Ships preserved in museums

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There are numerous notable ships preserved in museums around the world. These are distinct from museum ships, which are ships where visitors can go aboard to see the ship.

## List[edit]

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This list is in date order, starting with the oldest ships.

* Khufu ship: Ancient Egyptian ship (around 2500 BC) sealed in the Great pyramid of Giza on display at the Giza pyramid complex
* Dover Bronze Age Boat: remains of Bronze Age sewn plank boat preserved at the Dover Museum, England
* Lurgan Canoe: early bronze age oak canoe (around 2000 BC) found in Galway on display at the National Museum of Ireland. Longest dugout canoe ever found
* Uluburun shipwreck: Bronze Age fragments of ship with cargo at the Bodrun museum, Turkey
* Nemi ships: Caligula's Roman ships, destroyed by fire in 1944
* Tune ship: late 9th- or early 10th-century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
* Gokstad ship: 9th-century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
* Oseberg ship: 9th-century Viking ship from a ship burial, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
* Skuldelev ships: 10th-century Viking ships partially recovered from Roskildefjorden, preserved at the Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde)
* Kadirga:the personal galley of Mehmed IV (1648–1687) at the Naval museum of Istanbul, Turkey. Presumably the only surviving galley in the world.
* Mary Rose: early 16th-century carrack being conserved by the Mary Rose Trust at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
* Vasa: 17th-century ship of the line preserved at the Vasa Museum, Sweden
* Nonsuch: replica of 17th-century British trading ship used for first Hudson's Bay Company trading voyage, on display at Manitoba Museum
* Newport ship: 15th-century clinker built vessel currently being conserved in Newport
* USS Philadelphia: U.S. Revolutionary war gondola built in 1776 on Lake Champlain by Benedict Arnold and sunk in the Battle of Valcour Island, preserved at the U.S. National Museum of American History (Washington, DC)
* Fram: used by norwegian explorers 1893-1919 Fridtjof Nansen, the strongest wooden hull ever built. on display at the Maritime museum of Oslo- Gjøa, the first ship to cross the North-West Passage in 1903-05 is currently being salvaged.
* St. Roch: early 20th-century Schooner. In 1950 it was the first vessel to circumnavigate North America. On display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum (Vancouver, Canada).
* HMS Holland 1: early 20th-century submarine preserved at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
* EML Lembit: is one of two Kalev class mine-laying submarines built for the Republic of Estonia
* Vridni: steel screw steamer tug, built in 1894 in Croatia
* Kon-Tiki: Balsa raft used by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 to cross the Pacific using ocean currents from Peru on display at the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo
* U-505: German U-Boat Captured by the US Navy on June 4 1944. Preserved at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois
* Asgard (yacht): noted for her use in the Howth gun-running of 1914, in Dublin, Ireland

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## External links[edit]

* Media related to Ships preserved in museums at Wikimedia Commons
* Navis database of ancient shipwrecks

## See also[edit]

* List of museum ships
* Museum ship
* Ship replica