List of U.S. National Historic Landmark ships, shipwrecks, and shipyards
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This is a perhaps complete list of the 133 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs)
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

 in the United States that are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards.

More than five percent of the 2,442 or so NHLs are ships, shipwrecks, or shipyards.

The NHL ships, shipwrecks, and shipyards are distributed across 31 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.-associated state of Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia or FSM is an independent, sovereign island nation, made up of four states from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It comprises approximately 607 islands with c...

. Nineteen states have no ships among their NHLs.

Current NHLs that are shipwrecks

NHL name for ship Image State Date
declared
Museum association?
7 Antonio Lopez
Antonio Lopez (shipwreck)
Antonio López , also known as SS ANTONIO LÓPEZ Shipwreck Site and Remains, in Puerto Rico. It is one of Puerto Rico's 63 National Historic Landmarks.-History:...

Puerto Rico
9 USS Arizona (shipwreck)
USS Arizona Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by Japanese imperial forces and commemorates the events of that day...

Hawaii Shipwreck
65 Land Tortoise (radeau)
Land Tortoise (shipwreck)
Radeau Land Tortoise is the Lake George site of a shipwreck from the French and Indian Wars era. The vessel is a radeau. Simple in construction, it was built by the British and Colonial forces in 1758 to help combat the French in North America...

New York Shipwreck
82 Maple Leaf (shipwreck)
Maple Leaf (shipwreck)
The Maple Leaf is a historic shipwreck in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The Maple Leaf was first launched as a freight and passenger vessel from the Marine Railway Yard in Kingston, Ontario in 1851...

Florida Shipwreck
88 USS Monitor
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is the site of the wreck of the USS Monitor, one of the most famous shipwrecks in U.S. history. It was designated as the country's first national marine sanctuary on January 30, 1975, and is the only one of the thirteen national marine sanctuaries created to...

North Carolina Shipwreck
119 Truk Lagoon Underwater Fleet, Truk Atoll
Truk Lagoon
Truk Lagoon, also known as Chuuk, is a sheltered body of water in the central Pacific. North of New Guinea, it is located mid-ocean at 7 degrees North latitude. The atoll consists of a protective reef, around, enclosing a natural harbour 79 by 50 kilometres , with an area of . It has a land...

Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia or FSM is an independent, sovereign island nation, made up of four states from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It comprises approximately 607 islands with c...

Shipwrecks
120 USS Utah (shipwreck)
USS Utah (BB-31)
USS Utah was a battleship that was attacked and sunk in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. A Florida-class battleship, she was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Utah...

Hawaii Shipwreck

Current NHLs that are ships

NHL name for ship Image State Date
declared
Museum association?
1 Adventure (schooner)
Adventure (schooner)
The 1926 schooner Adventure is one of the last of the famous Grand Banks fishing schooners of Gloucester, Massachusetts. She is one of only two "knockabout" fishing schooners surviving.Adventure was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994....

Massachusetts
2 Adventuress (schooner) Washington
3 USS Alabama (battleship)
USS Alabama (BB-60)
USS Alabama , a South Dakota-class battleship, was the sixth completed ship of the United States Navy named for the U.S. state of Alabama, however she was only the third commissioned ship with that name. Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific...

Alabama
4 USS Albacore (submarine)
USS Albacore (AGSS-569)
USS Albacore was a unique research submarine that pioneered the American version of the teardrop hull form of modern submarines. The revolutionary design was derived from extensive hydrodynamic and wind tunnel testing, with an emphasis on underwater speed and maneuverability...

New Hampshire
5 Alma (scow schooner)
Alma (1891)
The Alma is an 1891 built scow schooner, which is now preserved as a National Historic Landmark at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.- History of the Alma :...

California San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
6 American Eagle (schooner)
American Eagle (schooner)
The American Eagle is a two-masted schooner launched in 1930 that is one of the last of its type built in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her original name was Andrew and Rosalie....

Maine
8 Arthur Foss (tug) Washington
10 Balclutha (square-rigger)
Balclutha (1886)
Balclutha, also known as Star of Alaska, Pacific Queen, or Sailing Ship BALCLUTHA, is a steel-hulled full rigged ship that was built in 1886. She is the only square rigged ship left in the San Francisco Bay area and is representative of several different commercial ventures, including lumber,...

