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Historic Ships in Baltimore: USS Constellation - USS Torsk - Chesapeake - Taney - Lighthouse

21202 Baltimore, MD, United States of America (USA) (Maryland)
Address Inner Harbor, Pier 1, 3 & 5
301 East Pratt Street 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Military ships and submarine
  • Navy / Watercraft
  • Military technology
  • Arms
  • Historic Engineering Landmarks

Opening times
see: historicships.org/visit/hours

Admission
Status from 01/2024
 The Boarding Pass entitles you to visit all open museum ships and exhibits, and are valid until used. You can visit different ships on different days.
Adult (21–59): $19.95; Senior, Military: $17.95; Student: $17.95; Youth (6-14): $7.95
Contact
Tel.:+1-410-539-17 97  eMail:administration historicships.org  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.historicships.org
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Location / Directions
N39.285818° W76.610277°N39°17.14908' W76°36.61662'N39°17'8.9448" W76°36'36.9972"
Baltimore is a top destination for Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor. Baltimore's Penn Station is one of the busiest in the country.

TRAIN (by way of Penn Station)
Historic Ships in Baltimore is located approximately 2 miles south of Penn Station. From Penn Station, visitors may travel to the Inner Harbor via taxi or via the purple route of the Charm City Circulator, a free city shuttle bus. Visitors can catch the bus outside of the station at the corner of St. Paul St & Penn Station Dr. Exit the bus at the corner of Light St & Pratt St, then walk east one block to reach the Inner Harbor.

LIGHT RAIL
Visitors taking the Light Rail into the city should exit at the Convention Center stop, which is located at Howard and Pratt Sts. The harbor is located four blocks east on Pratt St.

METRO SUBWAY
The closest metro station to the harbor is Charles Center. The easiest way to get to the harbor from Charles Center is to exit via the Calvert St. exit (at Baltimore St. between St. Paul & Calvert Sts.) and walk south on Calvert, about 4 blocks, until you reach the harbor.

Baltimore has a comprehensive system of bicycle routes in the city.
Description

Wikipedia:
Historic Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.

The collection includes four historic museum ships and one lighthouse:

USS Constellation (1854), a sloop-of-war
USCGC Taney (WHEC-37), a Coast Guard cutter
USS Torsk (SS-423), a WWII-era submarine
Chesapeake, a lightship
Seven Foot Knoll Light, a screw-pile lighthouse

All are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The three ships are also National Historic Landmarks.

USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, and the sloop-of-war was constructed in the same yard, possibly with a few recycled materials from the old frigate. USS Constellation is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy. Despite being a single-gundeck "sloop", she is actually larger than her frigate namesake, and more powerfully armed with fewer but much more potent shell-firing guns.

USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) (play /ˈteɪniː/ TAY-nee) is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last ship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although she was actually moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself. She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who was at various times: US Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The USS Torsk (SS-423) is docked at the Baltimore Maritime Museum and is one of two Tench Class submarines still located inside the United States. It is nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost of the Japanese Coast." In 1945, Torsk made two war patrols off Japan, sinking one cargo vessel and two coastal defense frigates. The latter of these, torpedoed on 14 August 1945, was the last enemy ship sunk by the U.S. Navy in World War II.

The United States lightship Chesapeake (LV-116) is owned by the National Park Service and on a 25-year loan to the Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1820, several lightships have served at the Chesapeake lightship station and have been called Chesapeake. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned from one Lightships Station to another and thus "renamed" and identified by its new station name. The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1855 and is the oldest screw-pile lighthouse in Maryland. It was initially installed on a shallow shoal, Seven Foot Knoll, at the mouth of the Patapsco River. The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.

The Seven Foot Knoll Light was built in 1855 and is the oldest screw-pile lighthouse in Maryland. It was initially installed on a shallow shoal, Seven Foot Knoll, at the mouth of the Patapsco River. The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.
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