Australian National Maritime Museum  The first impact of the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is impressive. This is due in no small measure to its unique architecture (left) and perfect […]

The James Craig Originally Clan McLeod, the James Craig was a Clipper-era iron-hulled sailing ship. She foundered as a coal hulk in Recherche Bay, Tasmania, where she lay for four […]

 The USN Academy Museum, Annapolis The ship models housed in the “Class of 1951” Gallery in the United States Naval Academy Museum must rival any in the world for painstaking […]

The Madrid maritime museum The Madrid Maritime Museum’s crest. Very clearly, Museo Naval Madrid has been around for a very long time. Its carpeted and polished wood floors exude a […]

Barcelona maritime museum The Barcelona Maritime Museum must be one of the best-designed maritime museums in the world. It is presently housed in a Royal Shipyard dating back to the […]

Mikasa, the Tsushima Straits victor Don’t be misled by the “10 minutes walk, 8 if you run a bit” posted signs in Japan. The Mikasa website says the old museum […]

 RAN Heritage centre by John Ellis    The RAN Heritage Centre, Garden Island, has replaced the old Spectacle Island Repository. There is a story that there was a victualling storekeeper […]

Aurora Aurora, the Russian history-laden pre-Dreadnought Pallada class armoured six-inch cruiser, is kept in mint condition just off the Peter and Paul fortress in the Neva River, St Petersburg. This […]

Russian Maritime Museum, St Petersburg  The Dvortsovy Bridge crosses the Neva River from the Admiralty and Hermitage. Near the bridge’s end, is the first of two red Rostral Columns. The […]

USS Hornet CV-12 The West Coast’s USS Hornet, like Intrepid in New York, Yorktown in Charleston and Lexington in Corpus Christi, is one of the 22 WW II-built Essex class […]