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This page is primarily a list of museums with ways of contacting
them or getting more detailed information. The entries are not
detailed guides to the collections.
Opening times are sometimes changed at
short notice and the details given below may be out of date. Never
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Abbreviations include: ARC - Archives/Reserve Collection; AV - AudioVisual Display; BA - By Appointment; BH - Bank Holiday (ie: public holiday);CC - listed in Core Collection of NRHV; DB - Database available; DV - Designated Vessel in NRHV list; Edu - Education facility; ex - except; GV - Group Visit; inc - including; Lib - Library; MM - MultiMedia display; NMV - Non-Museum Vessel; PoW - Prisoner of War; RML - Rifled Muzzle Loader.
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Correspondence to: The Department of Industry, The Collections Centre, Heol Crochendy, Parc Nantgarw, Trefforest, South Wales CF15 7QT.
Tel: +44 (0)29 2057 3560. (0)1792 638992 for Senior Curator.
Fax: +44 (0)29 2057 3561
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: industry@nmgw.ac.uk
e-mail: post@museumwales.ac.uk
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/207/
Opening days: BA only, weekdays 9:30 - 16:00.
The remnants of the closed Welsh & Industrial Museum were moved to the Collections Centre at Nantgarw, 8 miles from Cardiff. Some are now in the National Waterfront Museum, in Swansea (qv). ARC, photos & reference library can be accessed BA.
08/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1224 337700; Lib & Maritime Edu: 337710
Fax: +44 (0)1224 213066
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@aagm.co.uk
http://www.aagm.co.uk/
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/
Opening days: Mon - Sat, 10:00 - 17:00; Sun 12:00 - 15:00
Aberdeen's relationship with the sea: ship models, paintings, a large model of Murchison oil platform. IMM & AV shows illustrate shipbuilding, fishing & whaling. North Sea oil & gas production. The Harbour. Special exhibitions vary. ARC, Lib, Edu, GV.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1728 454666. For archives: 453659 or 452652.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@aldeburghmuseum.org.uk
http://www.aldeburghmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.suffolkmuseums.org/pages/sufb.htm
Opening days: Easter - end Apr: Sat, Sun, BH; pm. May - Oct: daily.
Local history & archaeology. Displays on lost port of Slaughden, development of seaside resort. Some ship models, items from Snape ship burial, maps of the coast, seashells & flora of the shore. Whalebone inn sign. Local archives incl photos BA. Edu & GV BA.
15/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1481 823222
Fax: +44 (0)1481 824979
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: alderneymuseum@alderney.net
http://www.alderneysociety.org/museum.html
http://www.alderney.gov.gg/
Opening days: Daily, Apr - Oct, 10:00-12:00; and 14:00-16:00 Mon-Frid.
Material recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck is diplayed, together with other items illustrating local maritime & military history, including the German occupation in WW2. Local history & archaeology. Temporary exhibitions. BA: ARC, DB, Lib, Edu, GV.
14/06/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1502 723200
Internet and e-mail links:
http://freespace.virgin.net/david.cragie/
http://www.southwold.info/southwold-places-to-visit/museums.htm
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, April-Oct (pm only Mon-Frid). Sat & Sun, Nov-March.
Pulling & sailing lifeboat Alfred Corry (Southwold, 1893-1918) is being restored in a building once used by the Cromer lifeboat. A Norfolk & Suffolk Class boat, the Alfred Corry is a Core Collection Vessel on the National Register of Historic Vessels.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1225 460503; Edu & GV: 823019
Fax: +44 (0)1225 469160
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@americanmuseum.org
http://www.americanmuseum.org/
Opening days: Tues-Sun & BH 15 Mar-2 Nov & 22 Nov-14 Dec 2008; daily in August.
A part of this collection of Americana covers Yankee whaling: scrimshaw, whaling implements & replica of a Captain's cabin. River traffic, immigration, ship models, trade. Dallas Pratt collection of maps & charts. Titanic exhibn. ARC Lib Edu GV: BA
18/11/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1606 786777.
Fax: +44 (0)1606 872903
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@andertonboatlift.co.uk
http://www.andertonboatlift.co.uk/
http://www.cheshiredaysout.co.uk/m_anderton.html
Opening days: Varies during the season; see their web-site or telephone.
Restored to original working order, this example of Victorian engineering was built 1875 to transfer canal vessels between the River Weaver & the Trent-Mersey Canal, a 50 ft height difference. Displays in Visitor Centre. Boat trips. Edu, GV BA.
03/12/07
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Correspondence to: Museum & Art Gallery, Meffan Institute, 20 West High Street, Forfar, Angus DD8 1BB. Tel: 01307 464123.
Tel: +44 (0)1241 875598
Fax: +44 (0)1241 439263
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: signal.tower@angus.gov.uk
http://www.angus.gov.uk/history/museums/signaltower/default.htm
http://www.bellrock.org.uk/
Opening days: Mon - Sat 10:00-17:00; also Sunday pm July & Aug
Housed in the elegant Regency Signal Tower, built in 1813 as the shore station for the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Illustrates the local fishing, social, industrial & natural history of Arbroath and the history of the Bell Rock Lighthouse & the Tower. ARC AV Edu GV.
03/12/07
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Correspondence to: Aberdeenshire Heritage Education & Recreation Service, Station Road, Mintlaw, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 5EE
Tel: +44 (0)1771 622807, (0)1779 477778
Fax: +44 (0)1771 623558
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/museums/arbuthnot.asp
http://www.peterhead.org.uk/attractions/arbuthnot.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat (ex BH) 11:00-13:00, 14:00-16:30. Weds: am only.
Models of fishing boats: mid-19C scaffies to 20C motor fishing vessels. Models of 19C trading vessels & whalers. Arctic animals, whaling & related artefacts. Important collection of Inuit art. Temporary exhibitions. ARC, incl large photo collection. GV
05/12/07
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Correspondence to: Hull Museums, Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RA
Tel: +44 (0)1482 613902; Edu & GV bookings: 658838; STAND: 324223
Fax: +44 (0)1482 613710, 325202
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@hullcc.gov.uk
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/
http://www.arcticcorsair.f9.co.uk/corsair/home_page.htm
Opening days: Guided Tours Wed, Sat & Sun; Mar - Oct. Edu & GV anytime BA.
Side-trawler, 764 gr. tons, built at Beverley 1960. Fished off Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland until 1987. Now fully restored to 1960s condition. Visitors are shown main deck, bridge, radio & engine rooms, messroom, galley, fishrooms. Last Hull 'sidewinder'
08/10/07
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Tel: +353 (0)40 23 2868
Fax: +353 (0)40 23 2868
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: heritagetrust@eircom.net
http://www.visitwicklow.ie
Opening days: Mon-Fri 10:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00 (enq. re weekends & winter)
Maritime history of Arklow illustrated by paintings (several by Reuben Chappell), many ship models, navigation, safety equipment, shipwrights' tools & general nautical memorabilia. Display on the torpedoing of the Lusitania. Archs incl photos BA. Edu & GV BA.
29/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1271 850296
Fax: +44 (0)1271 851108
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: arlingtoncourt@nationaltrust.org.uk
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/ArlingtonCourt.htm
Opening days: Daily except Sat, late March - end October.
Among the displays and furnishings of this mansion are ship models, including Napoleonic PoW work. There is a collection of sea shells. The house was a Victorian period home, set in large gardens and grounds, and now belongs to the National Trust.
27/03/08
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Tel: +353 (0)404 46111
Fax: +353 (0)404 46333
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: jean.costelloe@coillte.ie
http://www.coillte.ie/index.php?id=754
http://www.heritageisland.com/
Opening days: Daily 11:00-17:00, mid-March - end Oct. Closed some Mons. GV BA.
The "American Room" in this Georgian (1777) house is devoted to Admiral Charles Stewart who manned the USS Constitution during the 1812 war. Model of the ship and photographs of the Admiral. House was birthplace of his grandson, Charles Stewart Parnell.
27/03/08
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Tel: +353 (0)27 50047
Fax: +353 (0)27 50795
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.bantryhouse.com/french-armada-centre.html
http://www.cork-guide.ie/bantry/attractions/attractions.html
Opening days: Daily, April - Oct
Large cut-away model of French frigate "La Surveillante" forms centrepiece of exhibition describing Wolfe Tone's abortive attempt, with French naval backing, to expel the English and establish an Irish Republic in 1796-97. AV, Edu, GV, ARC.
02/12/06
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Correspondence to: c/o Hope Villa, Dinas Oleu Road, Barmouth, Gwynedd LL42 1BA, Wales. Tel: (01341) 280532
Tel: +44 (0)1341 281573
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.lokalink.co.uk/lifeboat_museum/1_1.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/RNLIMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, 10:30-16:30, Easter Saturday - October.
Old photographs of the Barmouth Lifeboat and crews. Mersey-class lifeboat. Barmouth in the Victorian age. RNLI memorabilia; RNLI gift shop. Edu & GV BA.
27/03/07
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Correspondence to: Janet Griffiths, Craig Artro, Llanbedr, Gwynedd LL45 2LU, Wales
Tel: +44 (0)1341 241333
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.barmouth.com/attractions/
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/subjects/4240
http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item1/25211
Opening days: Daily, Apr-Oct; times vary or BA. Not Sundays in winter.
An interpretative display on the history of Barmouth and the Tudor house, with a strong maritime theme. Artefacts salvaged from the 'Bronze Bell' 1709 Genoese shipwreck, & other salvage including swivel guns, are on display in Ty Gwyn. Edu BA.
28/05/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1946 592302 (Answer machine AH)
Fax: +44 (0)1946 598150
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: thebeacon@copelandbc.gov.uk
http://www.thebeacon-whitehaven.co.uk/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/whbeacon.htm
Opening days: Tues - Sun. Also BH Mon in July & August.
Whitehaven's social, industrial & maritime heritage. Dioramas & AV displays illustrate the Georgian port, trade & slavery with America & West Indies, smuggling, fishing. Many ship models, half hulls & marine paintings. ARC, DB & Lib: all BA. AV, GV, Edu.
25/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1234 391252
Fax: +44 (0)1234 391388
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@chicheleyhall.co.uk
http://www.chicheleyhall.co.uk
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/Places_to_visit/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=396
Opening days: GV (10+) BA anytime. General opening usually Easter BH Monday.
Some mementos & personal possessions of Admiral & Lady Beatty. A sea-desk, navigational instruments, newspaper cuttings, marine paintings & 18th century naval prints, can be seen in a Georgian house once home to his son. (Hall is run as a conference hotel)
25/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7940 6300. Edu: 020 7940 6323/6336/6348.
Fax: +44 (0)20 7403 0719
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/belfast/
http://www.hmsbelfast.org.uk/
http://hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-18:00 Mar-Oct, to 17:00 winter. Closed Dec 24-26.
WW2 cruiser, 11,500 ton, 12 x 6 inch guns. Launched 1938. Much of the original armament still in place. 9 decks open to view, from bridge to boiler & engine rooms, 4 gun turrets & magazines. Many explanatory videos & AV displays. CC. GV, MM/IMM. Edu BA
27/03/07
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Opening days: Relocated to Arreton Barns; see Shipwreck Centre.
Extensive collection of items salvaged from wrecks: binnacles, engine telegraphs, lamps, bells and 100s of other objects. Ship models. Displays of local lifeboat, & of HMSubmarine Swordfish, mined in 1940. Display of old & modern diving equipment. AV, Edu.
12/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)121 557 9643; booking for Edu GV etc: 0121 520 8054.
Fax: +44 (0)121 557 4242
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@bclm.co.uk
http://www.bclm.co.uk
http://www.aboutbritain.com/BlackCountryLivingMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, March - Oct; Wed-Sun between Nov - March. Closed Xmas.
This 26 acre site includes a working boat dock, with blacksmith, 8 canal boats, boat-builder's tools, photos & documents. Dudley Canal Tunnel nearby. Site displays all aspects of local work & life, with emphasis on metalworking & engineering. Edu BA.
02/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1983 730330
Fax: +44 (0)1983 731267
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@blackgangchine.com
http://www.blackgangchine.com/st-catherines-quay-attractions.asp
http://www.aboutbritain.com/BlackgangChine.htm
Opening days: Daily, late March - end Oct, 10:00-17:00
Replica of a Victorian quayside, with sawmill, boat-building & related crafts. Liverpool-class lifeboat "Friendly Forester" (in service 1953-83). Shipwrecks display. The large Blackgang Chine area is a theme park aimed at young people. GV, AV. cf Smuggling.
02/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1278 456127
Fax: +44 (0)1278 446412
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@sedgemoor.gov.uk
http://www.bridgwater.net/
http://www.blake350.co.uk/
Opening days: Tues - Sat
Robert Blake, Cromwell's great 'General at Sea', was born here 1598. Diorama of Battle of Santa Cruz (1657). Marine paintings & photos, ship models, half-hulls, shipwright's tools. Nameplate from CSN Alabama. Model of Bridgwater dock 1900. ARC, Edu, GV BA.
14/09/07
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Correspondence to: Reading Museum Service, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH.
Tel: +44 (0)118 939 9800
Fax: +44 (0)118 939 9881
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/galleries/blakes.htm
http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/aboutus/location.htm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-18:00 Apr - Sept; 10:00-15:00 Oct - March.
Reopened after refurbishment, displays in Turbine & Screen Houses illustrate Reading's relationship with rivers Thames & Kennet. Other displays incl a gypsy caravan & AV, temporary art shows. Run in association with adjacent restaurant-bar.
20/02/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1908 640404
Fax: +44 (0)1908 274381
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@bletchleypark.org.uk
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily; Groups of 20+ BA. Check with web-site for details.
Historic British WW2 codebreaking centre. Colossus & Bombe re- build projects. Enigma machines include German Naval M4. Japanese Naval Freighter codes. RN & WRNS uniforms & kit. Model warships. Vehicle collection. Special weekend events. (ARC, Edu & GV: BA)
22/04/07
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Correspondence to: c/o The Haven, South Square, Boston, Lincolnshire PE21 6HU
Tel: +44 (0)1205 358737 (The Haven Gallery)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@thehavengallery.org.uk
http://www.thehavengallery.org.uk/
http://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/pages/boston.html
Opening days: Closed for renovation until sometime in 2008.
The old Guildhall has associations with The Pilgrim Fathers. It is closed for extensive renovation. The maritime collection is in store and accessible by appointment through the nearby Haven Gallery.
25/01/08
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Correspondence to: Bridlington Sailing Coble Preservation Society, 3 Elma Villas, Bridlington, East Yorkshire YO16 4PA (Tel: 01262 608346)
Tel: +44 (0)1262 608346
Fax: +44 (0)1262 608346
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: secretary@bscps.com
http://www.bscps.com/homepage.html
http://www.realyorkshire.co.uk/thedms.asp?dms=13&venue=1583659
Opening days: Daily, May - Oct. Edu BA.
Small museum has ship models, dioramas, photos & artefacts to illustrate Bridlington's fishing & maritime past. Works by local artists in gallery. Local historical reenactments for school groups etc. Restored coble: "Three Brothers" (1912) nearby.
05/12/07
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Correspondence to: Bridport Museum Trust, The Coach House, Gundry Lane, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3RJ. Tel: 01308 458703
Tel: +44 (0) 1308 422116
Fax: +44 (0) 1308 458704
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: curator@bridportmuseum.co.uk
http://www.bridportmuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Museum: Mon-Sat, Apr-Oct. or BA. Museum Trust: Tues, Wed, Thurs.
Small museum of local history includes displays on important rope & net manufacture for ships & fishing. Local history research centre at The Coach House; ARC. GV BA. The old Harbour Museum is now closed. See also 'Net Manufacture' museum at Uploders.
29/01/07
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Correspondence to: c/o 41 Hurst Green, Brightlingsea, Essex CO7
Tel: +44 (0)1206 303286.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk/history/museum.htm
Opening days: Easter - late Sept, Sat 10:00-16:00, Sun & Mon 14:00-17:00.
A small museum of local history. Displays on the Cinque Port Association, the local oyster industry & local ship building. Restoration of the Essex deep-sea smack "Pioneer", built 1864. Artefacts from the Colne Smack preservation Society. Edu, GV BA.
02/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1273 723064
Fax: +44 (0)1273 723064
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: BrightonFishingMuseum@msn.com
http://www.brighton.co.uk/
http://www.sussexmuseums.co.uk/brighton_fish.htm
Opening days: Daily, usually 10:00-17:00 but may vary. Confirmation advisable.
Paintings, prints, photos & models show the Sussex fishing and pleasure-boat business. Fishing boats. DB of fishing families & historical records, ARC BA. AV, audio & films; Edu. GV
02/02/07
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Correspondence to: c/o Bristol's Museums & Galleries, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Tel: +44 (0)117 9223571
Fax: +44 (0)117 9222047
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: general_museum@bristol-city.gov.uk
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=Category-id-5858034
Opening days: Closed for redevelopment as new Museum of Bristol. Open 2009?
The Port of Bristol: industrial, maritime & transport history. Display on Bristol & Transatlantic Slavery. Historic vessels moored outside may include tugs Mayflower (1861, CC), John King (1935) & fire-float Pyronaut (1934, CC). ARC-BA. DB, Edu, GV.
18/11/07
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Tel: +44 (0)117 926 0680
Fax: +44 (0)117 925 5788
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.ss-great-britain.com
http://www.bristol-link.co.uk/history/ss-great-britain.htm
http://www.matthew.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:30 Summer, 10:00-16:30 Winter. Last entry -1 hr.
Story of Bristol shipbuilding, since 18C. Ship models, pictures. The history of the ss Great Britain to the present. I.K. Brunel exhibition. Boarding for the restored s.s. Great Britain (qv) and the 1997 replica of John Cabot's 1497 Matthew. ARC, Edu, GV.
27/03/07
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Correspondence to: Information Office, The Royal Yacht Britannia, Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6JJ, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)131 555 5566. 0131 555 8800 for group bookings.
Fax: +44 (0)131 555 8835
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@tryb.co.uk
http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk
Opening days: Daily except Christmas & New Year. Prebooking necessary in August
Most of the former Royal Yacht (launched 1953, decomm. 1997) is now open to view, incl the Royal Apartments, bridge, engine room, Officers' & Yachtsmen's cabins. Audio tours. Adjacent Visitor Centre with photos of historic events & other information. GV.
27/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1803 834224 (tours); 677787 (GV); 677233/677247 (Museum)
Fax: +44 (0)1803 835631 (guided tours); (0)1803 677043 to book GV.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.britannia.ac.uk/
http://www.brnc.co.uk/en/Default.aspx
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Guided tours via Tourist Office or BRNC website. GV BA.
Guided or group tours allow access to parts of this Edwardian RN College. Displays of historic memorabilia, Napoleonic bone ship models & works of art in the Entrance Lobby, Quarterdeck, Senior Gunroom, Chapel, Birley portrait gallery & Museum. ARC & Lib BA.
06/04/08
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Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: boats@bmpt.org.uk
http://www.bmpt.org.uk/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Relocating. The site is now closed, boats dispersed.
