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              Guide to Naval & maritime museums in the UK

                    Latest revision: 11 September 1995

This file has 2 parts. The first part lists 179 Naval and other maritime
museums in England, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland (Ulster) and the
offshore islands. Naval museums include Royal Marines (RM) & Fleet Air
Arm (FAA) collections. Civil maritime sites include Royal National
Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), local and national museums with collections
related to fisheries, trade, shipbuilding, inland waterways, Customs &
Excise, maritime exploration and other nautical interests. The list is
not exhaustive: many coastal towns have museums with some material
related to fishing and the sea.

The second part of this file is a list of 188 historic vessels. Vessels
are listed if they are museum-ships in their own right, or are part of
the collection of one or other of the museums listed in part 1, but of
course vessels may move to different locations at any time. This list of
historic vessels is by no means exhaustive. It lists a few of many old
vessels owned by Trusts and open to the public.

Further information about some British historic vessels might be
obtained from: The Maritime Trust (2 Greenwich Church St., London SE10
9BG), the National Historic Ship Committee (c/o the National Maritime
Museum at Greenwich), the 40+ Fishing Boat Association of the British
Isles (c/o Mr M. Smylie, Bron Menai Cottage, Dwyran, Anglesey LL61 6BJ,
Wales, or Mr M. Craine, Hillcrest, 63 Birchill Crescent, Onchan, Isle of
Man IM3 3DA), or the North of England Museums Service (House of
Recovery, Bath Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5SQ). The Cornwall Maritime
Museum has a database of old Cornish vessels. The International Register
of Historic Ships, by Norman J Brower, is now in its 2nd edition
(Anthony Nelson: Oswestry: 1993: ISBN 0-904614-46-8 paperback or
0-904614-50-6 hardback).

Symbols and abbreviations:

The symbols * and ** following museum names indicate that over 10,000 or
over 100,000 people visit each year, respectively. This gives a rough
guide to the importance of a museum, except that one or two major
museums have not published visitor figures, and obviously the ratings
will be biased in favour of museums within major centres of population.

  ARC:   Archives & Reserve Collection held.
  BA:    By appointment.
  BH:    Bank Holidays (ie Public Holidays).
  GV/SE: Telephone line for booking Group Visits/info on Special Events
  AH:    ditto, for after-hours 'phone calls
  Lib:   Library attached.
  PoW:   Prisoner of War (usually Napoleonic period).
  RC:    Recent Confirmation by the museum, of details. Several have not
         replied to requests for up-to-date information. We are most
         grateful to those who did confirm, often with generous amounts
         of information, catalogues, guides and brochures.

Telephone & Fax numbers:

The numbers given here are in the UK format of (Area Code)+number, where
the area code begins with a zero. When dialling from outside the UK use
prefix +44 and omit the initial zero. Thus, to 'phone Aberdeen Maritime
Museum from outside the UK dial [phone].

Electronic mail (e-mail) and WWW access:

A very few museums now have access via computer, and these have their
addresses or URLs listed under "Computer".

Opening days:

These are liable to change at short notice. Of those that are normally
open "Daily", even these will close over the Christmas holiday period,
and maybe on other public holidays also, such as Easter. Others may
specifically open briefly during the Easter holiday weekend. Smaller
museums, manned by a few volunteers, will often open for only 2 - 3
hours on the days listed as "open". We cannot be specific about opening
hours, as these are too variable. It would be foolish to make a long
journey to any museum without first confirming its opening times.

Reference and Guide Books:

The initial source of names for this list was the Museums Yearbook
1995/96, published by The Museums Association, 42 Clerkenwell Close,
London EC1R 0PA. It is invaluable for administrative data, and we are
grateful to the MA for providing us with a copy. It gives little detail
about the collections and is not a guide book. Some of the museums in
this list are not in the Yearbook. For those visiting a limited area of
Britain we would recommend, as a guide book, one of the volumes in the
series: "Exploring Museums", printed by HMSO for the Museums Association
and the Museums & Galleries Commission between 1989-93. These volumes
are each priced at 9.95 UK Pounds and give detailed descriptions of the
exhibits in all the main museums within each area of the UK, with short
summaries of the smaller ones. It is a recent series, but unfortunately
with 10 volumes to cover the whole UK, buying a whole set would be
expensive!  There were 3 guides specifically to British maritime
collections, but all now seen to be out of print. They could perhaps be
obtained from dealers in nautical books.

  National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain, by Keith Wheatley
    (Webb & Bower: Exeter: 1990. ISBN 0-86350-268-7). This useful book
    works its way around the coast of Britain, giving brief information
    on every location of maritime interest, and some general area
    history. Inland sites are ignored.
  Britain's Maritime Heritage, by Veryan Heal (Conway Maritime Press:
    London: 1988. ISBN 0-85177-474-1). An alphabetical list of towns
    where there are maritime collections, with short descriptions of the
    exhibits, illustrations and useful lists of auxiliary information,
    now unfortunately getting out of date in places.
  A Heritage of Ships, by Alexander McKee (Souvenir Press: London: 1988.
    ISBN 0-285-628550). Concentrates on sites with important ships,
    which are given a fuller description and history than in the other
    two books. Useful supplementary information, but again is getting
    out of date in some details.

Shire Publications Ltd issue a series of small books on selected topics:
eg: "Anchors", "East Coast Shipping", "Ships' Figureheads", "Tugs &
Towage" etc. These inexpensive little books usually include a reading
list and list of places to visit, but unfortunately even the most recent
editions may be 10 or more years out of date.

Although much effort has been made to achieve accuracy, there is no
guarantee that this list is free of errors, and details may change at
short notice. Please keep us informed of any corrections, additions or
other necessary changes. Happy visiting!
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    Dr Martin H Evans                        [e-mail]
    Dr Janet West                            [e-mail]
    111 High Street,  Linton,  Cambridgeshire  CB1 6JT,  UK.
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Aberdeen Maritime Museum **
  Provost Ross's House, Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland

  Write to: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB9 1FQ

  Phone:    [phone], GV: 646333
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: History of shipbuilding in Aberdeen: models include "Thermopylae"
            and other clippers. Exhibits show past & present fishing industry
            and the importance of North Sea oil exploration and extraction
            since 1960s. Paintings, photographs. (RC)

Admiral Blake Museum *
  Blake Street, Bridgewater, Somerset TA6 3NB

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Marine paintings & photos, 16 ship models, shipwrights' tools and
            half-hulls, nameplate from CSN Alabama. Model of Bridgewater dock
            in 1900. Documents & personal items of Admiral Blake, reputedly
            born in this house 1598. Diorama of Battle of Santa Cruz. RC

Arbroath Museum *
  Signal Tower, Ladyloan, Arbroath, Angus DD11 1PU, Scotland

  Write to: Museum & Art Gallery, Meffan Institute, 20 West High Street,
            Forfar, Angus DD8 1BB, Tayside, Scotland
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat; also Sunday pm July & Aug

  Displays: The museum's general collection includes fishing, maritime and
            lighthouse material

Arbuthnot Museum *
  St. Peter Street, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 6QD, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Ship models of fishing boats: mid-19C Yules to 20C motor fishing
            vessels. Models of 19C trading vessels and whalers. Whaling and
            related artefacts & Inuit material. Display of coopering craft,
            used to make barrels for herring fishery. ARC (RC)

The Arctic Penguin *
  The Pier, Inveraray, Strathclyde (Argyll) PA32 8UY, Scotland.

  Write to: Inveraray Maritime Heritage Centre, 60 Tradeston Street,
            Glasgow G5 8BH, Scotland
  Phone:    [phone] (ship, & FAX). [phone] (heritage centre)
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Built in Dublin (1911) the vessel was converted to schooner rig.
            Now a floating museum. Displays relate to Clyde ship-building,
            Scottish emigration, sailors' craft-work, and hands-on exhibits
            for youngsters. Cinema, shop, educational activities. (RC)

Arlington Court *
  Arlington, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 4LP

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Sun - Fri, end March - end Oct; also on BH weekends

  Displays: Among the displays and furnishings of this mansion are good
            Napoleonic PoW & other ship models; also a sea shell collection.

Barmouth RNLI Museum
  Pen-Y-Cei, Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales

  Write to: 8, Ffordd Bro Mynach, Barmouth, Gwynedd LL42 1LZ, Wales

  Open:     Daily, Easter - Oct

  Displays: Old photographs of the Barmouth Lifeboat and crews

Beatty Museum
  Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire MK16 9JJ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Sun pm only, Apr, May & Aug

  Displays: Collection of paintings on naval subjects; pictures, memorabilia
            & personal possessions of Admiral Lord Beatty.

Bede Gallery *
  Springwell Park, Butchers Bridge Road, Jarrow,
  Tyne & Wear NE32 5QA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Fri & Sun

  Displays: A small museum of local history, with material related to the
            shipyards.

HMS Belfast **
  Morgans Lane, Tooley Street, London SE1 2JH

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: WW2 (launched 1938) 10,500 ton cruiser. Main guns: 12 6 inch in
            4 turrets. Much original armament still in place. Most of ship is
            open to public, from several bridge platforms to engine room and
            magazines. Displays simulate battle conditions with sound. RC

Bembridge Maritime Museum & Shipwreck Centre *
  Sherborne Street, Bembridge, Isle of Wight PO35 5SB

  Phone:    [phone], 873125 (24 hr)
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily Mar - Oct, or BA

  Displays: Extensive collection of items salvaged from wrecks: binnacles,
            engine telegraphs, lamps, bells and 100s of other objects. Ship
            models. Displays of local lifeboat, & of HMS Swordfish, submarine
            sunk in 1940. Display of old & modern diving equipment. (RC)

Birchills Canal Museum
  Old Birchills, Walsall, West Midlands WS3 8QD

  Write to: c/o Walsall Museum & Art Gallery, Lichfield Street, Walsall,
            West Midlands WS1 1TR
  Phone:    [phone]; AH: 653196
  Open:     Daily ex Mon, Apr - Oct; BA in winter

  Displays: A display of life in the past on the Walsall Canal, including a
            reconstructed narrowboat cabin. In a former Boatman's Rest House.

Blackgang Sawmill & St Catherine's Quay **
  Blackgang, near Ventnor, Isle of Wight PO38 2HN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: A replica of a Victorian quayside, with sawmill, boat-building &
            other related crafts.

Blake's Lock Museum *
  Gas Works Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 3DH

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily ex Mon

  Displays: General displays of Victorian life include features of river &
            canal life on Reading's waterways. In a Victorian pumping station

The Boat Museum *
  Dockyard Road, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral, Cheshire L65 4EF

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily in the summer; closed Thurs & Fridays in winter

  Displays: A big dock complex at ends of the Shropshire Union & Manchester
            Ship Canals was restored from dereliction. It is now a museum
            with a collection of over 50 inland waterway boats, with little
            coracles, barges, narrow-boats, ice-boats, tugs & dredgers. (RC)

Boston Guildhall Museum *
  South Street, Boston, Lincolnshire PE21 6HT

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Sept, Mon - Sat in winter

  Displays: Maritime room, in this general museum, houses models & Customs
            artifacts. Associations with Pilgrim Fathers (1607).

