original

Mayflower, whose

voyage

1620 brought the

in

The

ica.

replica

is

formula),

century

a ship of

106

feet

78-foot 8-inch waterline, a

and a draft of 13

inches,

first

181 tons

On

(by 17th-

long overall with a

She

is

feet

June 12 Captain

and 6

square rigged

on her foremast and mainmast with lateen

mizzenmast.

Amer-

Pilgrims to

beam of 25

feet.

known

all

sail

on her

Villiers sailed his

ship past Nantucket Lightship, thus ending a cruise

of 53 days, 13 days faster than that of his illustrious
predecessor, Captain Christopher Jones.

flower

had, that

ii

Mayflower

What may-

did not have,

were a modern binnacle and wheel required by

famous

British maritime regulations. This

now moored

Two

miles

Plantation,

at the State Pier near

south
a

of

replica

of

Colony, re-creating the Pilgrims' daily

in

is

Plymouth Rock.

Plymouth Rock

functioning

replica

is

the

Plimoth
Pilgrim

life as

it

was

1627. Here are replicas of their houses, their

fort-meetinghouse,

home

interiors, gardens,

and the

food bounty they grew for themselves.

Box 1620. Telephone: Pilgrim 6-1622. Open

a.m. to 5 p.m. Early April through
sion to

MAYFLOWER

under

14.

Admission

II

to

daily 9

November. Admis-

$0.75 adults, $0.50 children

Plimoth

Plantation

Pilgrim

Village $1.00 adults, $0.50 children under 14. (Water-

front houses adjoining State Pier,

admission $0.10.)

MAYFLOWER

212

II

under

full sail.

MASSACHUSETTS

U.S.S.

Known

affectionately as "big mamie,"

Massachusetts has gone down

the
inch

first

and

shells

During

Fall

her

last

39

enemy

months

in

the

to fire 16-

World War

wartime

of

Massachusetts

in history as being

United States battleship

against the

River,

II.

she

service,

steamed 225,000 miles and took part in 35 major

engagements. Commissioned on

May

35,000-ton ship had a crew of 2,400

men. At the close of World

"Mothball Fleet" until 1964,

War
at

II

1942,

this

officers

and

12,

she joined the

which time she was

saved from the scrap heap by contributions from

over the

state,

and brought

all

to her present berth in

Fall River.

State pier.

Telephone: 678-1100.

year 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

summer

Open

to 7 :30

every day of the

p.m. Admission

$1.00 adults, $0.50 children.

Mullen Studios photo.

U.S.S.

War

213

II,

MASSACHUSETTS, combat
permanently anchored

veteran

at State Pier.

of

World

NORTH CAROLINA BATTLESHIP MEMORIAL

U.S.S.

Wilmington, North Carolina

Commissioned on April

9,

Carolina,

nicknamed "the show-

affectionately

was

boat,"

the

engagement

in the Pacific

from Guadalcanal

north

modern American

the

during World

War

II,

Tokyo Bay. She earned twelve

to

battle stars.

On

home and

dedicated

October

Ward Room

as

are

2,

1961, she was brought

war memorial. In the

museum

famous being the Honor Roll

the

u.s.s.

She participated in every major offensive

battleships.

former

of

first

1941, the

most

exhibits, the

listing alphabetically

names of nearly 10,000 North Carolinians who

lost their lives

beautiful

previous

1908

It

is

is

World War

service

silver

production

Day.

in

u.s.s.

shown

II.

On

given by the

display
state

north Carolina. A

the

lavish

nightly from mid- April to Labor

an exciting sound-and-light spectacular

with spoken word, music, lighting, and sound

On Cape

to

is

Fear River. Telephone: 762-1829-

and Sunday 8 a.m.

to

effects.

Open

6:30 p.m. Admission $0.75

$0.25 children 6 to 12, free for children under

daily

adults,
6.

Aerial view of the U.S.S.

NORTH CAROLINA

Battleship Memorial.

W.

P.

SNYDER,

Marietta,

JR.

Ohio

\v.

snyder,

p.

Twain

jr.,

era steamboats,

Muskingum

River

one of the
is

anchored

last

of the

Mark

in the picturesque

at the foot of Sacra

Via Park near

Front Street. Built in 1918, the vessel

is

complete

in every detail.

Washington and Second

Open

Streets.

Telephone: 373-3730.

Admission $0.25 for adults,

$0.15 for children. School groups of 20 or less, $1.00
daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

per group.

COLUMBIA, LIGHTSHIP NO. 88

Columbia lightship no. 88 was found

in a Seattle

salvage yard in 1963 and purchased by the

with donated funds.

The

U.S. Coast

museum

Guard found

her anchors and chain, donated other items needed,

and a 20-man volunteer crew, after readying her

the Ballard Coast

Guard

the coast under her

own

Station,

power. She

her moorage just below the

early discovery

brought her

and trading

is

on

at

down

exhibit at

museum, where once

vessels anchored.

Open
Closed Christmas Day and

16th and Exchange Streets. Telephone : 325-2323daily 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mondays from November

to

May. Admission charged.

COLUMB.IA, Lightship No.

215

88, at her mooring.

Astoria,

picnic shelter

Oregon

is

available near the boat.

TICONDEROGA AND COLCHESTER

S.S.

In 1947 Mr. and Mrs.

lished

J.

Watson Webb

REEF LIGHTHOUSE
Shelburne, Vermont

estab-

an enchanting replica community of living

Americana

that today has

acres of land,

grown

to 35 buildings

THE TICONDEROGA

on 45

and includes the restored and preserved

220-foot side- wheel steamer ticonderoga. She was

Champlain steamboats and was

the last of the Lake

1906

built in

im^Tii-.^-..-..

year career in the freight, passenger, and excursion

t

business.

. i

WT^^i'.iuLj.in.,jT!rT,

Shelburne Harbor to begin a 47-

at

She and her

chateaugay, made

sister ships,

Vermont

hi

Glorious

v.

and

a fortune for the owners, the

Champlain Transportation Company. But by 1950

modern roads and automobiles rendered her

obsolete.

-a

Mumuseum of

OD

K]

ft

[P B

In 1951 she was purchased by the Shelburne

seum and

1953 served

until

steamboating.

as a traveling

grounds of the museum, she serves

museum

ABOABD THE LAST SIDEWHEELER IN HEW ENGLAND

The ".-.if-.* ts the lut Puungtr Picket but on, with *
Walking Beam. Still Running in the United State*

Today, permanently moored on the

Adjacent

in herself.

is

as

marine

THE MATCHLESS BEAUTY

mi nniRDMnncK: mts.
AND THE
MARINE MUSEUM ZMaMUM STEAMER

the old Colchester

Lighthouse, vacated in 1932 and transported in 1952

to the

museum from

her reef in the middle of Lake

He
ejbk

S&a

Champlain. Maritime exhibits housed here are paint-

gjgj
ings

Scores of interesting old pnnta and photograph* of

32

Them*i

and lithographs from the museum's steamboat

(several

are

pictured

here),

fine

French lens (like

its

gli

reetc-Swept Promenade*. Souvenir*. Soft Drin

Announcement* of Point* of Interval, Interludes

oil
1

lamp surrounded by

on (hi* Historic Waterway

engine run the paddle* heel*, through specis!