The collection included several fast ex-military power-boats, incl HSL102 (CC) an ex-RAF high-speed launch & MGB81 (DV) a motor gun-boat. Both operational. Other craft were being renovated. Seaplane tender 1502 restored. Collection stored or dispersed.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1803 856267
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: mail@brixhamheritage.org.uk
http://www.brixhamheritage.org.uk/
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Feb-Easter: weekdays 10am-1pm. Easter-Oct: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-1
Local history, with much maritime material. Models of WW2 Brixham built RN vessels, local smacks & trawling ketches. Shipbuilding, navigational instruments, reconstructed fisherman's cottage. Story of the Torbay lifeboat & gale of 1866. ARC, Lib & Edu BA.
12/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1692 581681
Fax: +44 (0)1692 581681
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@museumofthebroads.org.uk
http://www.northnorfolk.org/museumofthebroads/
Opening days: Daily, end March - end October, 10:30-17:00. Occasional Events.
The Broads wetlands. Peat digging, reclamation, ecology, tourism. Story of Norfolk boats & wherries. Local industries: boatbuilding & sailmaking. Reed cutting, eeling, punt gunning. Flood control. Many photos, boats, engines & models. ARC, AV, Edu, GV, Lib, BA.
10/09/07
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART33950.html
http://www.tca2000.co.uk/alook.htm
Opening days: The entire collection closed to visitors in February 2006
A 'Ton' Class minesweeper/minehunter ship, launched 1953. Renamed HMS Humber for a time. This ship was commanded by HRH The Prince of Wales during most of 1976. Paid off 1988. Transferred from Trafford Park, Manchester in 2002. Now inaccessible to visitors.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1382 436916
Fax: +44 (0)1382 436951
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: broughty@dundeecity.gov.uk
http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk:80/broughtycastle/main.htm
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
Opening days: Daily, Apr - Sept; Tues - Sun, Oct - March.
Displays local 19C fishing industry. Scotland's best collection of 1756-1914 arctic whaling memorabilia. Whaling archives. RNLI display on the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat. Coastal wildlife. Edu, GV. In a 15C estuary fort, with an arms & armour collection.
29/01/07
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Correspondence to: Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery, War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY1 1YG, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1592 412860
Fax: +44 (0)1592 412870
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: kirkcaldy.museum@fife.gov.uk
http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/museums/
http://www.braehead-news.org.uk/html/buckhaven_museum.html
Opening days: Tue, Thu - Sat (except BH). Times vary with the library hours.
A small museum displaying local history, especially fishing off the East coast of Scotland. Photos, boat models, nets & fishing gear. Also local mining industries. "Working Lives" & "Changing Buckhaven" displays.
27/07/06
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Correspondence to: The Hon Secretary, Mr Jim Farquhar, 34 Seatown, Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland AB56 1JR (Tel: 01542 833851)
Tel: +44 (0)1542 834702
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: bckfishingheritage@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.buckieheritage.org/index.htm
Opening days: Mon-Sat. Reopen after building & renovation work. Groups BA.
Model boats, fishing artefacts & photos illustrate local history & traditions of fishing & boat building. Lib, ARC, DB of locally built boats. Displayed in enlarged and renovated galleries. Edu. The nearby Peter Anson Gallery displays marine paintings.
17/10/07
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Correspondence to: Archives at: The Beaulieu Archive, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO42 7ZN
Tel: +44 (0)1590 616203
Fax: +44 (0)1590 616283
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/bucklershard/introduction.cfm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/BucklersHardMaritimeMuseum.htm
http://www.new-forest-national-park.com/bucklers-hard.html
Opening days: Daily from 10:00; closing times vary 16:30 - 17:30.
Picturesque village was important 18C shipyard. Some cottages now recreate life of 18C shipwright, inn, etc and the museum displays a model of the 18C village & shipyard, model ships, shipbuilders tools, original plans, pictures and memorabilia. ARC, Edu GV: BA
25/01/08
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Correspondence to: Heritage Centre Manager, The Castle, Bude, Cornwall EX23 8LG
Tel: +44 (0)1288 357301; 357302 for Edu & GV.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: jbaxter@bude-stratton.gov.uk
http://www.bude-stratton.gov.uk/
http://www.visitbude.info/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00+ Easter-Oct; 10:00-15:00+ in winter. Arch BA.
Museum of local history & geology. Bude as a port, seaside resort & boatbuilding. Figureheads & other salvage illustrate shipwrecks & local lifesaving. Shipwreck photographs. Ship models & trade. Relocated in former home of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. ARC & Edu BA.
20/11/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1621 783444, 783901
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.burnham.org.uk/museum.htm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/SE000249.html
Opening days: May - Nov: Wed, Sat, Sun & BH. June & school holidays: daily, pm.
Small museum displays local history & archeology: "Land & Sea". Fishing & boat building, the local oyster fishery, stranding of whales in Essex. Displays on local floods and the coastal trade. Computerised local archives under development. ARC, Edu & GV BA.
12/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1237 471455
Fax: +44 (0)1237 473813
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: burtonartgallery@torridge.gov.uk
http://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk/
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Tues - Sun. Opens 10:00 (Sun: 14:00) Closes 17:00, 16:00 winter.
Eight bone PoW ship models. Photos of riverside wharfs, diorama of limestone trade. Other displays show local pottery, pewter & silverwork. Paintings include marine subjects. Temporary exhibitions.
02/09/06
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Correspondence to: Caernarfon Maritime Museum, c/o Anne Venables, Anglesey County Record Office, Shire Hall, Llangefni, Ynys Mon, Wales LL77 7TW
Tel: +44 (0)1248 752083; archives: (0)1286 679088
Fax: +44 (0)1286 679637 (admin & archives)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: amgueddfeydd-museums@gwynedd.gov.uk
http://www.gtj.org.uk/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/WA000017.html
Opening days: Spring BH - mid Sept: Sunday - Friday, pm.
Maritime & industrial history of port & town of Caernarfon shown through photos, maps, ship models & things made or used by local seamen. Display of items from the scrapped dredger Seiont II shows its operation. Items from t/s HMS Conway. BA: ARC, Edu, GV.
14/09/07
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Correspondence to: Museums Development Officer, Argyll & Bute Council, Library HQ, Highland Avenue, Sandbank, Dunoon PA23 8PB, Scotland.
Tel: +44 (0)1586 552366/67, (0)1369 703214/703735
Fax: +44 (0)1369 705797
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: marij.vanhelmond@argyll-bute.gov.uk
http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/leisure/Museums/
Opening days: Tues - Sat. (Confirm; times vary and library relocation planned)
Main collection covers archaeology, social & industrial history of Kintyre. Maritime collection is being expanded, with emphasis on local fishing. Ship models, half hulls. Social history. Lib, ARC.
27/04/06
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Correspondence to: Captain Cook & Staithes Heritage Centre, High Street, Staithes, Saltburn-by-the-Sea TS13 5BQ
Tel: +44 (0)1947 841454
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.touruk.co.uk/nyorks/nyorks_staithes.htm
http://www.staithes-town.info/index.htm
http://www.eskvalley.com/staithes/
Opening days: daily, Mar - Dec, Sat & Sun only in Jan & Feb.
The life, voyages & death of James Cook, illustrated by prints of his last (1776-79) voyage, charts, models & many other exhibits. Many photos of "Steers" fishing families. Local fishing & mining. Sanderson records (Cook's 1st employer). Lib, ARC, AV, Edu, GV.
09/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1642 311211; Edu: 515656
Fax: +44 (0)1642 515659
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: captcookmuseum@middlesbrough.gov.uk
http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/
http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/portal/
Opening days: Tue - Sun, also BH Mon in Summer. Closed 1st week Jan.
Displays show Cook's early life & his voyages of exploration in the Endeavour & Resolution. Ethnographic material from Pacific islands. Models, navigation & scientific instruments. Memorabilia & maritime history. ARC, AV, IMM, GV, Edu Resource Centre & Lib.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1947 601900; Edu: 01947 604505 (Mr J Woolley)
Fax: +44 (0)1947 601900
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/captaincookmemorialmuseum.htm
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=663
Opening days: Daily, March - Oct. 11:00-15:00 in March, 09:45-17:00 Apr-Oct.
Extended displays in harbourside house where Cook was apprentice, 1746-9. Models of his Whitby-built ships. Charts & documents show his voyages. Paintings by William Hodges, Thomas Gosse & Parry. Special exhibitions vary - see web-site. ARC, Edu & Lib BA.
06/07/07
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Correspondence to: Hon Sec, 51 Newton Road, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire TS9 6DT
Tel: +44 (0)1642 724296. Secretary: 01642 722966. Edu: 722208/723556.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.captaincookschoolroommuseum.co.uk
http://www.captaincook.org.uk/index.php
http://www.glendalehouse.co.uk/pages/captainCook.html
Opening days: Daily, 13:00-16:00, Apr - Oct. (July & Aug: 11:00-16:00).
Reconstruction of early 18C schoolroom, in the Postgate school where James Cook was taught (rebuilt 1785). Displays on Cook's family background. Items owned by his widow Elizabeth. Displays on navigation & surveying. Modern statue of Cook nearby. GV, Edu.
25/01/08
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Correspondence to: Guernsey Museums & Galleries, Candie Gardens, St Peter Port, Guernsey, C.I. GY1 1UG Tel: (01481) 726518
Tel: +44 (0)1481 721657, 726518; Edu: 723688
Fax: +44 (0)1481 714021
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.museum.guernsey.net/castle.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/CastleCornet.htm
http://www.museums.gov.gg/
Opening days: Daily, Apr-Oct
Mediaeval castle includes a maritime museum with marine art, ship models, tools, navigation instruments & figureheads illustrating 'Maritime Guernsey' theme. Smuggling, privateering, shipbuilding, shipwrecks and the Royal Navy. Military collections nearby. Edu.
12/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1634 823800
Fax: +44 (0)1634 823801
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hmscavalier.org.uk
http://www.chdt.org.uk
http://www.hnsa.org/index.htm
Opening days: see entry for Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Cavendish class destroyer. Launched 1944, served with Arctic & Atlantic convoys. 2106/2530 tons, 350 ft. Decommissioned in 1972, is last surviving British WW2 destroyer, preserved as a memorial to the 153 RN destroyers & their crews lost during WW2.
23/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1970 633088
Fax: +44 (0)1970 633084
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@ceredigion.gov.uk
http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=197
http://www.aberystwyth.org.uk/att04.shtml
Opening days: Mon - Sat, 10:00-17:00.
Maritime items in this folk life museum incl. paintings & photos of sail & steam vessels, charts & navigation instruments, ship models & other maritime artefacts. Model of local RNLI lifeboat "John & Naomi Beattie" (1906-32). Lifeboat painting by Gribble.
12/02/07
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Correspondence to: Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TZ
Tel: +44 (0)1634 823800; Information line: 823807
Fax: +44 (0)1634 823801
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@chdt.org.uk
http://www.chdt.org.uk
http://www.medwaytowns.com/
Opening days: Daily, Feb - Oct. Weekends in Nov. Closed December. See website.
Ex-naval dockyard buildings now house "Wooden Walls" shipbuilding display, Georgian ropewalk, "Lifeboat!" in covered slips and much else on 80 acre site. 3 warships (Cavalier, Gannet, Ocelot; qv). ARC AV Edu GV Lib. Historical Society Museum has Lib & archs BA.
23/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1983 533493
Fax: +44 (0)1983 533505
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.classicboatmuseum.org/
http://www.iwight.com/placestogo/default.asp
http://www.wight.co.uk/directories/tourist/data/19.html
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-16:30, late March - late Oct. Tues & Sat in winter.
Collection of about 60 classic small sailing, rowing & powerboats which are still used at events. 2 Bembridge Redwings, incl Lord Brabazon's auto-gyro "Kestrel". Chris Craft powerboats incl the Silver Arrow "Lady Penelope". Restoration, ARC, GV, Lib. Edu BA.
12/02/07
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Correspondence to: The Consultant Keeper, The Clock Room, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7332 1865, 1868.
Fax: +44 (0)20 7600 3384
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: keeper@clockmakers.org
http://www.clockmakers.org/
http://www.clockmakers.info/page24.html
Opening days: Mon - Sat ex BH and preceeding Sat.
Collection includes some marine chronometers, 18-20C. Harrison's H.5 Longitude watch (1770) & replica of his first (c 1730) Marine Timekeeper. Others include Sully (France 1724), Emery (1792) Croucher (1830) and several more recent marine chronometers.
12/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)141 562 2400
Fax: +44 (0)141 952 1234
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: sheila.watt@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
Opening days: Mon - Sat (pm only on Mon, Wed, Thu & Fri)
A part of the collection of local social & industrial history includes some material on ship-building & engineering. Displays on munitions manufacture in WW2. Local history video tapes available BA. AV, Edu, GV.
07/01/08
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Correspondence to: c/o Scottish Maritime Museum, Harbourside, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland KA12 8QE (tel: 01294-278283)
Tel: +44 (0)141 886 1013
Fax: +44 (0)141 886 1015
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: clydebuilt@scotmaritime.org.uk
http://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/renfrew.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/ClydebuiltScottishMaritimeMuseum.htm
Opening days: Mon-Sat 10:00-17:30; Sundays 11:00-17:00
Displays, film & audio tell the story of shipbuilding & trade at Glasgow & the River Clyde. Hands-on activities & role-playing. Triple-expansion engine. Historic MV Kyles moored nearby. Museum is operated by the Scottish Maritime Museum. Edu & GV BA.
16/12/07
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Tel: +353 (0)21 4814240
Fax: +353 (0)21 4811018
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: cobhmuseum@eircom.net
http://www.cobhmuseum.com/
http://www.cobhheritage.com/emigration.html
Opening days: Daily, Easter - Oct. 11:00-13:00, 14:00-17:30; Sundays: pm only.
Displays of social & maritime history. Local connections with Lusitania. Cunard & other memorabilia. Model ships, photos of US Naval Force in Cork Harbour in 1917. Museum is in the former Presbyterian ("Scots") Church. GV, Edu & Research facils BA.
12/02/07
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Correspondence to: The Museum Curator, 514 Building, HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire PO14 1AS
Tel: +44 (0)1329 332535 (Mondays only)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: bill.legg@talktalk.net
Opening days: Strictly BA. Contact the Curator for an appointment.
Important collection of Naval comms, radar, sonar, D/F & testing equipment & prototypes. Some early ship WT equipment, but mostly WW2 period or later. Enemy & commercial sets. Electric motors, alternators & rectifiers. AV. Lib, ARC, GV - all by appointment.
30/04/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1239 710980
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: martin.cenarthmill@virgin.net
http://www.coracle-centre.co.uk/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/NationalCoracleCentre.htm
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Oct, or BA
A collection of Welsh coracles and similar craft from Vietnam, India, Tibet, Iraq & N. America. The craft & tools of coracle making. The uses of coracles for fishing & poaching. AV, GV BA. Adjacent to ancient flour mill and falls on the River Teifi.
09/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1579 350830. National Trust Edu: 01579 351346
Fax: +44 (0)1579 351222 (National Trust at Cotehele House)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: cotehele@nationaltrust.org.uk
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-18:00, April - October.
The Shamrock (1899, DV). River Tamar sailing barge,, restored in 1970s. Ketch rig, 37 tonnes, 57 ft length. Small quayside museum tells story of Shamrock, & trade on West Country rivers & coast. (Branch of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, & National Trust)
08/10/07
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Correspondence to: IoW County Museum & Heritage Service, The Guildhall, High Street, Newport PO30 1TY, Isle of Wight
Tel: +44 (0)1983 823433; 203880 for Heritage Librarian.
Fax: +44 (0)1983 823841
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@iow.gov.uk
http://www.iwight.com/
http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/wight/museums/index.htm
Opening days: Mon - Wed, Fri & Sat. Closed Easter, Christmas, New Year periods.
Collection illustrates former ship-building industry (Naval 19C & 20C) and present yacht building industry, with models, photos, plans. Some small craft. Lifeboat material. Photographic archive & Lib, GV, BA. (also see: Sir Max Aitken Museum at West Cowes)
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1333 450869
Fax: +44 (0)1333 450869
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: crailmuseumtrust@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.crailmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, June-Sept & Easter. April & May: weekends & BH, pm only.
18C building, in a pleasant fishing port, displays the history of the ancient Royal Burgh. Fishing & seafaring. Artifacts from wrecks. Crail airfield: WW1; WW2 as HMS Jackdaw; HMS Bruce - Boys Training Establishment; Language school for armed forces.
26/09/07
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Correspondence to: Cromer Museum, East Cottages, Tucker Street, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9HB
Tel: +44 (0)1263 513543; edu: 01263 517965
Fax: +44 (0)1263 511651
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: cromer.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/SE000113.html
Opening days: Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00 March-Oct, Sun pm; Mon-Sat in winter.
Renovated fishermen's cottages, yard & wash-house. Shows an 1890s fisherman's home. Other displays show local geology and history. Poppyland: seaside holidays. Prints, paintings & maps. Coastal trade, fishing & crab fishing. Crab-boat in yard. ARC, Edu & GV.
27/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1263 511294. RNLI HQ Heritage Trust: 0845 122 6999.
Fax: +44 (0)1263 513047.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_trust/
http://www.cromerlifeboats.org.uk/07/index.php
http://www.rnli.org.uk/
Opening days: Tues-Sat 10:00-17:00 (16:00 in winter). Temporarily closed.
New museum holds lifeboat "H.F. Bailey" ON777 (1935-45, DV). Life & medals of Coxswain Henry Blogg, GC, BEM. Service boards & other displays tell the history of Cromer lifeboats since 1805. Model Lifeboats, RNLI artefacts, paintings, photos, AV films. Edu GV BA
23/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)151 478 4499, 478 4441 for Edu & GV.
Fax: +44 (0)151 478 4590
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: customs&excise@nmgm.org
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/customs/
Opening days: daily, 10:00-17:00 but some galleries close in 2006 for overhaul.
Equipment used by Customs & Excise. Prints, paintings photographs & confiscated items. Smuggling & prevention since 1700. Revenue collection. Detection of prohibited goods, trade in endangered species etc. Within Merseyside Maritime Museum (qv). MM, Edu, GV.
27/07/06
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Correspondence to: The Cutty Sark Conservation Project Visitor Centre, Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich, London SE10 9HT
Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 2698
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@cuttysark.org.uk.
http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Visitor Centre: Sun, Mon & Tues (confirm). No access to ship.
Composite wood & iron clipper ship. Built Dumbarton 1869 for tea trade. Australian wool trade to 1895. Now in dry berth undergoing major conservation & repair of fire damage. Some displays on view in Visitor Centre. GV BA. Collection of figureheads etc in store.
23/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1803 832923
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: dartmouth@devonmuseums.net
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
http://www.dartmouth.org.uk/museum.htm
Opening days: Mon-Sat. April - Oct: 10:00 - 16:30. 12:00 - 15:00 in winter.
Ship models, incl large model of Queen Mary, the Mayflower, ships in bottles, bone French PoW & glass ship models. Development of the sailing ship. Marine & other paintings. Model of shipyard with photos. ARC. Newcomen engine & Dartmouth Castle are nearby.
21/02/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1304 381344; Museum Secretary: 373684.
Fax: +44 (0)1304 373684
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: dealmuseum@lineone.net
http://home.freeuk.net/deal-museum/
Opening days: Mon - Sat 14:00-17:00, 1 April - 30 Sept.
Real & model boats, figure-heads, compasses, stern-boards. The pilots & the lifeboats. Royal Marines barracks. ARC. GV BA. The Timeball Tower, on Victoria Parade, is of maritime interest, with displays on time, navigation etc (a branch of Dover Museum).
