MS Maritime Museum - Mississippi's Maritime and Shipbuilding Heritage ~ Past, Present and Future

Mississippi receives nearly $5M to modernize shipbuilding industry — NewsBreak

JACKSON, Miss. ( WJTV ) – Almost $5 million has been awarded to Mississippi from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to modernize the state’s shipbuilding industry.

June 28, 2022 — Our Guest Speaker event is a huge success!

Our partner MS Department of Humanities and our educational advisory committee hosted professor Chris Pinnen from Jackson MS. This highly anticipated culture-lecture discussed “Race and Slavery in Colonial Mississippi“
Our audience enjoyed discussing our cultural mission, wine and a lot of “CHEESE!”

Check out our latest wooden boat acquisitions!

The boats will be on display when our exhibits open later this year!!!

Original 'Francis O'Brien' Wooden Motor Boat — Original ‘Francis O’Brien’ Wooden Motor Boat
Pictured are Buddy O’Brien,his wife Bealinda and Al & Mary Brasher (daughter of Francis O’Brien, Buddy’s sister).

Buddy O’Brien, son of local favorite wooden shipbuilder Francis O’Brien, donated this 15 foot wooden boat original! This is the last wooden boat his father built. 1993 launching. Buddy is so passionate about our mission to preserve and promote Mississippi’s Shipbuilding heritage, he drove this boat all the way in from Texas!

Thanks to Jerold Vaughn Goff of Wade, MS our community will enjoy learning what it takes to build a dugout canoe. This dugout canoe, built in 1884 is a 19 foot Cypress tree hewed out by ancestor Edmond Goff for use in and around the now infamous Pascagoula river country.

Our Maritime Activity Center hosts
Summer Camp Programming 2022

HAPPY NATIONAL MARITIME DAY!

**Thanks to WLOX News for the great coverage of National Maritime Day!**

**Thanks to Patti Brooks for these great photos of the 2nd annual National Maritime Day on Saturday, May 21, 2022**

Kick-OFF-Our museum celebrates two National Safe Boating week
proclamations with the City of Pascagoula and the City of Moss Point

Moss Point Mayor Knight, Patti Brook, US Coast Guard

Pascagoula Mayor Willis and US Coast Guard

Read the Proclamation

National Safe Boating Week Information from National Weather Service

Seafaring Heritage Exhibits will be opening later this year!

Our Renovated CATBOAT Makes her debut!!!…

Luke Green, BM1 USCG and Ron Basczkowski — Volunteer, lead the renovation! Sherwin-Williams donated the paint supplies =$1000!

Antique wooden catboat restored and added to the Mississippi Maritime Museum

Trent Lott Middle School student wins Mississippi Maritime Museum’s ‘Name a Catboat’

WLOX — News Now! Catboat helps bring life to local maritime museum

More coverage from WLOX News

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) — On Saturday, officials gave boating safety courses at the Mississippi Maritime Museum and Activity Center. As the state eases its way into the summer, more…