USS Olympia
BTTT
It would be a bad omen, as I see it. I visited this ship some years ago, and I was quite affected by it as a living embodiment of a bygone age. They had brass foot plates on the spot where Commodore Dewey stood when he spoke the immortal words, "You may fire when ready, Gridley."
Well, this was the first I had ever heard of it! But I had heard of the Battle of Manila Bay.
How much money can the victory mosque(shithole) get from our gubmint(5 MILLION) and we cant save this ship?She has been around for a 100 years and they want to scrap it?America,your priorities are really screwed up.
Take it out of the water and put in in a climate controlled pavilion. That seems to be the good fate of all old ships that end up being preserved.
The U.S.S. Olympia ALSO transported the body of the first “Unknown Soldier” from the battlefields of WW1 back to the U.S.
THAT ALONE should save her.
But, as someone else noted, when you have a spoiled, egomanical, western hating Marxist Muslim in the White House, WHAT DO EXPECT done with our money? Certainly not rescue this - it represents a once proud and great nation. He would rather use taxdollars to generate economic equality and build mosques for fellow Muslim Maniacs.
I’d like to see more about the Victorian ice machines it had on board. I didn’t realize they had refrigeration back then.
I’m going to go out on a limb here, but this old ship, while with an admittedly proud history, is NOT worth the cost to restore it.
If it is worth fixing, someone will pay to do so.
Our tax dollars should not be wasted to keep every old ship in museum condition.
Anyone have a picture of this ship?
On Lake Michigan a 50-year old ferry almost got $14 million under the stimulus program. All because they need to clean up their act after getting caught dumping coal ash into the lake.
Their sob story was history and heritage and government overreach.
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/08/ludington_muskegon_again_battl.html
Built for about $2.1 million and commissioned in 1893, the vessel’s got Victorian-era ice machines. She’s got engines the size of 7-Elevens. If they fail, she’s got sails, too. She’s got a printing press, bathtubs, furnishings fit for a gentleman’s parlor and a prototype of a water cooler called a “scuttlebutt” around which sailors gathered and talked.