27/03/08
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Correspondence to: The Deep, Hull, HU1 4DP
Tel: +44 (0)1482 381000
Fax: +44 (0)1482 381018, 381010 for bookings.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@thedeep.co.uk
http://www.thedeep.co.uk
http://www.aquariauk.com/thedeep.html
Opening days: Daily (ex Christmas) 10:00-18:00 Last entry 17:00, 15:00 for Edu.
Large aquarium in innovative new building. Smaller tanks display specimen marine life. AV & interactive displays explain origins of life in the oceans, marine exploration & ecology. Popular with children. Top floor cafeteria has good views. Edu, GV BA.
27/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1389 763444
Fax: +44 (0)1389 743093
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/dumbart.htm
http://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/DennyTank.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat, 10:00-16:00 (excluding Christmas & New Year period)
The world's first commercial experiment tank, built 1882 for the William Denny & Bros Shipyard. The 100 metre long water tank is still in working order for testing hull design. Administered by the Scottish Maritime Museum. Hydrodynamics colln. Edu & GV BA.
16/12/07
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Correspondence to: Heritage & Museum Service, Harbour Museum, Harbour Square, Derry BT48 6AF, Northern Ireland.
Tel: +44 (0)28 7137 7331
Fax: +44 (0)28 7137 7633
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@derrycity.gov.uk
http://www.derrycity.gov.uk/heritage.htm
Opening days: Mon - Fri, 10:00 - 16:30.
Ship models, half-hulls, maps and pictures related to maritime heritage of Derry. The "Iona Curragh" 1963 repro of ancient boat. Prow of emigrant sailing ship "Minnehaha". Museum is in 1882 HQ building of Londonderry Port & Harbour Commissioners. ARC BA.
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)28 7131 8328; 7137 7331 for Education Officer.
Fax: +44 (0)28 7137 7633
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@derrycity.gov.uk
http://www.derrycity.gov.uk/heritage.htm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/MW852.html
Opening days: Mon - Thurs & Sat, 10:00-16:30. Also Fridays in July & August.
The Atlantic Memorial on first floor presents the role of Derry during the WW2 Battle of the Atlantic, and its effects on the City. AV. Other general exhibits on the Workhouse & The Famine. Edu.
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)191 232 6789
Fax: +44 (0)191 230 2614
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: discovery@twmuseums.org.uk
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/DiscoveryMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, except Christmas and New Year.
Restored hull of Turbinia (1894, CC) fills entrance. Other ship & engine models, Parsons material. Maritime gallery shows models, medieval to cased steamship builder's models (large Mauretania & HMS Nelson). Docks. Ryton log boat. RNLI. MM, GV. Edu, ARC BA
08/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1382 201245
Fax: +44 (0)1382 225891
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@dundeeheritage.co.uk
http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, except Christmas & January 1 & 2.
Royal Research Ship "Discovery" (CC) built for 1901-4 Antarctic expedition of the RGS & Robert Falcon Scott. Displays, film, AV effects & school facilities aboard & in quay-side centre tell story of the ship & polar exploration. BA: ARC, Edu, GV
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1229 876400, 894444
Fax: +44 (0)1229 811361
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: dockmuseum@barrowbc.gov.uk
http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Tues - Sun + BH Mon, Easter - Oct. Wed - Sun, Nov - Easter.
Displays, some AV, of ship & boat building in Barrow. Collection of 1:48 Vickers ship models, mainly c. 1900-1935. Photographs, navigation instruments. Graving dock. Watson-Class RNLI lifeboat, & other historic boats. BA: ARC - Vickers, cine, etc. Edu & GV.
08/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7001 9829; 0870 444 3851, 3856, 3857.
Fax: +44 (0)20 7001 9801; 0870 444 3858.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@museumindocklands.org.uk
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-18:00
The museum of the Port of London & Docklands, in a Georgian 5 storey warehouse near Canary Wharf. Displays on the port, river & the people, from Roman times to 20th century. Artifacts, pictures & oral testimony. Whaling, sugar trade, WW2. Photo archives.
22/01/07
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Correspondence to: c/o 131 Milton High Street, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DR. tel: (01795) 421549
Tel: +44 (0)1795 424132 when open, otherwise 421549
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.thamesbarge.org.uk/barges/charter/dolphinyard.html
http://www.aboutbritain.com/DolphinYardMuseum.htm
http://www.cambriatrust.org.uk/
Opening days: Closed for redevelopment.
Small museum specializing in Thames Sailing Barges. Barge models, plans, pictures. Shipwright's, blacksmith's & riggers' tools. Forge & sail-loft. Steam chest & repairs in yard. ARC, Edu, GV. Barges Cambria (1906 - DV), Ethel Maude, Glenway & Oak.
10/02/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1304 201066
Fax: +44 (0)1304 241186
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@dover.gov.uk
http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/
Opening days: Mon - Sat, 10:00-17:30; also Sun pm during Apr-Sept.
Museum of local history & archaeology now displays remains of a bronze age boat discovered in 1992. Other displays relate to the Cinque Ports, pilots & cross-channel packet boats, the WW1 Dover Patrol. Many ship models, maps & pictures. ARC, Lib, Edu, GV
26/07/06
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Tel: +353 (0)51 425239
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.dunbrody.com/
Opening days: daily
Modern replica of the Dunbrody (1845), a 3-masted barque that carried many Irish emigrants to the New World (mainly Canada). Costumed "crew" & "emigrants" tell the story of mass emigration, following the Great Famine of 1846-47.
07/01/08
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Correspondence to: Duncannon Fort Trust Co Ltd, Duncannon, New Ross, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)51 389454
Fax: +353 (0)51 389454
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: duncannonfort@hotmail.com
http://thehook-wexford.com/heritage/
http://www.marinetimes.ie/Assets/_archive_2003/0803_southeast.htm
Opening days: Enquire.
A maritime museum within the ramparts of a 1586-8 fort, built to defend Waterford Harbour from the Armada. Recoveries from wrecks show the history of this dangerous coast. Model vessels, fishing- boat wheelhouse, local artefacts. GV. Military re-enactments.
25/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1223 835000; GV: 01223-499321; Edu: 01223-499372;
Fax: +44 (0)1223 837267
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: duxford@iwm.org.uk
http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-18:00 (10:00-16:00 in winter; closed Christmastime)
Fleet Air Arm, USN & USMC planes & helicopters. Avro Shackleton. Restored Swordfish III. RN fixed, folding & rotary wing aircraft in & near Hangar 3, also 1916 Coastal Motor Boat, Vosper MTB, Midget Subs, etc. ARC, Edu & GV BA. See website for Airshow days.
07/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)151 355 5017
Fax: +44 (0)151 355 4079
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nwm.org.uk/ellesmere/
http://www.boatmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.merseyguide.co.uk/museums_page.htm
Opening days: Daily; 10:00-17:00 in Summer, Sat-Weds 11:00-16:00 in Winter.
Museum has a large collection of inland waterway boats, from coracles to barges, narrow-boats, ice-boats, tugs & dredgers. Created from dock complex for the Shropshire Union & Manchester Ship Canals it displays many aspects of canal work. ARC, GV, Edu.
10/02/08
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Correspondence to: Emsworth Maritime & Historical Trust, c/o Secretary: Mrs D Bone, 24 Hollybank Lane, Emsworth, Hampshire PO10 7UE
Tel: +44 (0)1243 378091 (373780 for Hon. Sec.)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.emsworthmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Sat, Sun & BH, Easter - end Oct. and Fridays pm in August
Small museum of local history includes maritime material: photos, prints & mementos. Local yachting & shipping incl models of ECHO, a large oyster smack, & a Thames barge. Local fishing families, boatbuilding, oysters. A small library. AV. BA: Edu, ARC, GV.
23/02/06
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Tel: +44 (0)23 9250 5600; 24 hr info: 9250 5678; Edu & GV: 9258 6341.
Fax: +44 (0)23 9250 5605
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@explosion.org.uk
http://www.explosion.org.uk/
Opening days: Sat & Sun only, 10:00-16:00 last admission 15:00.
History of naval ordnance, from gunpowder in the age of sail to Exocet missiles. Displays of smallarms, torpedoes, mines, cannon, & munitions manufacture. Grouped around historic Grand Magazine (1771). Special events, lectures. AV, Edu, GV. Arch at Winchester
03/05/07
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Correspondence to: Stephen J Walters, Fox House, North Aston, Oxfordshire OX25 6JB
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.worldofboats.org/
Opening days: Daily, 11:00-18:00 in summer, 11:00-16:30 in winter
Collection of about 400 classic, ethnic, working & pleasure boats based on the former Exeter Maritime Museum and ISCA collection. Model craft, photographic collection & ISCA archives. Lib, Edu. Bi-annual special temporary exhibitions.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1890 750678
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - October; hours vary. Closed in winter.
Folk life and fishing museum. A large tapestry commemorates a local fishing disaster of 1881. GV. Varying exhibitions during the season. Eyemouth quayside is developing the World of Boats collection of small craft (qv).
07/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1394 277767.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.landguard.com/
Opening days: Tue, Wed, Sat pm June-Sept. Also Sun & BH Mon at Easter.
The Landguard Fort is a classic 1870s coastal defence battery. Casemates, magazines with lamp passages & shell hoists. Barracks. Repro 12.5 inch RML gun. Built on earlier coastal fort of 1744. Adjacent Felixstowe Museum (qv) has related displays of militaria
24/11/02
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Correspondence to: Felixstowe Museum, P.O. Box 50, Hamilton Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 7JG
Tel: +44 (0)1394 674355 (museum answerphone)
Fax: +44 (0)1394 672284
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.freewebs.com/myfelixstowe/index.htm
http://www.visit-suffolkcoast.co.uk/index.php
http://www.landguard.com/
Opening days: Sun & BH Mon, Easter - Oct, also Weds June - Sept. 13:00-17:30.
Pleasure steamer room: paddle steamer models, artefacts and ephemera. Naval room: Royal & M.N. ship models & ephemera. HMS Beehive room: coastal forces during WW2 with models & photos. Other displays of local history & militaria. BA: ARC Edu GV & Lib
15/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1482 613902
Fax: +44 (0)1482 613710
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@hullcc.demon.co.uk
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/
Opening days: Daily
A general art gallery, with a significant collection of marine paintings. Edu, Lib & GV, all BA. See also the nearby Maritime ("Town Docks") Museum. The Hull and East Riding Museum (High St.) has the Hasholme log boat on view.
29/04/03
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Correspondence to: c/o 1 Chapel Terrace, Filey, North Yorkshire YO14 9EB.
Tel: +44 (0)1723 515013; AH 515945.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: fileymuseum@tiscali.com
http://www.fileybay.com
Opening days: Daily, Easter - 31 Oct, 11:00-17:00 (Sat 14:00-17:00). Some evngs
Small museum of local history. Emphasis on maritime heritage: fishing, lifeboats, seashore. Ships' tools, fishermen's clothing, models. Many early local photos. Replica bait shed. Salmon coble. Additional ARC at Council Offices. GV BA - schools & adults.
14/06/07
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Correspondence to: Nancy Appleton, 14 Duncan Court, Barford Rd, Sheringham NR26 8RN. or: Mr R Grimes, 9 Pegg Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8UE
Tel: +44 (0)1263 824343 or 07919 802488.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.northnorfolk.org/sheringhampreservation/default.asp
http://www.sheringhamlifeboat.co.uk/history.htm
Opening days: Daily (usually 12:00-16:00) Easter to end Sept. GV & Edu BA
Displays of privately funded lifeboats in Sheringham in renovated historic fishing sheds. Main display is the Henry Ramey Upcher pulling & sailing lifeboat (1894) with Service Boards 1894-1935. Photographs. Lt Upcher's seachest. Housed in original shed. Edu.
18/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1472 323345
Fax: +44 (0)1472 323555
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: nfhc@nelincs.gov.uk
http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/leisure/museums/FHC.htm
http://cornucopia.orangeleaf.com/html/
Opening days: Daily except Christmas & New Year
Lifesized tableaux show the life of trawlermen fishing & ashore. Replica wheelhouse, radio room, quarters. Ship models, charts, fishing artefacts & AV commentaries on social life of fishermen. Tours of 1950s trawler Ross Tiger. Large photo arch. Edu GV MM.
03/12/07
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Correspondence to: Box D6, RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8HT
Tel: +44 (0)1935 840565
Fax: +44 (0)1935 842630
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@fleetairarm.com
http://www.fleetairarm.com/
Opening days: Daily: Apr-Oct 10:00-17:30, in winter Wed-Sun 10:00-16:30.
History of Naval flying since 1908: large collection of aircraft, incl Concorde 002. Many ship & plane models, weapons, medals & uniforms, paintings & documents. Coll of c250,000 photos. Search service (c/o Keeper of Records). AV, Edu. (ARC, Lib & GV all BA)
23/02/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1253 876621
Fax: +44 (0)1253 878088
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: fleetwood.museum@mus.lancscc.gov.uk
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/museums/fleetwood/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - early Nov. (Mon-Sat 10:00-16:00, Sun 13:00-16:00)
Maritime Fleetwood: fishing, cargo trade, lifeboats & trawlers of the RNPS in WW2. Illustrated by displays including replica bridge of a trawler, ship models, pictures & hands-on exhibits. Housed in 1838 Custom House. Historic boats. ARC AV/IMM DB Edu GV Lib
25/07/06
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Correspondence to: Guernsey Museums & Galleries, Candie Gardens, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Tel: (01481) 726518
Tel: +44 (0)1481 265036
Fax: +44 (0)1481 263279
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: r.rankilor@museums.gov.gg
http://www.museum.guernsey.net/fortgrey.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/FortGrey.htm
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00, Apr - Oct
Housed in a coastal Martello tower (1804) is an exhibition of items from Naval & merchant vessels wrecked nearby. Underwater survey of wreck of HMS Sprightly (1777). Display of navigation & Hanois lighthouse items. Cannon from HMS Boreas (1807). Edu.
23/02/06
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Correspondence to: The Hampshire & Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, Room W1/95 Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hants SO14 3HZ
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3290. Aquarium: (01983) 760283.
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3052
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@hwtma.org.uk
http://hwtma.org.uk
http://www.fortvictoria.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - October; weekends in November.
Sea Bed Archaeology Exhibition is a display of artefacts, text, pictures & videos showing underwater archaeology & conservation. In part of 19C coastal fortress, with an adjacent aquarium. Some archives at the Hampshire & Wight Trust HQ. AV, Edu, GV
23/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)116 2792657; AH: (0)1858 466185
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.fipt.org.uk/
http://www.ipresent.co.uk/foxton.htm
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/waterways-museums.htm
Opening days: Easter-Oct: Sat-Wed; Winter: weekends 11:00-16:00 or BA. GV BA.
The museum's displays explain the English canals 1793-1950. The flight of 10 lift locks (1814) is impressive. The remains of a barge/boat lift are adjacent to the museum, being restored. ARC & Edu BA. AV, GV, MM.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1445 712287
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@gairlochheritagemuseum.org.uk
http://www.gairlochheritagemuseum.org.uk/
http://www.ghmr.freeserve.co.uk/
Opening days: Mon - Sat, Apr - Sept; Mon - Fri in October; otherwise BA
A general museum illustrating the past of Gairloch parish & the region, from earliest times. Displays of restored boats, local lighthouse and importance of fishing. Edu, GV, Lib & ARC BA.
18/03/05
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Correspondence to: Mr George Athroll, 20 Flint Close, Ipswich IP2 8PU (sae please)
Tel: +44 (0)1473 684749, 787291
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hmsgangesmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.hmsgangesassoc.org/index.html
http://www.suffolkmuseums.org/pages/sufb.htm
Opening days: Sat, Sun & BH Mon, 11:00-17:00, Apr - Oct. GV BA.
Large number of photos related to the Royal Naval boys' training shore establishment, 1905-1976, & a few earlier photos & prints. Model of the 3-decker GANGES. Uniforms, personal kit & mementos. Knot-work, tools, medals, etc. Books on seamanship etc (BA)
15/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1634 823844, 823807. Trust Office: +44 (0)1634 823800.
Fax: +44 (0)1634 823801
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.chdt.org.uk
http://www.chdt.org.uk/NetsiteCMS/pageid/658/hms_gannet.html
http://www.hmsgangesassoc.org/museum.html
Opening days: see Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Composite wood & iron, sail & steam, Victorian naval sloop. Built 1878, barque rig, single screw. Loa 190 ft, 1130 tons disp. 2 x 7 inch RML, 4 x 64 pdr armament. A training ship 1903-87, renamed PRESIDENT and MERCURY. Recently restored. Licensed for weddings.
23/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1481 700418, 238205. (C. I. Occupation Society: 57520)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.occupied.guernsey.net/naval_sigs_h_q_.htm
http://www.occupied.guernsey.net/occ_museum.htm
http://www.visitguernsey.com/
Opening days: Thursday & Sat 2-5 pm, Apr - Oct. Confirmation advisable. Or BA.
Bunkers for German Naval Signals Officer & Seeko-Ki signals HQ, built during WW2 occupation, is being restored and refitted with correct radio, teleprinter & encryption equipment of Marinefunkstelle V142. Some equipment is on loan.
23/02/07
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Tel: +44 (0)141 222 2513
Fax: +44 (0)141 222 2536
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@thetallship.com
http://www.thetallship.com/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00 March - Oct, 10:00-16:00 Nov - February.
This 3-masted steel barque, 1613 GRT, was built at Port Glasgow in 1896. Now back in Glasgow, extensively restored after being abandoned abroad. Forms the centre-piece of a new museum about the Clyde & Glasgow Harbour (see Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour)
15/12/07
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Correspondence to: Goole Museums Officer (Janet Tierney), ERYC Offices, Church St., Goole DN14 5BG (Tel: 01482 392774)
Tel: +44 (0)1482 392777, (0)1405 768963.
Fax: +44 (0)1482 392782
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: janet.tierney@eastriding.gov.uk
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/YH000063.html
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=11879
Opening days: Mon 14:00-17:00; Tues-Frid 10:00-17:00; Sat 09:00-13:00.
Displays of local history, including development of the port, the shipyards, Aire & Calder canal. Ship models, sailmaking & rope- working tools, photos. Important collection of marine paintings by Goole-born Reuben Chappell & others. Edu. ARC (some BA).
23/02/07
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Correspondence to: RNLI Heritage Trust, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset. Tel: (01202) 662228
Tel: +44 (0)1668 214910. Edu: 07825 386 150
Fax: +44 (0)1668 214912
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: tony_walton@rnli.org.uk
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_trust/
Opening days: Tues to Sun, + BH Mondays
Personal mementos of Grace Darling, incl the rowing coble used by her and her father to rescue 9 survivors of SS Forfarshire, wrecked in a storm in 1838. Pictures, medals & memorabilia of the wreck. GV BA. Recently refurbished RNLI museum.
23/01/08
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Correspondence to: SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol BS1 6TY
Tel: +44 (0)117 926 0680 (business); 929 1843 (info).
Fax: +44 (0)117 925 5788
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@ss-great-britain.com
http://www.ssgreatbritain.org
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas) 10:00 to 18:00 summer, 16:30 in winter.
Brunel's first iron-hulled propeller-driven transatlantic liner. Launched 1843, salvaged 1970. Promenade deck, cabins & ladies' boudoir partly restored. Restored Dining Saloon can be hired. A new phase of HLF-funded restoration commencing. ARC Edu GV BA.
