Lightship Portsmouth Museum — Attraction in Portsmouth

I intended to come back to this museum when I didn't have kids in tow because there is much to learn here. So today I was able to -- with two older women friends. I would have given the museum 4 or maybe 5 instead of 3 stars except for the fact that my guest said to me, "Virtually nothing about women in the Portsmouth history, as if women never lived here! Just lots of war, war, war."

This is true. Didn't women have any role in Portsmouth?

Of course they couldn't work on the light ship (which is very educational and I take all my out of town visitors here). But I hope the rulers of the museum finds a way to include an exhibit on the women of Portsmouth, maybe nameless but they kept the place going when you really...

Fun and historic place to visit. One of the few remaining lightships in the world, where there were once several hundreds. This is officially Lightship 101 (WAL 524) in the U.S. Built in 1916, this 360-ton steel ship, 101 ft (30.8 m) long, with a 25 ft (7.6 m) beam, had multiple duty stations before it was decommissioned in 1964. Among them are Cape Charles, Virginia, the Overfalls station off Cape Henlopen, Delaware, and on Stonehorse Shoal off Nantucket, Massachusetts. The light was displayed from the top of the mast. Hull painted red, superstructure...

Reopened to the public in 2023: The Lightship Museum is small because the lightship is small. Not a lot of museum pieces, but does allow you to walk around most areas of the ship. If you’d like a maritime history, this would be an interesting short visit. It makes for a nice stop if you’re in the area and provides a glimpse of what life may have been like aboard this small lightship. As of the date of this review, admission was free with...