Ships, Historic
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Visitors can explore the science, history and art of boats and boat building at the museum.
Climb into a boat that sits on a waterbed, put weights in different places on a model boat to study its center of gravity, or pull different shapes through a ten-foot tank of water to examine how drag...
Columbus, Georgia
Located in Columbus, Georgia, the National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus is the only museum in the country that features both the Union and Confederate navies. Inside the museum lay the remnants of two Confederate warships: the hull of the CSS Muscogee, destroyed in in Chattahoochee...
East Providence, Rhode Island
THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA was established in 1935 as a means of bringing together those amateur and professional historians interested in the history and development of steam navigation, past and present.Incorporated in the State of Virginia in 1950 as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3)...
Boston, Massachusetts
This naval museum is dedicated to the USS Constitution, the oldest warship still in commission.
The stories of USS Constitution and the people associated with her come to life in the Museum’s exhibits. Two “core” exhibits, “Old Ironsides in War and Peace” and “...
Baltimore, Maryland
The last all sail ship built by the U.S. Navy, and the last Civil War-era vessel still afloat, the USS Constellation is now open as a museum in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.Launched in 1854 out of the Chesapeake Bay, the vessel served her country for 100 years before finally being decommissioned in...