15/12/07
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Correspondence to: c/o M. Myers, The Old Forge, Woolley, Morwenstow, nr. Bude, Cornwall EX23 9PP
Tel: +44 (0)1288 331353
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hartlandquayhotel.com/Shipwreck-Museum.htm
http://www.bude.co.uk/Tourism/Churchs-&-Museums.htm
http://www.mlasouthwest.org.uk/index.php?ID=360&UID=101&GO=2
Opening days: Daily from Easter to 30 Oct, 11:00 - 17:00 (last entry 16:15).
Large model of local coast shows 150+ shipwrecks since Tudor period. Relics & photos of wrecks: Cingetorix, Rosalia, Johanna, etc. Model of vanished 19C lime-trade harbour. Displays of local fishing & trade, smuggling, natural history & lighthouse. GV BA.
13/04/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1429 860077, 860006 (answer machine)
Fax: +44 (0)1429 867332
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
http://www.destinationhartlepool.com/section_historic_quay.php?
http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
Opening days: daily (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day)
Modern re-creation of 18C NE seaport quayside, with Naval tailor, weapons shops, Naval officer's home, gaol, printers, etc all with audio. AV progs on Fighting Ships & Pressganged themes. See also entries for Museum of Hartlepool, Trincomalee & Wingfield Castle.
05/11/05
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Correspondence to: Hartlepool Museum Service, Sir William Gray House, Clarence Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8BT (Tel: +44 (0)1429 523438)
Tel: +44 (0)1429 860077
Fax: +44 (0)1429 867332
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/attractions/museum.asp
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year's Day)
Local history, incl fishing, pilotage, lifeboats, ship building. Ship models incl builder's half-hulls. Maps, plans & charts. MM. Real sailing coble & displays on coble type. Harbour & docks. Lens of Headland gas lighthouse. PSS Wingfield Castle alongside.
16/04/07
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Correspondence to: The Secretary, The Harwich Society, 4 Hall Lane, Dovercourt, Harwich, Essex CO12 3TE
Tel: +44 (0)1255 503429
Fax: +44 (0)1255 503429
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.harwich.net/society.htm
http://www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk/history/museumsarea.htm
http://www.harwich-society.co.uk/index.htm
Opening days: Daily, May - Aug. Also Easter weekend & other occasions (enquire)
Naval memorabilia: photos, drawings, scrapbooks, models, ship's crests & uniform items related to RN, RM, FAA, RNAS & HMS Ganges. Photos, models, scrap books etc related to Harwich Harbour. Good views of river from this 1818 lighthouse. Lifeboat Museum nearby.
16/04/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1424 461446
Fax: +44 (0)1424 461446
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.sussexmuseums.co.uk/fishermens.htm
http://www.hastingsfish.co.uk/museum.htm
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas). 10:00-17:00 summer, 11:00-16:00 winter.
The old Fishermen's Church holds the last Hastings sailing lugger "Enterprise" (1912), a horse-capstan, many ship models including 14 ft "Henri Grace A Dieu" and local mementos. Recently extended. Wooden fishing boats. Edu, GV. NB Shipwreck Centre (qv) nearby.
16/04/07
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Opening days: The collection closed to visitors in February 2006.
The collection included the frigate HMS Plymouth, the submarine HMS/M Onyx, the minesweeper HMS Bronington, the German submarine U534 (see separate entries for these). The D-Day landing craft LCT7074 was being restored. Onyx has been moved to Barrow.
15/12/07
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Correspondence to: 8 Llanfain Estate, Llaingoch, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey LL65 1NF
Tel: +44 (0)1407 769745; AH, Group visits, etc: 764374
Fax: +44 (0)1407 769745
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: johncave4@aol.com
http://www.holyhead.com/page119.html
http://www.holyheadmaritimemuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Tues - Sun, also BH Mon. 13:00-17:00. Easter - autumn
Ship models, tools, photographs & artefacts illustrate history of Holyhead, its ships & seamen, in peace & war, from Roman times to its present importance as a ferry terminal. Trinity House, wrecks & lifeboat. Housed in old lifeboat house. BA: ARC, Edu, GV.
19/04/07
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Correspondence to: Manx National Heritage, The Manx Museum & National Trust, Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3LY
Tel: +44 (0)1624 648000
Fax: +44 (0)1624 648001
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@mnh.gov.im
http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/museums/manannan.xml
http://www.iomguide.com/manannan.php
Opening days: Daily, 10:00 - 17:00
Interpretation of the Celtic, Viking & Maritime traditions of the Isle of Man through reconstructions, AV presentations & original material. Replica Viking ship. Sir William Hillary & lifesaving. Steam packet boats. AV & MM. Edu, GV. ARC & Lib at Douglas.
19/04/07
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Correspondence to: The Hovercraft Museum Trust, Building 40, Argus Gate, Chark Lane, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire PO13 9NY.
Tel: +44 (0)23 9255 2090
Fax: +44 (0)23 9255 2090
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@hovercraft-museum.org
http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/
http://www.hover.globalinternet.co.uk/
Opening days: Occasional shows & open days. See website or telephone for info.
A collection of about 50 hovercraft of different sizes & models, incl BH7, CC7, HA5, HD1, HM2, SH2, SR.N4, N5 & N6. Lib: books, periodicals, manuals, plans, pictures, films & videos BA. Edu BA. The collection is distributed at different sites - viewing BA.
19/04/07
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Correspondence to: Hull City Museums, Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RA
Tel: +44 (0)1482 613902
Fax: +44 (0)1482 613710
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@hullcc.gov.uk
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/
http://www.ukmcs.org.uk/members/member_hull_maritime_museum.htm
Opening days: Daily. Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun 13:30-16:30.
Major displays on near- & far-water fishing, whales & whaling. Models, pictures, implements & equipment. Whale products, sounds. Important collection of scrimshaw & Inuit work. Hull trawlers in WW1 & WW2. Hull's docks. Memorabilia. Lifesaving at sea. ARC-BA.
21/03/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1271 863541
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: ilfracombe@devonmuseums.net
http://www.devonmuseums.net/ilfracombe
http://www.heritagelearning.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-17:00, Easter-Oct; Tues - Fri 10:00-13:00, Nov-March.
In the Maritime Room are pictures of local sailing craft, ship models, a ship-to-shore radio desk. Display on the local lifeboat and history of the harbour. Other galleries show medals, weapons, local history, natural history & archaeology. ARC, Edu, Lib, GV.
10/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1469 577066
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: immingham@bmummery.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/leisure/museums/imminghammus.htm
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/CCM/index.asp?catId=3487
Opening days: Mon - Fri, 13:00-16:00.
Local history displays include the relationship between the port and the Great Central Railway. Small display on the Pilgrim Fathers. Air-sea rescue service in WW2. ARC: photos & documents incl Humber Graving Dock archives.
26/04/07
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7416 5000, 5320, 5321
Fax: +44 (0)20 7416 5374
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: mail@iwm.org.uk
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-18:00, except December 24-26.
Naval items include 2 WW1 15" guns & other historic naval guns. German 1-man submarine, Italian Maiale "human torpedo". Special exhibitions incl War at Sea 1939-45, Survival at Sea, Submarines. Displays of small to large weapons, etc. ARC, Edu, GV & Lib BA.
06/03/06
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Tel: +353 (0)74 9381363
Fax: +353 (0)74 9381980
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@inishowenmaritime.com
http://www.inishowenmaritime.com/index.shtml
http://www.inishowenmaritime.com/about.shtml
Opening days: Mon-Sat 10:00-17:30, Sun noon-17:30 in summer. Limited in winter.
Ship models, paintings & photos. Greencastle yawl (Drontheim). Rocket cart for shipwreck rescues. Displays on emigration, local maritime history & Spanish Armada. WW2 & Battle of the Atlantic. Lighthouses, marine radio, ferry services. Maritime Memorial.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1499 302213
Fax: +44 (0)1499 302213
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.inveraraypier.com/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
http://www.skwebpages.com/inveraray/visits.html
Opening days: Daily
Main feature is schooner ARCTIC PENGUIN (Dublin 1911). She has displays on Clyde ship-building, emigration, sailors' craft-work. Hands-on exhibits for children. Cinema, Edu. A Clyde puffer, VIC 27 and/or VIC 72, usually moored nearby.
15/12/07
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Tel: +353 (0)21 4378777
Internet and e-mail links:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~navalassociation/index.htm
http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/manda/scoping_maritime_museum.html
Opening days: Strictly BA; telephone to arrange visit.
Traces the military development of the island of Haulbowline, from RN Dockyard & Royal Army Ordnance Corps occupation in Napoleonic times through to the present Irish Naval Service base. Paintings, photos & artefacts, mostly in restored Martello Tower.
27/04/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1496 850358, 850393
Fax: +44 (0)1496 850358
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: imt@islaymuseum.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.islaymuseum.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
http://www.aboutbritain.com/MuseumofIslayLife.htm
Opening days: Daily, Easter - 31 Oct, or BA.
The museum displays the life & times of the islanders & their crafts from prehistoric times to the 1950s. Maritime display of ship's bells & many small objects recovered from shipwrecks off the island, including an Armada wreck. Photos & memorabilia.
01/05/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1720 422337
Fax: +44 (0)1720 422337
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@iosmuseum.org
http://www.iosmuseum.org/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/IslesOfScillyMuseum.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat; 10:00-16:30 in summer, 10:00-12:00 in winter
HM Customs gig Klondike. Ship models incl steam-boat Britannia (1870s). Shipwrecks: photos & salvage. Wool pictures by local seamen. Shipbuilding on Scilly: tools, pictures & half-hulls. AV. ARC, GV BA. Lib includes logs of local ships.
06/03/06
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Correspondence to: John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum Trust, c/o Dumfries Museum, The Observatory, Dumfries DG2 7SW, Scotland.
Tel: +44 (0)1387 880613
Fax: +44 (0)1387 265081
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.jpj.demon.co.uk/
http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/jpj.html
Opening days: Tues - Sun +BH Mon, 10:00-17:00, Apr - Sept; daily in July & Aug.
Birthplace (1747) of John Paul Jones "father of the US Navy". The restored 2-room cottage is partly furnished in period style, with AV programmes on domestic life & naval action of Bonhomme Richard against HMS Serapis in 1779. Reconstruction of his ship's cabin.
06/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1380 721279, 729489. Crofton: (0)1672 870300
Fax: +44 (0)1380 727870
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: administrator@katrust.org
http://www.katrust.org
http://www.claverton.org
Opening days: Daily, March - late December or BA
The exhibition commemorates the pioneer navvies & engineers who built the 18C canal between Bristol, Reading & London; traders & others who used and operated the canals, and the restoration since 1951. Pumping engines at Crofton & Claverton. Edu, GV
03/05/07
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Correspondence to: The Kilmore Quay Maritime Museum, Ballyteigue, Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)53 29655/29832
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.kehoes.com/kilmore/
Opening days: Daily, June - Sept, or BA
Model ships, incl HMS Africa. Collection of pictures & maritime artefacts. Displayed aboard the 1922 light vessel "Guillemot", with furnishings & equipment. Local RNLI display. AV, GV. Lib & archives BA. Nearby Hook Head Lighthouse open to visitors.
03/05/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1553 763044
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: kings-lynn.tic@west-norfolk.gov.uk
http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21769
Opening days: Daily
A display on the first floor of the historic Custom House (1685), above the Information Office, summarizes King's Lynn's maritime past. Capt Vancouver, The Hanseatic League, Customs & Excise measuring instruments. IMM. Occasional temporary displays.
10/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1642 479500
Fax: +44 (0)1642 474199
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum_services@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/museums.nsf/WebFullList/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/NE000038.html
Opening days: Tues - Sun & BH Mon. Closed 25 Dec - 1 Jan.
A museum of local history: development of seaside holidays, coast & estuary wildlife, a small display on shipwreck. Maritime items much reduced. "Seamew" coble. "Sir James Knott" RNLI lifeboat. ARC, Edu, GV & Lib - all BA. See also Zetland lifeboat entry.
26/06/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1473 690090
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: knots@footrope.fsnet.co.uk
Opening days: BA
Displays of old & new decorative & functional ropework knotting, and the tools & materials used. Sennit mats, seachest handles, blackjacks, fenders, cable from HMS Victory, etc. Fids, serving mallets & other rope- & canvas-working tools. Lib & ARC BA.
29/08/02
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Tel: +44 (0)1524 382264
Fax: +44 (0)1524 841692
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/education/museums/
http://www.ukmcs.org.uk/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/LancasterMaritimeMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily. Easter - Oct: 11:00-17:00. 12:30-16:00 in Winter. GV BA.
History of the port, with real boats, ship models, displays of catching local shellfish, whammel boat & inshore fishing. Ship- building, trade with W.I. & Baltic. AV displays on port & the bay In historic 1764 Custom House, on quay. Edu. GV, Lib & ARC BA
03/05/07
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Correspondence to: c/o 4 Cuckmere Walk, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 0BX
Tel: +44 (0)1323 730717, 505864
Fax: +44 (0)1323 730717
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.eastbournernli.org.uk/Eastbournelifeboatmuseum.html
http://www.eastbourne.org/indoor_attractions/lifeboat.php
http://www.rnli.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, March - Dec; Sat & Sun 11:00-15:00 in winter.
Models of 5 lifeboats, incl early 19C model of 1789/1810 purpose built lifeboat & 19C Clovelly model. Sails & oars of last sailing lifeboat, photos of past lifeboats, their coxswains & ships given assistance. Medals & memorabilia. Housed in 1898 lifeboat house.
30/11/06
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Tel: +353 (0)61 417826
Fax: +353 (0)61 415266
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: lwalsh@limerickcity.ie
http://www.limerickcity.ie/
Opening days: Tues - Sat, closed public holidays.
Collection of local historical artefacts includes a little maritime material: 3 ship models, diver's suit & pump, charts, maps & plans, photographs of vessels 1870s - 1950s. Bell of the vessel Kincora, oar from a lifeboat of the Lusitania. Lib, ARC.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1506 671215 (answering machine); bookings: 843194.
Fax: +44 (0)1506 842452
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@lucs.org.uk
http://www.lucs.org.uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lucs/
Opening days: Daily, 14:00-17:00 in July & Aug. Sat & Sun pm Easter - mid Oct.
A small museum with displays on the history of the canal, canal tools, documents & wildlife panel. AV, Edu. Replica Victorian trip boat. Weekend boat trips on St Magdalene over Avon Aqueduct, occasional trips to the Falkirk Wheel. GV BA.
30/11/06
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Correspondence to: Dr Ian Friel MA FSA, Museum & Community Arts Officer, Littlehampton Museum
Tel: +44 (0)1903 738100
Fax: +44 (0)1903 731690
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: ian.friel@arun.gov.uk
http://www.sussexcoast.co.uk/art/index.php
http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/sussex/littlehampton.asp
Opening days: Tue - Sat 10:30-16:30 (closed Gd Friday & Christmas to New Year)
Refurbished museum of local history has maritime displays in The Sea Room: the seafarers, shipping & port of Littlehampton. Large collection of scale ship models, fishing & ships' gear & wreck finds illustrate local boat-building, trade, fishing, etc. ARC BA
04/03/06
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.lloyds.com/
http://www.lloyds.com/About_Us/History/
http://www.artwisecurators.com/p7t.htm
Opening days: BA only, for small groups. Telephone +44 (0)1245 609425.
A collection of correspondence, silver, swords, paintings & other relics commemorating Lord Nelson & the Lloyd's connection. Also material relating to HMS Lutine (wrecked 1799 with a cargo of bullion). Her salvaged bell is Lloyd's famous "Lutine Bell"
16/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7713 0836
Fax: +44 (0)20 7689 6679
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@canalmuseum.org.uk
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Tue - Sun & BH Mon
Victorian canal life displayed in 1860s ice warehouse. The butty narrowboat "Coronis". Tools, equipment & photos. Tug moored near. The life of canal workers & the cargoes of the London region are illustrated. History of the ice trade and ice-cream. ARC Edu GV.
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7600 3699; 0870 444 3851; bookings: 0870 444 3850.
Fax: +44 (0)20 7600 1058; 0870 444 3853.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@museumoflondon.org.uk/
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
http://www.molg.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:50 (12:00-17:50 on Sundays)
Large museum covers all aspects of London's society & culture. Some exhibits show evidence of shipping & artefacts from London's sea trade & docks from Roman times onwards. ARC, Edu, GV, Lib BA. Some galleries closed until 2009. (See also Museum in Docklands).
27/03/08
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Correspondence to: The Secretary, Jack Scott, 125 Pluscarden Road, Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
Tel: 44 (0)1343 813772; 543221 for the Secretary.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@moray.gov.uk
http://www.moraymuseumsforum.org.uk/
http://www.lossiemouth.org/attractions.html
Opening days: May - Sept, Mon - Sat.
A small independent museum displays the past & present fishing industry in the Moray Firth. Located in a former net loft, other local history exhibits include a reconstrucion of Labour Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's Lossiemouth study. GV BA.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1502 561963; AH: 511260
Internet and e-mail links:
http://gazeteer.interdart.co.uk/east/museums/MARMUS.htm
http://gazeteer.interdart.co.uk/east/Towns/lowstft_other.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/LowestoftMaritimeMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, mid-April - early Oct. GV (8 or more) BA out of season.
Many models of local fishing boats, with recent additions. Photos of local fishing. Ships bells & lanterns, medals, charts, tools. Fishing gear. The Prunier Trophy for fishing. Wool pictures. Reconstructed drifter's cabin. Lifeboat material. GV & Edu BA
15/06/04
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Correspondence to: The Secretary, Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Trust, 75 Normanston Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 2PU
Tel: +44 (0)1502 565234 or 565632
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: christine.monkhouse@tesco.net
http://www.lydiaeva.org.uk/
Opening days: temporarily closed for extensive restoration work.
Last surviving preserved steam drifter, built 1930. Opened as a museum of the herring fishery. Wheelhouse, net store, fish hold (exhibition area), galley & crew's quarters. Engine room with Crabtree triple-expansion steam engine.
16/06/04
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Tel: +44 (0)1553 775001 (Answer machine AH); Edu & GV: 773450
Fax: +44 (0)1553 775001
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: lynn.museum@norfolk.gov.uk
http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21769
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=200.31
Opening days: Major renovation work nearing completion. Enquire for details.
Museum of area history & archaeology. Maritime collection incl. fishing & whaling gear, paintings, model ships & sailors' crafts. George Manby & lifesaving at sea. Vancouver & exploration. New displays under arrangement. Check access! Edu, GV.
15/12/07
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Correspondence to: Mr. J.F. Kilroy, 35 Ripon Road, Lytham St Anne's, Lancs FY8 4DS. Tel: 01253 730155
Tel: +44 (0)1253 725610: Fylde Tourist Office.
Opening days: Museum closed indefinitely. Contact Mr Kilroy or Tourist Office.
Museum previously displayed the history of RNLI and the Lytham & St Anne's lifeboats in photos, models and mementos. Display on the wreck of the Mexico in 1886 when the Lytham lifeboat rescued the crew after the St Annes & Southport lifeboats had capsized.
28/05/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1621 842688 (Answerphone AH), 828001
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/SE000012.html
http://www.maldon.gov.uk/VisitingTheDistrict/museums.htm
Opening days: Wed, Fri-Sun: pm only. BH Mon 11:00-16:00. Apr-Oct. Edu & GV BA.
