This is an alphabetical listing of maritime museums and museum ships located around the world. Libraries with significant maritime holdings are also included. You can use the optional fields to filter by type and country, or use the geoloacted list or map. Please contact us if you would like a museum to be added to this list.
Claud W. Somers
Claud W. Somers is a skipjack that was used for oyster dredging in Virginia and Maryland waters and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Register of Historic Places. It is one of the few skipjacks remaining in operational condition on Chesapeake Bay. Commissioned by Edward Thomas Somers, she was built in 1911 by Tom Young at Young’s Creek near the settlement known as Clam, Virginia, just north of Onancock and named after Edward’s son. After a working career of at least 60 years, she was eventually donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.
Connecticut River Museum
Essex, CT, United States
Local maritime history museum and the ship ‘Onrust’, a re-creation of the vessel Adriaen Block built in 1614.
Constellation, USS (sloop-of-war)
USS Constellation is a sloop-of-war, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. Part of Historic Ships in Baltimore.
D&H Canal Historical Society
High Falls, NY, United States
The D&H Canal Historical Society maintains a museum and a walking trail.
Delaware
A wooden tugboat built in built in 1912 – a rare example of a typical early 20th century wooden river tug. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum
Fenwick Island, DE, United States
Museum displaying items recovered from shipwrecks.
Discovery
Replica of one of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607.
Part of Jamestown Settlement.
Dolphin, USS (AGSS-555)
A United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
East End Seaport Museum
Greenport, NY, United States
Local museum presenting local boatbuilding and lighthouse history. Large collection of Fresnel lenses.
East Hampton Town Marine Museum
Amagansett, NY, United States
The Marine Museum tells the unique story of Long Island’s East End community and its relationship with the sea through artifacts, photographs, models, and displays.
Edmeé S.
(ex. Cecelia Mae)
Chesapeake Bay’s racing log canoe from the 1930s. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.