In one place visitors can climb through a WWII submarine, see the sail of a Cold War submarine, and go all through a destroyer escort from WWII. There is also a conning tower from another sub and soon another addition might be coming. Children can't believe how small the space on the sub is for eating, sleeping, and doing "business"... More

Kids can have a good time here and the grounds are well kept More

While in Galveston we toured the WWII Submarine and the Destoyer Escort. These two ships have been carefully restored, and visitors are able to go through most areas. The submarine was especially moving to go through, and see where the sailors slept, ate and worked. Gave us pause to think of what these men went through for our freedom. More

Ages 17, 14, 12. Our kids loved crawling all over the ships and watching the barges go by. This is well worth a visit More

My kids aged 6 and 7 enjoyed this. Having been in the Navy myself I was excited to be their tour guide and learn some things myself. It was really very neat. Only complaint would be the unsightly trash strewn about the shore near the ship. Someone should really pick that up :) More

Improved over the years we have been going here. Best to go during the day. Night seems to bring in some uncomfortable people. More

We went her after we finished a day of other tours on the Island they have a large aircondition submarine on grounds to go thru for a fee and a cute little park if you need to take a picnic but not really worth the drive. More

A rather static display and not very informative. The sub in Philadelphia has docents onboard to explain life aboard and technical details of the systems. This display offers a basic indoctrination to the ships and their missions. More

In 1963-64 I worked on the original sub slated for Seawolf Park, the Cabrilla, which was then at Todd Shipyard, for removal of her battery and some repair work before being move to the Island. Just before the slated more, the school boat Cavalla, which was at Brady Island in the Ship Channel, was struck by the US Navy and... More