Current collection •
Star of India, 1863 merchant barque, the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. •
Berkeley, 1898 ferryboat from the
San Francisco Bay area •
Californian, 1984 replica of 1847 cutter
C.W. Lawrence and official tall ship of the state of
California •
America, 1995 replica of the 1851 yacht
America that won the trophy now called the
America's Cup •
Medea, 1904
steam yacht that served in both World Wars •
Pilot, 1914 harbor pilot boat •
HMS Surprise, a 1970 replica of a
Royal Navy frigate.
Surprise was used in the film
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The ship also made an appearance in
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as
HMS Providence. •
USS Dolphin AGSS-555, diesel-electric submarine launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007 •
PCF-816 (formerly
C24 or
P24), 1968
Patrol Craft Fast that was transferred to
Malta in 1971 and decommissioned in 2011 •
San Salvador, a replica of
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's galleon which was the first European ship to visit San Diego Bay in 1542. • A railroad barge is docked behind the Berkeley. Many guests mistake it for a floating dock because it no longer has its tracks. In the lower deck are workshops and storerooms used by the museum for the maintenance of the collection.
Former collection •
B-39, Soviet
Foxtrot class submarine; as of October 2021 the sub is being removed from the collection and sold for scrap. She was finally towed to a scrap yard in Ensenada in February 2022. ==San Salvador replica==