All

collection

life

MdiU
rahop exhibit

original

E*\y THat Will lAvm

To

(live

You

T-oaff

In

Your Memory

of
YOUR TRIP will cover u segment of the famous NORTHWEST PASSAGE the highway
ARNOLD
nation* in the Revolutionary War. and of men ETHAN AL1J.N and HENEDIOT
Uke Champlain is the CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY Ita eaciting history revived

aboard the Ticonderoga.

light), the brass bell with

numerous

its

ringing apparatus, and

Exhibits in other houses

accessories.

in-

SHELBURNE

There

is

also the

Memorabilia
U.

S.

Route

192 College SI

in

honor of

(Seven

miles

Telephone : 985-3344. Shelburne

this

south

U.S. Naval hero.

of

Museum

BURLINGTON, VERMONT

ot'^-mi?

SERVING ...1

Commodore Thomas Macdonough

Room

STEAMBOAT COMPANY
Dock at Foot of College Street

clude figureheads, stern boards, and marine eagles.

sirs
Kponsoril by the fch:lburne Museum, fchvlburne, Vermont

Burlington)
is

open daily

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from the end of May through the end

of October. Admission $3.00 adults, $1.00 students.

Group

rates available.

Second consecutive day's admis-

sion $1.00 adults. Free parking on the

Free

museum

museum

grounds.

barge for transportation from building to

building and around the grounds. Picnic grounds and

snack bar available.

All

photos by Einars

J.

Mengis.

handbill

advertising

TICONDEROGA when

the schedules of the S.S.

operated on Lake Champlain

by the Shelburne Museum.

216

View of the

S.S.

TICONDEROGA and

the Colchester

Reef Lighthouse.

S.S.

the

KAATERSKILL,

Hudson

wooden

palace steamer plying

River (1882-1915).

Painted by

J.

Bard

in

1882.

Colchester Reef Lighthouse

The rarest pair of American aquatints published by Cornelius Hulsart: above, A Shoal
Sperm Whales off the Island of Hawaii. Below, Capturing a Sperm Whale.

218

of

JAMESTOWN
On December
chant ships set
the

first

FESTIVAL PARK

Jamestown, Virginia

20, 1606, three square-rigged mer-

from Blackwall, England, carrying

sail

permanent English

America. They

settlers to

were the 100-ton susan constant with an overall

length of 110 feet 7 inches, 76 feet at her waterline;
the 40-ton

godspeed, overall length 68

48

inches at her waterline; and the 20-ton

feet 3

discovery, 49 feet

inches overall, 38 feet at

Aboard these three

her waterline.

crewmen and 104

On

and laborers.

2y4

feet 3 inches,

ships

were 39

gentlemen, craftsmen,

soldiers,

April 26, 1607, they reached the

Virginia coast. Authentic life-size replicas of these

three

now moored

are

vessels

historic

at

their

James River berth. Visitors are welcome aboard the

largest

of

the

three,

the

susan constant. The

reconstruction of these three vessels was based on

extensive

research

the

in

of

records

the

Admiralty and in the records of the famous

Samuel Pepys, a clerk in the Admiralty,

its

James

II.

20, 1956.

The

ships were christened

diarist,

who became

during the reigns of Charles

Secretary,

British

II

and

on December

Also located in Jamestown Festival Park

are full-scale reconstructions

of the three-cornered

James Fort, which the

settlers

Chief Powhatan's

first

built,

and of

now manned

Indian lodge,

by

Indians in deerskin, plus a 17th-century type pottery

where
duced.

replicas of early

Two

Jamestown

utensils are repro-

exhibit pavilions detail the events lead-

ing to and resulting from Jamestown's settlement.

Glasshouse Point between Colonial Parkway and Route

31. Jamestoivn Foundation,

Drawer

Virginia. Telephone: Capitol 9-1601

Christmas and

New

JF,
.

Williamsburg,

Open

daily except

Year's 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission

$1.00 adults, $0.30 students 12 through 17, $0.25

chil-

dren 6 through 11. Free parking. Restaurant and picnic

areas.

Photographs courtesty of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

219
*

Entrance and Visitor Center

at

Jamestown

Festival Park.

Jamestown

Festival Park

Jamestown ship replicas under sail in Virginia's Hampton Roads manned by volunteer yachtsmen of that
area.

Left

to

right

are the

and SUSAN CONSTANT,

GODSPEED, DISCOVERY,

flagship of the group.

James Fort,
built by the

aerial
first

view of

105

a full-scale

reproduction

settlers in Virginia in 1607.

ST.

ROCH

(Vancouver Maritime Museum)

Alongside the museum

is

ST.

in

her permanent drydock

famous Canadian 104-foot

She made the

first trip

Northwest Passage from west to

Dartmouth,

Nova

Scotia,

R.C.M.P.

1942, and was the

on April

8,

east,

through the

Vancouver

to

June 23, 1940, to October

first

ship to circumnavigate

North America. She was moved

tion

ship, the

ROCH. This ship had an unequalled record of

Arctic voyaging.

11,

Vancouver, Canada

to her present loca-

1958. Built in 1928

at

Burrard Dry

Dock, North Vancouver, she has been restored to

her original rig and accommodations.

North Foot of Cyprus Street. Vancouver 9, British

Columbia, Canada. Telephone : 731-8188. Open during

summer months and

special exhibitions 10 a.m. to

p.m., other times 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

special exhibitions $0.35 adults,

10

Admission during

$0.10 children.

R.C.M.P. ST.

ROCH,

a restoration of the

Canadian Mounted Police schooner.

famous Royal

S.S.

The

KENO
s.s.

keno

Dawson, Yukon

is

territory,

Canada

a restored stern-wheel steamer,

which was recently brought down the Yukon River

to

Dawson from Whitehorse.

a National Historic Site

tained by the

and

It

has been declared

is

owned and main-

Government of Canada.

Canadian Historic

Sites Division,

National and Historic

Research Branch, Department of Northern Affairs and

National Resources, 400 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa,

Ontario, Canada.

S.S.

this

KENO at its permanent berth in Dawson. While

photograph was taken in winter, the Yukon Terri-

tory enjoys a

months of the

warm and
year.

pleasant

summer

for

three

PEGGY (Manx

Nautical

Museum)

Built in 1791, the schooner-rigged,

yacht

peggy was 26

inches in

beam and

Castletown,

Isle

of

Man, England

clinker-built

feet 5 inches overall, 7 feet 8

(after her original

gunwale had

been raised some 7 inches) 4 feet in inside depth.

Her armament

consisted of light cannon, six 1-foot

long mounted

three

to

longer as stern chasers.

and small trading

side,

and two

slightly

combined pleasure

vessel, she

craft

was armed because of

the threat of privateers in waters surrounding the

isle.

Captain George Quayle, her owner, erected a

boathouse where she could be stored and from where

she could be launched as wanted.

The peggy,

her

boathouse, and numerous exhibits relating to nautical

trade and fishing in the Isle of
sail,

and also

to

Man

the Quayle family,

in the days of

make up

this

museum.
Castletown, Isle of

Man, United Kingdom. Open week-

days June to mid-September 10 a.m. to

p.m. to

p.m. and 2

p.m. Admission 6d.

The stern of the PEGGY

The Cabin

Room

of a stern

cabin of a ship

of the

after restoration.

P.S.

MEDWAY QUEEN

This steel ship was

built in

Isle of

Wight, England

1924 by Ailsa Ship-

New

building

Company

Med way

Steam Packet Company of Rochester. She

is

179

of Troon, Scotland for the

feet 9 inches long,

24

feet 2

inches wide,

with a draft of 7 feet 8 inches. She carried 828

passengers on the Strood-Southend run. During the

Dunkirk evacuations she made seven return

the

and brought back more than 7,000

beaches,

soldiers.