Items related to Maldon district. Maritime displays show Thames barge models, sailmakers tools & photos of local boats. History of John Sadd & Sons, woodworkers. Models of their MTBs, Landing craft & airborne lifeboats. Thornycroft WW1 CMBs on Osea. ARC BA.
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1665 721257, 720335; AH: 720712
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.marinelifecentre.co.uk
Opening days: Daily, Easter - Oct
Private museum in old mariners' houses near harbour. Displays of fishing, herring-smoking, lives of local fishermen. Model ships, navigating instruments, lines, nets, pots & other tools of the fishermen. Coopering & herring girls. Coble. Aquarium. ARC, Edu
12/11/04
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Correspondence to: Jersey Heritage Trust, Weighbridge, St. Helier, Jersey JE2 3NF, Channel Islands (Tel: +44 (0)1534 633300)
Tel: +44 (0)1534 811043
Fax: +44 (0)1534 874099
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@jerseyheritagetrust.org
http://www.jerseyheritagetrust.org/sites/maritime/maritime.html
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00 (10:00-16:00 in winter)
All aspects of Jersey's maritime heritage: the sea, the boats & the people. Shipbuilding, maritime trade, sea-life. Paintings & photos, ships' fittings, interactive effects. Restoration work. The Occupation Tapestry. Edu GV
08/03/06
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Correspondence to: c/o Sussex Archaeological Society, Bull House, 92 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1XH (Tel: 01273 487 188)
Tel: +44 (0)1273 462994; (0)1323 441279
Fax: +44 (0)1273 486990
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: smomich@sussexpast.co.uk
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk/
Opening days: Tues - Sat, & BH Monday, May - October.
Maritime displays illustrate ancient port & harbour of Shoreham. Ship models, maps, lighthouse, fisheries & lifeboats. Edu & GV. Mediaeval building, once a storehouse and Customs House. West of the harbour entrance are remains of 1850s harbour defence fort.
08/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1553 765530, mobile: 07795 490897
Opening days: BA only
A private museum with a wide range of Naval memorabilia from the 1800s to the present day. Ship's crests, cap tallies, clothing & uniforms, commemorative items. Ship models. Photos & ephemera. The 'D' Boats Association. Small reference library. BA.
13/03/07
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Correspondence to: Mary Rose Trust, College Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LX
Tel: +44 (0)23 92750521 (Trust HQ); 92811512 (Info); 92812931 (Exhibn)
Fax: +44 (0)23 9287 0588
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.maryrose.org/
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/dockyard/maryrose.php
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, except Christmas, from 10:00 am
Henry VIII's warship sank 1545, remains recovered 1982, visible in preservation ship-hall. Museum shows cannon, Tudor longbows & arrows, pottery, wooden & pewter vessels, crew's clothing, shoes, surgeon's chest, tools etc recovered from wreck. AV shows, Edu.
16/09/07
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Correspondence to: Heritage & Art Manager, Allerdale Borough Council, Allerdale House, Workington, Cumbria CA14 3YJ
Tel: +44 (0)1900 813738, 815954
Fax: +44 (0)1900 326320
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: maryport.museum@allerdale.gov.uk
http://www.allerdale.gov.uk/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/museum.htm
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Oct. Nov - Easter: Mon - Sat.
Models, paintings, tools & other objects illustrate Maryport's maritime history and shipyards. Paintings by William Mitchell. Displays on T.H.Ismay (White Star Line) & Fletcher Christian (of The Bounty & Pitcairn Island). Iron, coal & glass trade. RNLI.
30/11/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1465 713643
Fax: +44 (0)1465 713643
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk:80/galleries/mckechnie.htm
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
Opening days: Tues - Sat
Amongst the general exhibits are ship models, ringnet fishing artefacts & relics of the SS Wallachia which sank in 1895. The collection covers local Girvan, Carrick & Ailsa Craig memorabilia
29/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1475 715624
Fax: +44 (0)1475 715626
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@inverclyde.gov.uk
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/
http://www.glasgowgalleries.co.uk/mclean.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat, except BH & local public holidays. Evening GV BA.
Displays on local history, incl shipbuilding, engineering, rope- making. Models of 19C ships & Chinese ivory ship models. Material relating to James Watt. Paintings. Regular programme of temporary exhibitions. Materials for children. GV & Edu BA.
18/03/05
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Correspondence to: Arts & Heritage, Dundee City Council, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY
Tel: +44 (0)1382 432350
Fax: +44 (0)1382 432369
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: mcmanus.galleries@dundeecity.gov.uk
http://www.mcmanus.co.uk/
http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/
Opening days: Temporarily closed for redevelopment until 2008. Check.
There will be new displays in 2008 to illustrate the history of Dundee, including some maritime-related items. The collection is stored at McManus Collections Unit, Barrack Street: occasional Tours. Whaling items are at Broughty Castle (qv).
28/01/08
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Correspondence to: 2 Barfield Road, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex CO5 8QT (e-mail: DWGSol@aol.com)
Tel: +44 (0)1206 385191; AH: 383050; Edu: 382533 (patkmersea@aol.com)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.merseamuseum.org.uk:80/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/SE000069.html
Opening days: Wed - Sun & BH, pm only, May - Sept. Opens am on Special Events
Small museum of local history, with displays of fishing gear & recreated fisherman's cottage. Model boats, boat-building tools, etc. Wildfowling gun-punt (1919) with sail & percussion ML guns, 7 ft barrel 1.25 inch bore. Stowboating fishing for sprats. Edu.
29/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)151 478 4499; 478 4441 for Edu & GV.
Fax: +44 (0)151 478 4590
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-17:00 (Lib & Archs: Tues - Thurs, appointment reccd)
Galleries devoted to emigration, transatlantic slavery, Battle of the Atlantic, the Merchant Navy, shipbuilding. Marine paintings. Many boats (some stored: BA). Customs & Excise galleries (qv). Pilot ship EDMUND GARDNER nearby. AV IMM GV Edu ARC Lib Lectures.
16/09/07
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Correspondence to: The Secretary: Mrs C. Jones, 55 Lavorrick Orchards, Mevagissey Cornwall PL26 6TL (Tel: (01726) 844692)
Tel: +44 (0)1726 843568, 843570
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/restormel/mev-mus.htm
http://www.cornish-riviera.org.uk/MevagisseyMuseum.html
http://www.mevagissey.net/museum.htm
Opening days: Daily, 11:00-17:00, Easter - October.
Traditional displays, in a 1745 boatbuilder's workshop. Domestic & agricultural bygones. Maritime items include photos of fishing scenes, ship models & half-hulls, net making, instruments, early guns, an "Armada" chest, wartime memorabilia & local lifeboats.
26/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1646 694496; 690866 for Milford Haven Tourist Information.
Fax: +44 (0)1646 699454
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/
http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - Oct. GV BA.
Displays cover the history of the port & town, with much maritime material. The Quaker whalers from Nantucket, fishing & trawlers, convoys & the war at sea 1939-45. The modern oil terminal. Prints & paintings. Photo collection & document archives. Edu, GV BA.
14/09/07
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Correspondence to: The Secretary, Lydia Eva & Mincarlo Trust, 75 Normanston Drive, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 2PU
Tel: +44 (0)1502 565234, 565632
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: christine.monkhouse@tesco.net
http://www.lydiaeva.org.uk/
Opening days: Usually daily, Easter to September or October, but confirm!
A Lowestoft side-fishing trawler, launched 1961. 166 Gross Tons, 5200 cu ft fish capacity. 5 cylinder 500 hp A.K.Diesels engine. Ceased fishing 1975. Handed to the Trust in 1991 for restoration to original specification. Occasional engine-running days.
16/06/04
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Correspondence to: Mizen Tourism Co-operative Society, Harbour Road, Goleen, or Mrs S. Hill, Heron's Cove, Goleen, West Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)28 35591, 35225
Fax: +353 (0)28 35603
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@mizenhead.net
http://www.mizenhead.net/
Opening days: Daily, mid-March - October; weekends in winter.
The Visitor Centre, in the Irish Lights Signal Station, shows the life of lighthouse keepers, building of the Fastnet Lighthouse, lighthouse equipment, navigational aids simulator, sunken wrecks, marine life, weather reporting, facsimile maps and charts.
19/08/03
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Correspondence to: Mr Tony Sadler, 10 Hooks Hill Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8NL. (Telephone: 01263 822219).
Tel: +44 (0)1263 821871, 825973
Fax: +44 (0)1263 825741
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.sheringhamlifeboat.co.uk/
http://sheringhammuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Wednesdays 10:00-15:00, until building work begins (check!).
The Sheringham Museum Trust's collection of boats. The pulling & sailing lifeboat J C MADGE (1904-36) is main exhibit & motorised lifeboat FORESTERS CENTENARY (1936-1961) alongside. Other boats include fishing boats. Building will later have museum exhibits.
08/10/07
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Correspondence to: Museum & Art Gallery, Meffan Institute, 20 West High Street, Forfar, Angus DD8 1BB.
Tel: +44 (0)1674 673232; (0)1307 464123
Fax: +44 (0)1307 462590
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: montrose.museum@angus.gov.uk
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
Opening days: Mon - Sat 10:00-17:00
A museum of local history & archaeology. The Maritime Gallery displays ship models & artefacts from the whaling industry, once of great importance. Harpoons, flensing tools, whalebone and scrimshaw illustrate its history. Fishing. Art Gallery. Edu GV BA
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1822 832766
Fax: +44 (0)1822 833808
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@morwellham-quay.co.uk
http://www.morwellham-quay.co.uk/
http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/morwellham/Welcome.html
Opening days: Daily, from 10:00 am. Last admission 15:30 summer, 14:30 winter.
An old port on River Tamar, important for shipping tin, copper & arsenic. Village & quays restored, now Theme Park in style, with staff in mid-19C period costume in cottages, workshops and farm. Restored ketch "Garlandstone" & small boats at the quays. Edu GV.
10/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1268 550077. Edu and Countryside enquiries: 550088
Fax: +44 (0)1268 584207
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.motorboatmuseum.org.uk/home/
http://www.steamboat.org.uk/historic.htm
Opening days: Thursday - Monday (daily during school holidays) 10:00 - 16:30
Concentrating on sports & leisure vessels, museum has over 30 vessels on display, ranging from Cygnet, an 1873 steam launch, to state of the art offshore powerboat designs. Outboard & other engines. Propellers. Models & half-hulls. Photos. BA: Lib & ARC
03/06/04
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Tel: +44 (0)1263 720879 (museum), 513811 (for N. Norfolk Dist Council)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.a2znorfolk.com/towns.html
http://www.northnorfolk.org/museums/default_6041.asp
Opening days: Usually daily, Easter - late Sept. Confirmation advisable.
Probably Britain's smallest maritime museum, the room displays photos illustrating local history & lifeboat service. Captain Manby & lifesaving at sea. Mementos of local shipwrecks. Upper room houses volunteer Coastwatch lookout (can be visited).
01/12/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1667 456791
Fax: +44 (0)1667 455399
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: manager@nairnmuseum.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.nairnmuseum.co.uk
http://www.aboutbritain.com/NairnMuseum.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat, March - Oct, or BA
The maritime collection from the Nairn Fishertown Museum is now displayed in a room of this old museum of local history, Nairn people, geology and natural history. ARC, Edu & GV BA. Viewfield is a Georgian period mansion in parkland.
10/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1851 709266; (0)1870 602864 for branch at Benbecula.
Fax: +44 (0)1851 706318
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: rlanghorne@cne-siar.gov.uk
http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/
http://www.w-isles.gov.uk/museum.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat, Apr - Sept; Tues - Sat in winter
There are maritime and fishing themes included in the displays of life in the Outer Hebrides. Before WWI Stornoway was a major herring fisheries port, and before that whaling was important. Edu. There is a branch museum on the Island of Benbecula.
10/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)20 8858 4422; Bookings: +44 (0)20 8312 6608
Fax: +44 (0)20 8312 6632
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Opening days: Daily except Christmas, 10:00-17:00 (10:00-18:00 July - Sept)
Britain's main maritime museum has major displays on exploration, trade, travel & sea power. Nelson & the wooden warship. Classical & modern marine art, photography. Children's interactive gallery. Special displays vary. AV, IMM, searchable DB. Edu, Lib, ARC BA
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1326 313388. Bartlett Library: 01326 214579.
Fax: +44 (0)1326 317878
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@nmmc.co.uk
http://www.nmmc.co.uk
Opening days: Daily, from 10:00 am. (Lib: Tues-Sat 10:00-17:00)
New museum on waterfront houses National Small Boat Collection. Boat restoration workshop. Cornish maritime material: fishing & trade. Falmouth packets. Tides, weather & navigation. Bartlett Library. Special exhibitions & lectures. AV, IMM. Lib & ARC BA.
18/03/05
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Tel: +353 (0)1 2800969
Fax: +353 (0)1 2844602
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/dir/maritime.html
http://www.mii.connect.ie/
Opening days: Temporarily closed for renovation work.
Irish maritime heritage: paintings, photos, ship models. Display of Great Eastern items incl old clockwork model. Optic from the Bailey lighthouse. SS Kerlogue memorabilia, Irish Naval Service, Mercantile & RNLI material. In ex-Mariner's Church. Lib Edu BA
17/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)131 247 4422
Fax: +44 (0)131 220 4819
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@nms.ac.uk
http://www.nms.ac.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00
A National museum covering science, technology and the decorative arts, telling the story of Scotland to the World & the World to Scotland. About 60 ship models on display from a collection of over 350. Other maritime items throughout the museum displays.
02/05/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1792 638950
Fax: +44 (0)1792 638956
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: waterfrontmuseum@swansea.gov.uk
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/home/
Opening days: daily 10:00-17:00 except for Christmas period.
A new museum replaces the Swansea Maritime & Industrial Museum. It focusses on Welsh Industrial heritage, with much use of advanced computer technology for the displays. 15 themed displays including Swansea's maritime links and the coal trade. Edu.
29/01/07
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Correspondence to: The Waterways Trust, Llantony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester GL1 2EJ (Tel: 01452 318220, Fax: 01452 318202)
Tel: +44 (0)1452 318200
Fax: +44 (0)1452 318202
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nwm.org.uk/gloucester/
Opening days: Closed for refurbishment (except Edu) until May 2008. Then daily.
Models, engines & machinery, prints, photos, canalboat art, tools & equipment, AV shows & hands-on exhibits tell of 200 years of inland waterways in Britain. On 3 floors. Historic boats & trips at quayside. Crafts displays. BA: Edu, GV, Lib & Archives.
10/02/08
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Correspondence to: Manx National Heritage, Manx Museum & National Trust, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 3LY
Tel: +44 (0)1624 648000
Fax: +44 (0)1624 648001
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@mnh.gov.im
http://www.gov.im/mnh/
http://www.iomguide.com/nauticalmuseum.php
Opening days: Daily 10:00 - 17:00, Easter - October.
George Quayle's 18C boathouse with trap doors, secret panels & a replica "Nelson period" stern cabin. Manx nautical collections & "The Peggy", an armed schooner-rig yacht built c.1791 by George Quayle. GV.ARC & Lib at Manx Museum, Douglas.
28/02/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1600 710630
Fax: +44 (0)1600 775001
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: nelsonmuseum@monmouthshire.gov.uk
http://www.nelsonmuseum.org.uk/
http://www.monmouth.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily
A collection of memorabilia associated with Admiral Lord Nelson. Nelson's sword, commemorative china, glassware, silver, printed matter, ms correspondence & medals. Models & naval equipment. A section devoted to fake Nelson "relics". Archiv, Lib, Edu, GV.
14/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1308 485349
Fax: +44 (0)1308 485621
Opening days: By Appointment
Items associated with the historic rope & net making trade of Bridport: a ropewalk, traditional tools, specimens of natural fibres. Archive of documents & photographs. Collected by the late Anthony Sanctuary.
14/02/05
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Correspondence to: Newark (Notts & Lincs) Air Museum Ltd, The Airfield, Winthorpe, Newark, Notts NG24 2NY
Tel: +44 (0)1636 707170 (24 hr answer service)
Fax: +44 (0)1636 707170
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: newarkair@lineone.net
http://www.newarkairmuseum.org
http://www.emnet.co.uk/Museums/NewarkAir/
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas period)
Six Royal Navy aircraft (Gannet, Sea Hawk, Sea Venom, Sea Vixen, Buccaneer & Whirlwind helicopter) comprise part of collection of 50+ aircraft (mainly early military jets). Indoor displays of 35 engines, radio & radar, instruments, uniforms. ARC Lib GV. Edu BA
16/09/07
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Correspondence to: The Hon. Curator, 51 Hillcrest Road, Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 9EE (Tel: 01273 514760)
Tel: +44 (0)1273 612530
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@newhavenmuseum.co.uk
http://www.newhavenmuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 14:00-16:00 April - late Oct. Weekends only in winter.
Material on local cross-channel ferries. The Dieppe Raid (1942). Models of lifeboats, R.N. & other vessels. Large archive of local photos & material on harbour, town, smuggling (DB). Displays on the nearby Newhaven coastal defence fort (which can be visited).
20/10/02
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Tel: +44 (0)1493 850698.
Fax: +44 (0)1493 850698.
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: curator@nelson-museum.co.uk
http://www.nelson-museum.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00 weekdays, 14:00-17:00 Sat & Sun.
Mainly Nelson commemorative items: pottery, medals, glassware, busts, silver & pewter. Paintings & prints depicting his life & death. Modern model of HMS VICTORY & souvenirs of the ship. A few personal possessions. Recreation of part of a gun deck. GV BA.
18/03/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1294 464174
Fax: +44 (0)1294 464174
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: namuseum@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~vennel/
Opening days: Mon, Tue, Thu - Sat, 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-17:00
A collection related to local & social history includes pictures, plans & a model of Ardrossan harbour, models and/or pictures of vessels Altair, Antares, Baron Ardrossan, Craigvar & The Lancing. Memorial to 358 men lost in HMS Dasher disaster, 1943. ARC & Lib.
29/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1237 422064; 474852 for Edu etc.
Fax: +44 (0)1237 422064
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: appledore@devonmuseums.net
http://www.touristnetuk.com/Sw/devon-n/attractions/museums.htm
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - 31 Oct, pm. Also open am, Mon - Fri, May - Sept.
The maritime history of north Devon. Ship models & half-models, diorama of medieval shipping, 19C shipbuilding. Display of tools, carved tillers, wrecks & lifeboat rescue, fishing items & WW2 equipment tested locally. Video shows. Edu ARC & GV BA.
25/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1206 824142. Archivist: 01206 823523
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: nottage@rya-online.net
Opening days: Sundays, 14:00-17:00, early May - mid Sept, or BA
The Institute includes a museum with displays of photographs, models & artefacts that illustrate the maritime traditions of the River Colne & its people. Fishing & yachting, local boat & ship building. ARC, Edu, GV & Lib: all BA.
02/12/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1634 823800
Fax: +44 (0)1634 823801
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.chdt.org.uk
Opening days: see entry for Chatham Historic Dockyard.
This "O" class submarine was built at Chatham in 1962. Tonnage: 1610 displ. Diesel-electric, designed for quiet operation in deep or shallow waters. 8 torpedo tubes. Visitors are conducted through the boat in small groups.
