Updated 05/29/2001
Ship Preservation Efforts
(Page no longer maintained)
The location and fate of a number of historic ships are listed at Haze Gray & Underway's excellent site under Preserved Naval Vessels where there is also a list of Current Preservation Efforts for naval vessels. I will try not to duplicate that list here unless I can provide additional information. I will also list similar pages, such as SSHSA, below and not attempt to duplicate their lists unless I consider there to be special reason.
| Specific Ship Preservation Groups | |
| Friends of the Pearl Harbor Tug Hoga | Hoga is listed elsewhere, but is in my view a special case with no preservation group page and considerable historic interest as the last (possibly) operable Pearl Harbor survivor. Another information page: Hoga (YTB-146) |
| PCF-104 | One of the Vietnam era Swift Boats being saved as a memorial to the brown water sailors. |
| Save an MSO | The MSO (Mine Sweeper, Ocean) is a 1950s vintage, wooden hull mine warfare class that is almost gone. The hulls are difficult to maintain and the Navy has declined to offer any of the very few for donation. Some still remain in foreign and private hands. |
| SS Catalina Preservation Association | The Association was presented with the ship by Mexico. Part of the agreement was that Catalina was to be moved from the path of construction of a new passenger terminal by 9 August 2000. There were problems and the deadline was extended. Catalina was drafted into the Army for WW II and ferried a record number of troops to oceangoing transports in San Francisco as FS-99. |
| Preservation Groups - Ships in General | |
| Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) | Ship Preservation page with a number of efforts and links largely for commercial steam vessels. |
| World Ship Trust | UK based organization with world wide interests and cooperative agreements with other organizations. |