Naval and Maritime Museums: California

Eureka

Humbolt Bay Maritime Museum

1410 Second Street,
Eureka, CA 95501.

Telephone: +1 707 444 9440

Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10:00-16:00.

Part of the collection features the USS Milwaukee which was wrecked at Eureka in 1916.

Museum ship: The Madaket (1910), a small passenger ship.

Long Beach

RMS Queen Mary

Pier J,
P.O. Box 8,
Long Beach, CA 90801.

Telephone: +1 310 435 3511

Opening hours 10:00-18:00.

The Queen Mary (1936), once a Cunard luxury liner is now a floating hotel operated by the City of Long Beach. There is also a museum on board the ship, featuring both exhibitions of part of the ships and the history of merchant shipping.

Monterey

Allan Knight Maritime Museum

550 Calle Principal
P.O. Box 805,
Monterey, CA 93942.

Telephone: +1 408 375 2553

Opening hours: June-September: Tuesday-Friday 10:00-16:00, Saturday-Sunday 14:00-16:00; October-May: Tuesday-Friday 13:00-16:00, Saturday-Sunday 14:00-16:00. Closed national holidays.

Library and museum - renowned model collection. This museum, which opened in 1971, is currently (1992) closed and is in the process of moving.

Newport Beach

Newport Harbor Nautical Museum

151 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Newport Beach, CA 92660.

Telephone: +1 714 673 3377
WWW: http://www.newportnautical.org/

Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-17:00.

The museum was founded in 1983.

Oakland

FDR Memorial Park

66 Jack London Square,
Oakland.

City of Oakland (1940) ex Hoga, shipyard tug.
Potomac (1934), ex presidential yacht (Franklin Delano Roosevelt).

Oxnard

Ventura County Maritime Museum

2731 S. Victoria Ave.
Oxnard, CA 93035.

Telephone +1 805 984 6260

Opening Hours: 11:00-17:00 daily except Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

The museum, which was founded in 1989, opened in 1990.

Port Hueneme

Civil Engineer Corps/SeeBee Museum

Naval Construction Battalion Center,
Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5000.

Telephone: +1 805 982 5163.

Opening hours: Monday-Friday 08:00-17:00, Saturday 09:00-16:30, Sunday 12:30-16:30, closed national holidays.

History of the USN Construction Battalions.

San Diego

Maritime Museum of San Diego

The Embarcadero,
1306 North Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101.

Telephone: +1 619 234 9153
WWW: http://www.sdmaritime.com/

Opening hours: 09:00-20:00.

Publishes the journal Mains'l Haul.

Museum ships:

Berkeley (1898), ferryboat.
Medea (1904), steam yacht.
Star of India ex Euterpe (1863), full-rigged iron ship.

The Museum, which was founded in 1948, is housed on board the Berkeley.

San Francisco

Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien

Fort Mason Center,
Building A,
San Francisco, CA 94123-1382.

Telephone: +1 415 441 3101

Opening hours: Monday-Friday 09:00-15:00, Saturday-Sunday 09:00-16:00.

The SS Jeremiah O'Brien (1943), is the last unaltered Liberty ship in operating condition in the USA.

San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park

Telephone: +1 405 929 0202 or 415 556 0560 or 415 556 3002.
WWW: http://www.nps.gov/safr/index.html

Alma (1891), scow-schooner.
Balclutha (1886), steel hull square-rigged merchant ship.
C.A. Thayer (1895), three-masted schooner.
Eppleton Hall (1914), paddle wheel tug.
Eureka (1925), San Francisco bay ferry from 1929 equipped with walking-beam steam engine.
Hercules (1907), British-built steam tug is moored at Pier 1, Fort Mason.
Pampanito (1943), a Balao-type submarine SS 383 at Pier 45 on Fisherman's Wharf.

J. Porter Shaw Library and Archives:

142.000 books, including the best whaling collection in the United States.
3.000 logbooks.
250.000 negatives and photographs.
120.000 sheets of ship plans.
5.000 charts.

For further information call or write to: National Maritime Museum Association, Building 275, Crissy Field, San Francisco, CA 94129, USA.
Telephone: +1 415 929 0202, Telefax: +1 415 673 5381.

Treasure Island Museum

Telephone: +1 415 395 5067.

Island in the bay, museum of US sea combat in the Pacific.

San Pedro

Victory Ship SS Lane Victory

Berth 52,
Outer Harbor,
P.O. Box 629,
San Pedro, CA 90731.

Telephone: +1 310 519 9545
Telefax: +1 310 519 0265

Opening hours: daily 09:30-16:00.

The SS Lane Victory (1945), is a Victory type ship, which is currently [1995] being restored.

Los Angeles Maritime Museum

Berth 84,
Foot of 6th Street,
San Pedro, CA 90731.

Telephone: +1 310 548 7618.
Telefax: +1 310 832 6537.
WWW: http://www.lamaritime.org
WWW: http://cyberfair.gsn.org/dodson/maritime.htm

Opening hours: Tuseday-Sunday 10:00-17:00.

The Ralph J. Scott (1925), a fireboat, is moored at the museum.

The museum also publishes the journal Compass Rose.

Sausalito

Bay Model Visitor Center

2100 Bridgeway,
Sausalito, CA 94965.

Telephone: +1 415 332 3871

The Wapama (1915), is a small wooden merchant steamer placed on a floating barge.

Updated 1999-10-05 by Lars Bruzelius.

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