08/08/02
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Tel: +44 (0)1202 663000
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Sept
The lifeboat "Thomas Kirk Wright", former Poole lifeboat (1938- 1962). Damaged during the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation. Historic 19-C lifeboat house holds other RNLI exhibits. (see also the RNLI HQ museum on West Quay Road)
25/08/03
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Correspondence to: Submarine Heritage Centre, 53 Red Oak Avenue, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA13 0LJ
Tel: +44 (0)1229 820993
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART33950.html
http://www.submarineheritage.com/visitors.html
Opening days: To reopen at Barrow in Furness.
An Oberon Class, quiet diesel-electric submarine, launched 1966. 1540/1610 tons disp. Fitted 8 torpedo tubes, later reduced to 6. Saw service in the Falklands (South Atlantic) campaign, 1982. It is hoped to reopen Onyx at Barrow's Submarine Heritage Centre.
28/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1856 871400
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.scapaflow.co.uk/visiting.htm
http://www.owm.org.uk/abouttxt.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/OrkneyWirelessMuseum.htm
Opening days: April - Sept, enquire for details.
The late Jim MacDonald's Collection of historic domestic and wartime radio equipment. Maps, charts & photos of Naval wireless communications at Scapa Flow. German wartime radio & U-Boat radio. Italian PoW handicrafts; their WW2 chapel is nearby. GV
14/08/03
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Tel: +44 (0)1548 842893
Fax: +44 (0)1548 845020
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: dovrex@smtp.ntrust.org.uk
http://www.devon-calling.com/nt/overbecks.htm
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
Opening days: Sun - Fri, Apr-Jun; daily in Aug; Sun - Thur Sept & Oct.
Collection emphasizes local history. Ship models & shipwrights tools reflect Salcombe's shipbuilding past. Story of the PHOENIX. Photographs of wrecked HERZOGIN CECILIE. Sailors' snuffboxes. Edu. Set in large garden. NT. See also Salcombe Maritime Museum.
27/01/07
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Correspondence to: John Buckingham, 19 Treverbyn Road, Padstow, Cornwall PL28 8DN (e-mail: jebucki@aol.com)
Tel: +44 (0)1841 532470
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.padstowmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.north-cornwall.com/Welcome.html
Opening days: Enquire
General collection includes features on the local lifeboat, ship- building, shipwrecks & rescues. Collection of shipwright's tools. Edu BA.
07/01/08
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Correspondence to: Pembroke Dock Museum Trust, 33 Dimond Street, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire SA72 6BT
Tel: +44 (0)1646 622246
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: guntower@pembrokedock.org
http://www.pembroke-dock.co.uk/Guntower.htm
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/pembroke.htm
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-16:00, April - Sept.
For more than a century Pembroke Royal Dockyard built ships for the RN and Royal Yachts for the Royal family. This 1851 harbour defence tower displays the history on 3 floors. Models of ships, dockyard, RAF flying boats. Displays on garrisons, etc. Edu, GV
17/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1733 343329, (City Council services: 01733 563141)
Fax: +44 (0)1733 341928
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@peterborough.gov.uk
http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-488
http://www.aboutbritain.com/PeterboroughMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, except Mon. GV: Weekday am & Mon BA.
Important collection of bone & straw marquetry by PoWs in nearby Norman Cross Depot 1797-1814. Bone model ships, guillotines, toys & domestic items. Part of collection is in store or conservation. Fenland Lighter Project archives at Peterborough Central Library
16/09/07
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Correspondence to: Aberdeenshire Heritage Education & Recreation Service, Station Road, Mintlaw, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire AB42 5EE
Tel: +44 (0)1779 473000
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/leisure/index.asp
http://www.peterhead.org.uk/attractions/maritime_heritage.htm
Opening days: Daily, June - Sept; Mon-Sat 10:30-17:00, Sun 11:30-17:00.
Displays on herring fishing & wooden boat-building, marine life, 19th century whaling, navigation. The off-shore oil industry. Displays of radar, ship-to-shore radio & telescopes offer hands- on experience. GV, AV & IMM.
05/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1752 304774
Fax: +44 (0)1752 304775
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@plymouth.gov.uk
http://www.plymouthmuseum.gov.uk
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum/SW000024.html
Opening days: Tue - Sat, also BH Mon.
This general museum & gallery illustrates Plymouth's maritime history with a good collection of marine paintings & ship models, incl bone PoW models. ARC, Lib, Edu, GV. Elizabethan & Merchant House museums, Plymouth Dome & Smeatons Tower (qv) are nearby.
14/08/03
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Tel: +44 (0)1752 600301
Fax: +44 (0)1752 600593
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.national-aquarium.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas Day)
New aquarium has taken over from the one at the Marine Biological Association's Laboratories. Large coral, wave & deep-reef tanks exhibit wide range of fish, marine invertebrates etc. Captive breeding programmes. Occasional lectures & shows. Edu, GV.
28/08/04
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Correspondence to: Flotilla House, Building SO59, HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth PL2 2BG
Tel: +44 (0)1752 554200; tours: 01752 553941; museum: 01752 553740.
Fax: +44 (0)1752 554200
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.plymouthnavalmuseum.com/
http://www.ukmcs.org.uk/members/
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.5517
Opening days: GV (BA): telephone to arrange guided tour of Base & South Yard.
"Support to the Fleet at Plymouth". Historic Naval buildings, artefacts, models & photographs. Victualling, engineering, fire- fighting, constabulary. Admiralty Pattern uniforms & standard measures. Figureheads & ships' badges. Prints. Edu & GV BA.
29/01/08
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART33950.html
Opening days: The collection closed to visitors in February 2006.
Rothesay Class Type 12 anti-submarine frigate (F126). Launched 1959, 2150/2560 tons. Main armament: twin 4.5 in/45, ASW mortar, Seacat missiles. Wasp helicopter. Ship fought throughout South Atlantic campaign; surrender of South Georgia was signed aboard.
04/12/06
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Correspondence to: Eifion Davies, Gowerian, Ralph Street, Borth-y-Gest, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, LL49 9UA, Wales (Tel: (01766) 512864)
Tel: +44 (0)1766 513736, 512864
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: amgueddfeydd-museums@gwynedd.gov.uk
http://www.tremadog.org.uk/content/39.php
Opening days: Daily in Easter week, and between May BH to 30 Sept, or BA
Ship models, pictures, documents, tools & other equipment show the importance of local shipbuilding, and the export of Welsh slate in the fine Portmadoc topsail schooners. Housed in one of the old slate sheds. BA: Edu, GV. Archives at Caernarfon.
17/03/08
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The following are in Portsmouth itself: The Mary Rose, the Royal Naval Museum, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior. There are other military museums such as the D-Day Museum, with its Overlord Embroidery, and Southsea Castle on Clarence Esplanade, and the whole area is permeated with Naval and military associations and memorials. For general information telephone Portsmouth City Council Museums information service on +44 (0)23 9282 7261 or go to the web-site. In adjacent Southsea is the Royal Marines Museum. Across the harbour, in Gosport, are the Hovercraft Museum and the RN Submarine Museum. At the north end of the harbour, at Fareham, the shore establishment HMS Collingwood includes the Communications and Radar Museum. Also near Fareham, The Royal Armouries have an ordnance museum at Fort Nelson There are examples of artillery from earliest times to WWII. They have live firings from time to time. The RN's Naval Armaments Museum at Gosport is now open to the public, as "Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower". Some of the old harbour defence forts are decommissioned and are being opened to visitors (eg: Fort Brockhurst). Portchester Castle is a ruined mediaeval castle within the walls of a Roman fortress, and incorporates some World War II defensive positions. Southampton, where the great transatlantic liners used the deep water harbour, is only a few miles away. It has its Maritime Museum and a number of maritime memorials (eg: Mayflower, Stella and Titanic). At nearby Marchwood the British Military Powerboat Trust had a collection of fast boats, but the site has closed for relocation. Buckler's Hard, on the Beaulieu (pronounced Bewley) river is a few miles from Southampton. It used to be an important Naval ship-building centre and has a museum.
22/02/03
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Correspondence to: The Hon. Secretary, The Steam Tug PORTWEY Trust, "Tether's End", Old London Road, Rawreth, Wickford, Essex SS11 8UE
Tel: +44 (0)1268 769583
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: portweytug@aol.com
http://www.stportwey.co.uk/
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Weds, 14:00 - 20:00 or BA. GV & Edu should contact the Secretary.
Built 1927-28 by Harland & Wolff, Govan. The last steam powered, coal-fired twin screw tug active in UK. 94 tons gr. Twin steam engines rated 330 IHP; 140 psi Scotch boiler. Used by Portland & Weymouth Coaling Co. Later in care of Maritime Trust until 2000.
15/12/07
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Correspondence to: Cobh Heritage Trust Limited, Cobh Heritage Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)21 4813591
Fax: +353 (0)21 4813595
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@cobhheritage.com
http://www.cobhheritage.com/
http://www.cork-guide.ie/cobh/heritage-centre/index.htm
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas-New Year period) 09:30 to 17:00 or 18:00
Multimedia exhibition on Cobh, the harbour for Cork. Emphasis on emigration, emigrant & convict ships, Cunard liners, sinking of the Titanic & Lusitania. Shipping memorabilia, maritime artefacts New genealogical info centre. AV, Edu, GV. ARC, DB - BA.
17/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1843 570622
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: curatorramsgate@btconnect.com
http://www.ekmt.fogonline.co.uk
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
Opening days: Tues-Sun, Apr - Sept; Thurs - Sun, Oct - March.
History of local shipbuilders, sailmakers & fishermen. Harbour & Solar Transit Observatory. Navigational instruments. Wrecks on Goodwin Sands, incl Stirling Castle. Models of ships & lifeboats. Historic vessels include the Dunkirk Little Ship SUNDOWNER (1912)
17/03/08
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Correspondence to: 46 Clwyd Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1HP.
Tel: +44 (0)1824 708223 or (0)1745 353814
Fax: +44 (0)1824 708258 or (0)1745 331438
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: rose.mcmahon@denbighshire.gov.uk
http://website.lineone.net/~adda.james/rhyl_library.htm
Opening days: Mon Tue Wed Fri, 09:30-19:00; Thur 09:30-17:30, Sat 09:30-12:30.
A small museum illustrates social & maritime history of fishing village & holiday resort. Models of local shipping, the Lifeboat "Caroline Richardson", and a photographic collection.
12/11/04
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Tel: +44 (0)1491 415600; Edu & events 415605; Riverside Cafe 579215.
Fax: +44 (0)1491 415601
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@rrm.co.uk
http://www.rrm.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily from 10 am except Christmas & New Year holidays.
The River Thames & rowing: as a sport & for lifesaving. Thames in history: archaeology, crafts & wildlife. Boats include 1812 gig, Saxon logboat, traditional Thames boats & modern racing shells. Lectures & special exhibitions. ARC AV DB Edu GV Lib MM/IMM.
13/11/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1475 530581/2
Fax: +44 (0)1475 530601
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: donna.murphy@millport.gla.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Marine/
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/marinestation/history.htm
Opening days: Monday - Friday.
Displays show the history of the Station, with replica of first research vessel. Geology & oceanography, fish & invertebrates of the Clyde area. Aquaculture & importance of seaweeds in domestic products. Marine science. Aquarium. ARC The Robertson Collection.
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1634 848717
Fax: +44 (0)1634 832919
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: guildhall.museum@medway.gov.uk
http://www.medway.gov.uk/tourism/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/AM18461.html
Opening days: Daily
Extensive exhibits on local history, incl ship & boat models, and bone ones made by French Napoleonic PoWs in prison hulks on River Medway (reconstruction shown). Weapons. Associations with Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - some silverware on display. AV, GV.
17/03/08
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Correspondence to: Museums & Galleries Officer, Londesborough Lodge, The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 2PW
Tel: +44 (0)1723 367326
Fax: +44 (0)1723 376941
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: Karen.Snowden@scarborough.gov.uk
http://www.rotundamuseum.org.uk/
http://www.scarboroughmuseums.org.uk/rotunda.html
Opening days: Expected to reopen in May 2008 after extensive renovation.
Geology, archaeology & local history, in interesting cylindrical buiding built for museum use in 1829. It has undergone renovation work. The previous maritime exhibits are now in storage elsewhere and can be accessed by arrangement.
04/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)20 8205 2266
Fax: +44 (0)20 8200 1751
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily except Christmas & New Year; usually 10:00-18:00
Air-Force museum has many items of Naval interest: flying boats, anti-submarine helicopters, Vosper-Thornycroft rescue launch, a pinnace. Some aircraft had RNAS, RN or RAN service. Mk.1 airborne lifeboat. TIRPITZ display. Fritz X bomb. German WW1 NAS badges.
20/03/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1872 272205
Fax: +44 (0)1872 240514
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
Opening days: Mon - Sat (except BH) 10:00-17:00, last entry 16:30
Paintings by Cornish artists include marine subjects. Now little maritime material in well displayed galleries on local history, archaeology & mineralogy. Parkes scrimshaw collection in storage: BA. DB GV Edu BA. Maritime archives in Courtney Library, BA.
13/11/05
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Correspondence to: Captain Rex Cooper OBE, Chairman RFAA - address as above.
Tel: +44 (0)1434 220000, 240002
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: lookout@rfa-association.org
http://www.rfa-association.org
Opening days: By appointment only; please telephone or e-mail.
The RFA Association headquarters holds an archive of several thousand photographs, documents, ephemera & artefacts relating to the RFA. The Association is an Armed Forces sector charity formed to preserve the traditions of the service and support members.
28/07/07
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Tel: +44 (0)23 9281 9385
Fax: +44 (0)23 9283 8420
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk
http://www.royalmarinesmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk/local/rm-museum.htm
Opening days: Daily
Weapons, uniforms, medals, equipment, pictures, silver, models, maps & personal items displayed on 3 floors show history of the Marines on land & sea since 1664 (Admiral's Regiment). Womens' Marens, RM Commandos & 'RN Today' displays. Lib, ARC-BA. Edu, GV.
04/03/03
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Tel: +44 (0)1202 662228
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.rnli.org.uk/
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_trust/
http://www.poolelifeboat.co.uk/
Opening days: Mon - Fri, 09:30-16:30, except BH. ARC & Lib: Mon & Thur, BA.
Models, photos, memorabilia, medals & commemorative items illustrate the history of the RNLI. Edu & GV BA. Lib & ARC BA. See separate entry for Old Lifeboat House (on East Quay) where Poole's WW2 lifeboat "Thomas Kirk Wright" is displayed.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has many museums and displays
around the British Isles. As well as the display at its HQ in Poole,
the following lifeboat museums are included in this list:
Barmouth,
Grace Darling (Bamburgh),
Henry Blogg (Cromer),
Lifeboat! (Chatham),
Lifeboat Museum at Eastbourne,
Whitby Lifeboat and
Zetland Lifeboat (Redcar).
Very many other museums in this list also exhibit RNLI material. For a
free list & map of all lifeboat museums, display centres and lifeboat
stations in Britain and Ireland, contact the RNLI HQ at Poole. They
would appreciate a donation to defray costs, as the RNLI is a charity
supported entirely by voluntary contributions.
Note: The Henry Ramey Upcher Lifeboat at
The Fishermen's Heritage Centre and the lifeboats at
The Mo (both in Sheringham) are not in RNLI museums.
22/03/07
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Correspondence to: Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, 2 Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich, London SE10 9LW
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8269 4747. (8269 4791 for bookings and information)
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8269 4757
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org/
http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/rnc.htm
Opening days: Usually open daily (Chapel pm Sundays).
The Great Hall (Thornhill's "Painted Hall") & the Chapel of St Peter & St Paul are usually open to the public. Greenwich Gateway Visitor Centre explains the site's history. Concerts, exhibitions & guided tours. University of Greenwich uses part of site. GV.
16/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)23 92727562; Edu: 92727580; Lib: 92723795; shop: 92826682
Fax: +44 (0)23 92727575; Lib: 92723942; Shop: 92821881.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org
http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/WfS/Tourism/Portsmouth/HistShips/
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, from 10 am (except on Christmas Day).
Major refurbishment of Georgian buildings include new exhibitions on Horatio Nelson, the sailing navy, Victory at Trafalgar. Other galleries show models, pictures, medals, personal possesions. WRNS Service in WW2. HMS Victory is nearby. ARC, Lib & Edu: BA
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1502 586250, AH: 564344. War Mem Mus: 583047, 517950.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.rnps.lowestoft.org.uk/
http://www.harry-tates.org.uk/
http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/
Opening days: June - Oct: Mon, Wed, & Friday, 09:00-12:00 or BA
In a building once part of HMS EUROPA (1939-45) the RNPS Assocn has a large display of photographs & other memorabilia in a room dedicated to Lt. Richard Stannard VC RNR. ARC, Lib. War Memorial Museum is adjacent, with RN items. See also: Lowestoft Marit Mus.
31/07/04
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Tel: +44 (0)2392 529217. 510354 for offices & research.
Fax: +44 (0)2392 511349
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: rnsubs@rnsubmus.co.uk
http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, except Christmas. 10:00-17:30 (10:00-16:30 in winter)
Tour of HMS Alliance (1947). Museum has photos, models, relics & mementos, badges & medals. Hands-on periscopes. Diving gear. New exhibition displays Holland I. Maiale, Biber & X-24 miniature subs. Torpedoes, Cruise & Polaris missiles. BA: ARC Lib Edu & GV.
04/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)15394 41164
Fax: +44 (0)15394 41132
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.ruskinmuseum.com/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/amb/rusmus.htm
http://www.lakestay.co.uk/campbell.html
Opening days: Daily, March - mid-November; Wed - Sundays in winter. GV.
This museum for the artist & writer John Ruskin has displays of local history, geology & the community. A recent extension houses salvaged parts of BLUEBIRD K7 record-breaking jet boat in which Donald Campbell died. Memorabilia of him & Sir Malcolm Campbell.
24/02/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1233 624426. 0845 123 2630.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.sovietsub.co.uk/
Opening days: Enquire. Not normally accessible to visitors at present.
Ex-Soviet Navy, Foxtrot class hunter-killer submarine. 300 ft, 2475 tons dived displacement. Carried 22 torpedoes (2 low-yield nuclear warheads). 75 crew. Built c 1967, decommissioned 1994. Has been on River Thames and at Folkestone. Now relocating.
01/07/07
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Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: salcombemuseum@ship.eclipse.co.uk
http://www.devon-online.com/towns/salcombe/museumsinsalcombe.html
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - 31 Oct.
Marine paintings. Shipbuilding, ropeworking & sailmaking tools. Salcombe schooners & the maritime fruit trade. Local shipwrecks. Barbary Piracy. Slapton & WW2 memorabilia. Young Sailors Corner for children. GV. Lifeboat Museum & Overbecks Museum (qv) nearby.
27/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1287 625252. Edu & GV bookings: (01642) 444318.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/
http://www.touruk.co.uk/nyorks/nyorks_saltburn.htm
Opening days: Daily, 25 Mar - 31 Sept. (Oct - March: Edu & GV, BA only)
Atmospherically dark re-creation of a late 18 century smuggler's tavern at night. Audio commentary tells story of John Andrew and other local smugglers. In addition to authentic 'props' there are old prints depicting smuggling & revenue cutters. Edu & GV BA.