California
11 Baltimore (tug)
Baltimore (tug)
The Baltimore is a preserved steam-powered tugboat, built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the oldest operating steam tugboat in the United States...

Maryland
12 USS Becuna (submarine)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Becuna , a Balao-class submarine, is a former ship of the United States Navy named for the becuna, a pike-like fish of Europe.-World War II:...

Pennsylvania
13 Belle of Louisville (river steamboat)
Belle of Louisville
The Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period...

Kentucky
14 Berkeley (ferry)
Berkeley (ferryboat)
The Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building for sixty years...

California
15 Bowdoin (Arctic exploration schooner)
Bowdoin (Arctic schooner)
The schooner Bowdoin was designed by William H. Hand, Jr., and built in 1921, in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard now known as Hodgdon Yachts. She was designed for Arctic exploration, under the direction of Donald B. MacMillan, and has made 28 trips above the Arctic Circle...

Maine
16 USS Bowfin (submarine)
USS Bowfin (SS-287)
USS Bowfin , Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the bowfin, a voracious, predatory fish native to the Great Lakes, the Mississippi valley, and nearby waters...

Hawaii
17 C. A. Thayer (schooner)
C.A. Thayer (1895)
The C.A. Thayer is a schooner built in 1895 near Eureka, California. The schooner is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park...

California
18 Captain Meriwether Lewis (dustpan dredge)
Captain Meriwether Lewis (dustpan dredge)
-Museum of Missouri River History:The Nebraska State Historical Society took possession of the ship in 1976 and moved it to Brownville, Nebraska the next year. The ship is dry-berthed along the Missouri River. Visitors can tour the ship, which includes the Museum of Missouri River History, opened...

Nebraska
19 USS Cassin Young
USS Cassin Young (DD-793)
USS Cassin Young , a , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Captain Cassin Young , who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism at Pearl Harbor and killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal....

Massachusetts
20 Charles W. Morgan (bark)
Charles W. Morgan (ship)
Charles W. Morgan was a U.S. whaleship during the 19th and early 20th century. Ships of this type usually harvested the blubber of whales for whale oil, which was commonly used in lamps...

Connecticut At Mystic Seaport Museum
21 Christeen (sloop)
Christeen (sloop)
Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.She was built in 1883 in Glenwood Landing, New York as a gaff-rigged sloop. She had several homes including Essex, Connecticut, but in 1992 she arrived back in the hamlet of Oyster Bay,...

New York
22 City of Milwaukee (Great Lakes car ferry) Michigan
23 USS Clamagore (submarine)
USS Clamagore (SS-343)
USS Clamagore was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, built in 1945 and still in training when World War II ended. It was named for the clamagore or blue parrotfish Scarus coeruleus found in the West Indies and along the Atlantic coast as far north as Maryland.Clamagore was built...

South Carolina Patriot's Point
Patriot's Point
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.-Museum ships and exhibits:...

24 USS Cobia (submarine)
USS Cobia (SS-245)
USS Cobia is a , formerly of the United States Navy, named for the cobia, a food fish found in warm waters.Cobia was laid down on 17 March 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn. She was launched on 28 November 1943 , and commissioned on 29 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Albert L...

Wisconsin
25 USS Cod (submarine) Ohio
26 Columbia (excursion steamer)
SS Columbia
The SS Columbia is one of two remaining excursion steamships from the turn of the 20th century in existence, the second being her running mate, and sister ship the SS Ste. Claire. Both were designed by Frank E. Kirby and Louis O. Keil...

Michigan
27 Constellation (frigate)
USS Constellation (1854)
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, and the sloop-of-war was constructed in the...

Maryland
28 USS Constitution (frigate)
USS Constitution
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...

Massachusetts
29 Delta Queen (river steamboat)
Delta Queen
The Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat that is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Historically, she has been used for cruising the major rivers that constitute the drainage of the Mississippi River, particularly in the American South. As of June 2009, she is docked in Chattanooga,...

