Porthmadog Maritime Museum

The Porthmadog Maritime Museum is housed in one of the old slate sheds at Oakley Wharf. Discover the story of the world famous topsail schooners and other vessels. Their builders, voyages and the men who sailed in them. Achievement, suffering and sorrow.

View Ship models, pictures, documents, tools and other equipment that shows the importance of local shipbuilding, and the export of slate in the fine Porthmadog topsail schooners during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.