04/03/06
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Correspondence to: Mr. J. Nicholson, Fairhaven, Scalloway, Shetland ZE1 0TP
Tel: +44 (0)1595 880256, 880675, 880608
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/visitor/index.asp
http://www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/shetlandbus/
Opening days: May - Sept (enquire) or BA
A section of this small museum deals with WW2 operations known as "The Shetland Bus", a sea-borne Norwegian Resistance undertaking, assisted by the RN. Photos, maps, listings of missions & vessels. Shetland fishing & whaling history: models, whaling tools.
16/08/03
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Correspondence to: Orkney Heritage, Dept of Development & Protective Services, Orkney Islands Council, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1NY
Tel: +44 (0)1856 791300 or 873535 for Orkney Heritage
Fax: +44 (0)1856 875846 (Orkney Heritage)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.scapaflow.co.uk/visiting.htm
http://www.orkneyheritage.com/
Opening days: Daily, Mid-May - Oct; Mon - Fri in Winter
The naval history of Scapa Flow, from the Napoleonic War to WW2. Relics from the scuttled German High Seas Fleet, & from RN ships. Propeller & gun from HMS HAMPSHIRE. Other ordnance. Wartime life on Orkney. Photos & memorabilia. In RN oil pump-house.
12/02/04
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 4000; Edu: +44 (0)20 7942 4777
Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 4447
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-18:00, closed Christmas.
Maritime display on level 2: many model powered ships. Large 1:48 models of famous liners & warships. Huge number of model ship's engines, propellers. 18C dockyard & bone PoW models. Small craft. Navigation. Docks. Diving. Marine engine. Lib. Edu GV & ARC BA
25/05/03
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Tel: +44 (0)1223 336540, Lib: 336557, Archives: 336555, Edu 336562.
Fax: +44 (0)1223 336549
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/libmuseums/spri.html
Opening days: Tue-Sat 14:30-16:00.
Exploration and research in polar regions. Franklin's expeditions & searches, Capt Scott's antarctic expeditions. Relics, pictures, ship models, maps. Scrimshaw & Inuit carvings. See website for temporary exhibitions. Edu, GV, Lib & ARC all BA.
30/04/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1333 310628
Fax: +44 (0)1333 310628
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@scotfishmuseum.org
http://www.scotfishmuseum.org/index.html
Opening days: Daily (except Christmas & New Year holidays)
Covers Scottish commercial fishing from the earliest times to the present including whaling, salmon & related trades. 18 boats in Zulu gallery, boatyard & harbour. Fisherfolk communities & role of Scottish women in fishing trade. Photo arch & Lib BA. Edu, GV.
12/09/04
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Tel: +44 (0)1346 511022
Fax: +44 (0)1346 511033
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: enquiries@lighthousemuseum.demon.co.uk
http://www.lighthousemuseum.co.uk
Opening days: Daily
Large display of lenses & equipment from Scottish lighthouses, at Northern Lighthouse Board's first lighthouse on Kinnaird Castle (1787-1992). Stevenson engineering family. AV, IMM. The Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen in Fraserburgh is of maritime interest.
22/05/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1294 278283
Fax: +44 (0)1294 313211
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~vennel/
http://www.aboutbritain.com/ScottishMaritimeMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00 April - October.
Scottish maritime artefacts illustrate specialist knowledge and skills. Annual special exhibition. 1920s shipyard workers' flat. Linthouse 19C engine shop. Working slipway & work-shops. Many historic Scottish vessels, some boardable. ARC/Lib Edu GV: all BA
16/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1243 602387. Lifeboat station is 01243 601217, 602833.
Fax: +44 (0)1243 607790
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.rnli.org.uk/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/AM9535.html
http://www.selseylifeboats.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Sept. Confirmation advisable. GV: BA
The history & organisation of the RNLI. History of the Selsey Lifeboat Station since 1861 is shown with photographs, models & videos of rescues. Housed in old inshore lifeboat building (the offshore boathouse is always open). Tyne Class Lifeboat 47-001
26/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1262 673769
Fax: +44 (0)1262 673090
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: sewerby.hall@eastriding.gov.uk
http://www.sewerby-hall.co.uk/
http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/sewerby/
Opening days: Daily, Apr - Oct, 10:00-17:00.
This museum of E. Yorkshire history includes maritime paintings. A collection of HM Coastguard items accessible BA. (Coastguard archives are at nearby HM Coastguard Station, BA) Exhibitions & events vary. Tours of Flamborough lighthouse BA. Edu & GV BA.
01/08/07
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Correspondence to: Mr Tony Sadler, 10 Hooks Hill Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8NL.
Tel: +44 (0)1263 822219 (Mr Tony Sadler)
Opening days: Closed for relocation. Reopening late 2008 or early 2009.
Used to display local history: fishing, nets & gear, clothing, boatbuilding tools. Boat-building by the Emery family. Lifeboats & the Upcher family. Boat models, photos, paintings of fishermen. Woolwork pictures by John Craske. Relocating to The Mo (qv).
21/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1595 695057
Fax: +44 (0)1595 696729
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@sic.shetland.gov.uk
http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/
Opening days: Now reopened after major rebuild & extension.
Collection reflects the importance of the sea to the culture and economy of the Shetland Islands. The museum houses the archive collection for Shetland. Photo archives.
04/06/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1983 533079; 539360 (Craft Village Complex)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@iowight.com
http://www.iowight.com/shipwrecks/
http://www.queenvictorialifeboat.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:30 - 16:30 Easter - end October.
The Bembridge Maritime Museum collection has relocated here. A large display related to diving, shipwreck & recovered artifacts. Displays on smuggling & fishing. Ship models. AV, ARC. RNLI pulling & sailing lifeboat "Queen Victoria" (1887).
25/01/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1424 437452 (AH: 445642)
Fax: +44 (0)1424 437452
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nautical-heritage.org.uk/aboutus.html
Opening days: Daily, 10:30-17:00, Apr - Oct, or BA for groups
Collection of items from shipwrecks: 150 AD - 19C. Audio-visual show. Several nearby wrecks (17C - 20C) can be visited. Edu, GV NB The Fishermen's Museum (qv) is nearby.
27/04/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1726 69897
Fax: +44 (0)1726 69897
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: admin@shipwreckcharlestown.com
http://www.shipwreckcharlestown.com
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm?Place_ID=2001
Opening days: Daily, 1 March - November, 10:00 - 17:00.
Extensive displays of artifacts from 150 wrecks. Old diving gear. Local history of port built 1791 for export of fish, minerals & china clay. Recreated local workshops. RNLI & rescue at sea. In a historic building. Sailing ships in old harbour. AV. Edu & GV BA.
24/05/04
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Tel: +44 (0)1767 627927; PPR to fly in: 627288; GV: 627924.
Fax: +44 (0)1767 627443 (Shuttleworth Trust) 626229 (Aerodrome)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: collection@shuttleworth.org
http://www.shuttleworth.org
http://www.aboutbritain.com/towns/old-warden.asp
Opening days: Daily, April-Dec; Wed-Sun, Jan to March. Closed Christmas & Jan 1
A collection of about 40 veteran & historic aircraft (a few with Naval associations) includes an airworthy 1941 Hawker Mk Ib Sea Hurricane, built at Kingston, Ontario. Frequent flying displays. Park has veteran automobiles & other attractions. Edu, Lib BA.
16/10/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1983 295144, 293800
Fax: +44 (0)1983 200253 (at the Squadron)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.cowes.co.uk/zonexml/topdir?p=subdirs;dir_id=14
Opening days: Tues - Sat, beginning of May - end Sept or BA
Mainly yachting memorabilia, displayed in ex-sail loft. Paintings by Luny, Monamy, Whitcombe & others. Sir Max Aitken's trophies, cups & mementoes. Items from several Royal Yachts. Many models of vessels incl bone PoW. Furniture, boat-shaped cradles, glassware.
16/09/07
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Tel: +353 (0)66 76306
Fax: +353 (0)64 34506
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: cobhher@indigo.ie
http://indigo.ie/~cguiney/valentialinks.html
http://www.geocities.com/valentia_heritage/
Opening days: Daily
The story of the Skellig Islands, their sea & bird life and the lighthouse service to mariners. Lighthouse memorabilia, ship-to- shore communications, maritime artefacts. AV, MM, GV.
21/08/03
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Correspondence to: Hebridean Trust, North Parade Chambers, 75a Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE (Tel: (01865) 311468, fax: (01865) 311593)
Tel: +44 (0)18792 220606
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hebrideantrust.org/
http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/museums/
http://www.hynishcentre.co.uk/thingstodo.htm
Opening days: enquire: renovation work may be in progress.
A small museum, housed in the Signal Tower, tells the story of the building of the Skerryvore Lighthouse in the 1840s, by Alan Stevenson. He was son of Robert Stevenson the Scottish lighthouse engineer, and uncle to the writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
20/09/03
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/trail/trail.asp
Opening days: Daily, 10:00-17:00.
A new International Slavery Museum is being developed. Phase 1 has opened within the existing Merseyside Maritime Museum instead of the old Slavery Gallery. It presents the historical legacy and contemporary issues of slavery.
19/09/07
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Correspondence to: City of Plymouth Museums & Art Gallery, Plymouth Dome, The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2NZ (Tel: 01752-603300)
Tel: +44 (0)1752 600608, 668000
Fax: +44 (0)1752 256361
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/
http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/homepage/creativityandculture/museums/
http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/newtech/swest/plymouth/smeaton.htm
Opening days: daily in summer. Enquire about winter opening.
The third lighthouse to have been built (1756-59) on the Eddystone Rock. When the present lighthouse was built (1878-82) the top part of Smeaton's was removed to Plymouth Hoe. Edu, GV. (Nearby Plymouth Dome has an Eddystone Lighthouse display).
16/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1983 853677
Opening days: Daily, Apr - Sept
The exhibits illustrate the history of smuggling in the Isle of Wight during the past 700 years.
22/11/03
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Correspondence to: Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle Discovery, Blandford Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4JA (Tel +44 (0)191 277 2169)
Tel: +44 (0)191 456 8740
Fax: +44 (0)191 456 7850
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/southshields/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_txo_en/ART19931.html
Opening days: Daily.
Display: "Land, River & Sea" covers their influence on industrial & environmental history of South Tyneside, including the maritime & naval connections. Lifeboats. Art gallery. "Tales of South Tyneside": local history & authoress Catherine Cookson. Edu, GV.
02/12/06
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Correspondence to: Southampton City Cultural Services, Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LP
Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5904; 8023 7584 for archive enqs.
Fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9601
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: c.blott@southampton.gov.uk
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/heritage/maritime.htm
http://www.aboutbritain.com/SouthamptonMaritimeMuseum.htm
Opening days: Daily, ex Mon & BH
Ship models & paintings recall Southampton's maritime past, of sail & steam, dockyards, ship-building & transatlantic liners. Exhibitions on RMS Titanic & Queen Mary, etc. Edu, GV. ARC (BA): photos, records, ephemera, models. Museum is in 14C warehouse.
21/08/03
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Tel: +44 (0)7890 300532
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: david@de-kretser.fsnet.co.uk
http://www.southwoldmuseum.org/
http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/
Opening days: Closed for refurbishment until Easter 2008.
Local history & archaeology. Photos, prints & artefacts show the Southwold punts & beach boats in local fishing & lifesaving at sea. Display on Battle of Sole Bay, 1672. Figureheads, sailmakers sewing machine, model of Southwold lighthouse. GV, ARC & Lib BA.
15/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1502 722422, 723600.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Sept, pm only (subject to weather & staff).
A small museum of lifesaving at sea, located in an old octagonal structure once used as a Coast-Guard lookout station. There are 6 early 18 century 18 pdr culverin cannon on Gun Hill.
31/07/04
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/
http://www.suffolkmuseums.org/pages/sufb.htm
Opening days: Usually open daily
The walls of this reading room are covered with old photos and paintings of fishing boats & fishermen, half-hulls, prints and RNLI plaques of rescues. Cased displays of ship & boat models. Figureheads. Commemorates Captain Charles Rayley RN, died 1863.
15/10/07
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Correspondence to: Hull City Museums, Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RA
Tel: +44 (0)1482 613902
Fax: +44 (0)1482 613710
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@hullcc.gov.uk
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums/
Opening days: Daily in summer, 10:00-17:00 (Sun 13:30-16:30). Closed Oct-March.
Steel-hulled manned lightship, built 1927, served until 1975 as a vital navigation aid in approaches to river Humber. 100 ft l.o.a. 18000 cp lantern. Crew of 5 - 7. Now her crew welcome boarders to show how they lived & worked. The work of the Humber Conservancy.
29/01/07
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St. Katharine's Haven is home to a number of spritsail Thames barges & a few other classic boats. All are privately owned. The quaysides are open to all, with restaurants, etc. The Thames bar in the Tower Hotel has nautical woolwork pictures & decorations.
08/06/03
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Tel: +44 (0)1484 844298; (0)1977 554351 for Yorkshire Waterways.
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.waterscape.com/servicesdirectory/Standedge_Tunnel
http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/huddersfield/standedge2.htm
http://www.waterwaysguides.co.uk/hnc/marsden.htm
Opening days: Daily in July-Sept school holiday & BH weeks. Apr-Oct: Sat & Sun.
Displays on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Colne Valley. Located in Tunnel End, former canal warehouse. Boat trips into the canal tunnel.
25/09/05
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Tel: +44 (0)1604 862229. (Private canal boat trips: 862107 & 862428)
Fax: +44 (0)1604 864199
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.thewaterwaystrust.org.uk/museums/stoke.shtml
http://www.nwm.org.uk/stoke/
Opening days: Daily, Easter-Oct 10:00-17:00. Nov-Easter: Weds to Sundays
Stone cornmill next to locks of Grand Union Canal displays 200+ years of canal history. Planning & building canals. Blacksmiths & carpenters tools, models of canal vessels, photos of canal life, memorabilia, models. 7 mins walk to Blisworth Tunnel. Edu & GV BA
10/02/08
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Tel: +44 (0)1856 850025
Fax: +44 (0)1856 871560
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.orkney.org/museums/stromness.htm
http://www.scapaflow.co.uk/visiting.htm
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/museums/
Opening days: Daily, April - Sept; Mon - Sat, Oct - March.
Maritime & natural history of Orkney. Lighthouse & ship models. Exhibits on Arctic whaling, boat-building & fishing. Scrimshaw & Inuit artefacts. Photos. Scapa Flow & German warships of WW1. Hudson's Bay Company & the explorations of John Rae. ARC, GV
21/08/03
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Correspondence to: The Curator, Cable & Wireless Porthcurno Trust, Eastern House, Porthcurno, Penzance TR19 6JX, Cornwall. (Tel: 01736 810478)
Tel: +44 (0)1736 810966
Fax: +44 (0)1736 810966
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: mary.godwin@cw.com
http://www.porthcurno.org.uk/
http://www.trevithicktrust.com/
Opening days: Sun-Frid + BH Sats, Apr-2 Nov (daily July & Aug). Sun, Mon winter
Museum is housed in camouflaged tunnels that held cable telegraph terminal in WW2. Displays of Cable & Wireless collection of early telegraphy equipment, submarine cables. C-W archive include maps, photos, film, video & business records. Shop. Edu, Lib & GV BA.
15/02/06
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Correspondence to: Mr Stuart Bacon, The Orford Craft Shop, Front Street, Orford, Suffolk IP12 2LN.
Tel: +44 (0)1394 450678
Fax: +44 (0)1394 450323
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.orford.org.uk/seedo2.htm
Opening days: Daily 11:00-17:00
Small museum displays coastal erosion, which has destroyed most of the medieval port of Dunwich. Battle of Sole Bay, 1672. Photos of Dunwich Bank & other shipwreck recoveries & the Orford cannon. Many recovered artefacts. Orford Ness floods in 1953. ARC BA.
15/10/07
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Correspondence to: Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle Discovery, Blandford Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4JA
Tel: +44 (0)191 553 2323
Fax: +44 (0)191 553 7828
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/
Opening days: Daily
Maritime display: "And Ships were Born" illustrates local ship- building. Many models of sail, steam & motor vessels. Builders' models. Marine & other paintings. Other galleries display local coal, glass & pottery industries, AV, IMM, Edu, GV. ARC BA.
02/12/06
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Correspondence to: Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DJ
Tel: +44 (0)1394 389714 (Reception), 389727 (Edu), 389700 (Office).
Fax: +44 (0)1394 389702
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: suttonhoo@nationaltrust.org.uk
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
http://www.suffolkmuseums.org/pages/sufb.htm
Opening days: Daily, July-Sept. Wed-Sun, Spring & Autumn. Sat & Sun in Winter.
New exhibition hall explains site where 7th C. Anglo-Saxon ship burial was found in 1938-9. Many original finds, on loan from British Museum. Reproduction of King Raedwald's (?) burial with his weapons & possessions. Actual burial mounds nearby.
15/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)141 222 2513
Fax: +44 (0)141 222 2536
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@thetallship.com
http://www.thetallship.com/
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/
Opening days: Daily
Main exhibit is the restored Clydebuilt barque Glenlee (1896) qv. The adjacent 1877 Pumphouse displays varying exhibitions on the Kelvinhaugh & other aspects of Glasgow shipping and the Clyde. Conference, restaurant & function facilities available.
10/10/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1626 777041; (862265: Curator AH)
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: teignmouth@devonmuseums.net
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Daily
Exhibits include cannon & cannon-balls, tools, pottery & other items recovered from offshore 16C Venetian ship-wreck. Maritime paintings. Admiral Pellew memorabilia. Local boat-building, the Teignmouth Lifeboat & wrecks, WW1 & WW2 memorabilia. ARC Edu GV
20/08/02
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Tel: +44 (0)1834 842809
Fax: +44 (0)1834 842809
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: tenbymuseum@hotmail.com
http://www.aboutbritain.com/TenbyMuseumAndArtGallery.htm
http://www.pembrokeshirevirtualmuseum.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily 10:00-17:00 from 1 April - 31 Oct. Mon-Friday in winter.
With a strong local focus, the museum includes displays on Tenby maritime history, piracy, and especially local lifeboats. Photos & memorabilia. Natural history of the seashore. Shell collection. Housed in ruins of Tenby Castle. ARC & Lib BA; Edu, GV
01/12/06
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Tel: +44 (0)20 72754421
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: patrick.connolly@met.police.uk
http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/museum.html
Opening days: BA only: apply in writing or by e-mail. GV BA.
Uniforms, equipment & memorabilia relating to over 200 years of policing the Thames. Housed on original site of Thames Marine Police (formed 1798), now the HQ of Metropolitan Police's Marine Support Unit. GV BA (maximum of 20 persons incl school parties).
15/12/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1493 743930, 745526
Fax: +44 (0)1493 743940
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: yarmouth.museums@norfolk.gov.uk
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/
Opening days: Daily, from 10 am (12 noon winter weekends)
Excellent displays of Gt Yarmouth's maritime heritage & society. Herring fishing & curing. Kippers & bloaters. Replica of a fish quay & coopering. Local history & archaeology. Audio wands supply information. Collection of historic fishing boats. AV, Edu & GV.
25/09/05
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Correspondence to: Aberdeenshire Heritage Education & Recreation Service, Woodhill House Annexe, Westburn Road, Aberdeen AB16 5GJ
Tel: +44 (0)1771 622906. Aberdeenshire Heritage: (0)1224 664228.
Fax: +44 (0)1224 664615 (Aberdeenshire Heritage).
