Museum ships. "Missouri" and other most famous museum ships

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Brought together information about the museum ships visited in the cities of the US Pacific Coast. Only WWII and Cold War era warships are considered.

These museums are usually open from 10 am to 5 pm; they stop opening one hour before closing. Tickets cost from 12 to 20 dollars, and a small booklet about the ship is usually given with the ticket.

There is only one battleship on the West Coast - the Iowa, the lead ship of the last series of battleships in world history.

"Iowa" is moored in San Pedro - a seaside suburb of Los Angeles, from the center it takes first half an hour to travel on the Silver Metro line, which is buses rushing along the highways, to the Harbor Terminal, from there by bus 205 for almost an hour through the numerous suburbs of LA to the waterfront of San-Pedro. Pedro.

Admission costs $18. On board, follow the yellow arrows - this is the only route around the ship.

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The presidential chambers recreate the atmosphere of the end of 1943, when the battleship carried President Roosevelt to conferences in Casablanca and Tehran.

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I remember the armored conning tower from the Second World War, with narrow loopholes and a periscope.

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There are two aircraft carriers.

In the San Francisco area - Hornet, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that took part in the sinking of the battleship Yamato.

Standing at the pier in the charter town of Alameda on the other side of the bay from San Francisco, go through Oakland, from the city center a quarter of an hour on the 31 bus to Alameda. Admission costs $20.

The only interesting things on board are the items from the American lunar program - the Hornet lifted the crews of the first Apollo lunar missions from the ocean. There is a lonely plane on the flight deck.

Much more interesting is a visit to the Midway, the largest museum-worthy warship in the world. The lead ship of a new class of aircraft carriers, created taking into account the experience of World War II, which entered service in September 1945, is installed on the embankment in the center of San Diego.

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A regular ticket costs $20, but can be purchased through Internet for $18.

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Since Midway is the most visited museum ship in the United States, there are always a lot of people on board.

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You can wander around it all day, going around the numerous deck rooms.

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There are 29 airplanes and helicopters installed on the flight deck and hangar, and you can climb into some of the helicopters.

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In many rooms, scenes from the life of this “floating city” are recreated using wax figures and video recordings.

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Only groups with a guide are allowed inside the “island” superstructure; they just wait until there are enough people and then go.

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The surface ships end with the destroyer USS Turner Joy moored off the quay of the US Pacific Coast Kronstadt, Bremerton. It's an hour away by regular ferry from Seattle.

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The last of the "Forrest Sherman" series went down in history as a participant in the Tonkin Incident, which began the large-scale involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.

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Tickets cost $12.

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It is interesting because most likely you will be the only visitors on the ship.

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There are diesel-electric submarines installed in the cities of the Pacific coast, 2 of which are Soviet.

At Pier 45 of the San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf sits the Pampanito, a World War II Balao-class cruising sub. Tickets cost $12.

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The exhibition at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland includes the post-war Barbell-class submarine Blueback. She is the only one of the museum ships on display that you cannot see on your own - they are allowed only with a guided tour, once a day at 9:30.

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Dolphin, the last diesel-electric submarine of the US Navy, is moored at the San Diego Maritime Museum pier. A single ticket to the Maritime Museum costs $16.

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After the Soviet submarines on the Dolphin, you are amazed at the vastness and comfort of the interior.

These ships will never leave their refuge, as they are now museums!
1. Battleship Missouri, Pearl Harbor, USA

In Hawaii, in a quiet harbor on the territory of a US naval base in the Pacific Ocean, the battleship Missouri is permanently moored, which is associated with the last day of the bloodiest war in the history of mankind. By the day of its completion, September 2, 1945, the Missouri was an almost new, ultra-modern battleship, launched in 1944. After the Second World War was legally ended aboard the Missouri, the ship served the US Army for many decades. The last salvo of the battleship's guns was fired in 1991 in the Persian Gulf. And since 1993, the Missouri continues to serve as a museum, a visit to which is the pride of every US Army sailor.
On September 2, 1945, the Act of Surrender of Japan in World War II was signed aboard the American battleship Missouri. This ship later became a museum, like some other ships that left their mark on history.

2. Cruiser Belfast, London, UK

This British Town-class light cruiser, named after the capital of Northern Ireland, also fought bravely against the enemy during World War II. Now "Belfast" occupies a place of honor in the center of London near the Tower Bridge on the Thames. Interestingly, the cruiser and its crew were awarded in 2010 the Certificate of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for their courage and heroism during the war. It was also announced that the Russian Armed Forces would participate in the restoration of the Belfast museum ship.

