Maritime Museum of San Diego in downtown San Diego occupies a wharf on North Harbor Drive along the Embarcadero, where a fleet of vessels listed on the National Register of Historic Places has anchored since the museum's founding in 1948. The flagship Star of India — an 1863 iron barque launched as the Euterpe in the Isle of Man — holds the title of oldest active sailing ship in the world and sails at least once a year with a trained volunteer crew, anchoring a museum row that extends south to USS Midway Museum. Beyond Star of India, general admission covers boarding of the 1898 steam ferry Berkeley housing the MacMullen Library and research archives, the HMS Surprise replica featured in Master and Commander, California's official state tall ship Californian, the 1542 galleon replica San Salvador, the 1904 steam yacht Medea, and USS Dolphin — the deepest-diving submarine in U.S. Navy history. Weekend sailing adventures on the Californian and San Salvador run four-hour departures from the museum wharf, while 75-minute Naval History Bay tours aboard the only active passenger Swift Boat in the country cruise past military installations visible from Waterfront Park to the south. Private event charters accommodate weddings, corporate receptions, and film productions across the fleet, with the Berkeley's Victorian-era salons and Star of India's main deck serving as signature venues on San Diego Bay.