Bridlington Harbour Museum & Aquarium *
  Harbour Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire YO15 2NR

  Write to: Harbour Offices, Gummers Wharf, Bridlington, Yorks YO15 3AN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - Oct., weekends only in winter.

  Displays: Harbour memorabilia. Locally caught fish in aquarium.

Bridport Harbour Museum *
  The Salt House, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4SA

  Write to: c/o Bridport Museum, South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NR
            (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, April - Sept, or BA

  Displays: Bridport's rope and net-making industries. In an old salt-house.
            NB There is a separate Museum of Net Manufacture at Bridgeacre,
            Uploaders, Tel: [phone], BA.

Brightlingsea Museum
  1 Duke Street, Brightlingsea, Essex CO7 0EA

  Write to: White Lodge, Ladysmith Avenue, Brightlingsea, Essex CO7 0JD

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     End March - end October: Mon, Thur, Sat.

  Displays: Local maritime history, the Cinque Port Association, oysters.

Bristol Industrial Museum [A] & Maritime Heritage Centre [B] **
  [A]: Princes Wharf, Prince Street, City Docks, Bristol BS1 4RN;
  [B]: Wapping Wharf, Gasferry Road, Bristol BS1 6TY
  Write to: [B]: Museums Manager, Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery,
            Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily (Industrial Mus. closed Mondays)

  Displays: [A]: gallery devoted to History of Port of Bristol (& ARC-BA).
            Fire boat & 2 tugs moored nearby. Story of Bristol shipbuilding
            with ship models, pictures, at Mar. Herit. Centre [B]; s.s. Great
            Britain (qv) nearby. City Art Gallery has marine paintings. (RC)

Brixham Museum
  Bolton Cross, Brixham, Devon TQ5 8LZ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat, Easter to 31 October.

  Displays: Museum of local history, with much maritime material. Models of
            local smacks & trawling ketches, displays of shipbuilding, ship's
            navigational instruments, reconstructed fisherman's cottage. (RC)

Broughty Castle Museum *
  Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Tayside DD5 2BE, Scotland

  Write to: McManus Galleries, Albert Square, Dundee DD1 1DA, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily ex Friday, & ex Sun Oct - Mar

  Displays: Displays local 19C fishing industry. Scotland's best collection
            of 1756-1914 arctic whaling memorabilia. In a 15C estuary fort.
            Also an arms & armour collection. (RC)

Buckhaven Museum
  Buckhaven Library, College Street, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland

  Write to: Kirkaldy Museum & Art Gallery, War Memorial Gardens, Kirkaldy,
            Fife KY1 1YG, Scotland
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon, Tue, Thu, Frid.

  Displays: A small museum displaying local history, especially fishing.

The Buckie Drifter
  Freuchny Road, Buckie, Banffshire AB56 1TT, Grampian, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, April - Oct.

  Displays: The maritime heritage of Buckie and the Moray Firth. Herring
            fishing with steam drifters. Demonstrations and recreated life of
            1920s on the quayside. Oakley Class RNLI lifeboat. Harbour tours.
            NB: Marine paintings are in nearby Peter Anson gallery. (RC)

Buckler's Hard **
  Buckler's Hard Village, Hampshire SO42 7XB

  Write to: Archives at: The Beaulieu Archive, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst,
            Hampshire SO42 7ZN
  Phone:    [phone], 612345
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Picturesque village was important 18C shipyard. Some cottages now
            recreate life of 18C shipwright, inn, etc and a museum displays
            a model of the 18C village & shipyard, model ships, shipbuilders
            tools, original plans, pictures and memorabilia. ARC-BA (RC)

Bude-Stratton Museum
  The Town Council, The Castle, Bude, Cornwall EX23 8AG

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - Sept

  Displays: Displays include ship models, figureheads, photos and artefacts
            related to local maritime history, shipwrecks, lifeboats.

Burnham Museum
  The Quay, Coronation Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex CM0 9AS

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mid-March to 20 Dec: Wed, Sat & Sun.

  Displays: Part of the collection refers to local maritime history.

Burton Art Gallery *
  Kinglsey Road, Bideford, Devon EX39 2QQ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tues - Sun

  Displays: There are some ship models amongst the general collection.

Canal Museum (Nottingham) *
  Canal Street, Nottingham NG1 7ET

  Write to: c/o Nottingham Industrial Museum, Courtyard Buildings, Wollaton
            Park, Nottingham NG8 2AE (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Wed - Sun

  Displays: Models & illustrations showing history, environment & archaeology
            of River Trent, its tributaries and associated canal system.

The Canal Museum (Stoke Bruerne) *
  Stoke Bruerne, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 7SE

  Phone:    [phone]. (Independent canal boat trips: 862107/862428)
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer, closed Mon in winter

  Displays: Shows 200 years of canal history. Replica canal boat, costumes,
            traditional painted wares, tools, prints, photographs. Housed in
            restored cornmill; canal locks, boats & Blisworth Tunnel nearby.
            Brit Waterways ARC at Llantony Warehouse, Gloucester GL1 2EH (RC)

Captain Cook Birthplace Museum **
  Stewart Park, Marton, Middlesbrough, Cleveland

  Write to: Dorman Museum, Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland
            (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone],
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sun + BH Mon.

  Displays: Cook's early life in this area is illustrated. Displays show his
            voyages of exploration, and ethnographic material from Australia,
            New Zealand, Oceania & Canada.

Captain Cook Memorial Museum *
  John Walker's House, Grape Lane, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO22 4BE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct; weekends only in winter.

  Displays: Late 17C harbour-side house attractively restored to period when
            James Cook lived there as apprentice. Many prints, models of his
            ships (all Whitby-built), portrait of Cook (copy) & displays of
            his voyages & discoveries. Some original documents. ARC-BA. RC.

Captain Cook's School-room Museum
  101 High Street, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS9 6NB

  Write to: c/o 9 Langbaurgh Close, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough,
            Cleveland TS9 6QH  (Tel: [phone])
  Open:     1 April - 31 Oct: every afternoon

  Displays: Housed in the former school where Cook was taught, part of the
            display illustrates Cook's voyages with 19C maps, a model of the
            "Endeavour" & items related to Cook. A model of the Cook cottage.

Castle Cornet *
  St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

  Write to: Guernsey Museums & Galleries, Candie Gardens, St Peter Port,
            Guernsey, C.I. [Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]]
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr-Oct

  Displays: Newly refurbished maritime gallery, in a fort dating to 13C. Ship
            models, tools, diving gear & navigation instruments, illustrate
            'Maritime Guernsey' theme. Smuggling, privateering, shipbuilding,
            shipwrecks and the Royal Navy. Military collections nearby. RC

HMS Cavalier
  Hawthorn Leslie Yard, Hebburn, South Tyneside, Tyne & Wear

  Write to: c/o Press & Promotions Officer, Town Hall, Westoe Road,
            South Shields, Tyne-and-Wear NE33 2RL
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Usually only open to pre-booked groups of 16 or more: enquire.

  Displays: Last surviving British WWII destroyer. 'C' class 2106 tons std
            displacement, launched 1944, laid up 1972, now in dry berth. The
            berth is part of a site under development as a historic ship-
            building exhibition, so access is restricted at present. (RC)

Chatham Hovercraft Gallery
  Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     enquire

  Displays: Temporary exhibition of hovercraft.

Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
  The Clock Room, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ

  Phone:    [phone] extn 1865/1866
  Open:     Mon - Fri ex BH

  Displays: Collection includes some marine chronometers, 18-20C. Replica of
            Harrison's First Marine Timekeeper (c. 1730); his H.5 Longitude
            Watch (1770); others include Sully (France 1724), Emery (1792)
            Croucher (1830) and several more recent marine chronometers. (RC)

Clydebank District Museum
  Old Town Hall, Dumbarton Road, Clydebank G81 1XQ, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon, Wed, Sat, or BA

  Displays: A small part of the collection includes material on ship-building
            and engineering.

Cornwall Maritime Museum *
  2 Bell's Court, Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2AZ

  Open:     Daily in summer; winter: not Sundays

  Displays: Displays cover Cornwall & the Sea, the Falmouth Packet Service.
            Ship models, artefacts, paintings. Shipbuilding & navigation.
            ARC & database of Cornish-built vessels 1786 - 1914 BA. (RC)
            (Falmouth Art Gallery has some marine paintings & prints)

Cotehele Quay Museum
  Cotehele Quay, St Dominick, Saltash, Cornwall PL12 6TA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, April - October. Educational programme anytime BA.

  Displays: The Shamrock: Tamar river sailing barge, built 1899, restored in
            1970s. Ketch rig, 37 tonnes, 57 ft length. Small quayside museum.
            (Branch of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich & NT)

Cowes Maritime Museum
  Library & Maritime Museum, Beckford Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight
  PO31 7SG
  Write to: IoW County Museum & Heritage Service, Parkhurst Road, Newport
            PO30 5TX, Isle of Wight
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Wed, Fri & Sat.

  Displays: Collection illustrates former ship-building industry (Naval 19C
            & 20C) and present yacht building industry, with models, photos
            & plans and a photographic archive. Some small craft.
            (also see: Sir Max Aitken Museum at West Cowes)

Cromer Museum *
  East Cottages, Tucker Street, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9HB

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Small museum of regional history, with displays on crab fishing,
            general fishing, boatbuilding (with tools displayed), renovated
            fisherman's cottage, garden & wash-house. Illustrations of local
            coastal trade, and traditional English sea-side holidays.

Cromer RNLI Lifeboat Museum *
  The Gangway, Cromer, Norfolk NR27

  Write to: c/o Mr Jim Smith, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 0HY

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, May - Oct

  Displays: Houses the 1935-45 lifeboat "H.F. Bailey". Displays, models and
            photographs show the history of the lifeboat station since 1804.
            The medals of Coxwain Blogg. Video films.

Cutty Sark Clipper Ship **
  King William Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9HT

  Write to: The Maritime Trust, 2 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich,
            London SE10 9BG
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Historic tea clipper, built Dumbarton, river Clyde, Scotland 1869
            Later (1877-1895) in Australian wool trade. Composite constructn.
            Now in dry berth. Below deck are displays of figureheads, and of
            the 19C tea trade. Owned by the Maritime Trust. (RC)

Dartmouth Museum *
  The Butterwalk, Dartmouth, Devon TO6 9PZ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Ship models, incl French prisoner-of-war models. Marine paintings
            and other pictures. Housed in an attractive 17C building (RC)

Deal Maritime & Local History Museum
  22 St George's Road, Deal, Kent CT14 6BA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Late May - end Sept: every afternoon

  Displays: Real & model boats, figure-heads, compasses, stern-boards and
            relics of the pilots and the lifeboats.

Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank
  Castle Street, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire G82 1QS, Strathclyde,
  Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: The world's first commercial experiment tank, built 1883 for the
            William Denny & Bros Shipyard. Fully restored; demonstrations of
            making model hulls for testing in long water tank. Models of
            paddle steamers, liners & warships on view. ARC-BA

Derry Harbour Museum
  Harbour Square, Derry, Co Londonderry BT48 6AF, Northern Ireland

  Write to: Derry City Council, Recreation & Leisure Department, Heritage &
            Museum Service, 5 Guildhall Street, Derry BT48 6BJ, N. Ireland
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Fri

  Displays: Ship models, half-hulls, maps and pictures related to maritime
            heritage of Derry. The "Iona Curragh" 1963 repro of ancient boat.
            Museum is being developed in 1882 HQ building of Londonderry
            Port & Harbour Commissioners. (RC)

Discovery Point **
  Discovery Quay, Dundee DD1 4XA, Scotland

  Write to: Dundee Industrial Heritage Ltd, Maritime House, 26 East Dock St,
            Dundee DD1 9HY, Scotland
  Phone:    [phone], 25282
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: The Royal Research Ship "Discovery"; built for the 1901 Antarctic
            expedition of the R.G.S. & Robert Falcon Scott. Maritime Trust
            loan. Displays, AV effects & school facilities aboard & in quay-
            side centre tell story of the ship & polar exploration. ARC-BA RC

The Dock Museum *
  North Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 2PU

  Phone:    [phone], 825500
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Summer: Tue - Sun + BH Mon. Winter: Wed - Sun.

  Displays: Displays of various ship- and boat-building trades, shipwright's
            tools. Ship models: mainly 1:48 scale Vickers' ships 19C - 1934.
            Photographs, navigation instruments. 5 historic boats. ARC-BA RC


Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum
  Crown Quay Lane, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3SN

  Write to: c/o 65 Park Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DY

  Phone:    [phone] during opening times, otherwise 423215
  Open:     Sundays & BH, Easter - Oct

  Displays: Small museum specializing in Thames Sailing Barges. Barge models,
            plans, pictures. Shipwright's, blacksmith's & riggers' tools; in
            yard are parts. Video.  Historic spritsail barge Cambria (1906).

Duxford Airfield (Imperial War Museum) **
  Duxford, Cambridgeshire, CB2 4QR

  Phone:    [phone]; airfield control: 833376
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Primarily an aircraft museum, collection includes Fleet Air Arm
            and US Navy planes & helicopters, and a maritime reconnaissance
            Avro Shackleton. Other Naval items include midget submarine X-51
            & fragment of X-7. Education service. Periodic special events. RC

East Kent Maritime Museum *
  Clock House, Pier yard, Royal Harbour, Ramsgate, Kent CT11 8LS

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer, Mon - Fri from Oct - March.

  Displays: Displays of bygone local shipbuilders, sailmakers & fishermen.
            Relics of the Great Gale 1703 which destroyed many ships. RNLI
            memorabilia & models of lifeboats. Exhibits of town in war, incl
            Dunkirk (1940). Several historic vessels on display. Shop.

Exeter Maritime Museum *
  The Haven, Exeter, Devon EX2 8DT

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in Summer; Oct - Mar: Sat, Sun & BH.

  Displays: Over 100 boats, from steam tugboat and HK junk to tiny coracles.
            Worldwide native craft collection, row-boats for trans-oceanic
            attempts, Brunel's drag-boat "Bertha", replica of "Great Harry"
            (for youngsters). Occasional spec events. Teaching resources (RC)

Eyemouth Museum
  Auld Kirk, Market Place, Eyemouth, Berwicks TD14 5HE, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Sep; Mon - Sat in October; closed in winter.

  Displays: Folk life and fishing museum. A large tapestry commemorates a
            local fishing disaster of 1881.

Ferens Art Gallery **
  Queen Victoria Square, Hull, Humberside HU1 3RA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: A general art gallery, with a significant collection of marine
            paintings. (see also the nearby Town Docks Museum).

Filey Museum
  8-10 Queen Street, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9HB

  Write to: c/o Tile Cottage, West Avenue, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9BE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily ex Sat, June - Sept.

  Displays: The collection illustrates local life, with emphasis on fishing,
            the lifeboat and the seashore.

Fishermen's Museum *
  Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW

  Write to: 11 Harold Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN35 5NJ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, May - September

  Displays: Housed in the old Fishermen's Church is the last Hastings sailing
            lugger "Enterprise" (1909), a horse-capstan, several ship models
            including 14 ft "Henri Grace A Dieu" and local mementos. (RC)
            NB Shipwreck Centre (qv) nearby. Some material at Old Town Hall.

Fleet Air Arm Museum **
  Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, near Ilchester, Somerset

  Write to: Box D6, RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset BA22 8HT

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: The history of Naval flying since 1908: 87 aircraft (45-50 shown,
            incl Concorde 002), many ship & plane models, weapons, medals &
            uniforms, paintings & documents. Coll of c250,000 photos. Lib:
            ARC-BA. Research service (BA with Keeper of Records; fee). (RC)

Fleetwood Museum
  Queens Terrace, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6BT

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Easter - Oct: daily

  Displays: Housed in Decimus Burton's 1838 Custom House, the museum shows a
            model of docks, a replica trawler bridge, ship models, pictures
            & equipment from the deep-sea and inshore fishing industry. Many
            photos of former Fleetwood trawlers. Local lifeboat material. RC

Fort Grey Maritime Museum *
  Rocquaine Bay, St Peter's, Guernsey, Channel Islands

  Write to: Guernsey Museums & Galleries, Candie Gardens, Guernsey,
            Channel Islands. Tel: [phone]
  Phone:    [phone]; Education services: 723688
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct

  Displays: Housed in a coastal Martello tower (1804) is an exhibition of
            items from many Naval & merchant vessels wrecked nearby. Survey
            by underwater archaeology of 1777 wreck of HMS Sprightly. Display
            of navigation & lighthouse items. Cannon from 1807 HMS Boreas. RC

Fort Victoria Museum
  Fort Victoria Country Park, Westhill Lane, Yarmouth,
  Isle of Wight PO41 0RW
  Write to: The Hampshire & Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, Admin.
            Building, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hants SO17 1BJ
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - September

  Displays: The Maritime Heritage exhibition is a small display of artefacts,
            pictures, videos & text explaining underwater archaeology. Housed
            in part of 19C coastal fortress, with an adjacent aquarium. Some
            archives at the Hampshire & Wight Trust HQ. (RC)

Foxton Canal Museum *
  Middle Lock, Foxton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7RA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer, Wed - Sun in winter

  Displays: Boat lift, locks and other items related to canal 1793-1950.

Gairloch Heritage Museum *
  Achtercairn, Gairloch, Ross-shire IV21 2BJ, Highland, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat, Apr - Sept; winter BA

  Displays: A general museum illustrating the past of Gairloch parish, incl.
            displays of restored boats, lighthouse and importance of fishing.
            Lib & Arch.

Gipsy Moth IV *
  Cutty Sark Gardens, King William Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9HT

  Write to: Maritime Trust, 2 Greenwich Church St., London SE10 9BG
            (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone] (This is to the Cutty Sark, nearby)
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct.

  Displays: The ketch, built in 1966, in which Sir Francis Chichester made
            his solo around-the-world voyage. MT.
            (adjacent to the Cutty Sark Clipper Ship, qv)

Goole Museum & Art Gallery
  Carlisle Street, Goole, North Humberside, DN14 5AA

  Write to: County Museum Officer, Central Library, Albion Street, Hull
            HU1 3TF  (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon-Sat

  Displays: Small museum with a collection of local history, esp development
            of port & shipyards of Goole. Ship models, paintings & photos.
            Coll of 27 ship portraits by local marine artist Reuben Chappell.
            ARC: some BA, some at Local History Room of Goole Library. (RC)

Grace Darling Museum *
  1, Radcliffe Road, Bamburgh, Northumberland NE69 7AE

  Write to: St Aidans Lodge, 2 Radcliffe Road, Bamburgh,
            Northumberland NE69 7AE
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - October

  Displays: Personal mementos of Grace Darling, incl the rowing coble used
            by her and her father to rescue 9 survivors of the Forfarshire,
            wrecked in a storm in 1838. Pictures, medals, and items recovered
            from the wreck. An RNLI museum. (RC)

The Great Britain **
  Great Western Dock, Gas Ferry Road, Bristol BS1 6TY

  Phone:    Until 16 April 95: [phone], then [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Not Brunel's first innovation, but first iron-hulled propeller-
            driven transatlantic liner (1843). Salvaged 1970, now undergoing
            total restoration. Most of exterior, masts, rigging, now complete
            Dining Saloon sumptuously restored. Replica engine, propeller. RC

Guildhall Museum *
  High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1PY

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Among items related to local history are some ship & boat models,
            incl bone ones by French Napoleonic PoWs in Rochester Castle.
            The Guildhall (1687) has associations with Admiral Sir Cloudesley
            Shovell.

Hartland Quay Museum *
  Hartland Quay, Hartland, Bideford, N. Devon EX39 6DU

  Write to: The Old Forge, Woolley, Morwenstow, nr. Bude, Cornwall EX23 9PP

  Phone:    c/o (0128 883) 353
  Open:     Daily in Easter week. Daily Spring BH - 30 Sept.

  Displays: Large model of local coast shows 150+ shipwrecks since Tudor
            period. Relics of wrecks: steamships Cingetorix, Rosalia, Johanna
            with pictures & documents. Model of 19C harbour, now disappeared.
            Displays of local fishing & trade, smuggling, lighthouse. (RC)

HARTLEPOOL: the old dock area is being extensively re-developed and
  the Hartlepool Maritime Museum will be dismantled and moved to new
  quarters. Following the successful restoration of HMS Warrior (now
  at Portsmouth), the old frigate HMS Trincomalee (ex-Foudroyaunt) is
  being renovated at Hartlepool and a number of other historic vessels
  are there, including the side-paddle river ferry Wingfield Castle.
  Plans involving the Imperial War Museum appear to have been shelved,
  but the situation is changing constantly and for current information
  try contacting:

  The Hartlepool Museums Service, Sir William Grey House, Clarence
  Road, Hartlepool TS24 8BT [Tel [phone]  Fax [phone]]

  or:

Hartlepool Maritime Museum
  Northgate, Hartlepool, Cleveland TS24 0LT

  Write to: Hartlepool Museum Service, Civic Centre, Hartlepool,
            Cleveland TS24 8AY
  Phone:    [phone], 266522
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat?  ** Enquire **

  Displays: Collection covers the maritime history of Hartlepool: fishing,
            ship-building & marine engineering. Displays of a fisherman's
            cottage, replica ship's bridge, gas lantern, net store, etc.
            ** NB: Being reorganised: no current info available. **

Heritage Centre Museum
  Old Lifeboat House, East Terrace, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

  Write to: c/o Tree House, 10 Walton Road, Kirby-le-Soken, Frinton-on-Sea,
            Essex CO13 0DU
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, pm only, mid-July to Sept.