3. Icebreaker "Angara", Irkutsk Reservoir, Russia

Angara is the oldest icebreaker in Russia; it was launched in 1900. Its purpose was to lay a path for the Baikal ferry, which could not overcome the seventy-centimeter ice on Lake Baikal. The icebreaker served until 1975, until the day when it was decided to cut it into scrap metal. But this was fortunately prevented by the fact that the ship ran aground. And in 1987, a decision was made to carry out large-scale restoration and turn the icebreaker into a museum. "Angara" became a museum ship in 1990 and still preserves the glorious pages of the history of the oldest icebreaker.

4. Sailboat "Vasa", Djurgården Island, Sweden

"Vaza" is the only sailing ship of the 17th century that has survived to this day. The ship was the most expensive and grandiose sailing ship of that time, and was supposed to become the most heavily armed flagship of the Swedish fleet. The ship was launched in 1628, but due to design errors, it sank on its first voyage. In this case, about fifty people died - half of the people on board. It turned out that the Vaza had too high a center of gravity and too narrow a transverse dimension, which made the ship unstable. The ship was raised to the surface only in the last century, in 1961, and in 1990 a museum was opened on board, which became one of the most popular in Sweden.

5. Cruiser "Aurora", St. Petersburg, Russia

There is probably not a person in the post-Soviet space who has not heard of the legendary cruiser. Moreover, in the USSR poems and songs were written about it; the cruiser Aurora was the hero of feature and even animated films. Meanwhile, this symbol of the Great October Revolution has a rich and heroic history associated not only with 1917. It was launched in 1900 and participated in the Battle of Tsushima as part of the Second Pacific Squadron and then in the fighting of the First World War. The glorious history of the cruiser is reflected in the museum exhibits on board. In 2013, the Minister of Defense announced that the cruiser would be repaired and brought back into working order. This would be the best gift for the glorious Aurora.

6. Icebreaker "Krasin", St. Petersburg, Russia

Today, the icebreaker Krasin adorns the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment. This majestic ship-museum has a lot to tell its visitors about. The ship lay at the bottom, its names changed, it sailed under the English flag, and saved hundreds of lives. Its history reflects the history of our country in the twentieth century.
The first museum exhibition began its work on board the Krasin in 1995. Now active excursion work is underway here. Museum visitors can get acquainted with the history of the icebreaker and maritime laws. You can touch a lot on the ship with your hands. Here you can get acquainted with the latest navigational instruments and their predecessors, and feel the rigor of ship life. The luckiest museum guests may encounter the ghost of an icebreaker. It sometimes frightens visitors to the engine room tour.
There is also a ship's cat on the Krasin - sometimes excursionists manage to see it. They say they picked it up from a passing ice floe several years ago.

You can find out more detailed information about domestic icebreakers from Nikita Kuznetsov’s book “Domestic sea icebreakers from Ermak to 50 Years of Victory” by Paulsen Publishing House.
"Polar convoys. The Second World War in the Soviet Arctic" by Paulsen Publishing House.

Maritime museums are considered an ideal place to preserve maritime traditions and perennial artifacts, sometimes dating back centuries. Maritime museums preserve unique exhibits of ships and submarines, present photographs and very interesting documents, clothing and instruments, paintings and other ancient objects. There are quite a few museums in the world that display the maritime history of certain fleets, but in this publication I will present to you the eight oldest maritime museums in the world.

maritime museum in Rotterdam

One of the oldest maritime museums was founded in 1874 and is located in Rotterdam. Its founder was Prince Henry. Since then, this building has attracted an endless stream of tourists - lovers of maritime history and naval equipment, concentrated in one place.

maritime museum in australia

The Tapestry Museum is considered to be the oldest maritime museum in Australia and is among the oldest in the world. Its exhibits are unsurpassed treasures of Australian art, coming here over several centuries. The Tapestry Museum was founded in 1872 with government support. Among its items are rare exhibits found by people who connected their lives with the sea. Tapestry Maritime Museum is located in the city of Melbourne and can be visited from 10:00 to 17:00 daily.

lighthouse museum in the USA

Existing for over 200 years, the Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum is a treasure in itself, reflecting the history of lighthouses. The structure was built and opened in 1796. The lighthouse museum has undergone a number of changes, but at the same time retains its original appearance.

