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Maritime museum in California, United States

Maritime Museum of San Diego

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Established	1948
Location	San Diego, California, United States
Coordinates	32°43′14″N117°10′24″W / 32.720639°N 117.173417°W /32.720639; -117.173417
Type	Maritime museum
Key holdings	Star of India Berkeley Californian Medea
Visitors	220,000^[1]
President	DR. Christina Brophy
Public transit access	County Center/Little Italy
Nearest car park	Street
Website	www.sdmaritime.org

TheMaritime Museum of San Diego is amaritime museum inSan Diego, California. Established in 1948, it preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. Located onSan Diego Bay, the centerpiece of the museum's collection isStar of India, an 1863 ironbarque. The museum maintains the MacMullen Library and Research Archives aboard the 1898 ferryboatBerkeley. It publishes the quarterly peer-reviewed journalMains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History.

Vessels in the museum's collection

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Current collection

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Star of India, 1863 merchant barque, the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat.^[2]
Berkeley, 1898 ferryboat from theSan Francisco Bay area
Californian, 1984 replica of 1847 cutterC.W. Lawrence and official tall ship of the state ofCalifornia
America, 1995 replica of the 1851 yachtAmerica that won the trophy now called theAmerica's Cup^[3]
Medea, 1904steam yacht that served in both World Wars
Pilot, 1914 harbor pilot boat
HMSSurprise, a 1970 replica of aRoyal Navy frigate.Surprise was used in the filmMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The ship also made an appearance inPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides asHMSProvidence.
USSDolphin AGSS-555, diesel-electric submarine launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007
PCF-816 (formerlyC24 orP24), 1968Patrol Craft Fast that was transferred toMalta in 1971 and decommissioned in 2011
San Salvador, a replica ofJuan Rodríguez Cabrillo's galleon which was the first European ship to visit San Diego Bay in 1542.^[4]
A railroad barge is docked behind the Berkeley. Many guests mistake it for a floating dock because it no longer has its tracks. In the lower deck are workshops and storerooms used by the museum for the maintenance of the collection.

Former collection

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B-39, SovietFoxtrot class submarine; as of October 2021 the sub is being removed from the collection and sold for scrap.^[5] She was finally towed to a scrap yard in Ensenada in February 2022.^[6]

San Salvador replica

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Starting in 2011 the Maritime Museum of San Diego built a full-sized, fully functional, historically accurate replica ofJuan Rodríguez Cabrillo’s flagship,San Salvador. The replica was constructed in full public view in the baysideSpanish Landing Park in San Diego, giving people the opportunity to watch a living recreation of the first modern industrial activity in the Americas. She was launched in 2015 and is stationed at the San Diego Bay Embarcadero as part of the Museum's fleet of historic and replica ships. She opened for public tours in September 2016 in conjunction with the Maritime Museum's annual Festival of Sail. Later that month she is expected to start making coastal tours up the California coast.^[7]

Gallery

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The ferryboatBerkeley, housing the San Diego Maritime Museum and USSDolphin
Overall view of the museum's ships.
Star of India.
HMS Surprise.
B-39.
Another picture ofB-39

Midway Museum

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Not affiliated with the Maritime Museum, but located a short distance away, is the independently operatedUSSMidway Aircraft Carrier Museum. Although at first it was feared theMidway would compete with the Maritime Museum for visitors, in fact visitation of the Maritime Museum has increased since the Midway museum opened.^[8]