Naval and Maritime Museums: Connecticut

Bridgeport

HMS "Rose" Foundation

Captain's Cove Seaport,
1 Bostwick Avenue,
Bridgeport, CT 06605.

Telephone: +1 203 335 1433.

HMS Rose (1970), sailing frigate. A replica of the British frigate from 1757 that patrolled Long Island Sound during the American Revolution.

Essex

Connecticut River Museum,
P.O. Box 261,
67 Main Street,
Essex, CT 06426.

Telephone: +1 203 767 8269

Groton

Nautilus Memorial Submarine Force Library and Museum

Naval Submarine Base New London,
P.O. Box 571,
Groton, CT 06349-5000.

Telephone: +1 800 343 0079 or +1 203 449 4276.

USS Nautilus (1955), submarine SSN 571. The world's first nuclear propelled vessel.
Japanese Type A (Gato) midget submarine (1938).

Mystic

Mystic Seaport Museum

P.O. Box 6000,
50 Greenmanville Ave.,
Mystic, CT 06355-0990.

Telephone: +1 860 572 0711
Telefax: +1 860 572 5394
WWW: http://www.mystic.org/

Opening hours: April—October, 09:00-17:00; November—March, 09:00-16:00; Closed December 25.
The G.W. Blunt White Library is open weekdays 10:00-17:00.

Museum ships:

Charles W. Morgan (1841), a three-masted whaling barque.
Emma C. Berry (1866), a wooden sloop rigged well smack.
Joseph Conrad (1882), ex Georg Stage, a three-masted steel sail-training ship.
Sabino (1908), wooden coal-fired steam launch.
L.A. Dunton (1921), a wooden three-masted Gloucester Grand Banks fishing-schooner.
Brilliant (1932), a two-masted schooner yacht.
More than four hundred other small vessels.

The Mystic Seaport is a non-profit organisation founded in 1929, which today is a 17 acre reconstruction of a 19th century whaling town, functioning as an in part open air museum, including a ropewalk, sailmaker's loft, smithy, boatbuilder's shop, etc. The Charles W. Morgan is the last whaling ship still afloat.

Research resources:

G.W. Blunt White Library of 65.000 volumes of books and periodicals.
More than one million photographique images illustrating maritime and yachting history of which the Rosenfeld collection makes up 800.000.
Circa 100.000 sheets of ships and boat plans.
The Munson Institute offers graduate level courses during the summer.
The William College is offering undergraduate courses during the whole academic year.

New London

US Coast Guard Museum

US Coast Guard Academy,
Route 32,
New London, CT 06320-4195.

Telephone: +1 203 444 8511.

USCG Eagle (1936), ex Horst Vessel, a three-masted sail-training barque.

South Norwalk

Maritime Center at Norwalk

10 North Water Street,
South Norwalk, CT 06854.

Telephone: +1 203 852 0700 ext. 206.

Museum ship: Hope (1948), a wooden oyster sloop.

The nautical history and ecology of the Long Island Sound. Includes an aquarium and an IMAX theater.

Updated 1996-12-05 by Lars Bruzelius.

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