Estonian Maritime Museum

The former seaplane harbor is now home to several museum ships, including the steamer icebreaker Suur Tõll and the submarine Lembit (see previous page). The seaplane hangar is to become the future home of the Maritime Museum and shelter the submarine Lembit.

The steamer icebreaker Suur Tõll was built in 1914 in Stettin (present day Szczecin) and is the only remaining pre-war steamer in the Baltics. When I visited the ship it had just taken part in a movie about the life of Georg Ots, a famous Estonian opera singer. The Suur Tõll acted the part of a Russian hospital ship called the Siberia.

The Suur Tõll bearing the markings of a hospital ship.

The old seaplane hangar.

Sea mines in the Mine Museum (a branch of the Maritime Museum).

For information see the Estonian Maritime Museum website.