She

trips to

is

now

a club

which

is

open

to visitors.

Newport. Telephone: Newport 3929- Open to members

during normal licensing hours, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

and 6:00 p.m.

afternoon.

to

2 a.m.

Admission

Open

2/6.

to

visitors

Temporary

during the

membership

10/- a week.

224

CUTTY SARK

Greenwich, London, England

The last and most famous

now

in

Thames

at

of the tea clippers

is

permanent dry berth overlooking the

Greenwich, fully rigged

just as she

would

be in harbor for a spell in her seagoing days almost

hundred

one

launched

at

Dumbarton on

22, 1869. She

tons.

is

212

depth of 21

feet, a

Once

The cutty sark was

ago.

years

the Clyde on

feet long with a

and

feet,

a gross

beam

tonnage of 963

transfer to

to

wool trade from Australia. She was one of the

fastest sailing clippers

lowed

on the water. Visitors are

in every part of the ship as well as

dock

itself

lines.

On

Silver"

where they can view the

the lower deck

Collection

the

is

paintings,

items

drawings,

on the

famous "Long John

original

of

al-

vessel's beautiful

ship's

figureheads.

'Tween decks, the story of the Cutty Sark

in

of 36

the pride of the China tea trade, with the

coming of steamers she was forced

the

November

and photographs,

is

told

and

in

of interest from the ship's equipment and

papers.

CUTTY SARK
Greenwich,

London

S.E.

10,

England.

GREenwich 3445. Open weekdays

Sundays 2:30 p.m.
Christmas Day.

to 5

Open

Telephone

11 a.m. to

p.m.,

p.m. Closed Christmas Eve and

to

p.m. during the summer.

Admission adults 2/-, children

1/-, parties of

booked in advance, adults 1/6, children 6d.

Photos courtesy of The Wiggins Teape Group.

20 or more

at

her

mooring

in a

bow-on view

starboard quarter view (bottom). Photos by D.

T.

(top),

Walle

TURBINIA

In 1897, in

honor

Jubilee, a great
It

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

was during

of

Queen

Victoria's

was put on exhibition

at

the

Museum

Science

London, where she was a popular exhibit for the

Charles Parsons

next 32 years. In 1961 the restoration of the vessel,

two halves had been brought together again,

amazed and delighted the guests aboard the moored

after the

warships of almost every sea power by showing off

was completed, and on September 15th Admiral

his

turbinia, the world's

Steaming

at

unheard of
size

first

turbine driven ship.

over 30 knots, she demonstrated a speed

at that

time for any vessel of comparable

and convinced the Admiralty

turbine-driven

destroyer,

h.m.s.

to

order

its

Casper John opened Turbinia Hall

Science

&

Engineering

sibilities

Having proved

In

1900 the

Museum

of

Science

&

1927

Engineering,

Tyne, England. Telephone: 207 37

antics

the

memorial

of

to the

first

at

the great

immense pos-

of the marine steam turbine, she was retired

in 1907. In

as a lasting

Museum

genius of Sir Charles Parsons.

days 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Paris Exhibition.

in the

Sir

from The

viper,

Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co.

turbinia performed her speed

in

at Spithead.

Naval Review was held

this occasion that Sir

Diamond

the stern half with the engine

room

Newcastle-upon-

Open summer, week-

(Tuesday and Thursday

to

p.m.), Sunday 2:30 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. Winter, weekdays

10 a.m.

to

4:30 p.m., Sunday 1:30 p.m.

Admission 6d

adults,

2d

to

4:30 p.m.

children.

TURBINIA on

exhibition in Turbinia Hall.

VICTORY

H.M.S.

Portsmouth, Hants, England

This restoration of Lord Nelson's famous

may now

ship was completed on July 17, 1928, and

be visited in her permanent berth

at the

Portsmouth

rests,

an inspira-

Dockyard, where she majestically

performance

tion to all for her magnificent

cause of the British Empire.

in the

104-gun ship-of-the-

May

she was launched on

line,

flag-

7,

1765, and com-

missioned in 1778. Her principal dimensions are 226

6 inches long, 152 feet

feet

inches at waterline,

extreme beam 51 feet 10 inches, depth of hold 21

Her arma-

6 inches, and tonnage 2,162 tons.

feet

ment consisted of 12 12 -pounders on the quarter

deck,

12-pounders and 2 68-pounder carronades

on the

fo'c's'le,

30 12-pounders on the upper gun

deck, 28 24-pounders

on the middle gun deck, and

32-pounders on the lower gun deck.

30

Battle of Trafalgar her

men

and
in

At the

complement was 850

plus England's greatest naval

charge of the entire British

Nelson. At the height of

commander,

Lord Horatio

fleet,

momentous

this

officers

battle,

in

which the British forces under Nelson roundly defeated the Franco-Spanish
fatally

wounded about 1:25

He was
fired

Admiral Nelson was

fleet,

p.m., October 21, 1805.

shoulder by a musket ball

hit in the left

from the mizzen top of the enemy ship re-

doubtable. Today,
been restored

to

visitors

see the ship as

it

grandeur of Nelson's day:

its

has
in-

cluded are Lord Nelson's quarters, the gun decks with

their

armaments, the surgeon's cabin and the

pensary adjoining,

the crew's

quarters,

and rigging, and hundreds of other

dis-

the walks

relics

and me-

mentos, original and replica, of this famous ship.

H M.S. VICTORY showing gun ports

and windows of her stern cabins.
Aft view of the

Adjacent to the h.m.s. victory

seum which houses hundreds of

is

the Victory

relics

Mu-

connected with

the ship.

H. M. Dockyard, Portsmouth, Hants, England. Telephone: Portsmouth 22351,

October
or
1
is

to

1st to

April

earlier.

Sunday
1

Open

is

earlier,

Sunday

hour before sunset, whichever

April 1st to October

p.m.,

noon and

3111.

iveekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

hour before sunset, whichever

p.m. to 5 p.m., or

1st,

extension

p.m.

to

1st,

weekdays 10 a.m.

p.m. Closed between

p.m. Admission free.

227

S.S.

SKJELSK0R

Sweden

Lyngby,

This coastal passenger vessel of Copenhagen

was
in

1915

built in

at

Ring Andersens Staalskibsvaerft

Svendborg, Yard No. 14.

An

awning-decked ship

with a raised quarterdeck, she carried 125 passengers

on the Skjclskor- Agers0-Om0 route. In

was sold
Ships.

The

to

Her

1963 she

Society for the Preservation of

specifications are: 61.2 feet long,

Old

16 feet

wide, and a draft of 6.1 feet.

Lynparken

5.

Lyngby, Sweden. Telephone : 01 .98.33.33.

WARSHIP WASA
On August
wasa sank

1628, on her maiden voyage, the

10,

off

Stockholm, Sweden

Beckholmen. In 1664, more than 30

53 of the wasa's bronze cannon were

years later,

Not

salvaged, using primitive diving devices.

until

1959 was the wasa, which had been located on the

bottom three years previously, raised from

sea

depth of 110 feet and placed in shallower water

a
off

Kostellholmen. Here salvage work was continued.

The

were then assembled

parts

yard,

at the

Wasa Dock-

which opened on February 16,

reconstruction,

the progress

which
of

the

consists of exhibit

One room

is

The

constantly changing due to

diving and restoration work,

rooms and a gallery of

sculpture.

contains the reconstruction of a portion of

the wasa's lower

gun

deck, including

original deck fittings, artillery,

other features
utensils,

1962.

life

clothing,

and

some of

accessories.

aboard ship: original

the

An-

tools, eating

and other personal equipment.

