Museum Type: Original Ship

Take a tour or stay overnight this ship which now operates as a hotel and venue for meetings and weddings

Lead ship of the Iowa-class battleships

The world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat, this frigate is most noted for actions during the War of 1812, when it captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned the ship the nickname of “Old Ironsides”.

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.

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.

Swift Boat, formerly C24/P24 of the Armed Forces of Malta. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

1904 steam yacht . Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

A United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Foxtrot-class diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. Now part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.

Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship, Euterpe. Part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.