Maritime and Naval Museums: Maryland, USA.

Annapolis

Barge House Museum

P.O. Box 3088,
Bay Shore Drive,
Annapolis, MD 21403.

Telephone: +1 410 268 1802

Opening hours: Saturday 11:00-16:00.

The exhibits feature maritime artifacts from the Eastport area.

U. S. Naval Academy Museum

Preble Hall, 118 Maryland Avenue,
Annapolis, MD 21402-5034.

Telephone: +1 410 267 6100 (Academy)
Telephone: +1 410 293 2108 or +1 410 29367 2109 (Museum).
Telefax: +1 410 293 5220.

Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 09:00-17:00; Sunday 11:00-17:00; Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day.

Entry to the Museum is free of charge.

The Museum is operated by the U.S. Naval Institute. A new Gallery of Ships was opened August 7, 1994, featuring many of the 108 ship models dating from 1650 to 1850 belonging to the Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection.

The Academy itself is a National Historic Shrine, containing a multitude of monuments and relics, including the foremast of the battleship USS Maine and the crypt of John Paul Jones.

Victualling Warehouse Maritime Museum

77 Main Street/194 Prince George,
Annapolis, MD 21401.

Telephone: +1 410 268 5576

Opening hours: 11:00-16:30.

Among the exhibits are found a diorama of the Annapolis waterfront circa 1751-1791, shipbuilding tools and hand-woven sails.

Baltimore

USF Constellation

Pier 1,
Constellation Dock,
Baltimore.

Telephone: +1 (410) 539-1797 or -1798.

USF Constellation (1855), sailing sloop-of-war.

The Constellation is the last wooden warship built in the United States. The US Navy used funds appropriated for repair of vessels to completely rebuild the frigate Constellation of the War of 1812 fame originally built in 1797.

Baltimore Maritime Museum

Pier 4,
Pratt Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202.

Telephone: +1 301 396 3854

Opening hours: Summer 09:30-19:00 EDT; Winter 09:30-16:30 EST.

Chesapeake (1930), Lightship No. 116.
USCGC Taney (1936), cutter. The last surviving ship from Pearl Harbor which is still afloat.
USS Torsk (1944), submarine SS-423. The last US submarine to sink a ship during WWII.

Radcliff Maritime Museum

Maryland Historical Society,
201 West Monument Street,
Baltimore, MD 21201.

Telephone: +1 301 685 3750

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11:00-16:00, Sunday 13:00-17:00.

Pride of Baltimore, Inc.

100 Light Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202

Telephone: +1 410 625 5460

Pride of Baltimore (1988), reconstruction of a "Baltimore Clipper". Second ship of the name. The first reconstruction of the Pride of Baltimore was lost at sea some years ago.

John W. Brown

Pier 1,
Clinton Street,
P.O. Box 8,
Long Green, MD 21092.

Telephone: +1 410 558 0646

Opening hours: Memorial Day - Columbus Day: Wednesday & Saturday 13:00-16:30.

John W. Brown (1942), Liberty ship.

Publishes the Ugly Duckling newsletter.

Cambridge

Brannock Maritime Museum

210 Talbot Street,
Cambridge, MD 21613.

Telephone: +1 301 228 6938

Chesapeake City

C[hesapeake] and D[elaware] Canal Museum

Chesapeake City, MD 21915.

Telephone: +1 301 885 5621

Opening hours: Monday — Saturday 08:00-16:30, Sunday 10:00-18:00 (Easter — 31 October].

Havre de Grace

Havre de Grace Maritime Museum

100 Lafayette Street,
P.O. Box 533,
Havre de Grace, MD 21078.

Telephone: +1 410 939 4800

Opening hours: May — October, Saturday & Sunday 13:00-17:00.
The museum was founded in 1988.

Linthicum Heights

Master, Mates, & Pilots Museum

5700 Hammonds Ferry Road,
Linthicum Heights, MD 21090.

Telephone: +1 301 859 5700
Telefax: +1 301 869 5181

Opening hours: Monday — Friday 08:30-16:30.

Museum ship: Mary W. Somers (19??), skipjack.

Historic St. Mary's City

Rosecroft Rd.

Telephone: +1 301 862 0990.

Maryland Dove, sailing ship. The Dove is a reconstruction of one of the ships that brought the early English emigrants to Maryland.

St. Michaels

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

P.O. Box 636,
Navy Point,
St. Michaels, MD 21633-0636.

Telephone: +1 301 745 2916.

Opening hours: Daily, Summer 10:00-17:00; winter 10:00-16:00, January - early March Saturday & Sunday only.

Museum ships:

E.C. Collier (1910), skipjack.
Edna E. Lockwood (1889), bugeye.
Mustang (1907), oyster dredger.
Old Point (1909), round-stern bugeye.
Rosie Parks (1955), skipjack.

The museum also has a collection of more than 80 other vessels and small boats.

Solomons

Calvert Marine Museum

Route 2,
P.O. Box 97,
Solomons, MD 20688.

Telephone: +1 301 326 2042.
WWW: http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com

Opening hours: May — September, Moday-Saturday 10:00-17:00, Sunday 12:00-17:00; October — April, Monday-Friday 10:00-16:30, Saturday-Sunday 12:00-16:30. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Years Day.

The exhibits include the Drum Point Lighthouse and a number of small craft.
Museum ships:

Wm. B. Tennison (1899), bugeye.
Penhuin (1935), workboat.

Updated 1998-11-06 by Lars Bruzelius.

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