Another room, with the help of more than 4,000

coins found aboard the

Sweden's

wasa,

early- 17th-century

traces highlights of

economic

policy. Finally,

in the sculpture gallery, the collection of

of

wooden

sculpture

from the

fragments

stern castle give an

inkling of the wasa's once regal grandeur.

Wasa Dockyard, Stockholm No, Sweden. Telephone:

22 39 80. Open daily and Sunday in summer 10 a.m.
to

8 p.m., in winter 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission charge

varies,

depending upon

state of reconstruction

work

at

the time.

cannon from the remains of the sunken

and placing it aboard the reconstruction.

Raising a

WASA

230

Ship's bell.

The warship WASA. The ship has four decks in addition to the sterncastle where the commissioned officers lived.

RICI (Swiss Transport

This steamship

is

Museum)

the oldest and finest

Lucerne, Switzerland

in

Switzerland. She was built in 1847 by Ditchborn

&

Mare, London, for The Steamship Company of the

Lake of Lucerne. Her length

27

feet,

is

138

and her displacement 90

years of service the

miles and carried

RIGI

feet,

tons.

her width

During 105

traveled 675,300 nautical

more than 6 million people.

tors can not only see the old engine but also

work by themselves.
superstructure
its

Visi-

make

In the winter of 1958-59

all

it

the

was replaced with due regard for

original form.

Lidostrasse 5, Lucerne, Switzerland. Telephone: (041)

394 94. Open March 16th

9 a.m.
day,

to 6

November
p.m. November 16th to March

Thursday,

Sunday 10 a.m.

Saturday,
to 6

to

1:30

p.m.

to

15th,

daily

15th, Tues-

5:30

p.m.,

p.m. Closed Christmas (December

24th and 25th) and Neiv Year's (December 31 and

January 1st). Admission

jr.

2.50 adults,

jr.

1.-

children.

232

PART

III

SPECIAL MARITIME EXHIBITS

IN THE UNITED STATES

THE SUBMARINE LIBRARY AND

This institution
the world.
the

Here

is

the only one

of

collected the lore

is

its

MUSEUM

Groton, Connecticut

kind in

which

traces

submarine idea back to the days of ancient

Greece.

The

ment

depicted as the submarine evolved

is

story of

American submarine develop-

from

hand-powered, one-man wooden vessel of Revolutionary times to the present-day steel-hulled capital

ship

pathfinder of atomic propulsion. The museum

area features a

model wall portraying the develop-

ment of the United

battle flags

States naval submarine; original

and pennants, paintings, drawings,

away models, simulators,

diaries,

and

letters.

cut-

The

Library contains a collection of books on submarines,

histories,

and

files.

Open by appointment weekdays 9

day and holidays 10 a.m.

to

a.m. to 4 p.m. Satur-

4 p.m. Sunday

p.m. to 4

p.m. Admission free. For research contact the librarian

at

the above address.

contact,

in

Naval Submarine Base

cut.

For general

visiting

and tours

advance, the Visitor Control Officer,

New

U.S.

London, Groton, Connecti-

Telephone: 449-3215.

Above and below; two photographs

marine hull from the

HOLLAND

powered NAUTILUS 55N

missiles.

577,

of the

557, the

and

model

first

fleet

wall depicting the evolution of the sub-

submarine

ballistic

in

missile

the U.S. Navy, to the atomic-

submarine, which

fires

polaris

MERCHANT MARINE
The

U.S.

Maritime Administration

tened this exhibit: This

the only

It is

EXHIBIT

museum

Washington,

D.C

has chris-

Your Merchant Marine.

Is

devoted entirely to the whole

maritime industry' and contains a half-million dol-

worth of ship and

lars'

effects ships, hydrofoils, tugboats,

ers,

ground-

models:

facility

cargo ships, tank-

lake carriers, passenger ships, and nuclear ships

Some

all authentic to the last winch and wire.

dis-

plays are not models but the real thing: a 20-milli-

gun from

meter

antiaircraft

ship;

a navigator's

wartime merchant

chart table with all his actual

equipment, from the traditional sextant to the most

modern

position-finding

electronic

gear;

mock

wheelhouse with a true-motion radar, a gyrocompass

wind

steering wheel, a telegraph, a course recorder,

direction

and speed

Ihere

an exhibit of a naval architect's tools and

is

indicators,

The

of methods of hull design.

and

officers

board duties

are.

phones.

visitor sees

American ships go and what they

men and

ship's

carry;

where

how

sea-

are trained

and what

Here

whole panorama of

is

the

their shipa

complex and dynamic American industry.

Maritime Administration Exhibit Hall (3rd

Street

6-4461.
Friday.

N.W..

Washington,

Open 8:30
Admission

upon advance

a.m.
free.

notice.

to

D.C.
p.m.

floor),

Telephone:

441

DU

Monday through

Guides for groups provided

Models of merchant ships of the United States which

saw service during World War II. Visitors may listen
through earphones to a brief history of ships and
featured by remarks of Presidents on
importance of the U.S. Merchant Marine.

shipping

The General Accounting Office

the

Building

in

which

the Maritime Administration offices are located on the

first,

third,

third floor.

235

and fourth

floors.

The exhibits are on the

ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART

The inclusion of a ship-model
may seem

art gallery

was assembled

lection

sion of skill
jects.

strange.

and

Andover, Massachusetts

collection in an

But the Addison Colan expres-

to represent art as

talent in fashioning functional ob-

Along with numerous marine

paintings,

it

forms a unified marine presentation. Each model

ship acquired conforms to the uniform scale of one-

quarter of an inch to one foot.

have been

built

Most of

the models

up with planks from keel

to deck,

rather than being shaped out of a piece of solid

wood. The
exquisite

interiors of the

detail.

dreadnought

models are furnished with

For example, the model of the

has

mahogany

pidors in the smoking

and brass

seats

cus-

room and bunks made up

with red flannel blankets in the luxury cabins. The

model engine of the clermont can even get up

full

head of steam. The 24 models of famous ships

range from the

to

the CORSAIR,

santa maria and

the

Mayflower

SAVANNAH, and COLUMBIA. The

model makers researched

as

much

as

two years

for

the closest fidelity to historical accuracy possible.

Phillips

Academy. Telephone: 475-3403. Open week-

days including Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 2:30

p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission free.

All

photos by Andover Art Studio.

EDINBURGH, built in
condemned at Bermuda
been attributed by some

Actual figurehead of the bark

Canada
in

in

1883 and

finally

1909. This figurehead has

the

Quebec wood-carver,

jobin.

Others

be the work of John Rogerson.

Francis Thurber Meyer.

Gift of

to

believe

it

to

Louis

236

Front view of the Addison Gallery of American Art.

THATCHER MAGOUN,

model

of the

medium

clip-

Medford, Massachusetts, in 1856 and

employed for almost twenty years in trade between
Boston, or New York, and San Francisco. She was
named for one of America's most famous shipbuilders
and owned by Thatcher Magoun & Son of Boston.
Model by Bernard Hart. Gift of Moreau Delano.

per ship built

at

MUSEUM OF
This famous art

FINE ARTS

museum

has a

Boston, Massachusetts

room devoted

to

extensive collection of ship models. In addition,

its

there are

many maritime

paintings in the various

galleries themselves.

46.5

Huntington Avenue. Telephone:

daily except

Monday 10

ning until 10 p.m.

