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:
“Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)