Talk:List of museum ships

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Proposed museum ships

refactored from another section by me --Doncram (talk,contribs) 22:27, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

I suspect that quite a few in the Former... sections of the table shouldn't be there as they have never been museum ships. They have probably been considered for such, but we don't have a "might have become a museum ship" subcategory. I was looking at the Australia entries - neither of them qualify in my view. Davidships (talk) 01:08, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

User:Davidships, thanks for your attention paid. Now with the ships sorted by country it is feasible to review each country's coverage for completeness and accuracy. I think you're referring to several questionable ships at the bottom of the Australia section, which actually I added on March 7 and after, which were not previously in the "Former ships" section. Per this version on March 7 after I had merged in all the previous "Former ships", the only Australian one was Baragoola. Since then I added Falie to the Former section there, and I added 10 or more to the current Australia section. What happened was I found a lot in the Commons category for museums ships in Australia and at first I thought they all belonged in this List of museum ships, either as current or former ones. In further research I confirmed that some are in fact current museum ships (including at least Australia II, Cheynes IV, Polly Woodside, and Westward and maybe some others which I fully merged in and now am forgetting). But I figured out that several from the Commons category are in fact replicas, and I dropped them. I am not sure about the following ones, which I just now removed. You are correct that sometimes a ship can be proposed for a museum and not become one, and there are other gray areas. I dunno about the quality of the following ones. Help on these would be appreciated. But I don't think these questions in the Australia section support having concern about the other countries' "former" ones which were all in the list article as "former" by 2022. I do believe that Commons categories of museum ships in other countries should be searched for current and former ones to add. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 09:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Questionable ones, just removed:

Ship	Image	Year launched	Origin	Type	Location	Notes
Tacoma		1951		Fishing boat	Port Lincoln?	identified as possible museum ship by inclusion in Commons category:Museum ships of Australia
Maid of Sker		1884				identified as possible museum ship by inclusion in Commons category:Museum ships of Australia
Fearless (tugboat)		1945	Canada	Tugboat	Cruickshank’s Corner, Port Adelaide, South Australia 34.84055°S 138.50259°E / -34.84055; 138.50259 (Fearless (tugboat))	identified as possible museum ship by inclusion in Commons category:Museum ships of Australia But call this a proposed one, not a current or former one, and put into Category:Proposed museum ships.
Carol J		yr	origin	type	location	identified as possible museum ship by inclusion in Commons category:Museum ships of Australia

References

Are any of the above current or former museum ships? And if so then they should be removed from here and put back into the list. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 09:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Oh, now I see there is an existing article at Fearless (tugboat) and I have added coordinates there. Seems like it has been donated with wish for it to be a museum ship, but that it is not one. I just created Category:Proposed museum ships and put it into that. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 11:08, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

And now I find another, John D. McKean (fireboat) in the U.S. which has not yet opened as a museum. It was supposed to open in 2022 but did not. There is apparently a 501c3 set up, and the organizers are calling it a museum ship, and the organization is arguably a museum organization. But is it a museum ship if it has not been opened to the public to visit, as a museum? What if they just had one party as a fundraiser, or just one open party (i recall that another fireboat in NYC was a party ship/boat for several years, by the way). This is the second "museum ship" article I have put into new category Category:Proposed museum ships. That is a subcategory of Category:Museum ships, which is sort of odd but I think it has to be placed there. I see now also that Category:Proposed museums in the United States exists and is a subcategory of Category:Museums in the United States. And "Proposed museums in the United States" has a subcategory Category:Failed museum proposals in the United States.). --Doncram (talk,contribs) 22:27, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Oh well, that was another failed (if oblique) attempt to get some discussion towards consensus on that most fundamental aspect of any list article - the criteria for inclusion. No developed response to previous attempts above. I'll sit this out for a while. Davidships (talk) 00:04, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for reply. I agree that criteria for inclusion matter, and I would say also that having a working process to determine list-item eligibility here matters too. Having spent time developing this list-article and going to linked pages recently, I see that the list includes lots of types of items, probably added by ppl with various agendas different than the goal of presenting a good and useful list-article on museum ships to Wikipedia readers. E.g. the proposed ship museums, often partially-funded, sometimes having achieved an expensive move of a ship, but maybe never actually being part of an open public museum for any substantial period of time. What about private, for-profit museums? Private ships available sometimes for charter? I don't know where to draw the line.

