Maritime Museum Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/category/attractionexperience/maritime-museum/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:14:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Former HMS Ambuscade expected to return to Glasgow as a Ship Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/former-hms-ambuscade-expected-to-return-to-glasgow-as-a-ship-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/former-hms-ambuscade-expected-to-return-to-glasgow-as-a-ship-museum/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:30:01 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11206 The Type 21 frigate and veteran of the Falklands War, PNS Tariq (ex-HMS Ambuscade) is expected to return to her birthplace on the Clyde sometime next year, to become a ship museum. HMS Ambuscade was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde 1n 1973 and served with the Royal Navy, including during the Falklands War, […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/former-hms-ambuscade-expected-to-return-to-glasgow-as-a-ship-museum/feed/ 0 Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/dunkirk-maritime-and-port-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/dunkirk-maritime-and-port-museum/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:39:13 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10805 The Dunkirk Maritime and Port Museum (Musée Maritime & Portuaire de Dunkerque) tells the history of France’s third largest port, its workers, its ships, and its seamen. “Wait! What? Third largest?” That may come as a surprise to some, because to most people, especially anglophiles, Dunkerque or “Dunkirk” is pretty much known for just one […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/11/dunkirk-maritime-and-port-museum/feed/ 0 Dry-docking a Battleship https://mechtraveller.com/2024/06/dry-docking-a-battleship/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/06/dry-docking-a-battleship/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:03:51 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10277 If all is going as planned, the giant Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) is on her way back down the Delaware River today, returning to her permanent mooring on the Camden waterfront after a 91 day visit to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for maintenance and repair. Most of that time was spent in dry […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/06/dry-docking-a-battleship/feed/ 0 New ‘Jolly Roger’ display at the Submarine Museum, Gosport https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/new-jolly-roger-display-at-the-submarine-museum-gosport/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/new-jolly-roger-display-at-the-submarine-museum-gosport/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:27:25 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9865 A new display of ‘Jolly Roger’ flags flown by Royal Navy submarines is launched today (27/03/2024) at The Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport. It will expand the museum’s previous collection of Jolly Rogers by including the earliest known surviving example and the museum’s newest acquisition, a Jolly Roger from HMS Thorough. The Jolly Roger is […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/new-jolly-roger-display-at-the-submarine-museum-gosport/feed/ 0 SS Keewatin museum ship is moving to a new home https://mechtraveller.com/2023/03/ss-keewatin-museum-ship-is-moving-to-a-new-home/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/03/ss-keewatin-museum-ship-is-moving-to-a-new-home/#comments Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:08:56 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8718 The SS Keewatin museum ship, an Edwardian Great Lakes passenger steamer, is moving from her current home in Port McNicoll on Lake Michigan to the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston on the St. Lawrence River. The 103m long ship was purpose built for the Great Lakes by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2023/03/ss-keewatin-museum-ship-is-moving-to-a-new-home/feed/ 13 Possible New Ship Museum on Lake Erie https://mechtraveller.com/2021/11/possible-new-ship-museum-on-lake-erie/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/11/possible-new-ship-museum-on-lake-erie/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2021 09:12:34 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7189 The city of Erie in Pennsylvania on the east bank of Lake Erie, is considering the creation of a new ship museum using a Cold War era, Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate. The connection is Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the 19th century American naval commander, who is a local and national hero for defeating […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/11/possible-new-ship-museum-on-lake-erie/feed/ 3 The historic Tank Landing Craft LCT 7074 has arrived at her new home https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/the-historic-tank-landing-craft-lct-7074-has-arrived-at-her-new-home/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/the-historic-tank-landing-craft-lct-7074-has-arrived-at-her-new-home/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:50:00 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6317 The WWII Tank Landing Craft, LCT 7074, a veteran of D-day, has finally made the journey from Portsmouth Naval Base to her new home on Southsea where she will be the newest addition to the D-Day Story museum. The newly renovated 59-metre long, 300-ton ship was moved around from Portsmouth Naval Base to Southsea Beach […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/the-historic-tank-landing-craft-lct-7074-has-arrived-at-her-new-home/feed/ 0 A new harmony in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/a-new-harmony-in-portsmouth-historic-dockyard/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/a-new-harmony-in-portsmouth-historic-dockyard/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:53:05 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6214 Long overdue, the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) and Mary Rose are collaborating on ticketing. It was always ludicrous that a visit to the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth meant dealing with two separate ticketing systems. Ludicrous but understandable. The two organisations that share the Historic Dockyard – Mary Rose Trust and the National […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/08/a-new-harmony-in-portsmouth-historic-dockyard/feed/ 0 Help needed. The Museum Ship, SS John W. Brown needs a new home. https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:59:36 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493 The museum ship SS John W. Brown, one of only two World War II ‘Liberty’ ships preserved and still operational*, is looking for a new home. The Liberty ships were the cargo-carrying workhorses of the Allied war effort. They were produced with conveyor belt efficiency in huge numbers** in shipyards around the USA and played […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/feed/ 6 Review: Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower, Gosport https://mechtraveller.com/2019/06/review-explosion-museum-of-naval-firepower-gosport/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/06/review-explosion-museum-of-naval-firepower-gosport/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:07:16 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4862 I’ve saved the best for last, in the Portsmouth/Gosport museum reviews. The Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower may be the least well-known of the National Museum of the Royal Navy sites, but I think it’s the most interesting. Or, put another way, it’s the one I would return to first. I may be a little […]

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