"Missouri" and other most famous museum ships. The oldest maritime museums in the world Shipping Museum

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 the 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 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.

For a landlubber, visiting a ship is a great event and a lot of impressions. But a visit to a warship evokes even more positive emotions and interest. But many Russians don’t even know that museum ships can be found where they live, or very close by.

Cruiser "Aurora" (St. Petersburg, Russia)

There are probably few people who have not heard of Aurora. The famous armored cruiser was launched in 1900 and has experienced many events since then. As part of the Second Pacific Squadron, the cruiser's crew made a trip to the Far East, where they took part in the Battle of Tsushima. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Aurora returned to the Baltic, where, years later, it became the most famous Soviet ship. This required one blank shot, which announced the beginning of the assault on the Winter Palace on October 25 (November 7), 1917.

The cruiser took part in the First World War, and then in the Great Patriotic War. In 1945, the ship was restored to sailing condition and it took part in the filming of the film “Cruiser “Varyag”. Next, the Aurora was turned into a floating museum, which can still be visited today.

Icebreaker "Krasin" (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Not far from the Aurora there is another historical ship. The icebreaker Svyatogor was built in Great Britain in 1916 specifically for the Russian Arctic Ocean flotilla. During the intervention of the Entente countries in northern Russia, the ship was scuttled, and then raised and taken to England. In the 1920s, the icebreaker, already renamed Krasin, returned to the USSR. In 1928, in difficult navigation conditions, the ship's crew managed to save the crew of Umberto Mobile and the steamship Monte Cervantes with 1,500 people on board.

During the Great Patriotic War, the icebreaker Krasin escorted Allied caravans through the ice fields of the Arctic. The Krasin then underwent repairs and now serves as a museum ship.

Icebreaker "Angara" (Irkutsk, Russia)

Another icebreaker museum can be found in another part of Russia - in Siberia. "Angara" was built in 1900 from parts of a vehicle kit produced in Great Britain. For decades, the ship sailed on Lake Baikal, providing navigation for the ferry.

In 1917-1920, “Angara” repeatedly changed hands. Both the Whites and the Reds needed transport on Lake Baikal.

In 1962, the ship was removed from service due to wear and tear of the equipment and, after a while, was turned into a museum.

Steamship "St. Nicholas" (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

In another Siberian city, Krasnoyarsk, on the Yenisei River there is a steamship-museum “St. Nicholas”. It was built in Tyumen in 1886 by order of the millionaire merchant A.M. Sibiryakova. The ship, with a crew of 12 people, carried passengers and cargo for many decades. The Russian Emperor Nicholas II visited its board, as well as the future Leader of the Revolution V.I. Ulyanov. Perhaps it was the memory of Lenin that influenced the fact that in the 1970s the steamship Nikolai was not dismantled for metal, but, on the contrary, was restored.

Cruiser "Mikhail Kutuzov" (Novorossiysk, Russia)

The Project 68-bis cruiser "Mikhail Kutuzov" was built in Nikolaev and put into service in 1955. Until 1992, the cruiser went on cruises under the flag of the Soviet Navy and visited Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Syria, and Algeria. At the moment, the ship is listed in the Navy reserve and at the same time serves as a museum.

Yacht “Red Pennant” (Vladivostok, Russia)

The sailing-screw yacht “Admiral Zavoiko” was launched in 1910 by order of the governor of Kamchatka. The ship was used to transport passengers and messages. In 1917-1923 it was in the hands of the Bolsheviks and White Guards, and was included in the Far Eastern Republic. Until the 1950s, the yacht, renamed "Red Pennant", was a hydrographic and training vessel.

K-21 (Severomorsk, Russia)

In 1941, the diesel-electric submarine K-21 became part of the USSR Northern Fleet, and a year later the whole country knew its name. It was on this ship, under the leadership of N.A. Lunin carried out a torpedo attack on the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway. In total, during the war years, the boat’s crew announced the destruction of 17 enemy ships and other vehicles.

After World War II, the boat was used as a training base, and then it was turned into a museum of military glory.

USSR submarines today can be seen in many cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Ostrovnoy, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Vytegra of the Vologda region, Togliatti. The M-296 boat adorns the Memorial of the Heroic Defense of Odessa (Ukraine).

Galleon "Vase" (Stockholm, Sweden)

The Vasa galleon was named after the dynasty ruling Sweden. The ship was built under the close supervision of King Gustav II Adolf, who sought to make Sweden a great maritime power. But the ship project, approved personally by His Majesty, turned out to be unsuccessful and already during the first voyage in 1628, the Vasa sank.

The ship was forgotten for a long time until a historian engineer discovered the Vaza in 1955. Thanks to the salty water of the Baltic Sea, the oak hull of the galleon is well preserved. The ship was raised and placed in a museum.

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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.

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.