Maritime and Naval Museums: South Carolina, USA

Charleston

Charles Towne Landing

1500 Old Towne Rd.,
Charlestown, SC 29407-6099.

Telephone: +1 803 556 4450

Opening hours: daily 09:00-17:00; Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Museum ship: Adventure, reconstruction of a 17th century ketch.

Mt.Pleasant

Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum

P.O. Box 986,
Mt Pleasant, SC 29465.

Telephone: +1 803 884 2727

Opening hours: April-October, daily 09:00-17:00; November-March, 09:00-18:00.

Museum ships:

USS Yorktown (1943), aircraft carrier CV 10.
USS Laffey (1943), destroyer DD 724.
USS Clamagore (1945), submarine SS 343.
USCG Comanch (1934), US Coast Guard cutter.
USCG Ingham (1934), US Coast Guard cutter.
NS Savannah (1959), nuclear powered cargo ship.

Calls itself the World's Largest Naval Museum. NS Savannah was the first nuclear powered commercial vessel ever built. The US Coat Guard cutters served in Atlantic in WWII on U-boat patrol.

Updated 1996-09-01 by Lars Bruzelius

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