Museum Ship

A **Museum Ship**, also called a **Memorial Ship**, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small number of museum ships that are still operational and thus capable of regular movement.

Several hundred museum ships are kept around the world, with around 175 of them organised in the Historic Naval Ships Association, though many are not naval museum ships, from general merchant ships to tugs and lightships. Many, if not most, museum ships are also associated with a maritime museum.

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## SDIverse

Many more former warships have been converted to museum use in the SDIverse compared to our world. This has become more economical because of the creation of a new strain of Cosmoline that was created with the aid of galactic organizations, which enable the much longer use of vessels without having to make repairs in place or having to visit a dry dock, while also being relatively easily to remove using specialized equipment. This variant, nicknamed ‘Cosmolime’ because of its slicker nature, proved especially useful for the dreadnaught-type battleship USS Texas, whose condition had deteriorated to almost critical. However with a visit to dry-dock, refits and repair and the application of Cosmoline across the hull, she was able to retain decent outward hull condition for almost 25 years without much maintenance. Droids of various types are also used to help limit work load on human volunteers, and do jobs that would put a human at unacceptable risk.

## List of Museum Vessels

**-United States**

* Aircraft Carriers
	+ USS Enterprise (1957)
	+ USS Yorktown (1975)
	+ USS Intrepid (1982)
	+ USS Lexington (1991)
	+ USS Cabot (1999)
	+ USS Hornet (2000)
	+ USS Midway (2003)
	+ USS Saratoga (2005)
	+ USS Forrestal (2023)
	+ USS Kitty Hawk (2024)

* Battleships
	+ USS Texas (1948)
	+ USS California (1961)
	+ USS North Carolina (1962)
	+ USS Washington (1963)
	+ USS West Virgina (1963)
	+ USS Alabama (1964)
	+ USS Massachusetts (1965)
	+ USS Missouri (1999, 2022)
	+ USS New Jersey (2000, 2022)
	+ USS Wisconsin (2010, 2022)
	+ USS Iowa (2012, 2022)

* Battlecruisers
	+ USS Constellation (1963)

* Crusiers
	+ USS New Orleans (1959)
	+ USS Bismarck/KMS Prinz Eugen (1962)
	+ USS Little Rock (1976)
	+ USS Salem (1998)
	+ USS Alaska (2003)
	+ USS Des Moines (2004)
	+ USS Guam (2006)

* Destroyers
	+ USS Nicholas (1972)
	+ USS O'Bannon (1972)
	+ USS Joseph P. Kennedy (1973)
	+ USS The Sullivans (1977)
	+ USS Cassin Young (1981)
	+ USS Laffey (1981)
	+ USS Heermann (1982)
	+ USS Kidd (1982)
	+ USS Turner Joy (1991)
	+ USS Fletcher (2001)
	+ USS Edson (2013)
	+ USS Orleck (2023)

* Destroyer Escorts/Frigates
	+ USS John C. Butler (1970)
	+ USS Tabberer (1972)
	+ USS Stewart (1974)
	+ USS Slater (1997)

* Minesweepers
	+ *(to be added)*

* Submarines
	+ *(to be added)*

**-Great Britain**

* Battleships
	+ HMS Warspite (1950)
	+ HMS Hood (1968)
	+ HMS Vanguard (1997)

* Cruisers
	+ HMS Belfast (1971)
	+ HMS Caroline (2011)

* Destroyers
	+ HMS Cavalier (1998)

**-Russia**

* Cruisers
	+ Aurora (1956)
	+ Mikhail Kutuzov (2001)
* Destroyers
	+ Smetlivy (2022)
	+ Bespokoyny (2022)
* Submarines
	+ S-56 (1975)
	+ S-189 (1992)
	+ Shch-307 (Unknown, Conning Tower Only)

**-Australia**

* Battlecruisers
	+ HMS Repulse (1948)
* Destroyers
	+ HMAS Vampire (1986)
* Frigates
	+ HMAS Diamantina (1980)
* Submarines
	+ HMAS Otway (1997)
	+ HMAS Ovens (1998)
	+ HMAS Onslow (1999)

**-Japan**

* Battleships
	+ IJN Mikasa (1922)
	+ JS Yamato (1998)

**-Terran**

* Battlecarriers
	+ *(to be added)*

* Corvettes
	+ *(to be added)*

* Star Destroyers
	+ *(to be added)*