Ship Plans Directory

How to use the Directory

If you are looking for plans for a particular vessel or type of vessel, check the Vessel Type Summary to see which institutions have holdings that might help your search.  You can then click on the institution link to find out more about their specific holdings and whom to contact for further information or obtaining plans.

Vessel Type Summary

• Bayfront Maritime Center
• Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
• Columbia River Maritime Museum
• Historic American Engineering Record, NPS
• Historic Naval Ships Association
• Independence Seaport Museum
• Los Angeles Maritime Museum
• Maine Maritime Museum
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
• Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
• MIT Museum – Hart Nautical Collections
• Mystic Seaport
• New Bedford Whaling Museum
• Northwest Seaport
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Penobscot Marine Museum
• Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
• San Francisco Maritime National Park Association
• Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
• Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
• Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA)
• Texas Seaport Museum
• Vancouver Maritime Museum

See also the Ships category under Research Links.

CAMM members may add a collection by downloading the CAMM Ship Plans Survey and returning the completed survey to maritimemuseums@gmail.com