Self-funded by a Navy and USMC veteran with 20 years' combined service, the Point Loma Nautical History Gallery & Museum occupies 800 square feet in Liberty Station's historic Dick Laub NTC Command Center at 2640 Historic Decatur Rd. The permanent exhibit spans a chronological panoramic sequence from the 1775 Continental Navy through 1945, featuring handcrafted scratch-built ship models, period dioramas, and a crew scrapbook from the USS Arizona that sank at Pearl Harbor — naval heritage material that pairs with the broader peninsula military history preserved at Cabrillo National Monument's coastal battery installations. Handcrafted construction uses poplar and basswood for hulls, accented with brass tubing, plumbing PVC, and leather eyelets — a craft methodology visible to visitors as the curator continues building new pieces on-site. Displays include galleys, wheelhouses, engine rooms, uniforms, and navigational memorabilia from each evolutionary period — material that contextualizes the working maritime heritage still active at San Diego Yacht Club across the harbor. The deepest historical holding is the crew-member scrapbook from the USS Arizona, a primary-source document tracing personal perspectives of life aboard a Pacific Fleet battleship prior to the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack that sank her with 1,177 crew aboard.