CO

7-9300.

Open

a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday eve-

(October through May), Sunday

1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed

mas Day, Thanksgiving, and

New

Year's Day, Christ-

July 4th. Admission $0.50

adults, $0.25 children 6 to 18, free for children

under

6 and to members.

All

photos courtesy of the

Museum

of Fine Arts, Boston.

Entrance

to

the

museum from Huntington Avenue.

I
*

H.M.S. ROYAL GEORGE, a model, of

Portsmouth, England, in 1715.

ship built at

238

FRANKLIN

D.

ROOSEVELT LIBRARY

Hyde

Park,

New York

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid

yachtsman and
maritime

a lover of all matters pertaining to

history.

the Navy,

is

it

As

former Assistant Secretary of

fitting that

he has included so many

and naval objects

nautical

naval exhibition
Roosevelt's

room

collection

contains

of

"library."

this

in

ship

part

of

The

President

models and naval

paintings and prints, but his entire naval collection

includes thousands of manuscripts, books, pamphlets,

photographs, prints, and paintings.

in

the library,

which opened

in

Chinese junks and an Arabian

tleships

ships.

ship models

1941, range from

dhow

to

modern

bat-

and submarines. The President was particu-

fond of

larly

The

He

frigates,

sloops of war, and clipper

himself directed the arrangement of the

naval pictures just before the library was opened.

The

library

is

administered by the National Archives

and Records Service of the General Services AdminNaval Exhibition Room.

istration.

Naval Exhibition Room. Telephone: 229-7020. Open

weekdays and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Christmas
Day. Admission $0.50 for

all

persons 16 years of age

or over, except students in school groups admitted free.

All

photos courtesy of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

Exterior

view of The Franklin D. Roosevelt

Chronometer salvaged from the U.S.S. MAINE, which

was blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on
February 15, 1898. Presented to Mr. Roosevelt on
February 15,

1942.

CONSTITUTION

("OLD IRONSIDES"). This

about 1815 and acquired by Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1914. It was his favorite model, and
he completely rerigged it when he was governor of
U.S.S.

model was

New

built

York.

1
1

MUSEUM OF THE
The purpose of
is

this

OF NEW YORK

CITY

museum, founded

in

New York, New York

1923,

the exploitation of the history, culture, and spirit

New

of a single city,
city,

it

is

York. Since

this

is

a shipping

only natural that marine exhibits are

in-

cluded, along with toys, costumes, silver, furniture,

documents, portraits, and thousands of other me-

mentos of

New York

collection covers

and

its

inhabitants.

300 years of the

The marine

city's

maritime

history.

Fifth

LE

Avenue

4-1672.

at

103rd

to

104th

Streets.

Telephone:

Open Tuesday through Saturday 10

5 p.m., Sunday and holidays

Monday. Admission free.

Photos courtesy of the

Museum

a.m. to

p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed

of the City of

New

York.

Front garden of the

Diorama of South

Street in the 1850's.

Museum

of the City of

New

York.

THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

This society has a

number

relating to the history of this

count of Henry

Hudson and

of marine exhibits

city,

his

including an ac-

half moon,

valuable collection of scrimshaw, and

of

New

New York, New York

many

paintings

York as a leading shipping port.

170 Central Park West. Telephone:

TR

Tuesday through Friday and Sunday

3-3400.

Open

p.m. to 5 p.m.,

Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed August and national

holidays.

Admission

free.

Two

sides of the building of the

New-York

Historical Society.

Display showing excellent

examples of scrimshaw.

Photos courtesy of the New-York

Historical Society,

Hastings Landing, watercolor by George Harvey, circa 1840, showing an early

Hudson

River scene

New

York City

INDEX
Adam, Edouard, 18

Martino, Dionisio

Addison Gallery of American Art,

Andover, 236-237
Admiral A. Ohmucevic, 194
Admiralty Board meeting, diorama

Morse,
Muller,

of,

112

ALABAMA,

C.S.S., 11

Alands Sjofartsmuseum, Mariehamn,

Finland, 116-118

ALBANY, U.S.S., 3
alma, restoration of, 198
Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany,
129-132
Amagansett, L.I., New York, 49-50
amphion, stern of, replica of, 188
Amsterdam, Holland, 139-143
Anchor, from benjamin f. Packard,
202

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum,

Michaels Harbor, Maryland, 26-27

153

128

Fr.,

Raleigh, C.

di,

42

S. F. B.,

Chest, sailor's,

Sjostrom, 57

Chronometer, from U.S.S. MAINE, 241

CITY OF DETROIT, S.S., 47

Stuart, Gilbert, 13,

24

Velde, Willem van

Ward, John, 109

de, 139,

H5

Wieringen, Corn. Claesz von, 138

Wyllie, W. L., 114

Astrolabe, 95, 150

Attack with Fireships in the Battle of

Solebay, June 7. 7672, 139

82-84

Cabrillo Beach Marine

of,

198-201

Arctic Whalers, 130

California, 2-7,

Argentina, 78-81

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30-31

Campus Martinus Museum, Marietta,
Ohio, 61

ARGOSY, 54
Aristizabal y Lequeiro, D. Quirico, 180
Arizona, U.S.S., memorial to, 209

230

Artifacts,
Artists,

South

works

Pacific,

Reef

64

of,

Adam, Edouard, 18
Aristizabal y Lequeiro, D. Quirico, 180
Biggieri, E., 79, 81

Lighthouse,

L.I.,

F.

Melcher, 22

Captain James Cook, 104

Capture of the KENT
by LA CONFIANCE, 1800, The, 125

York,

88, restoration

Columbia River Maritime Museum,

Astoria, Oregon, 62-63
comet, P.S., engine from, 110

COMMERCE,

Connecticut, 202-206, 234

Captain Ivan Kaznacic, 196

New

215

Cannon, miniature, 104

Canoes, models of, 27
Captain Benjamin

32-33

restoration

217-218

Canada, 88-91, 221, 222

195

30,

143

Compass,

Captain A. Vugliesi-Ohmutev'tc

Armillary sphere, 204

22,

Massachusetts,

Columbia, Lightship No.

Museum,

San Pedro, California, 5-7

LA, 81

torpedo,

Village,

Cold Spring Harbor,

51-52

restoration of, 199

8,

2,

Clock, 142

of,

thayer,

Liverpool,

Philadelphia,

Cleopatra's barge, 43
Clipper ships, models of,
33, 83, 237, 239

Cohasset

Cabrillo, Juan Rodrigues, 6

15, 75, 76, 80, 134, 228,

Center Museum,

Clockwork,

restoration of, 192

Antarctic scene, diorama of, 72

Armament,

Civic

Colchester

C. a.

Museum,

England, 105-107
Pennsylvania, 6466

ASTARTE, 131
Astoria, Oregon, 62-63, 215

aurora,

CITY OF GLASGOW, 176

City of Liverpool

Annapolis, Maryland, 24-25

ARGENTINA,

68

Christopher Columbus, 70

Andover, Massachusetts, 236, 237

anna, a bark out of Brake in a

Antwerp, Belgium, 85-87

of,

Sarolla y Bastida, Joaquin, 70

Australia,

hurricane, painting of, 128

177

Chinese pleasure boat, model

41

S.,

St.

