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Historic Ships in Baltimore, created as a result of the merger of the USS Constellation Museum and the Baltimore Maritime Museum, is a maritime museum located in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. USS Constellation, docked in Baltimore. The museum's collection includes four historic museum ships and one lighthouse:
HAER No. MD-86-B, "Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 6, South of Pratt Street between Concord Street & Jones Falls outlet", 10 photos, 10 data pages, 3 photo caption pages HAER No. MD-86-C, " Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 4, South side of Pratt Street between Frederick Street & Market Place ", 7 photos, 14 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
United States lightship Chesapeake (LS-116/WAL-538/WLV-538) is a museum ship owned by the National Park Service and on a 25-year loan to Baltimore City, and is operated by Historic Ships in Baltimore Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. A National Historic Landmark, she is one of a small number of preserved lightships.
Harborplace was designed by Benjamin C. Thompson and was built by The Rouse Company near the former Light Street site of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company's steamship terminal and docks. Because the land was owned by the city and was in an area designated as a park in the city charter, a citywide referendum was required to proceed with the ...
On 26 October 2004, Constellation made her first trip out of Baltimore's Inner Harbor since 1955, and her first to Annapolis since 1893. The trip to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis took about eight hours and her visit lasted six days. While there, she was available for public tours from 27 to 31 October.
A late 1920s advertisement of an Old Bay Line ship's interior. In 1928, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company took delivery of two more new ships – President Warfield and Yorktown. President Warfield, built by Pusey and Jones Corp. in Wilmington, Delaware, was named for the Old Bay Line's president of the time, S. Davies Warfield. She would be ...
The old municipal piers 1 through 6 along East Pratt Street around the north shore of the former "Basin" of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River, now rechristened "Inner Harbor" had been cleared in 1971 of their warehouses and buildings and rebuilt and by 1974, a new Pier 1, renamed "Constellation Dock" was constructed providing a new ...
Location: originally at the mouth of the Patapsco River in the Chesapeake Bay; relocated to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland: Coordinates (current) (original): Tower; Constructed: 1856 : Foundation: screw-pile: Construction: wrought-iron (originally cast-iron): Automated: 1949: Height: 40 ft (12 m): Shape: cylindrical house: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place ...