Memorial and Museum Ships
A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, a use found mostly with the small number of museum ships that are still operational, i.e., capable of regular movement.
Starting from my country
Best known museum ship of my country is the legendary
Georgios Averof (Greek: Θ/Κ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ)
Georgios Averoff is the world's only surviving heavily armored cruiser of the early 20th century.Popularly known as a battleship but it is in fact an armored cruiser .
The vessel, belonging to the Pisa class, was being built at Orlando Shipyards at Livorno in Italy, when the Italian government cancelled the project due to budgetary concerns. The Greek government immediately stepped in and acquired the ship with a 1/3 down payment (ca. 300,000 gold pound sterling), paid with the help of a wealthy Greek benefactor, George Averoff, whose name she received.
During the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, she was the Hellenic Navy fleet flagship during the campaigns in the North and Central Aegean islands, as well as the coastal cities of East Macedonia and Thrace.
Greece remained neutral during most of World War I. The Eleutherios Venizelos government in 1917 decided to participate on the Allies' side. At the end of the first World War in November 1918 she sailed to Constantinople and raised the Greek flag as one of the winning powers of the Great War. After, the signing of the peace treaties, Georgios Averoff with the rest of the fleet moved the Greek troops to Asia Minor.
She served on the Allied side during World War II, having fled to Egypt with the rest of the fleet. She led the Greek naval force when the fleet dropped anchor in the Faliron Bay, Athens on October 17, 1944, at the end of the Nazi occupation.
Georgios Averoff's last voyage was to Rhodes in May 1945, to commemorate the accession of Dodecanese from Italy. She was towed to her permanent berth in Faliron Bay in 1985, where is now open as a museum.
Namesake: George Averof Ordered: 1909 Builder: Orlando Shipyards, Livorno Laid down: February 27, 1910 Launched: March 12, 1910 Commissioned: September 1, 1911 Decommissioned: August 1, 1952 Fate: museum ship at Faliron
General characteristics
Class and type: Pisa class cruiser Displacement: Full load 10,200 tons
Standard 9,956 tons Length: 140.13 m (459.74 ft) Beam: 21 m (68.90 ft) Draft: 7.18 m (23.56 ft) Propulsion: Boilers: 22 Belleville water tube type, Engines: 2 four cylinder reciprocating steam engines, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp (14.2 MW) Speed: 23.5 knots maximium
20 knots operational Range: 2,480 nautical miles (4,590 km) at 17.5 knots (32 km/h) Complement: 670 maximum capacity: 1200
Armament:
Original configuration:
4×234mm (9.2in) guns (2×2)
8×190mm (7.5in) guns (4×2)
16×76mm (3in) guns
4×47 mm (1.85in) guns
3×430mm (17in) torpedo tubes
After refit:
4×234mm (9.2in) guns (2×2)
8×190mm (7.5in) guns (4×2)
8×76mm (3in) guns
4×76 mm (3in) A/A guns
6×36mm (1.42in) A/A guns Armour: Belt: 200 mm (7.9 in) midships, 80 mm (3.15 in) at ends
Deck: up to 40 mm (1.6 in)
Turrets: 200 mm (7.9 in) at 234mm turrets, 175 mm (6.9 in) at 190mm turrets
Barbettes: up to 180 mm (7.1 in)
Conning tower: up to 180 mm (7.1 in)
Averof in WWI
Averof in WWII
For more informations about the history of the ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_c...eorgios_Averof
http://www.bsaverof.com
Wooden steam 44-gun frigate Jylland launched 1860, paricipated victoriously in battle of Helgoland 1864 during danish war against Prussia and Austria (which Denmark lost !)
Now beautifully restored and pen for public
More pictures at
http://picasaweb.google.com/fsoredk/FregattenJylland#
Official web-site
http://www.fregatten-jylland.dk/defa...geID=0&lang=en
This is gonna be a great thread I feel it
THIS is going to be good!
ARMADA ARGENTINA
Museum Ship Fragata Presidente Sarmiento
Shipyard: Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, Liverpool, UK
Class: Frigate
Ordered: Frebruary 14th 1896
August 31, 1897.
Assigned: June 24, 1898 (affirmation of the Argentine Pavilion)
Destiny: Moored at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, as Museum Vessel.
General characteristics
Displacement: 2.733 t to full load
Length: 85,5 m
Beam: 13,32 m
Draft: Prow: 17 feet 6 inches. Stern: 19 feet 6 inches. Average fret: 18 feet.
Armament: Was Possessing 4 Armstrong raspid fire cannons of rapid shot (120 mm and 45 calibres), 6 rapid fire cannons Armstrong type (57 mm), 2 rapid fire cannons Maxim-Nordenfeldt (37 mm), 3 Whitehead system torpedo tubes, 2 Maxim-Nordenfeldt machine guns (7,62 mm).
