Admission is by donation only.

Suggested Donations:

You get it all (along with a free Anchor Tattoo) for a paltry pittance.

Help the Museum: Join the Crew! Volunteer Keepers Needed.

Membership in the SHIPMATES of the MARITIME MUSEUM happens by donation of time, effort, material or gold (cash will do).

SHIPMATE categories begin with Powder Monkey ($10) and end with Admiralty Lord ($5000) with eleven levels in between.

If you want to donate or lend some old stuff, or help out in any way, please give the Museum a call at (360) 942-4149 or write at 310 Alder Street, Raymond, WA 98577. The Museum is a community effort and is non-profit.

CAPT. ANGUS MacINTOSH PRESENTS

Stowed in the MUSEUM’S HOLD you will discover…

Illuminating aspects of fo’c’s’le living tons of paraphernalia employed in working, sailing and navigating ships; treasure from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon, Atocha; exquisite ship models; insight into pirate business; skinny on the Merchant Marine; displays featuring tugboats, sailboats, ferries, liners, lightships, lifeboats, battleships and a cruiser and some stuff on how to build them; where fishing boats go and where the Great White Fleet went; exactly what a boarding pike is, what a linstock is used for, and what quadrilateral spheres on a binnacle look like; what a helm, sea chest, and engine order telegraph feels like; precisely what CAC, USLHS, USSB, USLSS AND USLLHE are all about; how to ties a bowline and tell ship’s bell time; ship’s crockery, scrimshaw, bos’n’s calls, cannon, epaulettes, spyglass, rope knives, and thole pins; The Black Bottle and hear sea chanties; the wonderment of an azimuth ring, taffrail log, and a 19th century bearing board; how it might feel to come almost face to face with Teddy Roosevelt, George Dewey and Howard Cox’s father who was a concrete soldier; the mysteries of the monkey fist, the brass monkey, bow pudding and Chinese Fire Drill; also Tom Sawyer Traverse; the thrill of coming to terms with nifty keen wherewithal like breeches buoy, post lantern, pelorus, sextant and Adm. Perry; some real old Navy stuff and not to mention some Navy stuff so new it still belongs to the Navy.