Propulsion Type: Internal Combustion

Sub Chaser, SC-1075

About the vessel This ship was one of 438 built on the same plan. These wooden-hulled ships were produced primarily for the […]

PT-124 (80′ Elco Motor Torpedo Boat)

PT-124 was an 80′ Elco Motor Torpedo Boat . Elco is an abbreviation for the Electric Boat Company. She was completed in 1942 and served the duration of the war.

Type XXI Submarine

High-endurance German submarine produced too late in the war to see significant service. 1500 were ordered, but only 118 were completed. Of those 118 only 4 were every ready for combat, and only two were ever sent on a patrol. None saw action.

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.

Elva C

A buy boat built in 1922 by Gilbert S. White in Westland, VA. She was built for Capt. Lee Abbot of Foxwells, who named her after his daughter and used her for pound net fishing and freight until 1955. She had two more owners before being donated to the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum.