The National Historic Fleet, Core Collection is a list of museum ships located in the United Kingdom, under the National Historic Ships register.

The vessels on the National Historic Fleet are distinguished by:

The National Historic Fleet may also include vessels from the National Small Boat Register which are a minimum of 50 years and which fit the above criteria.

The core collection are the vessels of the National Historic Fleet which are of the highest national pre-eminence.

Name Image Builder Town/City Year Class Type Location Status Remarks Certificate No. Link
Alfred Corry Beeching Brothers Great Yarmouth 1893 Lifeboat Southwold Museum exhibit [1]
Bertha G Lunnel & Co Bristol 1844 Dredger World of Boats Museum exhibit Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Worked in Bridgwater docks [2]
Branksome George Brockbank Windermere 1896 Windermere Operational, Museum [3]
Cabby London & Rochester Trading Company 1928 Spritsail Barge Barge Maylandsea Operational, Preserved [4]
Calshot J I Thornycroft & Co Ltd Woolston, Southampton 1936 Tugboat Southampton Under restoration [5]
Challenge Alexander Hall & Company Aberdeen 1931 Tugboat Bristol Harbour Operational, Available for hire Last steam tug to serve on the River Thames [6]
City of Adelaide William Pile & Hay Sunderland 1864 Clipper Scottish Maritime Museum Hulk, scheduled to be demolished Oldest clipper in the world [7]
CMB 4 J I Thornycroft Ltd Hampton 1916 Imperial War Museum Duxford Museum, exhibit [8]
Comrade Warrens Shipyard New Holland 1923 Humber keel Sailing barge South Ferriby Operational, available for hire [9]
Corrie Robertsons Dunoon 1908 Clyde 30 Racing Yacht Yacht Gosport Operational, Private
Cutty Sark Scott & Linton Dumbarton 1869 Clipper Greenwich Under restoration The world's last tea clipper [10]
Edmund Gardner Philip & Son Dartmouth, Devon 1953 Pilot Cutter Merseyside Maritime Museum Museum, dry berth [11]
Excellent J & G Forbes Sandhaven 1931 Drifter Fishing boat Penzance, Cornwall In commercial use Oldest wooden fishing boat in commercial use
Excelsior John Chambers & Co Lowestoft 1921 Lowestoft Sailing Smack Trawler Lowestoft Training ship [12]
Glenlee Anderson Rodger and Co Port Glasgow 1896 Barque Cargo vessel Yorkhill Quay, Glasgow Museum [13]
HMRC Vigilant Cox & Company Falmouth 1901 Customs Cruiser Medway Maritime Trust Under restoration [14]
HMS Alliance Vickers Armstrong Barrow-in-Furness 1945 Amphion Submarine Royal Navy Submarine Museum Museum/Memorial [15]
HMS Belfast Harland & Wolff Belfast 1938 Port of London Museum/Memorial [16]
HMS Caroline Cammell Laird Birkenhead 1914 C class cruiser Light Cruiser Port of Belfast Museum/Memorial Only surviving World War 1 British warship [17]
HMS Gannet Royal Dockyard Sheerness 1878 Sloop Chatham Historic Dockyard Museum [18]
HMS Medusa (A353) R A Newman & Sons Poole, Dorset 1943 Motor Launch Southampton Museum [19]
HMS Trincomalee Wadia Shipyard Bombay, India 1816 Frigate Hartlepool's Maritime Experience Museum [20]
HMS Unicorn Admiralty 1824 Frigate Dundee, Scotland Museum [21]
HMS Victory Royal Dockyard Chatham 1765 Battleship Royal Naval Museum, HMNB Portsmouth Museum [22]
HMS Warrior Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company Blackwall 1860 Ironclad Battleship Portsmouth Museum [23]
Holland 1 Vickers, Sons & Maxim Barrow 1901 Holland Class Submarine Royal Navy Submarine Museum Museum [24]
HSL 102 British Power Boat Co. Hythe, Kent 1936 Motor Torpedo Boat Lymington For Sale
Jesse Lumb J Samuel White & Co Cowes, Isle of Wight 1939 Watson class Lifeboat Imperial War Museum Duxford Museum exhibit [25]
John H Amos Bow McLachlan & Co Ltd Paisley, Scotland 1931 Tugboat Medway Maritime Trust Laid up on barge [26]
Kathleen and May Ferguson and Baird Connah's Quay 1900 Schooner Bideford, Devon Operational, Up For Sale Last remaining wooden hull three masted top sail schooner [27]
Kindly Light Armour Brothers Fleetwood 1911 Pilot Cutter Gweek Under restoration
PS Kingswear Castle File:Kingswear castle steamer.jpg Philip & Son Dartmouth, Devon 1924 Paddle Steamer River Medway Operational [28]
Landfall Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn 1944 Landing Craft Tank Landing Craft Birkenhead Laid up
Lively Hope William Weatherhead & Son Cockenzie 1936 Ring-Netter Fishing boat Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther Museum exhibit [29]
LV 91 Philip & Son Dartmouth, Devon 1937 Lightvessel Swansea Floating museum
Lydia Eva Kings Lynn Slipway Company Kings Lynn 1930 Fishing boat Herring drifter Operational, Museum The world's last surviving steam-powered herring drifter. [30]
HMS M33 Workman Clark Ltd Belfast 1915 M29 class monitor Monitor Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Museum [31]
Maria Harris Brothers Rowhedge 1866 Smack Fishing boat Brightlingsea Private, operating
Mayflower Stothert & Marten Bristol 1861 Tugboat Bristol harbour Floating museum [32]
Mirosa John Howard Maldon 1892 Thames sailing barge Iron Wharf, Faversham Operational, preserved [[33]]
MTB 102 Vospers Portsmouth 1937 Motor Torpedo Boat Lowestoft Owned by a trust [34]
Olga J Bowden Porthleven 1909 Pilot Cutter Swansea Floating museum [35]
Peacock Fellows, Morton & Clayton Saltley Dock, Birmingham 1915 Narrowboat Dudley Floating museum [36]
Peggy Unknown 1789 Yacht Castletown, Isle of Man Stored, undercover [37]
Prince Frederick's Barge John Hall Southbank 1732 State Barge National Maritime Museum Museum [38]
Pyronaut C Hill & Sons Ltd Bristol 1934 Fireboat Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum Floating museum 619 [39]]
Reaper J & G Forbes Ltd Sandhaven 1901 Fishing boat Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther Operational, Museum
Result Robert Kent & Company Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Carrickfergus 1893 Schooner Cultra Museum exhibit 496 [40]
Royal Yacht Britannia File:Britann.jpg John Brown Ltd Clydebank 1952 Royal Yacht/Hospital Ship Leith Floating museum 1919 [41]
RRS Discovery Dundee Shipbuilders' Company Dundee 1901 Polar Research Ship Dundee Floating museum 39 [42]
Sabrina Fielding & Platt Ltd Gloucester 1870 Inspection Launch Maidenhead Private: operating 62
SS Great Britain W Patterson Wapping Wharf, Bristol 1843 Passenger ship Bristol Harbour Museum 76 [43]
SS Nomadic Harland & Wolff Belfast 1910 Passenger Tender Belfast Under restoration 2053 [44]
SS Robin File:Ssrobin1.jpg Mackenzie, MacAlpine & Co Blackwall 1890 Coastal Steamer West India Docks, London Floating museum 1794 [45]
SS Shieldhall Lobnitz & Co Ltd Renfrew 1955 Sewage Disposal vessel Southampton Operational, Private 66 [46]
Stormy Petrel R & C Perkins Whitstable 1890 Oyster Smack Gillingham Private, operating 840
T 3 Royal Engineers Richborough, Kent 1918 Seaplane Lighter Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton Museum exhibit 712 [47]
Turbinia Marine Steam Turbine Co Heaton 1894 Discovery Museum Museum Original engine at Science Museum 138 [48]
PS Waverley A & J Inglis Pointhouse, River Clyde 1946 Firth of Clyde Operational 90 [49]
Zetland Henry Greathead South Shields 1802 Lifeboat Redcar Museum Oldest lifeboat in the world 627 [50]
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