  Displays: A small display of local oyster fishery, the local lifeboat &
            estuarine wildlife. Other temporary exhibitions.

The Historic Dockyard **
  Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TE

  Phone:    [phone], GV catering: 880300
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - 31 October; Wed, Sat & Sun in Feb/Mar/Nov.

  Displays: An 80 acre site. Historic buildings now display 18-19C Naval ship
            -building, ml Naval guns, rope and sailmaking & other crafts.
            HMS Gannet (composite hull, sail/steam sloop) HMS Ocelot (submar)
            and other historic boats under restoration. Allow 4-5 hours. (RC)

Historic Warships at Birkenhead *
  East Float, Dock Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside L41 1DJ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Tours of HMS Plymouth (Rothesay class type 12 anti-sub frigate
            launched 1959) & HMS Onyx (Oberon class submarine launched 1966).
            Both vessels served in South Atlantic, 1982. The Cammell Laird
            shipyard (where Onyx was built) is nearby. (RC)

The Hovercraft Museum
  15 St Marks Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 2DA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Enquire.

  Displays: A collection of about 20 hovercraft of different sizes & models.
            Extensive archives.

Ilfracombe Museum *
  Wilder Road, Ilfracombe, North Devon EX34 8AF

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - Nov; Mon - Fri in winter

  Displays: There are some maritime items as part of the general collection.
            Photos of local sailing craft, ship models.

Immingham Museum
  Margaret Street, Immingham, South Humberside DN40 1LE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Collection covers the relationship between the port and the
            railway at Immingham. Archives of Humber Graving Dock stored.

Isles of Scilly Museum Association *
  Church Street, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly (Cornwall TR21 0JT)

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer; Weds pm only in winter

  Displays: The HM Customs gig Klondyke. Models of other vessels incl steam-
            boat Britannia (1870s). Much material about shipwrecks: salvage,
            photos. Wool pictures by local seamen. Shipbuilding on Scilly:
            tools, pictures & half-hulls. Lib includes logs of local ships RC

The Jersey Museum *
  The Weighbridge, St. Helier, Jersey JE2 3NF, Channel Islands

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: The general "Story of Jersey" collection includes extensive coll
            of maritime art. A fishing boat, replica sailmaker's loft, items
            & photographs cover shipbuilding, smuggling, navigation & fishing
            Interactive computer archive. New maritime site opening 1997 (RC)

Kennet & Avon Canal Exhibition Centre
  Canal Visitor Centre, Couch Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1EB

  Phone:    [phone], 729489; Crofton engines: [phone], 870300
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - Christmas

  Displays: The exhibition commemorates the pioneer navvies & engineers who
            built the 18C canal between Bristol & Reading, the traders and
            others who used and operated the canals, and the restoration of
            the almost derelict canal since 1951. Beam engines at Crofton. RC

Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum *
  Kirkleatham, Redcar, Cleveland TS10 5NW

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily ex Mon, Summer only.

  Displays: Displays of Langbaurgh local history include fishing boats, items
            illustrating local fishing, photo display of lifeboat service at
            local centres and associated artefacts. ARC.

Lakeland Motor Museum *
  Holker Hall, Cark-in-Cartmel, Cumbria LA11 7PL

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     April - 31 Oct: Sun - Fri.

  Displays: Mainly a collection of classic cars & motor-cycles, but includes
            classic motor-boats.

Lancaster Maritime Museum *
  Custom House, St George's Quay, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1RB

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily (pm only in Winter)

  Displays: Illustrates history of the port, with ship models, displays of
            catching local shellfish, whammel boat & inshore fishing. Ship-
            building, trade with W.I. & Baltic. AV displays on port & the bay
            Located in historic 1764 Custom House, on quayside. ARC-BA (RC)

Museum of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution *
  King Edward Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 4BY

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Dec

  Displays: Models of 5 lifeboats, sails & oars of last sailing lifeboat,
            photographs of past lifeboats, their coxswains, & ships given
            assistance. Personal memorabilia. Housed in 1898 lifeboat house.

Linlithgow Union Canal Society Museum
  Manse Road Basin, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland

  Write to: 6 Royal Terrace, Linlithgow, West Lothian EH49 6HQ, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]; GV & Charter: 842575
  Open:     Easter - Sept: Sat & Sun pm only, or BA

  Displays: The story of the canal construction, with photos, displays of
            tools, documentation. Replica canal boat operates from wharf.

Lleyn Historical & Maritime Museum
  Old St Mary's Church, Church Street, Nefyn, Gwynedd, Wales

  Write to: Capt R Rice Hughes, Pen-y-Maes, High Street, Nefyn, Gwynedd

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily from mid-July to mid-Sept.

  Displays: Model ships & lifeboats, maritime paintings and items associated
            with the fishing industry of north-west Wales.

Lloyd's Nelson Collection
  Lloyd's, Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     BA only

  Displays: A collection of correspondence, silver, swords and other items
            commemmorating the connection between Lord Nelson & Lloyd's.

LONDON: for maritime collections near central London see: HMS
  Belfast, Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers,
  Lloyd's Nelson Collection, Museum of London, Science Museum, and St
  Katherine's Dock. On the north side, at Kings Cross, is the London
  Canal Museum. A short way east, downriver, is the Thames Police
  Museum. Further downriver at Greenwich are the vessels Cutty Sark
  and Gipsy Moth IV, and the National Maritime Museum, with the
  Greenwich Royal Observatory nearby. Note the elegant buildings of
  the Royal Naval College, built by Sir Christopher Wren along the
  Thames (they are now for sale). The ex-Soviet submarine U-475 is
  at Woolwich, a little further downstream.

The London Canal Museum
  12/13 New Wharf Road, King's Cross, London N1 9RT

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sun & BH Mon

  Displays: A collection of items and photographs of the inland waterways of
            the London area, housed in a former canalside ice depot.

Lowestoft & East Suffolk Maritime Museum
  Sparrows Nest Gardens, Whapload Road, Lowstoft, Suffolk NR32 1XG

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, from May - 30 Sept

  Displays: Mainly pictures, tools & ship models illustrating local fishing
            industry in 1920s & 30s. Housed in former fisherman's cottage,
            there is a reconstructed drifter's cabin. Lifeboat material.
            Associations with Royal Naval Patrol Service.

Lydia Eva (YH 89) *
  Usually at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, or Lowestoft, Suffolk.
  (Enquire at Tourist Information or phone [phone])
  Write to: c/o Coordinator, Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Charitable Trust,
            Ketts Acre, Crimpcramp Lane, Wheatacre, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 0BQ
  Phone:    [phone] (Coordinator's residence), [phone]
  Open:     Usually daily, Easter - Sept or Oct.

  Displays: Last surviving steam drifter, built 1930, now restored. Usually
            open as a museum of the herring fishery, from wheelhouse to fish
            hold, net store, crew's quarters & triple-expansion steam engine
            (under restoration). (RC)

Lynn Museum *
  Market Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1NL

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Part of general collection includes local maritime history. Some
            scrimshaw & harpoons reflect Lynn's one-time whaling industry.

Lytham Lifeboat Museum *
  East Beach, Lytham, Lancashire

  Write to: Mr. J.F. Kilroy, 35 Ripon Road, Lytham St Anne's, Lancs FY8 4DS

  Open:     Tue, Thurs, Sat & Sun, May BH - Sept. Also Weds in July & Aug.

  Displays: History of RNLI and Lytham & St Anne's lifeboats shown in photos
            and mementos. Display on the wreck of the Mexico, 1866.

Marine Life Centre & Fishing Museum
  Seahouses, Northumberland
  Open:     Enquire locally

  Displays: A private museum based in warehouse near harbour, with displays
            of fishing, herring-smoking and lives of local fishermen. Ship
            models, navigating instruments and many lines, nets, pots & other
            tools of the fisherman. Items from Longstone Lighthouse.

Maritime Museum for East Anglia *
  25 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR30 2EN

  Write to: Great Yarmouth Museums, Elizabethan House Museum, 4 South Quay,
            Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR30 2QH
  Phone:    [phone]; archives etc: 855746
  Open:     Summer & week preceding + week following Easter: daily ex Sats

  Displays: Maritime heritage of Norfolk. Collection of pierhead paintings &
            naive ship portraits. Models, tools, pictures, records illustrate
            local herring fishery, shipping & shipbuilding, inland waterways,
            Capt Manby's lifesaving invention. Scrimshaw coll. Lib&ARC-BA. RC

Marlipins Museum
  High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex

  Write to: c/o The Roman Palace, Salthill Road, Fishbourne, Chichester,
            West Sussex PO19 3QR
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sun, May - Sept.

  Displays: Maritime part of collection puts emphasis on ancient port of
            Shoreham: ship models, ship portraits, maps. In 12C building.

The Mary Rose **
  Mary Rose Trust, College Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LX

  Phone:    [phone]; GV: 839766; Shop & bookshop: 839938
  Fax:      [phone]
  Computer: http://www.synergy.net/homeport.html
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Henry VIII's warship sank 1545. Remains raised 1982, and visible
            in preservation chamber (now being sprayed with PEG). Over 1000
            finds on display: guns, arrows & longbows (only Tudor examples
            known), clothing & personal items, surgeons tools. AV shows. (RC)

Maryport Maritime Museum *
  1 Senhouse Street, Shipping Brow, Maryport, Cumbria CA15 6AB
  (steamships at Elizabeth Dock, Maryport)
  Write to: c/o Allerdale Museums Service, Development Planning & Leisure,
            Allerdale House, Workington, Cumbria CA14 3YJ [T: 01900 735409]
  Phone:    [phone], 815954
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Museum & Ships open daily in summer; museum closed Sun in winter.

  Displays: Models, paintings, tools & other objects illustrate Maryport's
            maritime history and shipyards. Paintings by William Mitchell.
            Displays for T.H.Ismay (White Star Line) & Fletcher Christian (of
            The Bounty & Pitcairn Island). 2 small steamboats at Harbour. RC

McKechnie Institute *
  Dalrymple Street, Girvan, Ayrshire KA26 9AE, Strathclyde Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tues - Sat; also Mon in July & Aug.

  Displays: Amongst the general exhibits are ship models, ringnet fishing
            artefacts & relics of the SS Wallachia which sank in 1895.

McLean Museum & Art Gallery *
  15 Kelly Street, Greenock, Renfrewshire PA16 8JX, Strathclyde,
  Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: There is some material relating to maritime history among the
            general museum & gallery exhibits. Models of several 19C ships,
            Chinese ivory ship models. Paintings. Relics of James Watt.