There are so many boats and ships at museums out there, including at small maritime museums. For example, for Michigan Maritime Museum, there has been just one entry, for a tugboat. Tugboats seem very well represented in this list-article... someone probably worked from some fairly comprehensive external list of them... but the one at Michigan Maritime Museum is just one of many ships and boats there. There's a Tall Ship there (Friends Good Will) which is a replica, so by current criteria (originals only) it gets left out of here, but I don't really like saying it's not a museum ship... that's what people understand it to be... and I didn't check to see if it is included in the List of classic vessels (currently mentioned in a "See also" type of way, as if it is supposed to include historic-type ships giving excursions. Note the List of classic vessels article is as clear as, well, mud:

"This is a list of classic vessels around the world. These are veteran vessels being maintained or restored with the aim of keeping them in operation. Many are in use for regular sailings, cruises or on a charter basis. They can be owned privately, by public bodies or by preservation groups. This list does not include museum ships, and the vessels listed are not necessarily on static display – for these, see list of museum ships."

And there's a bigger fishing boat, the Evelyn S., outside on blocks at the Michigan Maritime Museum, and a number of U.S. Coast Guard dinghies / rescue boats and other boats, some perhaps replicas, some restored, and none of which listed here.

Process-wise, who knows which ships and boats of this museum have been considered and determined eligible or ineligible here? Keeping a list of "Former" museum ships here is a help, but there are now numerous reasons why a ship should not be included, and it's not obvious how to keep track. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 23:24, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Request RE similar lists of locomotive museums

I would appreciate a favor at Draft:Preserved locomotives in the United States and Draft:Preserved locomotives in Canada, which are similar lists of museum things. I am restricted from putting articles into mainspace, and with these list-articles I have been stymied by the Articles For Creation (AFC) project's inability to understand list-articles. By reasoning stated by more than one AFC reviewer at those or other list-article drafts, the list of museum ships would have long ago been deemed unacceptable and deleted entirely, as not meeting individual editors' idiosyncratic, not-based-in-policy preferences. Those list-articles are big efforts by me following on from a big (2nd) AFD on the overall "List of locomotives" where there were various false assertions about the impossibility of listing potentially moveable museum things (like ships) which don't actually move very often. Putting them into mainspace, in really pretty good order now, will bring on the railfans and lead to expansion and improvements. [I guess technically I could just insert these into already-existing List of locomotives and then boldly split them out as if that is not creating new articles contrary to my edit restriction....]

Could someone here please just move those two list-articles to mainspace? (And just delete all the AFC comments and business at the top, or leave that to me to do.) If you've been following here, you can see at a glance those are valid list-articles.

While I am willing to take on big tasks and go through long periods of criticism and non-appreciation, sometimes, I am not a robot, and I am not impervious to disappointment and frustration in things Wikipedia. I do appreciate a few kind words now and then (thanks wolf for your recent award of a cleanup barnstar to me at my Talk page!) and it would also be great if someone could grant me these specific favors. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 21:14, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Never mind. That was probably too complicated to ask for, and I just take responsibility myself, and I did that by merging and splitting approach. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 23:27, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Move deep submergence vehicles to separate list on museum submarines?

When I did a lot of organizing a while back, I wasn't sure how to handle deep submergence vehicles(?) (submersibles?) such as DSV Turtle, which is located in Connecticut in the U.S. and is listed in the List of museum ships in North America split-out article. So I left them in. But they really seem more like submarines than they seem like tall ships to me. And most people probably don't know the distinction, even when the loss of one of them has been prominently in the news.

I propose moving all the DSV ones in the main list-article and in the split-out North America list-article to the corresponding locations in the List of submarine museums list-article(s). (I will now also post notice of this proposal at other relevant Talk pages). --Doncram (talk,contribs) 04:18, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

That seems a good idea - though with a note in this article to that effect. Davidships (talk) 12:37, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Column "Origin"

The purpose of this column has been raised a couple of times, but never actually discussed. At present it is a mess: some countries of build, some countries of current location as museums, and a few inbetween, with multiple entries or blank. One thing that should be borne in mind - for those continents that have omnibus entries there is no way to sort by country of museum. Davidships (talk) 13:00, 2 September 2023 (UTC)