MuseumShip Blog

63 years ago today, on 3 June 1993, German type-205 submarine U9 was decommissioned after sailing a total of 174,850 nautical miles.
MuseumShip at the Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer, Speyer, Germany 

57 years ago today, on 11 April 1967, German type-205 submarine U9 was commissioned.
MuseumShip at Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer, Germany.

59 years ago today, on 20 October 1966, German type-205 submarine U9 was launched at the Howaldtswerke shipyard, Kiel, Germany.
MuseumShip at Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer, Sinsheim, Germany

61 years ago today, on 10 December 1964, German type-205 submarine U9 was laid down at the Howaldtswerke shipyard, Kiel, Germany.
MuseumShip at Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer, Speyer, Germany

72 years ago today, on 19 February 1952, AM-480-class fleet minesweeper AM-483 was laid down by Peterson Builders Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI. She was transferred to the Netherlands as HNLMS Onverschrokken (M886) under MDAP, later renamed HNLMS Mercuur and is now a museum ship in Vlissingen, Netherlands.

February 19 1971, French Daphne-class submarine Flore partially flooded off Toulon due to a malfunction with her periscope. Tugs Pachyderme and Travailleur towed her back to Toulon.

February 19 1919, German submarine U-1 was decommissioned.

45 years ago today, on 19 February 1981 Gearing-class destroyer USS Rogers (DD-876) was decommissioned.
She was transferred to South Korea as ROKS Jeon Ju (DD-925) on 25 July 1981, and is now a museum ship at SapKyoHo National Sightseeing Resort, located at Dangjin-Gun, Chung Nam Province, South Korea.

February 18 1874, Australian barque James Craig was launched at Bartram, Haswell, & Co, Sunderland, England as 'Clan Macleod'.
Tall Ship James Craig, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia

160 years ago today, on 17 February 1864, confederate submarine 'H.L. Hunley' , attacked and sank the 1,240 ton United States Navy screw sloop-of-war USS Housatonic, which had been on Union blockade-duty in Charleston's outer harbor. The Hunley did not survive the attack and also sank, taking with her all eight members of her third crew, and was lost.