McManus Galleries *
  Albert Square, Dundee, Angus DD1 1DA, Tayside, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone], 434000; GV: 432033
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Among the general Human History and Art collections are some ship
            models and displays of shipping & ship-building. (ARC - some at
            Dundee City Archives; RC)

Mersea Island Museum
  High Street, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex CO5 8QD

  Write to: Mersea Island Museum Trust, 16 Woodfield Drive, West Mersea,
            Colchester, Essex CO5 8PX
  Phone:    [phone], 383301
  Open:     Wed - Sun & BH, pm only, May - Sept

  Displays: Small museum of local history, with displays of fishing gear &
            fisherman's cottage, model boats and photographs.

Merseyside Maritime Museum **
  Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 4AQ

  Phone:    [phone]; SE: 478 4747
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily (Library & Archives: Tues - Thurs)

  Displays: Galleries devoted to emigration, transatlantic slavery, battle of
            the Atlantic, shipbuilding, marine paintings. Display of maritime
            crafts. Ship models & real items. Museum of HM Customs & Excise.
            Quayside & ships. Maritime Library & Archs: booking advisable. RC

Mincarlo (LT412)
  Usually at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, or Lowestoft, Suffolk.
  (Enquire at Tourist Information or phone [phone])
  Write to: c/o Coordinator, Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Charitable Trust,
            Ketts Acre, Crimpcramp Lane, Wheatacre, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 0BQ
  Phone:    [phone] (Coordinator's residence), [phone]
  Open:     Usually daily, Easter - Sept or Oct.

  Displays: A side-fishing trawler, built 1962, with 5 cylinder 500 hp diesel
            marine engine. Ceased fishing in 1969, she is now being preserved
            as an example of a near/middle water trawler typical of 1960s. RC

Morwellham Quay Open Air Museum **
  Morwellham, Tavistock, Devon PL19 8JL

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: A restored 19C river-port, once important for shipping copper &
            manganese ore. Ketch "Garlandstone" & small boats at the restored
            quays. The "Ship Inn" probably 16C. Area is Theme Park in style,
            with staff in period costume in cottages, workshops and farm. RC

Museum of London **
  London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Computer: [e-mail]
  Open:     Tues - Sun + BH Mon

  Displays: Two boats from Roman period & a few ship models, artifacts from
            trade and dockland. Port of London Authority Collection. Museum
            devoted to all aspects of London's society & culture. Education
            facilities. New Museum of Docklands planned for 1996/7.  (RC)

Museum of Transport **
  Kelvin Hall, 1 Bunhouse Road, Glasgow G3 8PZ, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone],  305 2623
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: The Clyde Room has a large display of ship models: a few early
            Board of Admiralty & Napoleonic PoW. models, but maily large &
            detailed models of powered Navy, passenger & cargo vessels, many
            built on The Clyde. ca 800 models & hulls. ARC & Library (RC)

Nairn Fishertown Museum
  Laing Hall, King Street, Nairn IV12 4NZ, Highland, Scotland

  Write to: The Secretary, 2 Lodgehill Park, Nairn IV12 4SA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Fri, 1 June - 30 Sept.

  Displays: Model fishing boats & photographs show story of local fishing,
            the fishertown and fisherfolk in late 19C & early 20C. Artefacts
            & memorabilia of line & net fishing. Reconstructed interior of
            part of a fisherman's cottage. Tours of the fishertown. (RC)

Museum Nan Eilean
  Francis Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis HS1 2NF

  Phone:    [phone] ext 305
  Open:     Tues - Sat.

  Displays: There are maritime and fishing themes included in the displays of
            life in the Outer Hebrides. Before WWI Stornoway was a major
            herring fisheries port, and before that whaling was important.

National Fishing Heritage Centre, & Back o'Doigs **
  Alexandra Dock, Great Grimsby, South Humberside DN31 1UZ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily (Back o'Doigs closed BH)

  Displays: Marine paintings, ship models, fishing artefacts form part of an
            exhibition of local folk life & social history. Photo archives.
            Four fishing boats preserved/restored. Educational services.

National Maritime Museum **
  Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF

  Phone:    [phone], bookings: 312 6608
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Britain's No 1 maritime+naval museum. Paintings, old & new ship
            models & real boats, instruments, personal items & weapons, guns,
            flags, charts, dioramas & AV displays illustrate Trade, Explorers
            Naval wars, Seamanship, Nautical archaeology. Lib. Temp shows. RC

National Motor Boat Museum *
  Pitsea Hall Country Park, Pitsea, Basildon, Essex SS16 4UW

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Thursday - Monday

  Displays: Mainly fast sports & leisure craft, the collection (ca 27 boats)
            includes an early 1873 steamer & 1908 Kelvin engine. Recent small
            hydroplanes, jet boats, offshore powerboats & record-breakers.
            Engines, workshop, video room. Library & ARC: BA. (RC)

National Waterways Museum *
  Llantony Warehouse, The Docks, Gloucester GL1 2EH

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     daily

  Displays: Models, engines & machinery, hands-on exhibits, illustrate 200
            year history of inland waterways. Historic craft at quayside.
            Boat trips, horse-wagon tours, crafts displays, cargo handling &
            storage. AV shows. Shop. British Waterways Archives. (RC)

The Nautical Museum
  Castletown, Isle of Man

  Write to: Manx National Heritage, Manx Museum & National Trust, Douglas,
            Isle of Man IM1 3LY
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter to 30 September

  Displays: The "Peggy" - an armed schooner-rig yacht, built 1789. She is
            housed within George Quayle's 18C house which now contains some
            memorabilia and a display of sailmaking tools. Archives at Manx
            Museum Library, Douglas. (RC)

The Nelson Museum *
  Monmouth Museum, Priory Street, Monmouth, Gwent NP5 3XA, Wales

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: A collection of memorabilia associated with Admiral Lord Nelson.
            Nelson's sword, commemorative china, glassware, silver, printed
            matter & medals. Models & naval equipment. Fake "relics".

Newark Air Museum *
  The Airfield, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 2NY

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Six Royal Navy aircraft (Gannet, Sea Hawk, Sea Venom, Sea Vixen,
            Buccaneer & Whirlwind helicopter) comprise part of collection of
            over 40 aircraft (mainly early military jets). Indoor displays of
            engines, aircraft radio/radar, instruments, RAF uniforms. RC

Newcastle Discovery **
  Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear NE1 4JA

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Part of the collection, devoted to science & engineering in NE
            England, displays local shipbuilding & other maritime items. Many
            builders' models of Tyneside ships. (The first steam-turbine boat
            "Turbinia" is nearby: BA). Trinity Maritime Centre on Quayside.

Newhaven Local & Maritime Museum
  West Foreshore, Newhaven, East Sussex

  Write to: c/o 51 Hillcrest Road, Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 9EE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Sat, Sun & BH, Good Friday - 31 Oct.

  Displays: Photographs & albums of local & general interest.

North Devon Maritime Museum
  Odun House, Odun Road, Appledore, Bideford, N. Devon EX39 1PT

  Phone:    [phone], Archives & GV: 474852
  Open:     Daily, afternoons, Easter to 31 October or BA

  Displays: Displays the maritime history of north Devon. Ship models & half-
            models, dioramas of mediaeval shipping, 19C shipbuilding. Display
            of tools, carved tillers, wrecks & lifeboat rescue, fishing items
            & WW2 equipment tested locally. Audiovisual programmes. ARC-BA RC

Orkney Wireless Museum
  Church Road, St Margaret's Hope, Orkney Isles KW17 2SR

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Sept.

  Displays: Collection of historic radio equipment. Displays, with photos,
            maps & charts of Naval wireless communications at Scapa Flow.

Outward Bound Museum
  Outward Bound, Aberdovey, Gwynedd LL35 0RA, Wales

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer

  Displays: A few ship models from the discontinued sailing museum can be
            seen among the general collection of Outward Bound material.

Padstow Museum
  The Men's Institute, Market Place, Padstow, Cornwall

  Write to: J Lowe, 8 Cross Street, Padstow, Cornwall

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: General collection includes features on the local lifeboat, ship-
            building & shipwrecks.

Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery *
  Priestgate, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 1LF

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sat

  Displays: The general collection has a local emphasis, and includes several
            fine ship models made from bone by French prisoners in the nearby
            Napoleonic PoW camp at Norman Cross (1796-1816).

Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery *
  Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AJ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sat, also BH Mon.

  Displays: A wide-ranging general collection, with some maritime material:
            ship models, incl some bone PoW models, some ship equipment. A
            good collection of maritime paintings. See also Smeatons Tower.
            NB The Elizabethan House and The Merchant House museums nearby.

Porthmadog Maritime Museum
  Oakley Wharf No. 1, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales

  Write to: c/o Eifion Davies, Gowerian, Ralph Street, Borth-y-Gest,
            Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily in Easter week, and between May BH to 30 Sept, or BA

  Displays: Ship models, pictures, documents, tools & other equipment show
            the importance of local shipbuilding, and the export of slate in
            the fine Porthmadog topsail schooners during 18C - 19C.

PORTSMOUTH area: The following are in Portsmouth itself: The Mary
  Rose, Royal Naval Museum, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior. There are
  other military museums such as the D-Day Museum and Southsea Castle
  on Clarence Esplanade, and the whole area is permeated with Naval
  and military associations and memorials. In adjacent Southsea is the
  Royal Marines Museum. Across the harbour, in Gosport, are the
  Hovercraft Museum and the RN Submarine Museum. There are hopes that
  the Naval Armaments Museum may be opened to the public before long.
  The Royal Armouries have opened Fort Nelson in Fareham as an
  ordnance museum, with some of the earliest examples of artillery.
  There are live firings, etc., from time to time. Southampton, where
  the great transatlantic liners used the deep water harbour, is only
  a few miles away. It has its Maritime Museum and a number of
  maritime memorials (eg: Mayflower, Stella and Titanic). Buckler's
  Hard, on the Beaulieu (pronounced Bewley) river is a few miles from
  Southampton. There are ferry-boats from Portsmouth and Southampton
  to the Isle of Wight, with maritime museums at Bembridge, Blackgang,
  Cowes (see also under Sir Max Aitken) and Fort Victoria at Yarmouth.

Rhyl Library, Museum & Arts Centre *
  Church Street, Rhyl, Clwyd LL18 3AA, Wales

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: A small museum illustrates social & maritime history of fishing
            village & holiday resort. Models of local shipping, the Lifeboat
            "Caroline Richardson", and a photographic collection. (RC)

Roberston Marine Life Museum & Aquarium
  University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae,
  Scotland KA28 0EG

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat in summer, Mon - Fri in winter

  Displays: Displays show the history of the station, with replica of first
            research vessel. Geology & oceanography, fish & invertebrates of
            the Clyde area. Aquaculture & importance of seaweeds in domestic
            products. Aquarium. The Robertson Reserve Collection (RC)

Royal Marines Museum *
  Eastney, Southsea, Hampshire PO4 9PX

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Weapons, uniforms, medals, equipment, photos & paintings, models,
            maps & personal items displayed in 10 galleries show the history
            of Marines since 1664 (Admiral's Regiment) & their roles on land
            & sea. RM Commandos, & womens' Marens. Special events. ARC-BA. RC

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Headquarters
  West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Fri, ex BH

  Displays: A "D" Class lifeboat, models, paintings & photos, memorabilia,
            medals & commemorative items illustrate history of the RNLI.
            NB: also the Old Lifeboat House, on East Quay.