Louisiana
30 Deluge (fire fighting tug)
Deluge (fireboat)
Deluge , also known as Deluge , is a fireboat in New Orleans, Louisiana.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989....

Louisiana
31 Donald B. (towboat)
Donald B. (towboat)
DONALD B, originally STANDARD, and now BARBARA H is a towboat that has been named a U.S. National Historic Landmark and is now based at Lamb, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Carrollton, Kentucky...

Indiana
32 USS Drum (submarine)
USS Drum (SS-228)
USS Drum is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, any of various types of fish capable of making a drumming sound. Drum is presently on display as a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park.Drum was laid down on 11 September...

Alabama
33 Duwamish (fireboat)
Duwamish (fireboat)
The Duwamish reigned as one of the most powerful fireboats in the United States several times over her 75-year working life.She is the second oldest vessel designed to fight fires in the USA, after the Edward M Cotter, in Buffalo, New York....

Washington
34 Edna E. Lockwood (bugeye) Maryland
35 USS Edson
USS Edson (DD-946)
USS Edson was a of the United States Navy, named for Major General Merritt “Red Mike” Edson USMC , who was awarded the Medal of Honor while serving as Commanding Officer of the First Marine Raider Battalion on Guadalcanal, and the Navy Cross and Silver Star for other actions in world War...

New York
36 Edward M. Cotter fireboat New York Active duty with the Buffalo Fire Department
Buffalo Fire Department
The Buffalo Fire Department is the principal fire and rescue service for the city of Buffalo, New York. It is the largest fire department in Upstate New York. The Fire Department currently consists of one division which is separated into four battalions, and further separated into 4 platoons...

37 Elissa (bark)
Elissa (ship)
The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque. She is currently moored in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today....

Texas
38 Emma C. Berry (sloop)
Emma C. Berry (sloop)
Emma C. Berry is a fishing sloop located at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, United States, and one of the oldest surviving commercial vessels in America. It is the last known surviving American well smack. This type of boat is also termed a sloop smack or Noank smack. The Berry was built...

Connecticut At Mystic Seaport Museum
39 Ernestina (schooner) Massachusetts
40 Eureka (double-ended ferry)
Eureka (ferryboat)
The Eureka is a side-wheel paddle steamboat, built in 1890, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. Originally named the Ukiah to commemorate the railway's recent extension into the City of Ukiah, the boat was built by the San...

California
41 Falls of Clyde Hawaii
42 USCGC Fir
USCGC Fir (WLM-212)
The United States Coast Guard Cutter Fir was the last lighthouse tender built specifically for the United States Lighthouse Service to resupply lighthouses and lightships, and to service buoys. Fir was built by the Moore Drydock Company in Oakland, California in 1939. On 22 March 1939, the U.S....

California
43 Fireboat No. 1
Fireboat No. 1 (Tacoma, Wash.)
Fireboat No. 1 was built in 1929 for the Port of Tacoma by the Coastline Shipbuilding Company of Tacoma, Washington for US$148,000. She is 96 feet 6 inches long with a 21 foot , six-inch beam and a six-foot draft. Her seven water cannons have a capacity of 10,000 US gallons per minute . The...

Washington
44 Fire Fighter New York
45 George M. Verity (towboat)
George M. Verity (towboat)
George M. Verity is a towboat now located in Keokuk, Iowa. It is significant for being one of only three steam-powered towboats in existence in the United States.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989....

Iowa
46 Goldenrod (showboat)
Goldenrod (showboat)
On December 24, 1967, the Goldenrod Showboat is a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark. She was placed on the ‘Threatened Historical Landmarks’ list in 2001....

Missouri
47 Governor Stone (schooner)
Governor Stone (schooner)
The Governor Stone is a historic schooner in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States. On December 4, 1991, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. One year later, the schooner was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. It became part of Eden Gardens State Park in 2003...

Florida
48 Grace Bailey (schooner)
Grace Bailey (schooner)
Grace Bailey, also known as Mattie, is a two-masted schooner whose home port is Camden Harbor, Camden, Maine.She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992....

Maine
49 HA. 19 (midget submarine)
HA. 19 (Japanese Midget Submarine)
The HA. 19 is a historic Imperial Japanese Navy Type A Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine that was part of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Orders for this submarine were to enter Pearl Harbor...

