Museum Ships and Exhibits
Patriots Point is home to three museum ships:
- USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier
- USS Laffey, a destroyer
- USS Clamagore, a submarine
Former ships include the Coast Guard cutters USCGC Ingham, and USCGC Comanche, The museum also hosted NS Savannah, America's only nuclear merchant vessel, until 1994.
The Yorktown has many exhibits on board, including:
- Medal of Honor museum, with biographies of all medal recipients
- 25 naval aircraft, including:
- Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
- Grumman A-6 Intruder
- Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Grumman F-9 Cougar
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Exhibits ashore include:
- Civil War-era cannon
- Vietnam War-era:
- US Navy Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter
- USMC Bell AH-1 Sea Cobra helicopter
- PBR-105 river patrol boat
- Naval Support Camp
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Famous quotes containing the words museum, ships and/or exhibits:
“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“The northern sky rose high and black
Over the proud unfruitful sea,
East and west the ships came back
Happily or unhappily....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)