Smith River, California - Ship Ashore - Little Museum

Address:
12370 Highway 101 North, Smith River, CA
Directions:
A couple of miles from the Oregon border.
Admission:
Free, donation.
Phone:
707-487-3141

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Smith River, California - Ship Ashore - Little Museum

This free museum is in the hold of a beached ship below the "Pirates Den" gift shop that features nautical and pirate kitsch. Ship Ashore is surrounded by a RV park resort. In addition to pirate costumes, WWII artifacts, well-preserved biological and anthropological curiosities, and a VERY LOUD dime-operated musical donkey, visitors will find a diorama of the local fauna rendered in stuffed Beanie Babies with interpretive labels throughout.

The owner indicated that the ship was formerly used as an on-shore restaurant and was converted into its present state in the 1960s. [Leah and Martin Fox, 06/01/2003]

Ship Ashore, photo by Craig Thom. Smith River, California - Ship Ashore - Whale Eyeball

Ship Ashore is a huge old ship plunked down right next to Highway 101 and turned into a fantastic kitsch museum/ gift shop. The museum has no discernable theme; there are displays on pirates, local history, military artifacts, marine oddities (a whale eyeball in a jar!!) and stuffed animals. Best of all, admission is free. [Landon Phillips, 05/05/2002]

Smith River, California - Ship Ashore

"Ship Ashore" is a real ship, 156 feet long, which still has its rudder and propeller shafts (but no propellers). It once served in the navy as USS Garnet. There's a free museum downstairs containing all sorts of junk curiosities, everything from the foetus of a whale to homemade guns confiscated from the Viet Cong and WWII Nazi memorabilia. Upstairs is a gift shop. [Bill Kaida, 08/28/2000]

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