The archives of the lighthouse museum contain many exhibits confirming the fact of pirate attacks, shipwrecks and other historical events. In addition, a hotel operates in a building located near Long Island. The museum can be visited from 10:00 to 16:00.

maritime museum in England

Maritime Museum Southampton is one of the first maritime museums in England, established in 1898. This historical institution opened its exhibits of maritime art, science and technology to visitors in 1910. Now it is quite a popular holiday destination for tourists and lovers of maritime history. The museum doors are open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00.

The Sandy Bay Historical Society Museum is a separate building in the castle town of Rockport, Massachusetts and reflects the importance of shipping in the region. The castle itself was built in 1711, and the maritime museum began its work in 1832. To learn about the unique collections of American maritime history, museum staff are available to visitors from 14:00 to 17:00 Tuesday through Saturday and from 09:00 to 13:00 on Monday.

maritime museum in the USA

This maritime museum was founded in 1936 in a building built in 1845. Here, maritime history is displayed like nowhere else. Currently, the maritime institution includes 13 buildings, each of which is a separate piece of history. You can visit this building from 10:00 to 17:00 on weekdays and Saturdays, and on Sundays from 12:00 to 17:00.

Maritime Museum in Halifax

The Maritime Museum of Atlantic is one of the oldest maritime museums in the world and the oldest in Canada. It displays more than 30,000 artifacts from the history of the Canadian military and merchant marine, including 70 small ships and steamships.

Today there are many monument ships in the world, and each of them has its own “memory”. So the Japanese have a monument ship, which is most closely associated with the name of a specific admiral and a specific battle. This is an early 20th century battleship, the flagship of the Japanese fleet, and today it is a museum ship. This ship was named after a mountain in Nara Prefecture. It was ordered in 1898 and was built in England at the Vickers shipyard. It was launched in 1900, and it entered operational service in 1902. Probably everyone has already understood that we will be talking about the battleship Mikasa, the flagship of Admiral Togo in the historical Battle of Tsushima.

Battleships Mikasa and Shikishima. Painting by the Penza artist marine painter A. Zaikin.

Let's start with the purpose for which this ship was created. When Japan defeated agrarian and backward China in 1895, it became an event for the world community. However, this victory did not bring much satisfaction to the Japanese, and here's why. Russia did not allow China to be finished off. After all, it was precisely because of pressure from the Russian Empire that Japan was never able to annex Manchuria and give up the captured Lushun (Port Arthur). Therefore, it was decided that they would have to fight with Russia, and for this they needed a fleet of ships superior to the Russian ones. Therefore, already in 1895, the Japanese adopted a ten-year shipbuilding program and began building warships one after another. Of course, they chose Britain for this, and the battleship Mikasa was built there. It was designed by engineer D. Makrow. S. The British are great rationalists, so he didn’t come up with anything particularly new, but decided to take as a basis the project of the battleship “Canopus”, the descendant of which was “Mikasa”. The ship was laid down on the Vickers slipway in the city of Barrow. There are no exact data on the cost of the ship, but it can be assumed that it was at least one million pounds sterling or four million dollars. As a result, the battleship Mikasa turned out to be a classic representative of the British school of combat shipbuilding, but with a national, so to speak, bias.

The hull was assembled from high-grade shipbuilding steel and had a transverse hull frame system. The layout is single-deck, with a slight collapse of the bow frames, but the collapse along the midsection and aft was noticeably pronounced. The hull was divided into many compartments and had many waterproof bulkheads, which increased its protection from torpedoes. The features of the battleship included the presence of a double side and a double bottom. The side armor reached the level of the armored deck.

In the best traditions of the “after Lissa” era, the battleship had a ram in the bow and had a noticeable sheerness, that is, it had a deflection of the upper deck. To stabilize the ship during rolling, side keels were installed on the bottom. By this time, English shipbuilders had developed the Hartman Rahtien composition to coat the underwater part of the hull, which prevented it from becoming overgrown with shells and increased the speed.

The ship's total displacement was more than 16,000 tons, and its maximum length was 132 meters with an average hull width of 24 meters and a draft of eight meters. The Mikasa differed from all other English-built battleships by the noticeably shorter distance between the barbettes of its 305 mm guns. As a result, the design of the upper part of the ship, that is, its superstructures, became more compact, but because of this design decision, the placement of 152-mm medium-caliber guns in separate casemates was impossible; or rather, only four of them were placed on the upper deck, for four guns .