Propulsion: 21 sails with 24.000 square feet of surface, more 12 supplementary sails. Steam engine of 1.800 hp, two telescopic chimneys. Speed: 13 knots.
Last edited by Tintxo; 10-30-2008 at 08:56 PM.
This is like SHIP PORN.....keep it coming! (Man...I need a date).
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USS Bowfin in Hawaii
USS North Carolina in Wilmington, NC
ARMADA ARGENTINA
Museum Ship Corbeta Uruguay
(Photo: Ignacio Amendolara, Ag. 2008, from www.histarmar.com.ar)
Shipyard: Cammell Laird Bros., Birkenhead, UK.
Class: Corvette
Ordered: 1872
Launched: March 6, 1874.
Assigned: July 4, 1874 (affirmation of the Argentine Pavilion)
Destiny: Moored at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, as Museum Vessel.
General characteristics
Displacement: 550 t
Length: 46,36 m
Beam: 7,63 m
Draft: 3,5 m.
Armament: Original: 4 Levasseur cannons (7 inches), 1880: 2 x 90mm Armstrong cannons and 1 x 150 mm Armstrong cannon, 1893: 2 x 120 mm Armstrong cannons and 2 x 66 mm Armstrong cannons.
Propulsion: Steam engine of 475 hp, two boilers.
Max Speed: 11 knots.
Range: 1500 nm.
Crew: 114 men.
This Argentinean corbette, rescued in 1902 the members of Otto G. Nordenskjöld´s expedition. They were rescued from the Antartica, after the wrecking of the the Swedish Vessel "Antartic". More info: http://www.histarmar.com.ar/InfHisto...ttonorden1.htm
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I have pictures of HMS Belfast, but not a good internet connection. Will post when I get home
I'll dig in my HDD, I took a ton last time I was in London...Originally Posted by StuRat
Nice City, nice ship... and GREAT thread!
Dont Forget HMS Victory prolly the oldest floating Warship in the world?
http://www.hnsa.org/ships/victory.htm
Class: First Rate Ship of the Line
Launched: May 1765
At: Chatham, Kent England
Commissioned: February 1778- Current.
location: HM Naval Base Portsmouth
Well it isn't exactly floating
Don't forget H.M.S Warrior in Portsmouth too !
I have some old photos of both which I will upload when I get home tomorrow.
Does the swedish Wasa qualify in this thread ? I think so
This thread looks promising
Another memorial ship of my country
Olympias(trireme)(Greek: Ολυμπιάς)
Olympias is a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.
She was constructed from 1985 to 1987 by a shipbuilder in Piraeus. Finance came from the Hellenic Navy and donors such as Frank Welsh (a Suffolk banker, writer and trireme enthusiast). The building was advised by the historians J. S. Morrison and John F. Coates, who with Welsh founded the Trireme Trust that initiated the project, and drew on evidence gained from underwater archaeology. The Trireme Trust is now chaired by Professor Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London).
The bronze bow ram weighed 200 kg. The ship was built from Oregon pine and Virginia oak.
She was subject to sea trials in 1987, 1990, 1992 and 1994, but one of the most informative was an exercise in 1987 when crewed by 170 volunteer oarsmen and oarswomen. Olympias achieved a speed of 9 knots (17 km/h) and was able to execute 180 degree turns within one minute, in an arc no wider than two and a half (2.5) ship-lengths. These results, achieved with an inexperienced crew, suggest that the ancient writers were not exaggerating about the capabilities of such vessels.
Olympias was transported to Britain in 1993, to take part in events celebrating the 2,500 years since the beginning of democracy. In 2004 Olympias was used to transport the Olympic Flame ceremonially from the port of Keratsini to the main port of Piraeus, as the Olympic Torch Relay entered its final stages in the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. She is now an exhibit in a dry dock in Faliron, Athens, Greece.
General characteristics:
Displacement: 70 tonnes Length: 36.9 m (121.06 ft) Beam: 5.5 m (18.04 ft) Draught: 1.25 m (4.10 ft) Propulsion: two large square sails
170 oarsmen Speed: Maximum (with oars) - over 9 knots (16.7 km/h)
Continuous (crew rowing in turns) 4.0 (7.4 km/h) (estimated) Complement: 200 plus 5 officers (in antiquity) Armament: bronze bow ram, ten spears, four archers
The Frigate HMS Unicorn in Dundee
http://www.frigateunicorn.org/
No Pics im afraid, not been to see her for donkeys years, well not since they moved the Lighthouse Boat.
H.M.S Warrior in Portsmouth (Old low res photo)
Cruiser H.M.S Belfast in London
Barque Viking in Gothenburg
Frigate Peder Skram in Copenhagen
FAC Sehested also Copenhagen
The oldest and must impressive museum ship I have ever seen
The Vasa inStockholm
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