Peabody Essex Museum Description Collection includes thousands of 19th and 20th c merchant vessels, categorized by vessel name, including Donald McKay’s original ink drawing for Glory of the Seas; Josiah Fox collection of early sailing navy vessels; plans for steamships including the original drawings by Benjamin Wistar Morris for interior decoration of Queen Mary; and yacht designs of […]
Northwest Seaport A small collection pertaining only to the vessels Northwest Seaport owns. Very few have been digitized yet. Names of Collections Description Northwest Seaport’s ship plans collections include only the vessels in the Northwest Seaport fleet. Two sets of plans are available for the 1889 tugboat Arthur Foss. More than a dozen sheets exist for the 1897 lumber schooner, Wawona. […]
New Bedford Whaling Museum Name of Collection Description Benjamin Dobson (1890-1959), naval architect and yacht designer based in New Bedford. Colleciton consists of over 900 vessel designs, detailed drawings and prototype sketches. Vessel Types Type of Access By Appointment Contact Michael P. Dyer mdyer@whalingmuseum.org (508) 717-6837
Names of Collections Description Approximately 200,000 sheets of plans representing all types of vessels from from small canoes, dories, and day sailers to yachts, barges, and naval vessels. In addition, the collection features plans for vessels that are currently in yhe collection at Mystic Seaport, such as the Charles W. Morgan,theL.A. Dunton, the Joseph Conrad, and the Emma […]
MIT Museum – Hart Nautical Collection Names of Collections Description The Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections are one of the oldest and most extensive archives of nautical technology in the USA. The collections date from the 16th century to recent cutting edge ocean technologies. The collections primarily document design and construction by the leading ship builders, marine engineers […]
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Names of Collections Description The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, part of the Nova Scotia Museum system has about 1500 vessel plans. They have been donated by various shipyards, shipowners, and mariners or their descendants. Shipyard represented include: Halifax Shipyard; Stright MacKay, Pictou, NS; McGill Shipyard, Shelburne; Carmichael Brothers, New Glasgow; and William Maclean […]
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston The collection of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes includes: Archival Materials; Art; Artefacts; Photographs and Library materials, Shipping Company Collections, Shipbuilding and Design Collections; The Museum’s Historic Site. The official geographic limits of the collection are from Montreal to the Lakehead. The major exception to these limits is […]
Maine Maritime Museum Names of Collections Description Original and reconstructed drawings by Maine designers and naval architects, of Maine-built or Maine-associated boats and large vessels. Includes inland and saltwater craft of all types. Vessel Types Type of Access Contact Nathan R. Lipfert, Senior Curator lipfert@maritimeme.org 207-443-1316 ext 328 Maine Maritime Museum 243 Washington Street Bath ME 04530
Los Angeles Maritime Museum Names of Collections Description With the exceptions of the Papers of William Olesen, and the Records of the Glass-Bottomed Boat Princess, the ships’ lines in our collection are evidence of work at specific boat-building firms from the early to mid-twentieth century in Los Angeles Harbor. Most of the lines are blueline copies of the originals, […]
Independence Seaport Museum The Seaport Museum maintains a 12,000 plus ship plan collection relating to vessels built in the greater Philadelphia area. These include personal crafts, commercial vessels and military ships and submarines. Names of Collections Description Small Craft Plan collection: The collection is comprised of traditional wooden craft built along the Delaware River and the New Jersey […]