"Mikasa": artillery and armor layout diagram.

The first armor belt, about 2.5 m wide, ran along the waterline, rising above it by about 70 cm. Its maximum thickness reached 229 mm, but in the area of ​​the underwater part it gradually decreased to 127 mm, and at the ends it was 127-102 mm. In the area of ​​the citadel there was a second belt of 152 mm armor, reaching the battery deck, and above it there was a third, also 152 mm, with gun ports cut into it, protecting a battery of 10 six-inch guns, between which armored bulkheads were arranged , separating one weapon from another. So the Japanese ended up with a ship that had 14 152-mm cannons on board, distributed in such a way that there were 7 guns on each side. This was two more guns than the newest Russian battleships of the Borodino type, which had 12 guns in two-gun rotating turrets. This solution was quite, and even more modern than the traditional British placement of guns in casemates, but in the event of damage to the turret (even if it was just warped on the rollers due to a burst or shell impact), two guns would fail at once, but Japanese ship had to “shoot them off” one by one! The ship's "anti-mine caliber" consisted of 20 76-mm guns located in the bow, stern and in the central battery located above the armored deck.

Barbettes, not turrets, were the main caliber (in this, English ships also differed from Russian ones) and the ship's conning tower was protected by 356 mm armor. The upper deck traverses had rational angles, so the designers installed 152 mm thick armor plates here and this significantly lightened the ship. All gun mounts on the sides were covered with 152 mm armor plates, that is, in the area of ​​the ship’s citadel, almost the entire side up to the main deck was armored. The upper deck was armored with 25 mm armor. The lower deck (inside the gun citadel itself) was armored with 51 mm sheets (while its slopes towards the side had a thickness of 76 mm). The thickness of the carapace deck armor was 76 mm. For the cabin, armor developed by the Krupp company with a thickness of 356 mm was used, but the aft cabin was less protected. There armor was only 76 mm. Moreover, it was the Mikasa that became the first Japanese ship to use Krupp armor for its armor. Before this, the British used Harvey armor, but the German armor turned out to be 16-20% better. The importance of increasing the quality of armor while reducing its weight is indicated by such an indicator as the weight of the armor on the ship. On the Mikas, its weight reached 4091 tons, that is, in fact, 30% of its displacement.

When designing the ship, a twin-screw design was chosen. The “heart” of “Mikasa” was three three-cylinder “triple expansion” steam engines from Vickers, the steam for which was produced by 25 water-tube boilers of the Belleville system, withstanding a maximum steam pressure of 21 kg/cm². The draft in the boilers was provided by two chimneys with a diameter of more than four meters each! The total power of the ship's power plant was 16,000 l/s, which gave it the opportunity to reach a maximum speed of 18 knots. At the same time, its cruising range at an economic speed of 10 knots was 4,600 miles.

Coal reserves were stored in two huge bunkers located along the perimeter of both sides, parallel to the boiler rooms. Usually they were loaded with 700 tons of coal, but the ship could take more - 1.5 thousand tons. In general, the ship's seaworthiness was quite high, but it had an unpleasant tendency to bury itself in waves, which led to a drop in speed. The relatively low position of medium-caliber artillery made it difficult to use in fresh weather.

The ship was provided with radio communications - devices of the Italian company Marconi with a range of 180 nautical miles. The ship's crew consisted of 830 people.

The ship received its baptism of fire at the walls of Port Arthur on January 26, 1904, when the Japanese squadron launched a surprise attack on Russian ships stationed in the outer roadstead, and then on February 9, the Mikasa, at the head of a squadron of eight battleships, approached Port Arthur and entered into a battle with the Russian fleet, which was supported by fire from coastal batteries. Already at 11.16, the Mikasa was hit by a 254-mm shell, followed by another hit. The greatest danger in this battle for Japanese ships was the accurate fire of coastal batteries, so Admiral Togo hastened to withdraw his ships from the battle. Then "Mikasa" took part in a battle with Russian ships during their attempt to break out from Port Arthur to Vladivostok, as a result of which it was decided to increase the ammunition on board the ship.

