All museum ships with WW2 history

NeuralDream · **NeuralDream**

I've compiled the following list of WW2 museum ships. In bold the ones that we have in WAS.

HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen — Dutch Navy Museum, Den Helder, Netherlands — minesweeper
CSS Acadia — Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — hydrographic survey and patrol ship of 1913
USS Alabama — Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, USA — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
SS American Victory — Tampa, Florida, USA — Victory ship
Aurora — Saint Petersburg, Russia — Protected cruiser involved in the Battle of Tsushima, symbol of the October Revolution
USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA — Balao-class submarine
USS Becuna — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — submarine
Set III: HMS Belfast — London, England — Town-class cruiser
ORP Blyskawica — Gdynia, Poland — 1936 destroyer
USS Bowfin — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA — submarine
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) — Port Huron Michigan
HMS Caroline — Belfast, Northern Ireland — WW1 light cruiser, last survivor from the Battle of Jutland, currently RNVR housing ship, awaiting decommissioning
USS Cassin Young — Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer
HMAS Castlemaine — Williamstown, Victoria, Australia — 1941 corvette/minesweeper
HMS Cavalier — Chatham, England — "C" class destroyer
USS Cavalla — Galveston, Texas USA — Gato-class submarine
USS Charrette — Athens, Greece — 1942 destroyer, later named HNS Velos (D-16)
USS Clamagore — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Cold War Balao-class submarine
USS Cobia — Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA — Gato-class submarine
USS Cod — Cleveland, Ohio, USA — submarine
USS Croaker — Buffalo, New York, USA — Gato-class submarine
D-2 Narodovolets — Saint Petersburg, Russia — Soviet Dekabrist class submarine of World War II
HMAS Diamantina — Brisbane, Australia, — River-class frigate
Drazki torpedo boat (alternate spelling: Druzki) — Varna, Bulgaria — torpedo boat
USS Drum — Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama, USA — submarine
USS Everett F. Larson (later ROKS Jeong Buk (DD-916) — Gangneung Unification Park, Gangneung, South Korea — 1945 Gearing-class destroyer
Set IV: Georgios Averoff — Athens, Greece — only surviving armoured cruiser (pre-WWI)
HA. 19 (Japanese Midget Submarine) — National Museum of the Pacific War at Fredericksburg, Texas — Japanese Ko-hyoteki class submarine
Set II: HMCS Haida — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada — Tribal-class destroyer
USS Hazard — Omaha, Nebraska, USA — minesweeper
Hikawa-Maru — Yokohama, Japan — Ocean Liner used as Hospital ship — Launched 1929
HNoMS Hitra — Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, Horten, Norway — submarine chaser, Shetland bus
USS Hornet (CV-12) — Alameda, California, USA — WWII aircraft carrier
Huron — Port Huron, Michigan, USA — lightship
USCGC Ingham — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Treasury-class United States Coast Guard Cutter
Set III: USS Intrepid (CV-11) — New York City, New York, USA — WWII Essex-class aircraft carrier
Set I: SS Jeremiah O'Brien — San Francisco, California, USA — WWII Liberty ship
SS John W. Brown — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — WWII Liberty ship
K-21 — Severomorsk, Russia — Soviet World War II K-class submarine
Set III: USS Kidd — Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer
MV Krait — Sydney, Australia — commando boat
Krasin — Saint Petersburg, Russia — icebreaker
Set II: USS Laffey — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
SS Lane Victory — San Pedro, California, USA — Victory ship
USS Lexington (CV-16) — Corpus Christi, Texas, USA — Essex-class aircraft carrier
USS Ling — Balao-class submarine — New Jersey Naval Museum, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
USS Lionfish — Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — 1943 U.S. Navy Balao-class submarine
USS LST 325 — Chickasaw, Alabama, USA — landing ship tank
USS LST 1008 — Chinese Naval Museum at Qingdao — landing ship tank, launched 1944
HMS M33 — Portsmouth, England — British monitor (under restoration as museum ship)
HTMS Maeklong — Chulachomklao Fort, Thailand — gunboat
Set II: USS Massachusetts — Fall River, Massachusetts, USA — WWII South Dakota-class battleship
Set II: USS Missouri — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA — WWII Iowa-class battleship. Site of Japanese surrender
USS New Jersey — Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, Camden, New Jersey, USA — WWII Iowa-class battleship
SS Nomadic — Belfast, Northern Ireland — White Star Line tender to RMS Titanic (under the name Ingenieur Minard she served as troop ship in World War II)
Set III: USS North Carolina — Wilmington, North Carolina, USA — WWII North Carolina-class battleship
USS Pampanito — San Francisco, California, USA — WWII Balao-class submarine
USS Potomac — Oakland, California, USA — Presidential yacht of Franklin D. Roosevelt
RMS Queen Mary — Long Beach, California, USA — Ocean liner
USS Razorback — Little Rock, Arkansas, USA — Balao-class submarine
SS Red Oak Victory — Richmond, California, USA — WWII Victory ship, cargo ship
USS Requin — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA — submarine of 1945-1971
Set III: HMCS Sackville — Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — WWII Flower-class corvette
USS Silversides, Muskegon, Michigan, USA — WWII Gato-class submarine
USS Stewart — Galveston, Texas, USA — Edsall-class destroyer escort
Sundowner — East Kent Maritime Trust, Ramsgate, Kent, England — Admiralty steam launch of 1912 commanded by Charles Lightoller in Operation Dynamo, 1940
USS Tacoma — frigate donated to South Korean Navy as museum ship in 1973.
USCGC Taney — Baltimore Maritime Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 1936 USCG cutter. Last warship present at Pearl Harbor afloat.
USS Texas — La Porte, Texas, USA — World War I and WWII New York-class battleship
USS The Sullivans — Buffalo, New York, USA — Fletcher-class destroyer, launched 1943
USS Torsk — Baltimore, Maryland, USA — Tench-class submarine
U-505 — Chicago, Illinois, USA — Type IX U-boat
U-534 — Birkenhead, England — Type IXC/40 U-boat — sunk in 1945, but raised in 1993
U-995 — Laboe, Germany — only surviving Type VII U-boat
U-2540/Wilhelm Bauer — Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremen, Germany — Type XXI U-boat
TCG Ulucalireis, ex USS Thornback — Istanbul, Turkey — submarine
Vesikko — Helsinki, Finland — submarine — prototype for Type II U-Boat
MV Vita (H95B) — Kystmuseet i Sor-Trondelag (South Trondelag Costal Museum), Hitra, Norway — 1939 "Shetland bus"
HMAS Whyalla (J153) — Whyalla, South Australia — minesweeping corvette
USS Wisconsin — Norfolk, Virginia, USA — battleship
HMS X24 — Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, England — X class submarine of WWII
HMS X51 "Stickleback" — Imperial War Museum Duxford — midget submarine
HMS XE8 "Expunger" — Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent — 1945 midget submarine
USS Yorktown (CV-10) — Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA — Essex-class aircraft carrier
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EvilKobra · **EvilKobra**