Texas At National Museum of the Pacific War
National Museum of the Pacific War
The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fleet Admiral Nimitz served as CinCPAC, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet during World War II...

50 USS Hazard (minesweeper)
USS Hazard (AM-240)
USS Hazard was an which served in the United States Navy during World War II.Hazard was launched on 1 October 1944 and was commissioned on 30 December 1944. The vessel was built by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Corporation of Winslow, Washington...

Nebraska
51 Hercules (tug)
Hercules (1907)
The Hercules is a 1907 built steam tug, which is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.- History of the Hercules :...

California
52 Hilda M. Willing (skipjack)
Hilda M. Willing (skipjack)
Hilda M. Willing is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack. Built in 1905 at Oriole, Maryland she is a relatively small skipjack whose home port is Tilghman Island, Maryland .She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994....

Maryland
53 USS Hoga (City of Oakland) (tug)
USS Hoga (YT-146)
The USS Hoga was a United States Navy yard tug named after the Sioux Indian word for "fish." After World War II, the tug was known as the Port of Oakland and then the City of Oakland when it was a fireboat in that city....

Arkansas
54 USS Hornet (CVS-12) (aircraft carrier)
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Hornet is a United States Navy aircraft carrier of the Essex class. Construction started in August 1942; she was originally named , but was renamed in honor of the , which was lost in October 1942, becoming the eighth ship to bear the name.Hornet was commissioned in November 1943, and after...

California
55 USCGC Ingham
USCGC Ingham (WHEC-35)
USCGC Ingham , one of only two preserved s. Originally Samuel D. Ingham, she was the fourth cutter to be named for Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham...

South Carolina formerly Patriot's Point
Patriot's Point
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.-Museum ships and exhibits:...


relocating to USS Mohawk CGC Memorial Museum
56 USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS Intrepid , also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, most notably the Battle...

New York
57 Isaac H. Evans (schooner)
Isaac H. Evans (schooner)
Isaac H. Evans, formerly known as Boyd N. Sheppard, is a two-masted schooner in Rockland, Maine. It is a Maine windjammer.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.- Present :...

Maine
58 J. & E. Riggin (schooner)
J. & E. Riggin (schooner)
The schooner J. & E. Riggin, a National Historic Landmark, was built on the Maurice River in Dorchester, New Jersey in 1927. Charles Riggin had her built for his oyster dredging fleet and named her after his sons, Jacob and Edward. They all captained her at one time or another on the Delaware Bay...

Maine
59 Jeremiah O'Brien (Liberty ship)
SS Jeremiah O'Brien
-See also:*Liberty ship*Victory ship - other surviving Liberty ship*Nash - last surviving Army ship at D-Day...

California
60 USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (destroyer)
USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850)
USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. is a of the United States Navy.The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and older brother of future President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy would serve, with interruptions...

Massachusetts
61 Kathryn (skipjack)
Kathryn (skipjack)
The Kathryn , a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, was built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901. Ported at Chance, Maryland, she is reputedly one of the fastest skipjacks on the Bay . She was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 19, 1994.-Description:...

Maryland
62 USS Kidd (destroyer)
USS Kidd (DD-661)
USS Kidd , a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Louisiana
63 L. A. Dunton (schooner)
L. A. Dunton (schooner)
L. A. DUNTON is one of two remaining fishing schooners built at the A.D. Story Shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts.Dunton was modeled after a ship designed by Thomas J. McManus and was among the last large, purely sail-powered fishing vessels built...

Connecticut At Mystic Seaport Museum
64 USS Laffey
USS Laffey (DD-724)
USS Laffey , an , was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bartlett Laffey. Seaman Laffey was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces on 5 March 1864...

South Carolina Patriot's Point
Patriot's Point
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.-Museum ships and exhibits:...

66 Lane Victory (Victory ship)
SS Lane Victory
SS Lane Victory is a Second World War Victory ship which is preserved as a museum ship in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California. As a rare surviving Victory ship, it is a U.S...