During the battle in the Tsushima Strait, the Mikasa received about 40 hits, most of which were from 305-mm shells. In this case, the third casemate 152-mm gun suffered the most. First, a 305-mm shell hit the roof of his casemate, the explosion of which killed about nine people and simply miraculously did not detonate the ammunition located right there. Two hours later, a 152-mm shell also hit the same place (!). But by luck, the explosion was avoided this time too. Then several guns were damaged by shell hits, and the armor plates of the hull began to diverge in several places. Shells exploded in the bores of the main caliber guns, which led to the guns failing. However, despite all its damage, the ship was able to remain in service, maintained its speed and controllability, and fought until the last moment. According to Japanese sources, the battleship lost 18 people in this battle, and 105 crew members were wounded.

But on the night of September 11-12, while staying at the base in Sasebo, part of the ammunition in the stern detonated on the ship for unknown reasons and the battleship quickly sank at a depth of 11 meters, that is, fortunately, not very deep. 256 sailors were killed on the ship, and another 343 people were injured, many of which were also fatal. A huge hole appeared in the hull, which was later repaired, so that after 11 months the ship returned to service, but the consequences of this explosion were finally eliminated only two years later. During the First World War, the ship carried out patrol duty off the coast of Japan, took part in the intervention against Soviet Russia and was even able to stand in the roadstead of Vladivostok Bay. In September 1921, he hit rocks near Askold Island near Vladivostok and again received serious damage, after which he was expelled from the fleet in 1923.

In 1926, the Mikasa was turned into a museum ship: they dug a huge pit for this purpose in the port of Yokosuka, brought a battleship into it and... covered it with earth right up to the waterline. During the Second World War, the Americans, not seeing from above what kind of ship was below, dropped several bombs on it. Then it was deprived of its memorial status and in 1948 it was turned into a dance hall, for which its towers and superstructure were removed and a long hangar was built in their place. Thus, a new House of Culture “Mikasa” appeared in Yokosuka, named after a mountain from the province of Nara, that is, its military past was completely erased.

Rumor has it that the Soviet Union at this time several times demanded the complete destruction of the former flagship of Admiral Togo. But then the Mikasa suddenly had a powerful defender and not just one of the locals, but Chester William Nimitz, Admiral of the US Fleet and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Adjacent Territories during the war, who accepted the surrender of Japan as a representative of the American side.

He proposed restoring the Mikasa as a monument, and since it was not cheap, he donated a decommissioned American tank landing ship to the museum restoration fund, which the Japanese sold for scrap and thus collected a third of the required amount.

Repair of the old ship began in 1959, and already at the beginning of 1961, the Mikasa, of which by this time only the hull remained, was actually rebuilt. True, many of the lost elements had to be replaced with dummies, but still it was better than nothing. It was opened to the public on May 27, 1961, and this day was clearly not chosen by chance! 76-year-old Admiral Nimitz was unable to attend the ceremony, but the US delegation, of course, did.

So, thanks to the confluence of all these random circumstances, the battleship "Mikasa" has survived to this day and can be visited and inspected. Experts believe that it is not the ideal of reconstruction, but, nevertheless, today it is the only surviving battleship built at the turn of the century. However, from a distance he looks as if he was standing at the quay wall, ready to go. This monument ship is very popular in Japan. And almost any souvenir shop will offer you a prefabricated model of it made of paper or plastic.

Cruisers and icebreakers, submarines and steamships. Ships that once plied the waters are now permanently laid up. The first attempts to turn a sea vessel into a museum were made during the time of Peter I: in 1723, the emperor issued a decree on the preservation of the Pereyaslavl flotilla. And the first museum ship is the legendary Aurora. The veteran cruiser of the First World War and the Russo-Japanese War became a branch of the Central Naval Museum in 1956.

Revolutionary symbol - the cruiser "Aurora"

A memorial ship and a unique shipbuilding monument. The armored ship was named after the sailing frigate of the Russian Navy, which was responsible for three voyages around the world and the Crimean War. The cruiser received her baptism of fire as part of the 2nd Pacific Squadron at Tsushima. The flag was shot down from the Aurora six times, but it rose again. The cruiser left the battle only after it was over. He continued his combat path during the First World War. In 1916, during a routine repair, the crew succumbed to revolutionary sentiments, and a year later it fired blank, becoming a symbol of the revolution, and then a training ship and a museum in St. Petersburg.