20

CONSTELLATION, U.S.S., 16
CONSTITUTION, U.S.S., 42, 84, 241
restoration of, 211

sofa from, 14

Copenhagen, Denmark, 92-94

Cordage Company Building,
202
CORSAIR, 20

replica

of,

Bitschop, Chr., 144

Capturing a Sperm Whale, 218

Bozidarevic, N., 195

Caravel,

Countinghouse, replica

Cargo

Crowninshield, Captain George, portrait

44
Dennis Malone, 13

Buttersworth,
Carter,

E.,
J.

Dance, Nathaniel, 104

Dighton, Denis, 103
Garneray, Louis, 125
Granello, Niccolosio, 153

model of, 170

model of, 90
Carrack, model of, 54
Carter, Dennis Malone, 13
carrier,

CHALLENGE, 8
CHARLES W., 4
charles W. morgan,

captain's table in,

Grassi, Christopher, 155

restoration of, 205

Harvey, George, 243

Hogarth, William, 103

galley of, restoration of, 205

Isaby, E.,

122

restoration of,

205

Charlestown, Massachusetts, 211

Ivankovic, V., 195

CHARLOTTE DUNDAS, 83

Linnig, Egide, 86

Charts,

Maggiola, Jacopo, 155

Chatham Cup, 143

140, 151, 155

of,

20

of, 42
Cushion craft, model of, 83
cutty sark, restoration of, 225

Dance, Nathaniel, 104

Danish Maritime Museum, Helsingor,
Denmark, 95-96
DAVY CROCKETT, 3
Dawson, Canada, 222
d'bataviase eeuw, 172
Death of Lord Nelson, The, 103
Decatur,

Commodore

Stephen, 13

244

Decatur's Attack on Tripoli,

DELAWARE, U.S.S.,
DEN ARY, 138
Denmark, 92-96

11,

Figureheads,

76

21,

3,

37,

115,

109,

91, 96, 99,

54,

152,

169,

182,

185,

204,

217,

218,

236

69,

118,

186,

72,

73,

124,

131,

188,

193,

herzogin

cecilie, figurehead from, 118

saloon room, restoration of, 117

hi-esmaro, 28
Hogarth, William, 103

FINISTERE, H.M.S., 175

Holland, 139-146

Detroit, Michigan,

Finland, 116-118

HOLLAND

Deutsches

FINLAND, 183

Destroyers, models of, 74, 175

46-47
Museum, Munich, Germany,

133-136

Fishing equipment, 50

Dighton, Denis, 103

Fishing vessels, models of, 131, 159

Dioramas,

Flag, pirate,

29, 45,

17,

59,

60,

71,

112,

189, 242

discovery, replica
District of

Diving

of,

220

Columbia, 8-17, 207, 235

bell,

133

replica,

Documents, 93, 192

Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit,
Michigan, 46-47

117

Florida, 208
FLYING CLOUD, 30, 239
FORRESTER, 3
France, 119-125

Francis

Russell

Arctic,

Hyde

109

Park,

New

York, 240-241

Iceland, 147

Hart Nautical Museum,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30-31

Franklin D.

SSI, 234
Hooper Strait Lighthouse, restoration of,
210
Howland, Captain John, portrait of, 38
Hull Whalers swan and Isabella in the

Hyde

Roosevelt Library,

illustrious,

H.M.S.,

design

drawings

98

of,

Inchkeith Lighthouse, optic from, 171

Drawings, ship design, 98

Freighter,

independence, 3
infanta isabel de borbon, 178

dreadnaught, 44

Frigates,

Institute of

Drakkar, model

of,

Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 193-196

Dubrovnik galleon, 194
Dubrovnik harbor in 1499, 195

DUNTROON,
Dutch

M.S., 82

fleet at

New

Park,

81

York, 240-241

model of, 53
models of, 42, 92, 174, 189, 191
Funeral barge, model of, 148
of Lord Nelson, 115

Galleons, models of, 111, 162, 181

anchor, 1668, painting of,

145

Galley,

model

of,

120, 154

eagle, C.G.C., training ship, 206

Eagle, carved, 23

East

Hampton Town Marine Museum,

49-50
East Indiamen, models of, 138, 141, 142,
172, 183

Easter Island, cave of, replica, 166

eber, 195

Germany, 126-136
Glasgow, Scotland, 174-176
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum,
Glasgow, Scotland, 174-176
Globe, navigator's, 181

godspeed, replica of, 220

Gondola, model of, 31
Goteborg, Sweden, 182-183

great admiral, figurehead from, 204

GREAT EASTERN, 105
GREAT MICHAEL, 172

Granello, Niccolosio, 153

ernst lorenz,

Groton, Connecticut,

Fall River, Massachusetts,

212

Farragut, Admiral, figurehead of, 204

FAUVETTE, LA, 123

Fighting Sperm Whale, 41

61

Jones, John Paul, statue of, 25

155

Ericsson, Leif, statue of, 71

79
eureka, restoration of, 200
EVELYN, 106
"Ewar," class of sailing ships, 136
EXODUS, 26

j. T. Leonard, restoration of, 210

JAKOB, 196
James Fort, replica of, 220
Jamestown, Virginia, 219-220
Festival Park, 219-220

John H. Jones 1785-1859, 52

Greenwich, London, England,

225

of,

England, 99

Scilly,

148-151
152-162

JOHN FARNUM,

elisa of Mandel, Norway. 57

ELISE OF ELSFLETH. 128

Dreyer's shipyard, painting of, 130

Espora, Captain Tomas, boarding knife

of

Japan, 163, 164

Grassi, Christopher,

brig on the ways of

of Wight, England, 224

Janus head, 89

ELEPHANTEN, 92

Isle

Ivankovic, V., 195

152-156

GRANDE HERMINE, 125

England, 97-115, 223-228

of

Italy,

Edinburgh, figurehead from, 236

Edinburgh, Scotland, 171-173

Engines, marine, 110, 173, 175

122

Man, England, 223

Isle

Israel,

Gatling gun, 75
Italy,

Isaby, E.,

Isles

Garneray, Louis, 125

Genoa-Pegli,

Applied Science of Victoria,

Melbourne, Australia, 82-84

Junk, Chinese, model of, 182

101-104,

KAATERSKILL,

S.S.,

217

KALMARE NYCKEL, 69
Karlskrona, Sweden, 184-186

Kennedy, President John

F.,

ship models

Half models, 132

owned by, 15
KENO, S.S., restoration of, 222
KING EDWARD, 176
King Neptune, figurehead of, 73

HALF MOON, 69

Kingston-on-the-Hull, England, 108-109

234

Haifa, Israel, 148-151

Halsey, Admiral, saddle of, 24

KOHBOOK-SON,

Hamburg, Germany, 129-132

Kommandor

Handels-og Sofartsmuseet, 95, 96

Harrison, John, timekeeper of, 101
Harvey, George, 243
Hastings Landing, 243
Hawaii, 209

Hvalfangstmuseum, Sandefjord,
Norway, 168
KON-TIKI Museum, Oslo, Norway,
165-166
kon-tiki raft, 166
Kronborg Castle, 95
Kylik, Greek, decorated, 150

Helsingor, Denmark, 95-96

HERCULES, 79

55

Chr. Christensen's

LAGODA, 39
Lancaster, U.S.S., figurehead from, 72
Launch of the CHRISTIAN, The, 176
Launching of the succes, 86
Lawrence, James, portrait of, 24
lea, 158
Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 192
Lens,

Cape Charles Lighthouse, 73

II,

replica of

169-170
Liverpool, England, 105-107
LOCH LINNHE, figurehead from, 118
LOCH MAREE, 84
Lisbon, Portugal,