California
67 Lettie G. Howard (schooner)
Lettie G. Howard (schooner)
Lettie G. Howard is a wooden Fredonia schooner built in 1893 in Essex, Massachusetts, USA. This type of craft was commonly used by American offshore fishermen. The Lettie spent a significant portion of her working life off the Yucatan Peninsula coast. In 1968, she was sold to the South Street...

New York South Street Seaport Museum
68 USS Lexington
USS Lexington (CV-16)
USS Lexington , known as "The Blue Ghost", is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. The ship, the fifth US Navy ship to bear the name, is named in honor of the Revolutionary War Battle of Lexington...

Texas
69 Lewis R. French (schooner)
Lewis R. French (schooner)
The Lewis R. French is a two-masted schooner and a U.S. National Historic Landmark launched in 1871, now located in Camden, Maine....

Maine
70 Lightship No. 87, "Ambrose" New York at South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport
The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District...

 museum
71 Lightship No. 103, "Huron"
Huron Lightship
The United States lightship Huron is a lightvessel that was launched in 1920. It is now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan.-Great Lakes lightships:...

Michigan
72 Lightship No. 83, "Relief"
Swiftsure
Lightship #83, now called Swiftsure, is a lightvessel launched in Camden, New Jersey, USA in 1904 and now moored in Seattle, Washington. She steamed around the tip of South America to her first station at Blunts Reef in California, where she saved 150 people when their ship ran aground in dense fog...

Washington
73 Lightship No. 101, "Portsmouth" Virginia
74 Lightship No. 112, "Nantucket" New York was in CT
75 Lightship No. 116, "Chesapeake"
Lightship Chesapeake
The United States lightship Chesapeake is owned by the National Park Service and on a 25-year loan to the Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1820, several lightships have served at the Chesapeake lightship station and have been called Chesapeake...

Maryland at the Baltimore Maritime Museum
Baltimore Maritime Museum
Historic Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States....

76 Lightship WAL-604, "Columbia"
Lightship Columbia
United States lightship Columbia is a lightship located in Astoria, Oregon, United States of America. The Columbia was formerly moored near the mouth of the Columbia River.-History:...

Oregon
77 Lightship WAL-605, "Relief" California
78 USS Lionfish (submarine)
USS Lionfish (SS-298)
USS Lionfish , a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy named for the lionfish, a scorpaenid fish found in the West Indies and the tropical Pacific....

Massachusetts
79 Lone Star (towboat)
Lone Star (towboat)
The Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered paddlewheel towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, USA. It is dry docked and on display at the Buffalo Bill Museum in LeClaire. The Lone Star was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 20, 1989.- History :...

Iowa
80 Luna (tugboat)
Luna (tugboat)
The Luna is a historic tugboat inBoston, Massachusetts. The Luna was built in 1930 by John G. Alden and M.M. Davis. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a U.S...

Massachusetts
81 Majestic (showboat)
Majestic (riverboat)
The Majestic is a historic riverboat in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 20, 1989.The last of the original travelling showboats, she was built in 1920 and plied the Ohio River for many years offering shows at towns along the way...

Ohio
83 USS Massachusetts (battleship)
USS Massachusetts (BB-59)
USS Massachusetts , known as "Big Mamie" to her crewmembers during World War II, was a battleship of the second South Dakota-class. She was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the sixth state, and one of two ships of her class to be donated for use as a museum ship...

Massachusetts
84 Mayor Andrew Broaddus (lifesaving station)
Mayor Andrew Broaddus
The Mayor Andrew Broaddus is a lifesaving station built by the United States Life-Saving Service located in Louisville, Kentucky, off the corner of River Road and Fourth Street. It is named in honor of Andrew Broaddus, a former mayor of Louisville...

Kentucky
85 Mercantile (schooner)
Mercantile (schooner)
The two-masted schooner Mercantile is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.The boat became a landmark in 1991.-History:Mercantile was built in 1916 and served as a coastal trading vessel until 1943, at which point she entered the tourist trade in Maine.She was restored in 1989....

Maine
86 Milwaukee Clipper (passenger steamship)
Milwaukee Clipper
The S/S Milwaukee Clipper, also known as S/S Clipper , and formerly as the S/S Juniata, is a mothballed passenger ship and automobile ferry that sailed under two configurations and on two sides of the Great Lakes. The Clipper is the oldest US passenger steamship on the Great Lakes...

