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Museum of Polish Arms

Notable elements of the museum collection include vehicles like the S600 Sokół motorcycle, several tanks and planes (such as the PZL TS-8 Bies), and the ORP Fala museum ship.

Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin

Okinoshima was decommissioned on 1 April 1922 and was sold as scrap in 1924 to a private firm, which transformed her into a memorial ship located at Tsuyazaki, Fukuoka, commemorating the Japanese victory at the Battle of Tsushima.

SS Orion

She was decommissioned in 1979, and since 1993 has been a museum ship in the Skeppsholmen quay-berths.

Turunmaa-class gunboat

FNS Karjala has been berthed since 2002 at the maritime museum Forum Marinum in Turku as a museum ship next to Suomen Joutsen.


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Anti-fouling paint

One famous example of the traditional use of metal sheathing is the clipper Cutty Sark, which is preserved as a museum ship in dry-dock at Greenwich in England.

Avrora

Russian cruiser Aurora (Avrora), a Russian protected cruiser; currently a museum ship in St.

EML Lembit

The original name was probably restored when she was decommissioned and returned to Tallinn as a museum ship in 1979.

Foreland

In the Crab & Lobster Inn are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine HMS Alliance, now a museum ship at Gosport and the First World War troopship the S.S. Mehndi carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.

Italian submarine Enrico Toti

The name Enrico Toti was later used for a new class of Italian submarine (Toti-class), with the S506 Enrico Toti being laid down in 1965, launched in 1967, decommissioned in 1992 and preserved as a museum ship in Milan.

November-class submarine

There are plans to convert the first submarine of the class (K-3) into a museum ship in St. Petersburg, but the hulk of submarine remains in Polyarny due to economic reasons and the environmental concerns of some ecological organizations.

Port Everglades

Port Everglades was once home to RMS Queen Elizabeth when she was laid up as a museum ship from 1968 until 1970.

State Dockyard

As of 2014 the surviving State Dockyard built ships are the MV Cape Don, a lighthouse tender built in 1962 for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service which is now a museum ship at Balls Head Bay, Waverton.

U-434

Soviet submarine B-515, (now known as U-434), a Tango-class submarine built in 1976; currently a museum ship in Hamburg

USS The Sullivans

The Niland brothers family, which endured the second greatest loss by any one family during the war (made famous by the loosely adapted film Saving Private Ryan), was from the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, New York and their similar loss to the Sullivan family played a role in the decision to place The Sullivans as a museum ship in Buffalo instead of elsewhere.