Naval Museum Atlas

09/24/2026

This is the inside of a 16-inch gun turret on USS New Jersey, filmed aboard the ship in Camden together with . Each barrel is nearly 67 feet long and fired a shell weighing 2,700 pounds.

09/22/2026

The USS LST 325 Ship Memorial in Evansville, Indiana is now on Naval Museum Atlas.

They look after USS LST 325 , built in 1942 to drive onto a beach and open her bow so tanks could drive off. Twenty Shermans went below in two rows of ten, and because they all left through one opening, the crew sent them off on traffic lights.
She lay off Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 and went in on the 8th.

The museum exists because of one voyage. By 2000 she was a rusting hulk in Crete after thirty-five years in the Greek navy. Twenty-nine volunteers went and brought her home, everyone aboard 65 or older, two months at sea and a hurricane on the way.

She is the only LST still operating in her wartime fit in US waters, and every autumn they take her up the rivers so more people can get aboard.

Her profile is on the Naval Museum Atlas now, with hours, tickets and where she actually is.

09/18/2026

World of Warships celebrates its eleventh birthday.

Every ship in this video is real, and still there to visit.

Most never made it that far. Some sank. Others were scrapped because nobody found the money.
Enterprise, the most decorated ship in the US Navy, went for scrap in 1958 for want of two million dollars.

Those ships have no museum. But it is good that they have a place in a beautiful game, where you take them out yourself and they are still afloat, still moving the way they were built to move.

A photograph preserves how a ship looked. This game preserves what she did. A rather wonderful thing to be able to say about a video game.

Happy eleventh birthday, World of Warships !

09/10/2026

USS Midway in numbers, on the day she joined the fleet in 1945.

295 metres, about 60,000 tons, 212,000 horsepower and 33 knots. An armored flight deck of 89 mm and a 193 mm belt, at a time when no American carrier had ever been protected so well. Room for 136 aircraft. She was commissioned on 10 September 1945, eight days after the war she was designed for had ended, and served 47 years. In World of Warships she is a Tier X carrier in her 1945 state. In real life she is a museum in San Diego USS Midway Museum

Which number surprised you?

09/08/2026

Events this September at museums. Six ships open for something more than the usual walk-through.

01 Think and Drink: Tragedy of the Phoenix · Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc WI · Thu 10 Sep
02 Behind the Scenes Firepower Tour · Battleship Cove, Fall River MA · Sat 19 Sep
03 Two nights aboard USS Hornet: Full STEAM Ahead Overnight and History Mystery After-Hours Tour · Alameda CA · Sat 19 and Fri 25 Sep
04 81st Birthday and Multi-Cultural Fair · USS Midway Museum, San Diego CA · Sat 26 Sep
05 Battleship Alive, then They Were Expendable on the fantail · Battleship North Carolina, Wilmington NC · Sat 26 Sep
06 Olympia Hard Hat Tour · Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia PA · Sat 26 Sep

Times, tickets and opening hours for each museum are on the Naval Museum Atlas. Link in bio.

Which film would you screen on a battleship’s deck?

09/02/2026

81 years ago today, the Second World War ended on this deck.

Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945. The Japanese delegation came aboard USS Missouri at 09:02, the documents were signed, and General MacArthur closed the ceremony at 09:25. Six years of war, over in 23 minutes.

The ship is now at Pearl Harbor, and the spot is marked on her deck. You can stand on it.

Battleship Missouri Memorial . navalmuseumatlas.com, link in bio.
Footage:

09/01/2026

September brings the 2026 Naval Museum Atlas Calendar Adventure to USS New Jersey (BB-62), America’s most decorated battleship. Claim a limited-time mission chain in World of Warships and grab a bonus code while it lasts.

This month the Naval Museum Atlas Calendar features USS New Jersey (BB-62), America's most decorated battleship, preserved at the Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial in Camden, right across the Delaware River from the Philadelphia yard where she was launched in 1942.

You can visit her in Camden, and you can try her lineage at sea in World of Warships. Go to navalmuseumatlas.com, enter your nickname, and get a free code for this month's mission chain. It unlocks a rental of Florida, an American battleship from the design line that led to the North Carolina class and eventually to New Jersey herself.

🎁 Rewards:
Free rental of Florida for 3 battles (or until October 1)
USS Florida commemorative flag
1x American Cruisers container

Only 10,000 bonus codes this month, first come, first served.

⚔️ Complete six of the twelve monthly missions across 2026 to earn a Premium Ship VI container.

📍 In Camden you can fire New Jersey's 40mm saluting gun, book an evening tour through Turret II or an engine room, and even spend the night in a crew bunk.

08/25/2026

This is HMCS Haida as she looks in World of Warships . The real one is moored at Pier 9 in Hamilton, and on Sunday she turns 83.

Twenty-seven Tribal-class destroyers were built for the British, Canadian and Australian navies. Thirteen were sunk during the war, the other thirteen were scrapped afterwards, and she is the one that got kept. She helped sink 14 enemy vessels, more than any other Canadian warship.

Parks Canada is marking her birthday this Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00. Her 4 inch guns fire at 11:50 and again at 13:50 both days, and admission is free until 7 September under the Canada Strong Pass.
HMCS Haida National Historic Site, Parks Canada

Find more about the event on navalmuseumatlas.com

08/24/2026

Seven bombs fell close enough to shake the hull. Not one of them hit.

24 August 1942, off Guadalcanal. USS North Carolina was screening the carrier Enterprise when roughly 80 Japanese aircraft came in. It was her first real fight of the war. Her gunners threw up a wall of fire so dense that the crew claimed between 7 and 14 aircraft. She came through undamaged. Japan called off the run to reinforce Guadalcanal.

Eighty-four years later she is still afloat in Wilmington, North Carolina, and you can stand on the deck where those guns were.

Footage from the YouTube channel.

Find her and other museum ships on the Naval Museum Atlas, link in bio.

08/21/2026

Six museum ships have worked as film sets, and most of them were cast as somebody else. Yes, DiCaprio filmed on one of them.

All six are on the Naval Museum Atlas: navalmuseumatlas.com

What other movies used museum ships? Name one in the comments.