Michigan
87 Modesty
Modesty (sloop)
Modesty was an oyster sloop built in 1923 by The Wood and Chute Shipyard of Greenport, Long Island. Modeled after the catboat Honest, which was built in 1892 by Jelle Dykstra on the west bank of Greens Creek, West Sayville, Modesty was built as a gaff-rigged sloop, but retained the extreme beam of...

New York at Long Island Maritime Museum
Long Island Maritime Museum
The Long Island Maritime Museum is located in West Sayville, New York.-History:The Long Island Maritime Museum was founded in 1966 on the waterfront grounds of the former Meadowedge estate of Mrs. Florence Bourne Hard in West Sayville. Florence Hard was the daughter of Frederick Gilbert Bourne,...

89 Montgomery (snagboat)
Montgomery (snagboat)
The Montgomery is a steam-powered sternwheel-propelled snagboat built in 1925 by the Charleston Dry Dock and Machine Company of Charleston, South Carolina, and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers...

Alabama
90 Nash (harbor tug)
Nash (tugboat)
-External links:*...

New York at H. Lee White Marine Museum
91 USS Nautilus (nuclear submarine)
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
USS Nautilus is the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. She was the first vessel to complete a submerged transit beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958...

Connecticut
92 Nellie Crockett (buy-boat)
Nellie Crockett (Buy-Boat)
The Nellie Crockett is a Chesapeake Bay oyster buy-boat built for Andrew A. Crockett of Tangier, Virginia, in 1925. She is located at Georgetown, Maryland, USA, on the Sassafras River....

Maryland
93 Nenana (river steamboat)
Nenana (steamer)
The SS Nenana is a river sternwheel paddleship currently preserved and displayed at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. It is the only surviving wooden one of this type. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989...

Alaska
94 USS North Carolina
USS North Carolina (BB-55)
USS North Carolina was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of this U.S. state. She was the first new-construction U.S. battleship to enter service during World War II, participating in every major naval offensive in the Pacific...

North Carolina
95 USS Olympia
USS Olympia (C-6)
USS Olympia is a protected cruiser which saw service in the United States Navy from her commissioning in 1895 until 1922. This vessel became famous as the flagship of Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ship was decommissioned after...

Pennsylvania
96 PT 617
PT 617
PT 617, also known as Torpedo Boat PT-617, Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents [the USA]'s most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II." It is a museum ship at the PT Boat Museum in Fall River,...

Massachusetts at PT Boat Museum
PT Boat Museum
PT Boat Museum is located in Fall River, Massachusetts as part of Battleship Cove. It is a museum that exhibits two National Historic Landmark ships, an 80' Elco boat, PT 617, and a 78' Higgins boat, PT 796.-External links:*, official site...

97 PT 796
PT 796
The PT 796 is a 78' Higgins PT boat that has status of National Historic Landmark. It is part of the collection of the PT Boat Museum, which itself is part of the Battleship Cove museum in Fall River, Massachusetts....

Massachusetts at PT Boat Museum
PT Boat Museum
PT Boat Museum is located in Fall River, Massachusetts as part of Battleship Cove. It is a museum that exhibits two National Historic Landmark ships, an 80' Elco boat, PT 617, and a 78' Higgins boat, PT 796.-External links:*, official site...

98 USS Pampanito (submarine)
USS Pampanito (SS-383)
USS Pampanito , a Balao-class submarine, was a United States Navy ship, the only one named for a variety of the pompano fish . She completed six war patrols from 1944 to 1945 and served as a Naval Reserve Training ship from 1960 to 1971...

California
99 Philadelphia (gundelo)
USS Philadelphia (1776)
Continental gunboat Philadelphia is the only surviving gunboat built and manned by American Forces during the Revolutionary War. Part of a hastily constructed fleet, she is one of 15 small craft with which General Benedict Arnold fought about 30 British vessels off Valcour Island in Lake Champlain...

District of Columbia within National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Archie Bunker's...