London, England, 100-104, 110-112,

225

His Cabin, 103

P.S., restoration of,

Munich, Germany, 133-136

Marine, Paris, France,

121-123

Musee Maritime,

Marseilles, France,

119-120

Madrid, Spain, 180-181

Maggiola, Jacopo, 155
Maine, 18-23

Museo del Mare, Trieste, Italy, 157-159

Museo Maritimo, Barcelona, Spain,
177-179

Museum, Castletown,

Museo Naval de

of Man, England, 223

New-York

243

Historical Society, The, 243

Newport News, Virginia, 70-73

nippon-maru, 163

NORFOLK, U.S.S., 74
NORMANDIE, 122
North Carolina, 214
north Carolina, U.S.S., restoration
214
Norway, 165-168
Nuclear vessel, model of, 178
Ohio, 61, 215

MARIA PIA, 160

Mariehamn, Finland, 116-118

Museo Naval, Madrid, Spain, 180-181

Museo Navale, Genoa-Pegli, Italy,

"old ironsides," See constitution,

Marietta, Ohio, 61, 215

152-156
Museo Storico Navale, Venice,
160-162

ORCA, 10
Oregon, 62-63, 215
Orlogmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark,

Marine Museum of the Seamen's Church

Institute of

New

New

York,

York,

Museu de Marinha,

53-55

Museum

70-73
Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden,
184-186
Virginia,

Maritime

Museum

New

Lisbon, Portugal,

New

York,

Museum

Israel,

of Science, London, England,

202-205

202-205

Nantucket, Massachusetts, 3436

National Maritime Museum, London,

England, 100-104

MARSEILLOIS, 119
Martino, Dionisio

153
Maryland, 24-27, 210
Mason County Museum, Marietta, Ohio,
48
di,

Massachusetts, 28-45, 211-213,

Massachusetts,
212

U.S.S.,

236-239

restoration

of,

National

Paintings,

2, 13,

18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 38,

Museum

Iceland,

125, 128, 130, 139, 144, 145, 153, 155,

164, 176, 180, 194, 195, 196, 243

in

119-120

Painters, See Artists

87, 103, 104, 109, 114, 120, 122, 123,

Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut,

Academy

Marseilles, France,

193

41, 42, 44, 57, 65, 68, 70, 79, 81, 86,

Mystic, Connecticut,

of the Arts and Sciences

Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 193-196
Marquesas god, sculpture of, 165

S.S.,

Oslo, Norway, 165-166

Painting on porcelain, 127

28-29

Maritime Museum, Kingston-on-theHull, England, 108-109

Maritime Museum of the Yugoslavia

92-94

oxford, H.M.S., 174

of Fine Arts, Boston, 238-239

of History and Technology,

8-11

Rotterdam, Holland, 144-146

u.s.s.

oskar,

of the City of

York, 242

Museum
Museum

"Prins Hendrik,"

Maritime Museum, Haifa,

148-151

Italy,

169-170

Mariners Museum, Newport News,

of Iceland, Reykjavik,

Panorama of the Port of Philadelphia, 65

Panorama of Trafalgar, The, 114
Paris, France, 121-123
PARTHIA, 18
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts,

42-45
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,

147

National Scheepvaartmuseum, Antwerp,

peggy, restoration

Belgium, 85-87
nautilus SSN571, 234
Naval Museum, Leningrad,

Pennsylvania, 64-69

192

of,

Nacion, Buenos Aires,

la

Argentina, 78-81

MARCO polo, 90

New Brunswick Museum, The,

New Brunswick, Canada, 89-91
New London, Connecticut, 206
New York, 49-60, 240-243
New York, New York, 53-55, 242,

Noah's Ark, 71
Saint Malo, France,

124-125

Lyngby, Sweden, 229

Whaler catalpa

Cutting Blubber from a Sperm Whale,

41

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 226

128

la

139-140
Nelson, Vice-Admiral Lord, coat of, 100
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 37-41

New Bedford

Musee de Saint-Malo,

Luggers, models of, 106, 107

Isle

224

Melbourne, Australia, 82-84

Merchant Marine Exhibit, Washington,

Fr.,

107, 116, 120, 150, 159, 181, 204, 24l

Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart

Museum, Amsterdam, Holland,

medway queen,

Musee de

Ludington, Michigan, 48

Nautical

I,

213
Medals, 148, 181

Muller,

Lucerne, Switzerland, 190-191, 232

Manx

MAYFLOWER

D.C., 235

Lighthouses, 29, 73, 171, 210, 217

Linnig, Egide, 86

in

Navigational equipment, 74, 94, 95, 101,

137

tops,

MAYFLOWER

Merchant ships, models of, 149, 235

MERRIMAC, C.S.S., 17
Michigan, 46-48
MINNESOTA, U.S.S., 17
MONITOR, U.S.S., 17
Morai, Hawaiian idol, 45
Morse, S. F. B., 42
Motor liners, models of, 10, 122, 175

revolving Fresnel, 29

Lord George Graham

Mast

U.S.S.R.,

of,

209
223

Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport,

Maine, 21-23
Perry, Oliver Hazard, flag of, 25

SAINT JOHN,

PHILADELPHIA, 31
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

Saint-Malo, France, 124-12

64-69

Maritime Museum, 67-69

ST.

Cargo

rock, restoration

of,

wharf, diorama

221

Chinese pleasure boat, 68

Clipper ships,

45

of,

San Francisco, California,

Plymouth, Massachusetts, 213

116

restoration of,

Poop deck, decoration from, 154

Porcelain, decorated, 127, 139, 143, 181

Pott of Genoa, 1575, 153

Portsmouth, Hants, England, 114-115,

Cushion

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 74

169-170

Sandefjord Sjofartsmuseum, Sandefjord,

Fishing vessels, 131, 159

Drakkar, 81
East Indianmen, 138, 141, 142, 172,

183
Freighter, 53

9,

Frigates, 42, 92, 174, 189, 191

154

Galleons, 111, 162, 181

SANTISIMA TRINIDAD, 80
SAPPHO, 107
SARATOGA, U.S.S., 60

Galley, 120, 154

Gondola, 31

Post office drum, revolving, 32

Sarolla y Bastida, Joaquin, 70

PRESIDENT WARFIELD, 26

savannah,

PREUSSEN, 3
Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands.
1820-1879, 144
PRINCE ROYAL, H.M.S., 239
PRINS WILLIAM, 141, 142

Schiff arts-Museum,

Luggers, 106, 107

Merchant

Brake/Unterweser,

Schooners, models of,

Science

Junk, Chinese, 182

nuclear ship, 178

Germany, 126-128
School of Sperm Whales
of Hawaii, A, 218

Motor
off

the Island

2, 4,

vessel,

Sailing vessels, 61, 75, 84, 106, 112,

127, 146, 161, 164, 176

Schooners,

171-176

2, 4,

Raleigh, C.

