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Vancouver Maritime Museum Name of Collection Vancouver Maritime Museum Ship Plan Collection Description Collection is comprised of approximately 2,000 ship plans that depict construction details for the following types of vessels: Fishing; Freighter; Naval; Passenger; Patrol; Recreational (Sailing and Motor); Small Craft (Lighter and Other); Tugs (and Barges); Special Service/Research/Exploration. Also included are some plan related to specific parts […]

Texas Maritime Museum Description Restoration drawings of 1877 Elissa; 1937 shrimpboat Santa Maria; and some miscellaneous gulf coast vessels Vessel Types Contact John Schaumburg Assistant Director Texas Seaport Museum / Elissa Pier 21 Number 8 Galveston, Texas 77550 409-763-1877 x6

Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) SSHSA began inventory and assessment of our ship plans in 2012. We have documented 2200 plans thus far, of an estimated 4000 plans, not including brochure deck plans numbering in the tens of thousands. Names of Collections Various Shipyard Collections including Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock, Federal Shipbuilding, Fletcher Engine, Baldwin Locomotive […]

Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Names of Collections Description The Smithsonian’s extensive ship plans collection is available in three catalogs. Vessel Types Types of Access  Contact Smithsonian Ship Plans National Museum of American History – MRC 628 PO Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012  USA Email: shipplans@si.edu 202-633-3944

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum The museum’s archives contains several ship plans; however, it is not a large or comprehensive enough collection to be considered or named separately from the general archive collection. Description This very small collection is somewhat un-inventoried and un-cataloged, and has recently been sorted by the museum’s Collections Manager. Vessel Types Type of Access […]

San Francisco Maritime National Park Association Name of Collection USS PAMPANITO ship drawings Description Microfilm copied from the collection of US National Archives and Record Administration in College Park, MD About a two dozen drawings scanned from original paper drawings at NARA. The 5400 series includes 12 reels of SS-381 group (includes PAMPANITO SS-383) microfilm. The 32429 […]

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park The Naval Architectural and Marine Engineering collections are part of the larger Archival and Museum collections holdings. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is home to the largest maritime museum and research collections the West Coast and in the National Park Service. Description The Naval Architectural and Marine Engineering collections includes […]

Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society Specific Large Collections include: Lee & Brinton, L.H. Coolidge, L.E. Geary, Ben Seaborn and Ed Monk Sr. (in 2014) Description The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society Ship Plan Collection is focused on the designs of Pacific Northwest naval architects and boat builders from 1910 to 1960. The designs of noted […]

Penobscot Marine Museum Names of Collections Description  Bass Harbor Boat Collection: The Collection includes 338 sheets of drawings designed and built by the Rich family of Bernard, Maine.  The records document boatbuilding projects from 1941 to 1995. Carleton and Norwood Company Sail Plans: Gore book (with sail plans) of Carleton, Norwood Co. shipbuilders of Rockport.  Contains sail plans […]