The submarine Lembit
Its passages and engines as left.
Hiiumaa mudeliklubi — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sillerkiil — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gert7 — CC BY 4.0 · Gert7 — CC BY 4.0
Twenty-five minutes from the old town through the wooden Kalamaja district and its cafés — a fine walk in itself, passing the arty Telliskivi quarter.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
A maritime museum inside a concrete seaplane hangar: Lennusadam was built in 1917 for the imperial fleet with thin concrete shell domes and no internal columns — a world engineering feat in its day — and stood derelict for decades until restoration opened it as a maritime museum in 2012, making it one of the Baltic's finest. Its star is the submarine Lembit (1936) moored inside the hall: you enter and walk its passages past engines, torpedoes and crew bunks exactly as left — a working Second World War submarine you can go right through. Around it hangs a full-size Short 184 seaplane, with icebreakers, traditional boats and a sixteenth-century shipwreck. The displays are outstandingly interactive: flight, gunnery and ship-handling simulators, screens and an aquarium — the best place in Tallinn for children. Outside, the icebreaker Suur Tõll and other vessels are boarded at the quay.
Its passages and engines as left.
Thin concrete without columns — an engineering feat.
At the quay outside, boarded.
Vesilennuki 6, Tallinn