Charles W. Morgan

Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841 and active during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Whaling ships harvested whale blubber for oil used in lamps. Since the 1940s, she has served as a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut. She is the world's oldest surviving merchant vessel and the only surviving wooden whaling ship from the 19th-century American merchant fleet. She became a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

Built

1841

Museum location

Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut

Historic designation

National Historic Landmark, 1966