Royal Naval Museum **
  H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3NU

  Phone:    [phone]; shop: 826682
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Britain's main RN museum. 5 galleries of models, dioramas, photos
            & paintings, medals & personal memorabilia of sailors, from Lord
            Nelson to seamen and cabin boys. Navy in 20C includes role of the
            Women's Royal Naval Service in WW2. ARC-BA. HMS Victory nearby RC

Royal Navy Submarine Museum *
  Haslar Jetty Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 2AS

  Phone:    [phone], 822351 ext 41250.
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, except 24 Dec - 1 Jan

  Displays: AV briefing & guided tour of HMS Alliance (built 1947); Holland I
            built 1905 (RN's first submarine); midget submarines. Museum has
            models, torpedoes, medals & other exhibits, photographs. Guns &
            other submarine-related exhibits nearby. Cinema with AV show (RC)

Salcombe Maritime Museum
  Town Hall, Market Street, Salcombe, Devon

  Write to: c/o D Blackhurst, Flat 1, Hamstone Court, Great Gates,
            Salcombe, Devon TQ8 8JY
  Open:     Daily, Easter - 31 Oct.

  Displays: A newly formed museum, holding items of local maritime interest.
            NB: there are also maritime items at nearby Overbecks Museum.

Scalloway Museum *
  Main Street, Scalloway, Shetland Islands

  Write to: c/o Mr. J. Nicholson, Fairhaven, Scalloway, Shetland ZE1 0TP

  Phone:    [phone], 880675, 880608
  Open:     May - Sept (enquire) or BA

  Displays: A section of this small museum deals with WW2 operations known as
            "The Shetland Bus", a sea-borne Norwegian Resistance undertaking,
            assisted by the RN. Photos, maps, listings of missions & vessels.
            Shetland fishing & whaling history: models, whaling tools, (RC)

Science Museum **
  Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Computer: http://www.nmsi.ac.uk
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: The museum holds a wide range of ship models as part of transport
            theme. Also navigational instruments. Port model, etc

Scott Polar Research Institute *
  Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER

  Phone:    [phone], 337733
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Most afternoons, ex Sundays

  Displays: Material related to exploration and research in polar regions,
            incl 19C Franklyn expeditions & searches, Capt Scott's antarctic
            expeditions. Ship models, maps, relics, pictures, scrimshaw,
            Inuit carvings. Frequent temporary exhibitions. Lib+ARC: BA. (RC)

Scottish Fisheries Museum *
  St Ayles, Harbourhead, Anstruther, Fife KY10 3AB, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Computer: [e-mail] (via Scottish Inst. Maritime Studies)
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Model boats & pictures show history of Scottish fishing industry:
            herring, salmon & whaling, and ancillary trades ashore. Museum is
            in group of historic buildings around courtyard in which several
            old fishing boats are preserved. Enlargement planned. (RC)

Scottish Maritime Museum *
  Harbourside, Irvine, Ayrshire, Strathclyde, Scotland

  Write to: Laird Forge Buildings, Gottries Road, Irvine, Ayrshire KA12 8QE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, 1 April - 31 Oct

  Displays: Collection of Scottish maritime artefacts illustrate specialist
            skills and knowledge. Varying special exhibitions. Restored 1920s
            shipyard worker's accommodation. Working slipway & engine work-
            shop. Many historic Scottish vessels, some boardable. ARC-BA (RC)

Seiont II Maritime Museum
  Victoria Dock, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

  Write to: Capt. E.A. Jones, Y Swillies, Beach Road, Menai Bridge,
            Gwynedd LL59 5HD, Wales
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, 24 May - 21 Sept. (confirmation advisable)

  Displays: The dredger Seiont II. Models & photos illustrate Caernarfon's
            maritime heritage.

Selsey Lifeboat Museum
  Kingsway, Selsey, Chichester PO20 0DL

  Write to: c/o 7 Merryfield Drive, Selsey, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 0DN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - Oct

  Displays: The history of the RNLI and the Selsey Lifeboat Station is shown,
            with models (incl a radio-controlled scale model of the lifeboat)
            and videos of rescues.

Shetland County Museum *
  Shetland Museum Sevice, Lower Hillhead, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0EL

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Collection incl. fine models of a sixern & other Shetland fishing
            boats, shipbuilders' models & tools, wreck artefacts, sailors'
            personal items and material related to Arctic & Antarctic whaling
            incl. Eskimo work. Fully restored Ness Yoal "Maggie" & others. RC

Shipwreck Heritage Centre *
  Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - September or BA for groups

  Displays: Collection of items from shipwrecks: 150 AD - 19C. Audio-visual
            show. Several nearby wrecks (17C - 20C) can be visited.      (RC)
            NB The Fishermen's Museum (qv) is nearby.

Sir Max Aitken Museum
  83 High Street, West Cowes, Isle of Wight

  Phone:    [phone], 293800
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, May - Sept or BA

  Displays: Sailing memorabilia and paintings. Parts from royal yacht.

Skerryvore Museum
  Hynish, Isle of Tiree, Argyll, Scotland

  Write to: c/o Hebridean Trust, 75a Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE
            (Tel: [phone], fax: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     enquire

  Displays: A small museum whose collection includes some lighthouse items.

Smeaton's Tower *
  The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2NZ

  Write to: c/o Plymouth Dome, The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2NZ

  Phone:    [phone], 603300, 668000
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, from Easter - 31 Oct.

  Displays: The third lighthouse to have been built (1756-59) on the
            Eddystone Rock. When the present lighthouse was built (1878-82)
            the top part of Smeaton's was removed to Plymouth Hoe.

South Shields Museum and Art Gallery **
  Ocean Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear NE33 2TA

  Write to: c/o Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle Discovery, Blandford Square,
            Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4JA
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Tue - Sun + BH Mon.

  Displays: Displays cover a wide range of local history, including the towns
            maritime, lifeboat and naval associations.
            See also the HMS Cavalier entry: she is nearby.

Southampton Maritime Museum *
  Wool House, Bugle Street, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 2AR

  Write to: City Heritage Services, Civic Centre, Southampton, Hants SO14 7LP

  Phone:    [phone], 635904, 237584 for archive enqs.
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, ex Mon & BH

  Displays: Ship models & paintings recall Southampton's maritime past, of
            sail & steam, dockyards, ship-building & transatlantic liners.
            ARC incl photos, harbour & shipbuilders records, ephemera. BA
            Housed in a 14C warehouse where French PoWs were once held. (RC)

Southwold Museum
  Bartholomew Green, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6HZ

  Phone:    [phone] (Hon Curator)
  Open:     Afternoons, May - Sept; also Easter w/e + BH

  Displays: A section in this museum of local history etc is devoted to the
            Battle of Sole Bay, 1672, in which a Dutch fleet under de Ruyter
            severely damaged a combined British & French fleet. Lifeboat
            relics and mementos. Lib BA.

Spurn Lightship *
  Hull Marina, (Old Humber Dock), Castle Street, Hull, Humberside

  Write to: Monument Buildings, Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square,
            Hull HU1 3RA
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily throughout the summer

  Displays: Steel-hulled manned lightship, built 1927 at Goole, in service
            until 1975. Length 100 ft, 200 tonnes gr, one 18,000 cp lantern
            35 ft above waterline. Crew of 5 - 7. Anchored 4.5 miles off
            Spurn Point at entrance to River Humber 1927-39, 1946-59. (RC)

St Ives Museum *
  Wheal Dream, St Ives, Cornwall

  Write to: Mr S. Cock, 14 Richmond Place, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1JN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat, occasional Sun, mid May - Oct

  Displays: Models & mementos of the 1878 -1917 Hain Steamship Co. Photos of
            Cornish shipwrecks. Clockwork mechanism from Pendeen Lighthouse.

St. Katherine's Dock
  Located north bank of Thames, east of the Tower of London

  Write to: St. Katherine Haven Ltd., Marine Centre, 50 St Katherine's Way,
            London E1 9LB
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Quaysides always open. Access for boats depends on tide & locks

  Displays: This marina has the old Nore Lightship and about a dozen historic
            Thames sailing barges, in addition to modern craft. All vessels
            are privately owned, including barge Lady Daphne (Rochester 1923)
            used by Haven's owners for social functions. Sometimes viewable.

Stromness Museum *
  52 Alfred Street, Stromness, Orkney Islands KW16 3DF

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: The maritime & natural history of Orkney. Ship models, lighthouse
            models, exhibits on Arctic whaling, boat-building, fishing, Scapa
            Flow and the German Battlefleet of WW1. Display on Hudson's Bay
            Company & the explorations of John Rae.

Submarine U-475
  Long's Wharf, Thames Barrier, Woolwich Road, London SE18 5NL

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Submarine is ex-Soviet Navy, Foxtrot class, 92 metres long.
            Built 1967, decommissioned 1994. Visitors have access to most of
            the vessel. Part or all can be hired for private functions. (RC)

Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery **
  Borough Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear SR1 1PP

  Write to: c/o Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle Discovery, Blandford Square,
            Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4JA
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tue -Sun + BH Mon

  Displays: There are marine paintings & large collection of models of sail,
            steam and motor vessels, esp builders' models. The museum and
            gallery houses general collections as well. Educational services.
            ARC BA.

Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum *
  Museum Square, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 1SN, Wales

  Phone:    [phone], 470371, 653004
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tues - Sun & BH Mon

  Displays: The maritime material includes ship portraits & other paintings,
            ship models, mementos of Chilean copper ore trade via Cape Horn,
            a restored pulling & sail lifeboat, all housed in 1904 warehouse.
            Tugboat, lightship & other old vessels moored nearby. Lib. (RC)

Teignmouth Museum
  29 French Street, Teignmouth, Devon TQ14 8ST

  Phone:    [phone]; 773818 - Curator's home
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Exhibits include bronze cannon, stone & iron cannon-balls, tools,
            pottery & other items recovered from offshore 16C Venetian ship-
            wreck (Spanish Armada?). Displays show local boat-building, the
            Teignmouth Lifeboat & wrecks, WW1 & WW2 memorabilia. ARC-BA. (RC)

Thames Police Museum
  Wapping Police Station, 98 Wapping High Street, London E1 9NE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     BA only: apply in writing

  Displays: Uniforms, equipment & memorabilia of Marine Police Establishment
            and Metropolitan Police Thames Division.

Tolbooth Museum *
  The Harbour, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland

  Write to: c/o Peterhead Arbuthnot Museum, St Peter Street, Peterhead,
            Aberdeenshire AB42 6QD (Grampian) Scotland
  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily ex Tues, June - Sept

  Displays: Displays illustrate history of Stonehaven port and its fishing
            industry. Housed in 18C former Customs House.

