Individual historic ship
Vasa
A royal warship whose brief voyage became a long conservation story
Stockholm
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Maritime collection
Historic Ships
Twenty identified ships, many European histories
Collection image: Jules Verne Times Two · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped to fit. Full image and context in the dossier.
History & selection approach
Explore documented individual vessels: polar research ships, naval archaeology, merchant sail, steam engineering and maritime museums.
Selection note
"Each ship has its own identity, dates and material history. Read surviving fabric, later changes and conservation together."
Vessels in Historic Ships
20 Vessels
Individual historic ship
Fram
A purpose-built polar ship and the changing meaning of preservation
Bygdøy, Oslo
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Individual historic ship
Gjøa
A small Hardanger sloop with an extraordinary polar biography
Bygdøy, Oslo
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Individual historic ship
Skibladner
Steam-powered passenger history on Norway’s inland waters
Lake Mjøsa
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Individual historic ship
Danmark
A twentieth-century sailing ship built for maritime education
Frederikshavn & Danish waters
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Individual historic ship
Suomen Joutsen
A French cargo ship transformed into a Finnish training landmark
Turku, River Aura
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Individual historic ship
Passat
A Flying P-Liner preserved at the edge of the Baltic
Travemünde, Lübeck
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Individual historic ship
Peking
A Hamburg sailing ship and the global trade carried in her hold
Hamburg
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Individual historic ship
Pommern
An Åland windjammer whose cargo history remains close to the hull
Mariehamn, Åland
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Individual historic ship
RRS Discovery
A Dundee-built research ship with an Antarctic working history
Dundee
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Individual historic ship
SS Great Britain
An iron steamship whose survival connects Bristol with the South Atlantic
Bristol
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Individual historic ship
HMS Victory
A Portsmouth flagship and the long history of maintaining a wooden warship
Portsmouth
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Individual historic ship
HMS Warrior
Iron, armour, steam and sail within one nineteenth-century warship
Portsmouth
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Individual historic ship
Mary Rose
A Tudor warship understood through archaeology and sustained conservation
Portsmouth
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Individual historic ship
HMS Belfast
A twentieth-century cruiser interpreted on the River Thames
London, River Thames
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Individual historic ship
SS Shieldhall
Steam machinery, urban sanitation and an unexpected social history
Southampton
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Individual historic ship
Belem
A Nantes-built barque with successive commercial and educational lives
Nantes & French waters
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Individual historic ship
Duchesse Anne
A German-built training ship preserved within Dunkirk’s port history
Dunkirk
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Amerigo Vespucci
An Italian naval training ship whose rig remains a working environment
Italian Navy & international waters
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Galeb
A cargo ship, a diplomatic stage and a complex Adriatic inheritance
Rijeka
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