100 Potomac (Presidential yacht)
USS Potomac (AG-25)
USS Potomac , formerly the USCGC Electra, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht from 1936 until his death in 1945. It is one of only three still existing presidential yachts. On August 3, 1941, she played a decoy role while Roosevelt held a secret conference to develop the Atlantic...

California
101 Priscilla (sloop)
Priscilla (sloop)
Priscilla is a classic oyster dredging sloop that was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It is berthed near the Modesty, another National Historic Landmark sloop at the Long Island Maritime Museum.-History:...

New York at Long Island Maritime Museum
Long Island Maritime Museum
The Long Island Maritime Museum is located in West Sayville, New York.-History:The Long Island Maritime Museum was founded in 1966 on the waterfront grounds of the former Meadowedge estate of Mrs. Florence Bourne Hard in West Sayville. Florence Hard was the daughter of Frederick Gilbert Bourne,...

102 Ralph J. Scott (fireboat)
Ralph J. Scott (fireboat)
The Ralph J. Scott, also known as Fireboat #2, is a 100-foot fireboat that was attached to the Los Angeles Fire Department serving the Port of Los Angeles. It was retired in 2003 after 78 years and replaced by the Warner L. Lawrence. The Ralph J...

California May be part of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a non-profit museum.-The Museum:The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is located on the main channel in Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, California, in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building. The ferry ceased after the Vincent Thomas Bridge was opened to traffic in...

103 Rebecca T. Ruark (skipjack)
Rebecca T. Ruark (skipjack)
The Rebecca T. Ruark is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Taylor's Island, Maryland in 1886. She is homeported at Tilghman Island, Maryland. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.-Description:...

Maryland
104 Roseway (schooner)
Roseway (schooner)
The Roseway is a wooden gaff-rigged schooner launched on November 24, 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts. She is now restored and listed as a National Historic Landmark....

Maine
105 Sabino (passenger steamboat)
Sabino (steamer)
The Sabino is a small, wooden, coal-fired steamboat built in 1908 and currently located at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only two surviving members of the American "mosquito fleet." The vessel was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.-History:The Sabino was...

Connecticut At Mystic Seaport Museum
106 Ste. Claire (passenger steamboat)
Ste. Claire (passenger steamboat)
SS Ste. Claire is a steamship located in River Rouge, Michigan that was formerly located in Detroit, Michigan. It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1992.The ship was designed by Frank E. Kirby, who also designed the SS Columbia....

Ohio
107 Savannah (nuclear ship)
NS Savannah
NS Savannah, named for SS Savannah, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies as a demonstration project for the potential...

Virginia
108 USS Sequoia (presidential yacht)
USS Sequoia (presidential yacht)
USS Sequoia is a former United States presidential yacht used from Herbert Hoover to Jimmy Carter, who had it sold in 1977. The ship was decommissioned under Roosevelt and lost its "USS" status at that time, but by popular convention is still often used...

District of Columbia
109 Sergeant Floyd (towboat)
Sergeant Floyd (towboat)
Sergeant Floyd is a towboat in Sioux City, Iowa. It is "[o]ne of only a handful of surviving U.S. Army Corps of Engineers vessels".It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989....

Iowa
110 USS Silversides (submarine)
USS Silversides (SS-236)
USS Silversides is a Gato-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the silversides, a small fish marked with a silvery stripe along each side of its body....

Michigan
111 Star of India (bark)
Star of India (ship)
Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route...

California
112 Stephen Taber (schooner)
Stephen Taber (schooner)
The Stephen Taber, a two-masted schooner, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Rockland, Maine. It is currently being operated as a windjammer....

Maine
113 USS The Sullivans
USS The Sullivans (DD-537)
USS The Sullivans is a Fletcher-class destroyer. She is the first United States Navy ship to be named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on...

New York Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park
Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park
The Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, formerly known as The Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Park, is a museum on the shore of Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York. It is home to several decommissioned US Naval vessels, including the Cleveland-class cruiser , the Fletcher-class destroyer ,...

114 USCGC Taney (Coast Guard cutter)
USCGC Taney (WHEC-37)
USCGC Taney is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last ship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although she was actually moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself. She was named for Roger B...

Maryland at the Baltimore Maritime Museum
Baltimore Maritime Museum
Historic Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States....