Topsham Museum
  25 The Strand, Topsham, Exeter, Devon EX3 0AX

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Summer only, Mon, Wed, Sat; + Sun during Jun - Sept.

  Displays: Local ship-building and merchant voyages are illustrated as part
            of the displays in this 17C merchant's house, with a sail loft &
            estuary gardens. Ship models, tools, anchors, pictures.

Town Docks Museum **
  Queen Victoria Square, Hull, Humberside HU1 3DX

  Write to: Monument Buildings, Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square,
            Hull HU1 3RA
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Paintings, photographs, models of sailing & steam trawlers show
            importance of N. Sea & deepwater fishing to Hull. Trawlers during
            WW1 & WW2. Whale skeleton & major scrimshaw coll relate to Hull's
            part in 17-19C arctic whaling. Hull's docks in world shipping. RC

HMS Trincomalee
  Jackson Dock, Hartlepool, Cleveland TS24 0SQ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: This frigate, built of teak in Bombay in 1817, was for a time in
            Portsmouth under the name of Foudroyant. Still afloat and now
            being restored, her gun & lower decks are open for guided tours.
            History of the ship is displayed in dockside visitor centre. (RC)

Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre
  The Former Buoy Store, Wharf Road, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4BN

  Write to: c/o Council Offices, St Clare, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 3QW

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct

  Displays: A reconstructed lighthouse room. Models, optical apparatus, fog-
            horns, engines & other lighthouse artefacts displayed. AV theatre

Trinity Maritime Centre
  29 Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 3DQ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct. Winter: BA

  Displays: Maritime activity on the Tyne shown by builders' & model-makers'
            ship models, shipping & quayside equipment, ephemera, navigation
            instruments. Trinity House uniform. Lifeboat items incl repro of
            the Grace Darling coble. Housed in 18C warehouse.

True's Yard Fishing Heritage Centre
  True's Yard, North Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1QW

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Restored cottages. Video. ARC

Tugnet Ice House
  Tugnet, Spey Bay, Fochabers, Moray IV32 7PJ, Grampian, Scotland

  Write to: Museums Division, Moray District Council, Falconer Museum,
            Tolbooth Street, Forres, Moray (Grampian) IV36 0PH, Scotland
  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, May - Oct

  Displays: Displays of commercial salmon fishing, natural history of River
            Spey, and shipbuilding at Kingston. Housed in large ice depot.
            AV show & educational groups BA.

Tunnel End Canal & Countryside Centre *
  Waters Road, Marsden, West Yorkshire HD7 6NQ

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Summer: Tue - Sun + BH Mon. Winter: Tue - Thurs, Sat, Sun, BH.

  Displays: Displays on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Colne Valley.

Ulster American Folk Park **
  Mellon Road, Castletown, Omagh, Co Tyrone BT78 5QY, N. Ireland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily in summer, Mon - Fri in winter

  Displays: An outdoor museum of emigration history. Replica of a quayside
            at an Ulster port, with early 19C emigrant ship, forms part of an
            extensive display of emigrant life in Ulster & North America.

Ulster Museum **
  Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB, Northern Ireland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Computer: Librarian: [e-mail]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: General museum, with important colln of underwater archaeological
            material recovered from 3 Armada wrecks (1588). Marine paintings,
            displays on shipbuilding and the sea.

The Frigate Unicorn
  Victoria Dock, Dundee DD1 3JA, Angus,  Tayside, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Computer: [e-mail] (via Scottish Inst. Maritime Studies)
  Open:     Daily, 1 Apr - 31 Oct.

  Displays: Oldest British-built warship afloat. Launched Chatham 1824, put
            into reserve & used as training ship. Most of fabric original and
            still has unusual roof. Guns are lightweight replicas. (RC)

Valhalla Museum *
  Tresco Gardens, Tresco, Isles of Scilly TR24 0QH

  Write to: c/o National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10

  Phone:    [phone], 422818
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Apr - Oct

  Displays: Large coll of ships' figureheads & other decorative carvings,
            mainly salvaged from local shipwrecks, mostly 19C

HMS Victory **
  H.M. Naval Base (Historic Dockyard) Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3NH

  Write to: Flagship Portsmouth Trust, Porter's Lodge, College Road,
            H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ
  Phone:    [phone]; GV: 839766; ship's EO: 819604
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Tours of 40-45 mins: Nelson's Great Cabin (or Hardy's cabin), the
            Quarterdeck, 3 gun-decks & Orlop, where Nelson died 21 Oct 1805.
            A few iron cannon with flintlocks; others are lightweight repros.
            Dry berth. Ongoing restoration. AV for disabled. Educ facils.  RC

HMS Warrior **
  Victory Gate, H.M. Naval Base (Historic Dockyard), Portsmouth,
  Hampshire PO1 3QX

  Phone:    [phone], GV: 839766, premium info line: [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Innovative 1860 armoured warship: ship rig & single-screw steam
            power. Rig, decks & engine room all now restored. Main armament:
            Armstrong 110 pdr (7 inch) rifled BLs, 68 pdr (8.2 inch) SB MLs.
            Restored at Hartlepool 1979-87. Educ & Spec Interest GVs BA. (RC)

Watchet Market House Museum *
  Market Steet, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0AN

  Write to: c/o M.V. Sully, Secretary, 7 Periton Court, Parkhouse Road,
            Minehead, Somerset TA24 8AE. (Tel: [phone])
  Phone:    [phone],
  Open:     Daily during Easter weekend & mid-May to Sept.

  Displays: A small general museum with some model ships, paintings & photos
            to illustrate maritime history of the harbour & nautical trade.

Waterfront Museum *
  Oakley's Mill, Paradise Street, The Quay, Poole, Dorset

  Write to: Borough of Poole Museum Service, 4 High Street, Poole BH15 1BW

  Phone:    [phone], 661001 for Education answerphone
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: On 4 floors of 18C mill are displays on the maritime history of
            Poole & its port: fishing, smuggling, boatbuilding, sailmaking,
            Newfoundland trade. Underwater archaeology: iron age log boat &
            Spanish wreck. Art includes ship portraits. AV shows. ARC-BA (RC)

Welsh Industrial & Maritime Museum *
  Bute Street, Butetown Dockland, Cardiff CF1 6AN, Wales

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Tues - Sun.

  Displays: A varying display, usually with material related to Welsh marine
            heritage. From models & small artefacts to real vessels.
            ARC & Research Library. (RC)

Whitby Museum *
  Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire TO21 1RE

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Daily

  Displays: Shipping Wing displays many sailor-made & builders' ship models;
            also Napoleonic PoW bone models. A gallery devoted to Capt. Cook
            & to the Scoresbys: exploration & arctic whaling, with pictures,
            maps, documents, ship models & ethnographic material. ARC-BA (RC)

Whitehaven Museum & Art Gallery *
  Civic Halls. Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7SH

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Enquire: due to move in 1995.

  Displays: Among the displays of general local history are ship models and
            displays illustrating ship-building. Marine paintings & other
            maritime items. Frequent temporary exhibitions.

Whitstable Museum & Gallery *
  Oxford Street, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1DB

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon, Tue, Thu - Sat

  Displays: Good coll of maritime art. Displays show local seafaring: oyster
            fisheries, early diving. Special temporary exhibitions vary.

Wick Heritage Centre
  19/27 Bank Row, Wick, Caithness KW1 5EY, Scotland

  Write to: c/o 20 Bank Row, Wick, Caithness KW1 5EY, Scotland

  Phone:    [phone]
  Open:     Mon - Sat

  Displays: Exhibition on the life of the fishermen of Wick and history of
            the local fishing industry.

Windermere Steamboat Museum *
  Rayrigg Road, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 1BN

  Phone:    [phone]
  Fax:      [phone]
  Open:     Daily, Easter - October

  Displays: A fine collection of historic powered boats, some salvaged from
            sunken wrecks and restored to working order. Steam launch "Dolly"
            (c1850) is oldest powered boat. Many other early steam launches,
            motor boats, rowing & sailing boats. Trips on lake. ARC-BA   (RC)

Zetland Lifeboat Museum *
  5 King Street, Redcar, Cleveland TS10 3PF

  Phone:    [phone], 494311, 471813
  Open:     Daily, May - Sept.

  Displays: An RNLI museum, housing the "Zetland", built 1802 and the oldest
            known lifeboat. Other RNLI material on display, plus pictures of
            old Redcar, fishing equipment and reconstruction of a fisherman's
            cottage. Collection of model vessels. In 1877 lifeboat house.
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Part 2:     Named vessels and where they are located.