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: heritage@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/leisure/index.asp
Opening days: Daily ex Tues, June - Sept
Displays illustrate history of Stonehaven's links with the sea. Inshore fishing, herring barrel coopering. Housed in Stonehaven's oldest building, a 16C storehouse which served as County Tolbooth of Kincardineshire from 1600-1767.
04/03/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1392 873244
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@topsham.org
http://www.devonmuseums.net/
Opening days: Mon, Wed, Sat, pm only, Easter - Oct; also Sun Jun - Sept
Ship-building, fishing & merchant voyages form a part of the displays in this furnished 17C merchant's house, with sail loft & estuary gardens. Ship models, tools, anchors & pictures form the Dorothy Holman collection of local ship-building artifacts. Edu
20/08/02
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Correspondence to: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, South Nitshill Industrial Estate, Glasgow G53 7NN (Tel: 0141 276 9300)
Tel: +44 (0)141 287 2720. Edu: +44 (0)141 287 2747
Fax: +44 (0)141 287 2692
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail:museums@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/
http://www.clyde-valley.com/glasgow/transmus.htm
Opening days: Daily except Christmas & New Year holidays.
The Clyde Room has a huge display of ship models: a few early Board of Admiralty & French PoW models, but mainly large detailed models of powered Navy, passenger & cargo vessels; most built on The Clyde. About 800 models & hulls. ARC, Edu, GV, Lib.
10/07/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1429 223193
Fax: +44 (0)1429 864385
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/
http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/attractions/trincomalee.asp
http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
Opening days: Daily except Christmas & New Year holidays.
This frigate, built of teak in Bombay in 1817, was for a time at Portsmouth under the name of Foudroyant. Full 3-masted ship-rig, 150 ft deck length. Built as 38 gun fifth-rate, reduced to 26 gun sixth-rate, 1847. Temporarily in dry dock, following restoration.
16/04/07
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Correspondence to: The Commercial Manager, Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre, Wharf Road, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4BN
Tel: +44 (0)1736 360077
Fax: +44 (0)1736 364292
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/attractions/trinityhouse/
http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/lighthouses/trinity-house.htm
Opening days: Daily, Easter - Oct; evenings BA
A reconstructed lighthouse room. Models, optical apparatus, incl. occulting optic from Coquet & gas-lit optic from Spurn lighthouse Bells, foghorns & other audible warnings. Buoys, engines & other lighthouse artefacts. Some may be operated. AV theatre. Edu, GV
25/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1553 770479
Fax: +44 (0)1553 765100
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@truesyard.co.uk
http://www.truesyard.co.uk/
http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21769
Opening days: Tues-Sat 10:00-15:45 except Christmas to New Year. GV BA.
Models of fishing boats (many built by local fishermen), fishing gear, photos, clothing & memorabilia. Restored old fishermen's cottages. 1904 fishing boat in the yard. Video, DB. Edu & GV BA. ARC BA: documents related to the Wash since 16C & many photos.
13/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1343 820339
Fax: +44 (0)1343 829065
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: wildlifecentre@wdcs.org
http://www.wdcs.org/wildlifecentre
Opening days: Daily, Apr-Oct; weekends Feb, March, Nov-mid Dec. Closed winter.
An industrial ice-house, which used to store ice in its brick built chambers, for use by salmon and other fishermen who needed to send their catches to distant markets. Now part of new Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society centre; visits permitted. Edu.
04/12/06
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Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.atlantik-pirat.com/U-534page.htm
Opening days: Closed to visitors in 2006. Hoped to reopen mid-2008.
German WW2 Type IXC/40 submarine. Sunk by RAF aircraft at end of the war, while apparently on a mysterious mission. Salvaged 1993. Armament: 6 torpedo tubes, 20 mm & 37 mm guns. 1257/1144 tons. There is a proposal to move it to Woodside for exhibition.
11/02/08
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Tel: +44 (0)28 8224 3292
Fax: +44 (0)28 8224 2241
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: uafp.info@magni.org.uk
http://www.folkpark.com/
http://www.magni.org.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - end Sept. Mon - Fri in winter
Museum of emigration history. Replica Ulster quayside with 19C emigrant brig "Union". Part of an extensive display of furnished original buildings & gallery exhibitions, interpreting emigrant life in Ulster & North America. AV, MM, Edu, GV, Lib, DB
23/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)28 9042 8428
Fax: +44 (0)28 9042 8728
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: uftm.info@magni.org.uk
http://www.magni.org.uk/
http://www.uftm.org.uk/
Opening days: daily
Extensive site showing life & traditions of the people of Ulster. The Transport Galleries include displays on the Titanic & some other maritime topics. Boatbuilding. The schooner "Result" (1893) & fishing boat "Mary Joseph" outdoors. Edu, Lib, ARC BA
23/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)28 9038 3000
Fax: +44 (0)28 9038 3003
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/
http://www.magni.org.uk/
Opening days: Closed for refurbishment until 2009.
National museum, with wide range of collections. Maritime items include an important collection of archaeological material from Armada ships wrecked in 1588. Marine paintings. Displays on ship building and the sea. ARC, Edu, Lib. Closed for redevelopment.
23/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1382 200900
Fax: +44 (0)1382 200923
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: mail@frigateunicorn.org
http://www.frigateunicorn.org/
http://www.dmcsoft.com/tamh/
Opening days: Daily
Oldest British-built warship afloat. Launched Chatham 1824, put into reserve & used as training ship. Most of fabric original. An unusual rounded stern. Period roof, fitted when "in ordinary". Guns are lightweight reproductions. ARC, AV, GV, Edu, Lib
17/05/02
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Correspondence to: Unst Heritage Centre Trust, c/o Duncan Sandison, Wasterpark, Baltasound, Shetland ZE2 9DS
Tel: +44 (0)1957 711528
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.unst.org/attractions.htm
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/unst/boathaven/
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/AM33835.html
Opening days: Every afternoon, 1 May - 30 Sept. or BA
17 traditional Shetland boats, mostly 1880s-1915. Displayed on a gravel "beach", with period fishing gear, tools, photos, plans, models & charts in large purpose-built shed. Links with Norse vessels shown. "Far Haaf" replica sixareen. Reading room.
29/01/07
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Correspondence to: c/o National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10
Tel: +44 (0)1720 424105
Fax: +44 (0)1720 422807
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
http://www.tresco.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, 10:00 - 16:00.
Collection of 30 ships' figureheads, name-boards & other decorative ships' carvings from the age of sail. Collection was started c. 1840, from local shipwrecks.
25/08/03
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Correspondence to: Flagship Portsmouth Trust, 1/7 College Road, H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LJ
Tel: +44 (0)23 9272 3111; GV: 9283 9766; Marketing: 9287 0999
Fax: +44 (0)23 92295252
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/
http://www.hms-victory.com
Opening days: Daily
Tours of 40-45 mins: Nelson's Great Cabin (or Hardy's cabin), the Quarterdeck, 3 gun-decks & Orlop, where Nelson died 21 Oct 1805. A few iron cannon with flintlocks; others are lightweight repros. In dry berth. Ongoing restoration. AV for disabled. Edu facils.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1255 423400
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.maritimebritain.co.uk/Walton Maritime Museum.html
http://www.james-stevens-no14.org.uk/james_stevens.html
http://www.brightlingsea-town.co.uk/history/museumsarea.htm
Opening days: Daily, 14:00-16:00 July to Sept., Weekends October, and BH or BA.
Maritime displays focus on the lifeboats & their crews, from the rival boats of the late 19 C to 1990s. Restoration of the James Stevens 14 lifeboat (1900-1928). RNLI City of Leicester outside. Local paddle steamers. Duck-punt & gun. Geology of the Naze. Edu.
22/03/07
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Correspondence to: The Warrior Preservation Trust, Victory Gate, H.M. Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 3QX
Tel: +44 (0)23 92778600, GV: 92839766, prem info line: (0839) 407080
Fax: +44 (0)23 92778601
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hmswarrior.org
http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/
http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Heritage/Warrior/
Opening days: Daily.
Armoured warship (1860). Ship rig & raisable-screw steam power. Restored (Hartlepool) 1979-87. Repro Armstrong 110 pdr rifled BLs & 68 pdr SB MLs. Racks of small arms, messes, galley, officer's cabins, cells, laundry, engine-room. Edu & Specl Interest GVs BA.
16/09/07
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Correspondence to: John Nash, 3 Almyr Terrace, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0DB e-mail: john.nash@watchet.idps.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1984 633117 for Hon. Curator
Fax: +44 (0)1984 634242
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@wbm.org.uk
http://www.wbm.org.uk
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/
Opening days: Tues-Thurs, Sat & Sun (2-4 pm), BH, Easter - end Sept, or BA
Local fishing, with emphasis on Somerset flatners. Museum owns the last surviving examples of this type of boat. Models, fishing gear and related artefacts, pictures. ARC, Edu, GV - all BA.
15/01/07
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Correspondence to: c/o Dawn Hornby, 4 Liddymore Road, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0DQ
Tel: +44 (0)1984 631209 (Hon. Curator), 631761 (Hon. Secretary)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.aboutbritain.com/WatchetMuseum.htm
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/
http://www.quantockonline.co.uk/
Opening days: Daily, Easter to end of Oct. or BA
A small general museum with some model ships, figurehead, photos & paintings to illustrate maritime history of the harbour & nautical trade. RNLI exhibits incl an original cork lifejacket, paintings & photos. AV. ARC, GV BA.
11/10/07
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Correspondence to: Water Folk Museum, Old Store House, Llanfrynach, Brecon, Powys, Wales LD3 7LJ.
Tel: +44 (0)1874 665382
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/waterways-museums.htm
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/usk/mutran.htm
Opening days: Daily except Fridays
A historic collection of documents & items related to the old Monmouth & Brecon Canal (closed in 1962, now partially restored). Housed in 18C stone warehouse. Horse-drawn canal trips on some days during Summer. Edu.
15/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1202 262600. Tourist information: 01202 660896.
Fax: +44 (0)1202 262622
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museums@poole.gov.uk
http://www.boroughofpoole.com
http://www.boroughofpoole.com/museums/
Opening days: Daily in summer. Tues-Sun + BH in winter.
Refurbished old harbour warehouse now reopen. Maritime story of Poole. Development of the port. Boatbuilding, fishing, smuggling. Newfoundland trade. Underwater archaeology: iron age log boat & Spanish wreck. Art includes ship portraits. Edu, AV shows. ARC-BA
11/10/07
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Tel: +353 (0)7196 50560
Fax: +353 (0)7196 22866
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.waterwaysireland.org/
http://www.thewaterweb.net/Canals/Canire.htm
Opening days: Closed for refurbishment.
The story of Ireland's inland waterways, with working models and interactive multimedia presentation. Examples of art & literature related to the waterways. AV, IMM. Located in architecturally distinctive modern building on the Grand Canal Basin. GV BA.
31/01/08
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Correspondence to: The Honourable Company of Master Mariners, HQS WELLINGTON, Temple Stairs, Victoria Embankment, London WCR2 2PN.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7836 8179
Fax: +44 (0)20 7240 3082
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@thewellingtontrust.com
http://www.hcmm.org.uk
http://www.thewellingtontrust.com
Opening days: 2008: 7 June, 12 July and weekend 13-14 Sept; all 10:30-16:30.
RN sloop (1934) served as convoy escort in WW2. Converted to HQ Ship for Master Mariners in 1947, when armament & machinery were removed. Museum of ship models, medals & memorabilia, paintings, instruments & charts. Open occasionally. Lib & ARC BA (phone).
18/10/07
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Correspondence to: c/o The Harbour Office, West Quay, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR23 1AT
Tel: +44 (0)1328 711646 (Wells Harbour Office)
Opening days: Closed until further notice.
The museum closed after an unsuccessful attempt to set up a local heritage centre. The collection of local memorabilia of fishing, the harbour and the floods of 1953 is in storage. Was located in the old RNLI lifeboat house, shared with the Harbour Office.
13/07/06
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Tel: +44 (0)151 227 2008
Fax: +44 (0)151 236 6913
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.liverpoolwarmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/product-p8328
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/places.html
Opening days: Mon-Thursday & Sat, March-Nov. GV BA during winter. Confirm.
Complex of underground Main Operations Room, Admiral's Office, Teleprinters Station & other parts of the Western Approaches HQ for the Battle of the Atlantic against German U-boats in WW2. Other displays illustrate life in the 'blitz'. Edu, GV.
11/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1947 821364
Fax: +44 (0)1947 821436
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: whitbyarchive@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.whitbyarchives.org.uk
http://www.whitbyonline.co.uk/
Opening days: Mon-Fri 11:00-16:00 summer. Mon-Wed 11:00-15:00 winter
The archive collection includes assorted shipping records, crew lists, photos, coble & fishing records as part of a general local & family history archive. Local pictures includes some related to Whitby whalers. Research fees payable. Exhibitions vary.
26/06/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1947 602908
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/
http://www.captaincook.org.uk/index.php
http://www.whitbyonline.co.uk/
Opening days: Tue - Sun, 09:30-16:00 for 16:30. Closed Mon (ex BH & half-term).
Local history. Exploration & whaling. Capt Cook & the Scoresbys. Models of Baffin, Endeavour, Resolution. Ethnography & scrimshaw. Navigation instruments. Many ship models, incl bone PoW & ivory. Varying exhibitions in new extension. Edu, Lib & ARC BA.
26/06/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1947 602001, 606094
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.whitbylifeboat.org.uk/
http://www.whitby-yorkshire.co.uk/lifeboat/lifeboats.htm
http://www.whitby-uk.com/lifeboat/
Opening days: Daily, Easter - Oct (times vary). Weekends, Nov - Mar (variable)
Main display is the pulling lifeboat "Robert and Ellen Robson", built 1918, in service to 1957. Displays of ship & boat models, photos, memorabilia of rescues, boards listing rescue services. Large model of hospital ship Rohilla, wrecked 1914. Edu & GV BA.
12/12/06
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Tel: +44 (0)1227 276998
Fax: +44 (0)1227 772379
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/buildpage.php?id=2394
http://www.aboutbritain.com/WhitstableMuseum.htm
Opening days: Mon - Sat 10:00-16:00 (+ Sun pm July & Aug). Not Good Friday.
Good collection of maritime art, esp ship portraits. Displays on local seafaring, oyster fisheries. Early diving: shipwrecks and maritime archaeology. The floods of 1953. Whitstable and the sea. Special exhibitions from time to time. AV, GV, Edu.
11/01/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1227 262003, or Tourist Info: (0)1227 275482
Fax: +44 (0)1227 264829
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/MW829.html
http://www.touruk.co.uk/kent/ken_whit.htm
http://www.hbay.co.uk/html/whit.htm
Opening days: Weekends, April-Sept/Oct
Exhibits on the history of the local oyster fisheries. Associated with a commercial oyster outlet.
11/01/07
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Correspondence to: The Wick Society, 20 Bank Row, Wick, Caithness KW1 5EY, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1955 605393 (Caithness Museum Service: 01955 607771)
Fax: +44 (0)1955 605393
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.wickheritage.org/
http://www.caithness.org:80/community/museums/index.htm
http://www.wickheritage.co.uk/contact-findus.asp
Opening days: Mon - Sat 10:00-15:45/17:00, Easter - October. GV BA.
Wick was major herring port with 6000 fishermen & workers. Light- house, mechanism still working. Fishing boats & gear, coopering, kipper kiln, replica harbour. Johnston photo collection. Diving, clothing, Art Gallery. Isabella Fortuna (1890) & other old boats.
11/10/07
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Tel: +44 (0)151 652 4177. (0151 666 4010 for Wirral Museums Service)
Fax: +44 (0)151 670 0253
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/product-p7875
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/NW000058.html
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/
Opening days: Tue - Sun 10:00-17:00, also BH Mon.
Some maritime exhibits, particularly on the local ferries, & Cammell Laird, the shipbuilders. Ship models & other local maritime history. Most of the gallery displays fine art, pottery and embroidery. ARC, Edu, GV BA.
14/09/07
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Tel: +44 (0)15394 45565
Fax: +44 (0)15394 48769
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: post@steamboat.co.uk
http://www.steamboat.co.uk/
http://www.blackwell.org.uk/steamboat_museum.shtml
Opening days: Enquire. The museum is closed for conservation.
A fine collection of historic powered boats, some salvaged from sunken wrecks and restored to working order. Steam launch "Dolly" (c1850) is oldest powered boat. Many other early steam launches, motor, rowing & sailing boats. Collection may close for a time.
07/01/08
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Correspondence to: Hartlepool Museum Service, Sir William Gray House, Clarence Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8BT (Tel: +44 (0)1429 523438)
Tel: +44 (0)1429 222255 (01429 860077 for adjacent museum)
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
http://www.maritimebritain.co.uk/
http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/ships/PSS_Wingfield_Castle.asp
Opening days: daily
Side-paddle steamer. River Humber LNER ferry 1934-74. Now fully restored, in dock where she was built. Triple expansion steam engine and boiler room visible. Bridge fully accessible (wheel- house is WW2 addition). Shipbuilding displays & Tea-room.
12/10/07
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Correspondence to: Wooden Canal Boat Society, 5 Oaken Clough Terrace, Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL7 9NY
Tel: +44 (0)161 3302315. (Portland Basin Museum: +44 (0)161 3432878).
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.wcbs.org.uk/
http://www.canaljunction.com/news/news47.htm
Opening days: Boats viewable most Sundays (confirm). Museum open Tue-Sun.
The Society collects & restores old canal craft, mostly working boats, with volunteer labour. Six wooden boats from the early years of 20th century, including Lilith (1901), Hazel (1914), Queen (1917) & motor boat Forget me Not (1927).
16/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1904 608595
Fax: +44 (0)1904 608246
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: museum@yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk
http://www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk/
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/elv/elvmus.htm
Opening days: Daily; 10:00-17:00 April - Oct; shuts 15:30 in winter.
Museum is located in partly restored WW2 Bomber Command station. RN aircraft include restored Westland Dragonfly, & a Blackburn Buccaneer. RAF jets, rebuilt Halifax. Barnes Wallis room. Free French, Canadian & Allied Air Forces Memorial. ARC Lib Edu BA
16/03/07
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Tel: +44 (0)1405 768730
Fax: +44 (0)1405 769868
Internet and e-mail links:
e-mail: info@waterwaysmuseum.org.uk
http://www.waterwaysmuseum.org.uk/museum.htm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/YH000082.html
Opening days: Mon-Fri 09:30-16:00; also Sun 11:00-16:00 Easter - Sept
Museum tells the story of Aire & Calder Navigation & the Port of Goole. Model vessels; shipbuilding & canal tools; A&C documents; personal items; family-friendly interactive exhibits. Art gallery on a grain barge. Traditional boats. ARC, Edu, GV, Lib, Photos.
16/03/07
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Correspondence to: c/o 62 Pontac Road, New Marske, Redcar, Cleveland TS11 8AW.
Tel: +44 (0)1642 494311, 486952
Internet and e-mail links:
http://www.redcarlifeboat.org.uk/zetland/info.htm
http://nationalhistoricships.org.uk/
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_trust/
Opening days: Daily, May - end Sept. (weekends: noon to 4pm)
RNLI museum, housing the "Zetland" (CC) oldest surviving lifeboat known: a Greathead pulling boat, built 1802, in use to 1880. RNLI equipment. Photos of lifeboats, crews, wrecks & rescues. Model ships & lifeboats. Reconstruction of a fisherman's cottage. GV BA
15/12/07
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