The world's only space communications vessel "Cosmonaut Viktor Patsayev"

A floating research station with a museum exhibition on board. The ship made 14 scientific voyages and was part of a detachment of the naval space fleet that created the country's nuclear missile shield. The crew provided testing and flights of spacecraft. The ship is named after the Kaliningrad cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, Viktor Patsayev. The pennant of the USSR Academy of Sciences was raised above the deck in 1978, and since 2001 the ship has been moored at the pier of the Museum of the World Ocean. The museum exhibit includes personal belongings of the astronauts, and even when laid up, the ship performs the same tasks: it provides communication with the International Space Station.

Submarine of the pre-atomic period of the submarine fleet

B-413 is the only diesel-electric submarine in the country and one of the few surviving in the world. She has carried out military service since 1969 in the Northern Fleet. The submarine's crew went to Cuba and Guinea. In 1970, he took part in a rescue operation to assist the nuclear submarine K-8. Submarines of this series were considered successful - a total of 75 of them were built, including for the navies of Poland, India, Libya and Cuba. 40 years after its launch, the submarine was preserved in its original form, permanently laid up in Kaliningrad. The compartments housed the exhibition “From the History of the Russian Submarine Fleet” with models of submarines.

Submarine as part of the capital's museum

"Novosibirsk Komsomolets" B-396 in eternal parking in Moscow. From 1980 to 1998, the submarine carried out combat service in the Northern Fleet, carried out missions in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, off the West Coast of Africa, and guarded state borders in the Barents and Norwegian Seas. After decommissioning, the boat was bought by the Moscow government for the Museum of the History of the Russian Fleet and Shipbuilding. Six torpedo tubes were retained on the submarine, and the central control post and seven compartments became exhibition halls. Next door are the ekranoplane "Orlyonok", the hovercraft "SKAT" and an exhibition of military equipment of the Navy.

Research vessel "Vityaz"

800 thousand nautical miles. The legendary scientific station for studying the World Ocean, moored in Kaliningrad, made 65 scientific voyages under the flag of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The ship's crew conducted truly unique research: for example, they measured the maximum depth of the Mariana Trench at 11,022 meters and discovered a new type of animal - pogonophora. The ship became a real international scientific station: scientists from 50 scientific institutes of the USSR and 20 countries of the world worked on the Vityaz. It was from this ship that the history of the Museum of the World Ocean began with the Polar Hall, the Hall of Great Geographical Discoveries, a laboratory and memorial cabins.

One of the first icebreakers in the world

"Angara" is a pre-revolutionary steam icebreaker. He served in pre-revolutionary Russia and during the USSR era. The ship was launched in 1900. The icebreaker was delivered to the Irkutsk region from Newcastle in parts. The Angara was ordered by the Committee for the Construction of the Siberian Railway in order to transport trains across the ice of Lake Baikal while a road bypassing the giant lake was built. After the revolution, the ship began to carry passengers, during the Civil War it took part in battles, and during the Great Patriotic War it transported cargo. In 1975, a naval veteran was almost sent to the metal; the ship miraculously survived, having run aground during transportation.

Icebreaker-era: explorer and rescuer

"Krasin" was a pioneer in the development of the Arctic Ocean. Built in England, the icebreaker began service a hundred years ago under the name “Svyatogor”, and after the revolution it became known as “Krasin”. It was to this ship that the Arctic expedition of Umberto Nobile, which survived the disaster of the airship Italia, owes its salvation. Only the Krasin was able to reach the camp of the expedition, stuck in the icy desert. On the way back, the icebreaker saved one and a half thousand passengers of the German ship Monte Cervantes. During the Great Patriotic War, one of the transport caravans led by the Krasin was hunted by the German battleship Admiral Scheer. A dangerous meeting was avoided, and the icebreaker worked in the Arctic for geological exploration for many years until it became a museum ship.

Icebreaker "Lenin"

The world's first surface vessel with the motive power of a peaceful atom. The decision on construction was made by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The whole country worked on the project - about 30 research institutes, 60 design bureaus and two hundred enterprises participated. A giant ship weighing 11 thousand tons was faced with a big task: to pave a road in the ice of the Northern Sea Route. Over 30 years of operation, the nuclear-powered icebreaker has covered more than 650 thousand nautical miles and guided almost 4 thousand ships through the ice. Place of last registration - Murmansk. You can walk around the floating museum in an hour: from the wardroom with a music salon, to the engine room and the post from where the power plants of the huge ship were controlled.