I'll resist the urge to say you have far too much time on your hands.

Ooops, there it went Embarassed

Nicely done Wink

The Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum also has a Schnellboot on display, though it is in a poor condition and at present it is not open to visitors. You can still get a very good view of it from the deck and conning tower of a whaler that's moored alongside.
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EvilKobra · **EvilKobra**

That may well be. If I remember correctly there was no info panel next to it, so I just assumed it was WW2 vintage. I stand corrected!
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Vinius · **Vinius**

Nice list. If you're interested in clarifying, the USS Lionfish is a Balao-class sub.

DaJudge · **DaJudge**

If you want to see most of those, use Google Earth and type in the name of the ship or the city and you can see it from a birds eye view. Obviously the battleships and carriers are easiest to find and look at.

Very fun if you're killing time at work. Razz

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mjos220 · **mjos220**

there is also the U.S.N. submarine museum in Groton, Connecticut that has a Japanese type a minisub, an Italian Maiale and more on sub stuff on display. http://www.ussnautilus.org/museum.html

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hgraves · **hgraves**

me and my roomate was playing google earth "find the warships" last week
she was amazed that i could identify any military vessel (that we found, newport news was fun) by function if not class and name from sat photos... Cool

i explained that is one reason as to why the photos posted are always some years old... Razz

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Diamondback · **Diamondback**

I think the museum with Bowfin also had a Kaiten when I was there--pretty sure actually, the thought of the damn thing still makes my scales crawl...
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Vinius · **Vinius**

I was just looking at the Intrepid on Mapquest and there appears to be a destroyer next to it. Looks like a Fletcher to my untrained eye. Can anyone else verify that for me? It only shows when you zoom in on the 2nd to highest and highest close-ups. Clearly it isn't still there, because the lower res zooms show the Concorde in its place.

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RAEVSKI · **RAEVSKI**

HMAS Diamantina is just down the road I'll take Pics.
I've been aboard MV Krait queit small
There is also a Japanese Midget sub at the War Memorial in Canberra one of the ones that attacked Sydney.
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Diamondback · **Diamondback**

And I have a contact with a maritime museum in Sydney--so I might be able to get some information from her, too.
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drittal · **drittal**

i just checked out a bunch of these on GoogleEarth. I have to say the Texas looks terrific!!! Especially when you consider she is 94 yrs young!!
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zaarin7 · **zaarin7**

I was on and in Texas in 1986. The tour as laid out then took you into a main battery turret and the superstructure. I thought then the ship needed a refit and some scraping and painting.

Campbjj · **Campbjj**