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:
“One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
“Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, managed by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it?”
—Kate Field (1838–1908)