Please join us in our mission to collectively preserve the history and engage the future of Mississippi’s maritime and Shipbuilding heritage!
Please support us as we take our dream to reality this year!
Our activity center is open offering learning sessions, lectures and more.
Email msmmuseum@gmail.com for more information or send us a suggestion of what YOU would love to learn here at your maritime center! Stay tuned for UPDATES!
Hot off the press! Read our Summer Newsletter
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Wally the Walrus was given a “floating couch” in order to stop him from sinking boats.
“Summer Camp Session Team” July 18, 2021
Pascagoula’s Department of Recreation partnership.
Special Thanks to Cayden & Collin- Eagle Scouts AND Owen and Preston — Lead Scouts for helping our Summer Campers learn to tie ship roping knots!
Buffett, McAnally pen ode to coast with ‘Gulf Coast Girl’ Read Blog
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Do You Know Ships?
This details the types of ships that are known by most locals in the cities listed in Jackson County, Mississippi. Below are some ship classifications focuses of the Mississippi Maritime Museum’s (MMM) exhibits, lectures, media promotions and the like. A long line of boats, ships, schooners, and other marine vessels of varying shapes and sizes have come from the Jackson County, Mississippi area — and the list keeps growing. These are are primarily from Ingalls Shipbuilding.
Spruance Destroyer (DD) Ticonderoga (Aegis) Cruisers (CG) Arleigh Burke Destroyer (DDG)
Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ships (LHD) San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)