Ramsgate Maritime Museum

Ramsgate Maritime Museum

Ramsgate Maritime Museum
Clock House
Pier Yard
Royal Harbour
Ramsgate
Kent
CT11 8LS

Tel: 01843 570 622
E-Mail: curatorramsgate@btconnect.com

Web: Ramsgate Maritime Museum

About Ramsgate Maritime Museum

Ramsgate Maritime Museum is situated in the Clock House on the quayside at Ramsgate Harbour, Ramsgate Maritime Museum focuses strongly on Ramsgate and its immediate environs, with a brief introduction to the rest of the region's maritime past.

Set in the heart of the country's only Royal Harbour, the Museum building is an exhibit in its own right, being the product of some of the most eminent civil engineers and architects of the early 19th century.

The Clock House is also the site of the unique Ramsgate Meridian - from which our own particular Mean Time - 5 mins 41 secs ahead of Greenwich - was calculated!

There are four galleries of exhibits telling the maritime history of the area with permanent displays on the development of the Harbour, Navigation, Fishing, Lifeboats and Shipwrecks.

A fifth exhibition space, the Gun Room, was opened in late May 2005. This temporary conservation lab/display area has been instituted to house the largest artefact yet to be raised from the wreck of Stirling Castle, a 17th century 32-pounder demi-cannon - one of the Stuart Navy's hardest-hitting pieces of ordnance.

The nearby Goodwin Sands have yielded an important collection of artefacts from the Great Storm Wrecks, principally from the wreck of Stirling Castle (a 70 gun, 3rd rate, Man of War). Weapons, utensils and ship's gear provide a chilling insight into life and death aboard a British Warship in 1703.