MuseumShip Blog

78 years ago today, on 3 April 1948 Project B30 Class Polish SS Soldek was laid down at Stocznia Gdanska.
MuseumShip at Narodowe Muzeum Morskie w Gdansku, Gdansk, Poland

63 years ago today, on 3 April 1963, Portuguese 50 gun frigate Dom Fernando II e Glória was destroyed by fire. A huge fire erupted, partially destroying the ship's hull and structure. After the fire was extinguished, the frigate was towed to an area where the navigation on the river Tagus wouldn't be disturbed, remaining abandoned and half buried in the mud-flats for the next 29 years.
Now a rebuild MuseumShip in Almada, Portugal

64 years ago today, on 2 April 1960, French Narval-class submarine Espadon (S637) was commissioned.
MuseumShip at Saint-Nazaire Renversante, Saint-Nazaire, France

Added Brazilian Oberon-class submarine Riachuelo (S22) to the website as 367th MuseumShip.

38 years ago today, on 1 April 1988, T-47-class destroyer Maillé-Brézé D-627 was decommissioned.
MuseumShip Maillé-Brézé, Nantes, France

111 years ago today, on 1 April 1915 M29-class monitor HMS M33 was laid down at Workman Clark for Harland and Wolff.
MuseumShip at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, UK

21 years ago today, on 1 April 2005, Gearing-class destroyer ROCS Te Yang (DDG-925) was decommissioned at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
She is the former USS Sarsfield (DD-837), and is now MuseumShip 安平定情碼頭-德陽艦園區 in Tainan City, Taiwain

53 years ago today, on 31 March 1973, Knox-class frigate USS Ainsworth (DE-1090) was commissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia with LCdr. Terrence E. Siple in command.
MuseumShip in Izmir, Turkey.

15 years ago today, on 31 March 2011 C-class light cruiser HMS Caroline was decommissioned.
HMS Caroline at National Museum of the Royal Navy, Belfast, UK

72 years ago today, on 31 March 1954, Russian Whiskey-class submarine S-189 was laid down at the S. Ordhonikidze yard in Leningrad (Saint Peterburg), Russia
MuseumShip in St. Petersburg, Russia