115 USS Texas
USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas , the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a . The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914....

Texas
116 Ticonderoga (side-paddle-wheel lakeboat)
Ticonderoga (steamboat)
The steamboat Ticonderoga is America’s last remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America’s lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries...

Vermont at the Shelburne Museum
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne Museum is a museum of art and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds...

117 USS Torsk (submarine)
USS Torsk (SS-423)
The USS Torsk is docked at the Baltimore Maritime Museum and is one of two Tench Class submarines still located inside the United States. It is nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost of the Japanese Coast." In 1945, Torsk made two war patrols off Japan, sinking one cargo vessel and two coastal defense...

Maryland at the Baltimore Maritime Museum
Baltimore Maritime Museum
Historic Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States....

118 Illinois Museum of Science and Industry
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
The Museum of Science and Industry is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood adjacent to Lake Michigan. It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

 in Chicago
119 Victory Chimes (schooner)
Victory Chimes (schooner)
The three-masted schooner Victory Chimes, also known as Edwin and Maud or Domino Effect, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The boat on the Maine State Quarter is meant to resemble the Victory Chimes....

Maine
120 Virginia V (steamboat)
Virginia V
The steamship Virginia V is the last operational example of a Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet steamer...

Washington
121 W.P. Snyder Jr. (towboat)
W.P. Snyder, Jr. (Towboat)
W.P. SNYDER, JR. , also known as W.H. CLINGERMAN, W.P. Snyder,Jr. State Memorial, or J.L. PERRY, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark....

Ohio
122 W.T. Preston (snagboat)
WT Preston
The W.T. Preston is a specialized sternwheeler that operated as a snagboat, removing log jams and natural debris that prevented river navigation on several Puget Sound-area rivers. It is now the centerpiece of the Snagboat Heritage Center in Anacortes, Washington. It was designated a National...

Washington
123 Wapama (steam schooner)
Wapama (steam schooner)
Wapama, also known as Tongass, is a vessel now located in Richmond, California. She is the last surviving example of some 225 wooden steam schooners that served the lumber trade and other coastal services along the Pacific Coast of the United States She is managed by the National Park Service at...

California
124 William B. Tennison (buy-boat)
Maryland
125 William M. Black (dredge)
William M. Black (dredge)
The William M. Black is a steam-propelled, sidewheel dustpan dredge.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992. It is open for tours as part of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. According to information provided on the tour, the Black, one of the last paddle steamers built...

Iowa National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
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126 USS Yorktown
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Yorktown is one of 24 s built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is named after the Battle of Yorktown of the American Revolutionary War, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name...

South Carolina Patriot's Point
Patriot's Point
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.-Museum ships and exhibits:...



States having no ships among their NHLs are: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Shipyards that are NHLs

NHL name for ship Image State Date
declared
Museum association?
1 Boston Naval Shipyard
Massachusetts
2 Drydock Number One, Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Drydock Number One, Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Drydock Number One, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, also known as Drydock No. 1,is the site where the USS Merrimack was modified to be the Confederate Navy ironclad CSS Virginia. It is now included within the Norfolk Naval Shipyard...

Virginia
3 Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
The Mare Island Naval Shipyard was the first United States Navy base established on the Pacific Ocean. It is located 25 miles northeast of San Francisco in Vallejo, California. The Napa River goes through the Mare Island Strait and separates the peninsula shipyard from the main portion of the...

California
4 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington...

Washington

NHL status withdrawn

NHL name for ship Image State Date
declared
Museum association?
1 Inaugural (minesweeper)
USS Inaugural (AM-242)
The USS Inaugural was an Admirable-class fleet minesweeper. The Admirable class was the largest and one of the most successful classes of U.S. minesweepers ordered during World War II. Inaugural was launched on 1 October 1944, and was commissioned on 30 December, with Lieutenant John H...

Missouri (NHL status withdrawn)
2 President (riverboat)
President (steamboat)
President was a steamboat that currently lies dismantled in St. Elmo, Illinois. Originally named Cincinnati, it was built in 1924, and is the only remaining "Western Rivers" style sidewheel river excursion steamboat in the United States...

Illinois (NHL status withdrawn)
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