HMS Surprise in downtown San Diego sits along the Embarcadero at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, a replica 24-gun Royal Navy frigate built in 1970 at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Smith and Rhuland shipyard from original British Admiralty drawings. Originally christened HMS Rose, the vessel sailed as a training ship for 30 years before 20th Century Fox purchased and rebuilt her for the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, placing her on N Harbor Drive's naval corridor alongside the USS Midway Museum. Below-deck exhibits recreate the cramped living quarters, gun deck, and captain's great cabin — the same spaces where key scenes were filmed — with historical placards detailing 18th-century seamanship, navigation, and shipboard life. The ship also portrayed HMS Providence in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, adding a second major film credit to her history. Restored to sailing condition by the Maritime Museum, the Surprise makes several annual voyages around San Diego Bay with the museum's other tall ships — the state tall ship Californian and the 1863 barque Star of India — departing from a waterfront berth near Seaport Village. Multi-day tall-ship sailing excursions under full square-rig canvas with volunteer crew rotations, live-fire cannon demonstrations, and period-accurate watch schedules represent the most immersive programming the Maritime Museum offers aboard the Surprise.