Maritime Museum - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 43.259 W 117° 10.406
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The Maritime Museum of San Diego is located at the Star of India Wharf on the San Diego Bay. The centerpiece of the museum's collection is the Star of India, an 1863 iron bark.
Waymark Code: WM10FKE
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2019
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The Maritime Museum of San Diego, established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States.
Vessels in the museum's collection:
*Star of India, 1863 merchant bark
*Berkeley, 1898 ferryboat from the San Francisco Bay area
*Californian, 1984 replica of 1847 cutter C.W. Lawrence and official tall ship of the state of California
*America, 1995 replica of the 1851 yacht America that won the trophy that is now called the America's Cup[2]
*Medea, 1904 steam yacht that served in both World Wars
*Pilot, 1914 harbor pilot boat
*HMS Surprise, a 1970 replica of a Royal Navy frigate. Surprise was used in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The ship also made an appearance in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as HMS Providence.
*B-39, Soviet Foxtrot class submarine
*USS Dolphin, diesel-electric submarine launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007
*PCF-816 (formerly C24 or P24), 1968 Patrol Craft Fast that was transferred to Malta in 1971 and decommissioned in 2011
San Salvador, replica of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's galleon which discovered San Diego in 1542.
The Maritime Museum maintains the MacMullen Library and Research Archives aboard the 1898 ferryboat Berkeley. The museum also publishes the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History.
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