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:
“No one to slap his head.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 190, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“Give blue-eyed men their swivel chairs
To whirl in tall buildings.
Allow them many ships at sea,
And on land, soldiers
And policemen.”
—Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)
“Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)