S.,

street,

cobblestoned, replica of,

178,

183,

Sternwheelers, 62, 63

203

Submarines, 234

21-23

Searsport, Maine,

Recognition of the Argonauts, 153

Seattle,

183

Trawlers, 54, 129

Washington, 77

Trireme, Greek, 66

Museum, 77

of cooking utensils, 187

RENO,

176,

105,

193
Seaport

41

REAL CARLOS, 181

Relics, 89, 91,

30,

Sea grotto, 6

65

of,

66, 107

Sidewheelers, 10, 26, 111

Steamships,

model

175

78

Raft, 65

66, 107

Scrimshaw, 23, 40, 58, 69, 243

Raft,

235

Pinnace, 18

Museum, London, England,

Scotland,

H.M.S., 175

ships, 149,

liners, 10, 122,

Nuclear

110-112

Quadrant, 94

83

craft,

Destroyers, 74, 175

SANTA MARIA,

Portsmouth, Virginia, 74-76

22, 30, 33, 83,

2, 8,

237, 239

Maritime State Park, 198-200

San Pedro, California, 5-7
san rafael, figurehead from, 169
Sandefjord, Norway, 168-169

Norway, 168

227, 228

QUEEN MARY,

198-201

3, 4,

Maritime Museum, 3-4

Massachusetts, 213

90

carrier,

Carrack, 54

Salem, Massachusetts, 42-45

46

Plimouth Plantation, Plymouth,

Portugal,

Caravel, 170

Petersburg, Florida, 208

St.

Pinnace, model of, 18

pommern,

Canoes, 27

210

207
Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, 236
restoration of,

Pilot house, reconstruction of,

Bugeyes, 27

Michaels Harbor, Maryland, 26, 27,

St.

128

Brigs, 2,

30

S.S.,

Viking

servia, 19

U.S.S., 15

ships, 9, 81

Warships,

2,

7,

11,

13,

16,

42,

55,

Reykjavik, Iceland, 147

Shelburne, Vermont, 216-218

60, 67, 76, 80, 92, 94, 97, 98, 111,

190, 232
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland,
141-143

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont,

121, 145,

146, 156, 160, 162, 164,

170, 172,

174, 179,

ROLF KRAKE, 94
ROMA, 158

Ship models,

rigi, restoration of,

216-218

5,

2,

7,

181, 185, 189,

191, 238, 239, 241

Ship chandler's sign, 108

8-11, 13, 15, 18,

20, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 39, 42, 43, 47,

Whaling

ship, 10

Yachts, 20, 28

Rotterdam, Holland, 144-146

53,

54,

61,

62,

63,

65,

66,

67,

68,

Shipbuilding, diorama of, 71

royal charles, escutcheon from, 142

ROYAL GEORGE, H.M.S., 238
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh,

69,

75,

76,

80,

81,

82,

83,

84,

87,

Ship's chandlery, interior of, 203

90, 92, 94, 97, 98, 105, 106, 107, 111,

Scotland,

171-173

Rudderheads, 85, 137

Rynklipper sailing vessel, model
Sag Harbor, New York, 56-58
Sailing

vessels,

models

of,

of,

61,

146

75,

106, 112, 127, 146, 161, 164, 176

Sailor's bag,
St.

John,

89-91

118

New

Brunswick, Canada,

84,

replica of,

202

113,

114,

115,

120,

121,

122,

125,

Ship's interior, 186

127,

128,

129,

131,

135,

138,

141,

Shipyard, diorama of, 29, 59, 60

145,

146,

148,

149,

154,

156,

158,

159,

160,

161,

162,

164,

169,

170,

172,

173,

174,

176,

178,

179,

181,

183,

185,

189,

191,

234,

235,

237,

238,

239,

241

shops, replicas of, 132

Stockholm, 189
Sidewheelers, models of, 10, 26, 111
Silver, ships',

16

sirius, P.S., 111

109

Barges, 81, 148, 162, 169

sirius, P.S., figurehead from,

Barks, 39, 158

Sjofartsmuseet, Goteborg, Sweden,

Battleship, 158

182-183

Sjostrom, 57

ticonderoga,

Skenesborough Museum, Whitehall,

New York, 59-60

TIGRONE, U.S.S., 15
tikoma, figurehead from, 91
Timekeeper, 101

skjelskar,

229
Washington,

S.S., restoration of,

Smithsonian Institution,
D.C., 8-11

Street,

New

York, diorama

of,

242

SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, 7

Spain, 177-181
Spanish seaman in uniform, painting
of,

180

STAR OF FRANCE,

Statens Sjohistoriska, Stockholm, Sweden,

187-189
Statues, 6, 45, 71, 78, 165

216

Warships, models
145,

146,

156,

160,

162,

164,

170,

172,

174,

179,

181,

185,

Museum, Tokyo, Japan,

92,

94,

234

was A, 230-231
Washington, state of, 77
Washington, D.C., 8-17, 207, 235
Watch, silver pocket, 118
WEEROONA, P.S., 82
Whale, jawbone of, 51

98,

57

oil, kettles for,

166

shark,

skeleton of, 41

Academy Museum, 24-25

Navy Memorial Museum, 14-17

168

stuffed,

Whaleboats, 49, 50, 52, 56

Whaling implements, 35, 36, 49, 50,

Uniforms, 100
States,

sperm, jaw of, 35

2-77

63,

69

184

Museum,

Isles of

New

York, 51-52

Nantucket, Massachusetts, 3436

Scilly, England, 99
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
88, 221

Whaling

Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouvc

Whistle, steam, 107

New

Bedford, Massachusetts, 37-41

ship,

Whitehall,

Canada, 88, 221

model

New

of,

10

York, 59-60

Whaling Museum,

Velde, Willem van de, 139, 145

Wieringen, Corn. Claesz von, 138

New

Venice,

160-162
Vermont, 216-218

WILLIAM

York, 56-58

Sunderland, Durham, England, 113

Museum, 113
susan constant,

97,

157-159
Trireme, Greek, model of, 66
Truxton, Commodore Thomas, 1
Truxton-Decatur Naval Museum,
Washington, D.C., 12-13
turbinia, restoration of, 226
25 de mayo, gun from, 80

Trieste, Italy,

Valhalla Maritime

24

turret of, reconstruction of,

Sag Harbor,

80,

Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor,

Submarines, 135, 136

Suffolk County

76,

67,

Trawlers, models of, 54, 129

United

Submarine Library and Museum,

Groton, Connecticut, 234
of,

60,

189, 191, 238, 239, 241

163

STRALSUND, 129

models

of, 2, 7, 11, 13, 16, 42,

121,

Sternwheelers, models of, 62, 63

Stuart, Gilbert, 13,

215

111,

U.S.S.R., 192

STOCKHOLMSHAXAN, 183

of,

200

55,

U.S.

231

restoration of,

Tools, shipbuilding, 20, 34

Stern figure, 90

2 30,

SNYDER, restoration

Ward, John, 109

U.S. Naval

Stockholm, Sweden, 187-189,

P.

wapama,

Steamships, models of, 30, 105, 176, 178,

183, 193

W.

Tokyo, Japan, 163-164

Transportation

South Seas, exhibits from, 36

South

S.S., restoration of,

Italy,

victory, H.M.S., 98, 114

replica of,

220

227-228
Museum, Portsmouth, England,

restoration of,

Sweden, 182-189, 229-231

Swiss Transport Museum, Lucerne,
Switzerland, 190-191, 232

Victory

Switzerland, 190-191, 232

of Genoa. 1481, 155

Vieiv of the Port of Philadelphia, 68

B. MILNER, 107
Wilmington, North Carolina, 214
"Witch of Stockholm," 183
Woodblocks, Japanese, 164
Wyllie, W. L., 114

114-115

View
View

of Brake in the Year 1850. 128

Viking

ships,

models

of, 9,

YOUNG AMERICA,

TECUMSEH, 33

THATCHER MAGOUN, 237

THERMOPYLAE, 83, 84

Virginia, 18, 70-76, 219, 220

Yugoslavia, 193-196

81

VILLE DE DIEPPE, LA, 121

VIRGINIA, C.S.S., 17

Yachts, models of, 20, 28

ZEELANDIA, 146
ZENOBIA, 3