Adeus Amigo; River Tagus gaff cutter; 1971
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Alarm; 14 ft class racing dinghy; 1929
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Aleida; canal tug; 1930
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Alexandra; canal maintenance; 1882
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Amaryllis; canal pleasure boat; 1954
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Anne; clinker-built double-ended fishing 'scaffie'
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Anser; Duck Punt
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Antares; wooden-hulled 55 ft trawler; 1965
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Apache; offshore powerboat
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Argonaut; Hastings beach punt fishing boat; 1976
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Aries; canal narrowboat; 1935
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Aspull; wooden ice-breaker canal boat; c. 1900
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
ASR-10; WW2 air-sea rescue barge; c1941
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Bacup; steel barge; 1950 (?)
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Banshee; Whammel boat; c1890
    The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
Bantam II; canal tug; 1956
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Basuto; Clyde Puffer; 1902
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Bat; steam launch; 1891
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Bedford; double-ended pulling lifeboat; 1886
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Beeston; canal tug; 1946
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Bertha; Brunel's drag-boat; 1844 (world's oldest steam boat?)
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Bigmere; steel barge; 1948
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Birchills; canal tug; 1957
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Blossom; NE coast fishing mule (hybrid coble); 1887;
    Tyne & Wear Museums Service, c/o Newcastle Discovery; in store
Boys Own; Northumberland fishing coble; 1933
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Branksome; Windermere lake steam launch; 1896
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Britannia II; ocean rower; 1970
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Britannia; ocean rower; 1968
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Brunette; a William Fife bermuda rig yacht; 1895
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Calshot; tug tender; 1930
    Southampton Maritime Museum
Cambria; Thames spritsail barge; 1906;
    Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum, Sittingbourne
Canfly; Bowness mahogany-hulled speedboat; 1922
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Canning; steam-powered tug; 1954
    Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum
Carola; Scottish-built steam yacht; 1898
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine; available for charter.
Cathead; wooden barge
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Cedar; wooden barge; c. 1900
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Centaur; canal narrowboat; c. 1890
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Cervia; steam tug; 1946
    East Kent Maritime Museum, Ramsgate
Chiltern; canal narrowboat; 1946
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
CMB 103; post WW1 Coastal Motor Boat (MTB/Minelayer); 1921
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham (on loan from IWM.)
Cookie; hydroplane racing boat; 1962
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Cuddington; steel boat; 1948
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Cutty Sark; composite 3-masted clipper ship; 1869 (MT)
    Clipper Ship Cutty Sark, Greenwich
Cygnet; swan-prowed row-boat; 1881
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Daniel Adamson; Iron towing boat; 1903
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Dawn; Windermere 17 ft class bermuda rig yacht; 1934
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Discovery, RRS; wooden barque for polar exploration; 1901
    Discovery Point, Dundee
Dolly; Lake Windermere steam launch; c1850 (World's oldest?)
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Donola; Steam Yacht; 1893
    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Edmund Gardner; pilot cutter; 1953
    Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Eliza; Azores double-ended whaleboat
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Elswick No.2; Tyne Wherry; 1930s;
    Tyne & Wear Museums Service, c/o Newcastle Discovery; in store
Emily Barratt; wooden topsail schooner; 1914
    The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
Enterprise; lute-stern clinker-built sailing lugger; 1909
    Fishermen's Museum, Hastings
Esperance; TS steam launch; 1869
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Esther; fishing smack; 19C
    National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
Excelsior; sailing trawler
    Excelsior Sailing Trust, Lowestoft. Tel: [phone]
Finnagain; ocean rower
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Fiona; Jersey fishing boat; 1880s
    The Jersey Museum, Channel Islands
Flying Buzzard; Clyde Shipping Co. steam tug; c1950
    Maryport Maritime Museum
Freda & Norah; fishing smack; early 20C
    National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
Friendship; canal narrowboat; 1925
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Garlandstone; ketch
    Morwellham Quay Open Air Museum
Garnock; Irvine Harbour Co. tugboat; 1956
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
George; wooden barge; 1910
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Gifford; canal narrowboat; 1926
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Gipsy Moth IV; Chichester's circumnavigation of globe yacht; 1966
    King William Walk, Greenwich, London. (owner: The Maritime Trust)
Glenlee; Clyde-built 3 masted steel barque; 1896; (not open yet?)
    at Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow, for restoration. (Tel: [phone])
Grace Darling; pulling coble; pre-1830?
    Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh, Northumberland
Great Britain, ss; Brunel's iron screw-ship; 1843
    Great Britain, Bristol
Hannah; River Lune whammel boat; c.1910
    Lancaster Maritime Museum
Herbert Leigh; Watson class Lifeboat; 1950
    The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
HMS Alliance; A-class submarine; 1947
    Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
HMS Belfast; 10,500 ton Edinburgh Class WW2 cruiser; 1938-39
    Belfast (HMS), London
HMS Cavalier; Class C Destroyer; 1944
    Hebburn, South Tyneside
HMS Expunger/XE8; midget submarine; 1945
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham (on loan from IWM)
HMS Foudroyant - see HMS Trincomalee
    Jackson Dock, Hartlepool
HMS Gannet; composite-hulled Naval sloop, sail & steam; 1878
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham. Under restoration.
HMS Ocelot; 'O' class submarine; 1964
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham
HMS Onyx; Oberon class submarine; 1966
    Historic Warships at Birkenhead
HMS Plymouth; Rothesay class frigate; 1959
    Historic Warships at Birkenhead
HMS Stickleback/X51; midget submarine; 1954
    Duxford Airfield (IWM), Cambridgeshire
HMS Trincomalee; Frigate (5th Rate); 1817
    Jackson Dock, Hartlepool
HMS Unicorn; 5th Rate 46 gun frigate; 1824
    The Frigate Unicorn, Dundee
HMS Victory; 1st Rate 104 gun Ship of the Line; 1765 rebuilt 1801
    Victory (HMS), H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth
HMS Warrior; iron-hulled armoured steam frigate; 1860
    Warrior (HMS), H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth,
Holland I; earliest RN submarine; 1901-5
    Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
HSL(S) 386; Harbour Service Launch; 1944; under restoration
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham (on loan from IWM)
In Finnegan's Wake; transatlantic rower
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Iverna; Medway fishing vessel; 1893
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham
Jane; Chris Craft mahogany-hulled speedboat; 1938
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
John & Mary Meiklam of Gladswood; motor lifeboat;
    Yarmouth, Tel: [phone]. Under restoration.
John & Naomi Beattie; pulling & sailing lifeboat; 1906
    Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum
John King; motor tug; 1935; under restoration
    Bristol Industrial Museum & Maritime Heritage Centre
Katie; Scottish Zulu Skiff fishing vessel; 1938/39
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Kerne; steel tug boat; 1913
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Keying II; Hong Kong fishing junk; 1980
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Kingswear Castle; coal-burning side-paddle pleasure steamer; 1924
    The Historic Dockyard, Chatham; (vessel still used for trips)
Kittiwake; steam launch; 1898
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Klondyke; HM Customs gig; 1872
    Isles of Scilly Museum Association
Kyles; steam, conv to diesel, coaster; 1872
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
L.V.91, "The Helwick"; light vessel; 1937
    Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum
Lady Daphne; Thames sprit/gaff-rig barge; 1923. (Privately Owned)
    St. Katherine Haven Ltd., London [phone]; Hire available.
Lady Elizabeth; steam launch; 1895
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Lady Hamilton; motor launch; 1929
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Lightning; 14 ft class racing dinghy; 1933
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Little Bela; hydroplane motorboat; 1928
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Lively Lady; auxiliary yawl, sailed by Sir Alec Rose; 1948
    on loan to Portsmouth museums (owner: The Maritime Trust)
Lydia Eva; east coast steam herring drifter; 1930
    c/o Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Trust, Tel: [phone]
Macandi; Seine-Netter; 20C
    National Fishing Heritage Center, Grimsby
Maggie; Ness Yoal - a Shetland sail-and-oared fishing boat
    Shetland Museum, Lerwick
Manana; 17 ft gaff-rig sailboat; c1900
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Manchester; canal tug; 1874
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Marbury; wooden ice-breaker canal boat; c. 1900
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Marlyn; canal maintenance
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Marsden; Iron ice boat
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Mary Anne; ferry boat for goods & livestock; c1870
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
The Mary Rose; Henry VIII's warship; c1509-1545
    The Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth
Mayflower; steam tug; 1861
    Bristol Industrial Museum & Maritime Heritage Centre
Mendip; canal narrowboat; 1948
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Merak; canal narrowboat; 1936
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Merope; canal narrowboat; 1936
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Mincarlo; side trawler; 1962
    c/o Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Trust, Tel: [phone]
Miss Britain IV; powerboat
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Miss Britain; motorboat
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Miss Windermere IV; mahogany hulled hydroplane speedboat; 1958
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Mossdale; wooden barge; 1875-76
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Nance; Morecambe Bay prawner; 1914
    The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness (indoors, in frame)
Nimrod; kayak; c1969
    Exeter Maritime Museum
North Carr Lightship; light-vessel;
    Anstruther. Tel: [phone]
Osprey; teak hulled steam launch; 1902
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Otto; steel hulled steam launch, triple expansion engine; 1896
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Peggy; clinker-built schooner yacht; c.1789
    The Nautical Museum, Castletown, I o M
Peggy; Sunderland foyman's coble; 1890;
    Tyne & Wear Museums Service, c/o Newcastle Discovery; in store
Pelican; canal maintenance crane; 1956
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Penelope II; motor launch; 1930
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Perseverance; canal dredger; 1934
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Phoebe; canal narrowboat;
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Pinnace 1262; general-service RAF pinnace; 1942
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Puffin; ocean rower; 1970
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Pyewacket; twin-engined day boat; 1960
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Pyronaut; fire-boat; 1934
    Bristol Industrial Museum & Maritime Heritage Centre
Raae; motor launch; 1938
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Raven; steam cargo vessel; 1871
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Reliant; Steam paddle tug; 1907
    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
The Rifle; remains of a small iron steamer; c1861
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Ross Tiger: sidewinder trawler; 1950s
    National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby
Sarah Abbott; steel barge; 1948
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Scorpio; wooden barge; c. 1890
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Seamew; motor launch, clinker built; c1908
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Seamew; sailing coble; c1900
    Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum, Redcar
Seiont II; steam dredger; 1937
    Seiont II Maritime Museum, Caernarfon
Shad; canal narrowboat; 1936
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Shamrock; wooden Tamar sailing barge; 1899
    Cotehele Quay Museum, Saltash
Shun Lee; Hong Kong sampan; 1973
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Sir William Priestley; Morecambe fishermen's lifeboat; 1934
    Lancaster Maritime Museum
Solitaire; rowing skiff; 1908
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Sotero; River Tagus gaff-rig lighter; c.1950
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Spartan; ex-Admiralty Victualling Inshore Craft, #18; 1942
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Speedwell; wooden barge; 1925
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Spurn Light Vessel; 1927
    Spurn Lightship, Hull Marina
St. Canute/St. Knud; steam harbour tug-boat; 1931
    Exeter Maritime Museum
St. Cybi; self-righting 52 ft Barnett Class lifeboat; 1950
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Stratford; iron ice-breaker canal boat
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Sundowner; Admiralty launch, used at Dunkirk; 1912
    East Kent Maritime Museum, Ramsgate
Sunny South; gaff cutter fishing boat; 1904
    Exeter Maritime Museum
Surfury; offshore powerboat
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Swallow; teak hulled steam launch; 1911
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Swan; Scottish Fifie herring lugger; 1900
    The Swan Trust, 18 Alexandra Buildings, Lerwick, Shetland
T.G.B.; Watson Class 47 ft lifeboat; 1962
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Thomas Kirk Wright; ex-Poole lifeboat; 1938-62
    Old Lifeboat House: see RNLI HQ, Poole.
Trident; offshore powerboat
    National Motor Boat Museum, Basildon
Turbinia; C A Parsons' experimental steam turbine launch; 1894
    Newcastle Discovery, in storage; BA only at present
Tyne/Calshot Spirit; Lightship; 1880s
    Royal Northumberland Yacht Club; Blyth
Uncle Sam; clinker-built "Dispro" motor boat; 1924
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
U-475; Foxtrot class submarine; USSR, 1967
    Submarine U-475, Woolwich, London
Vagrant; late Victorian small racing yacht; 1884
    Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine
Vanessa; fishing smack; 1899
    East Kent Maritime Museum, Ramsgate
Viking; double-ended pilot boat; 1908
    Historic Ships Centre, Hartlepool
Volente; double-ended fishing boat; c1948
    Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum, Redcar
Wappenshall; iron ice boat
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Water Viper; steam launch; 1907
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
Waterlily; Steam Launch; 1866
    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Wayfarer; Chris Craft cabin cruiser; 1935
    Windermere Steamboat Museum
White Rose; gaff cutter yacht; 1897
    The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
Willdora; Zulu type fishing boat; 1901
    St Peter's Basin, River Tyne
Wingfield Castle; Paddlesteamer; 1934
    Historic Ships Centre, Hartlepool
Worcester; canal tug; 1908
    The Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port
Zetland: world's oldest surviving lifeboat; 1802
    Zetland RNLI Lifeboat Museum

End of list of UK Naval & Maritime Museums and Historic Ships.
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