Intrepid / Mastico

This is a model of the first USS Intrepid. It was a Tripolitan vessel (the Mastico) taken during the Barbary Wars by Stephen Decatur and used in a raid to destroy the captured US frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. Previously it had been used as a bomb vessel […]

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Arabia Steamboat Museum, The

Arabia was a riverboat sunk by a submerged tree snag just outside of Kansas City. The 150 passengers Made it off the boat safely, but 200 tons of cargo were lost. These artifacts are now on display.

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Flying Cloud

Flying Cloud, the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay, set the world’s sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco. The trip took 89 days and 8 hours. a record that held for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989.

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Queen Mary

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

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Natchez (1869)

Race from New Orleans to St. Louis against another Mississippi paddle steamer, the Robert E. Lee, was immortalized in a lithograph by Currier and Ives.

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Mt. Washington

A sidewheeler that worked lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire where the modeler used to live.

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Destrehan

Mississippi River steam powered sternwheel towboat built in 1921 by the Charles Ward company in Charleston, West Virginia for the Pan American Petroleum company of New Orleans

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Lois McClure

The schooner Lois McClure is the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s full-scale replica of an 1862-class sailing canal boat, based closely on two shipwrecks located in Burlington Harbor. Each season, the Lois tours regional waterways, welcoming the public aboard to experience local history in a modern context.

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