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| USS Olympia, 2-war naval veteran, battles for survival - Scrap heap likely |
| 2010-09-07 |
| Posted by:Water Modem |
| #3 Surely the USNavy-DOD can do something to save her - perhaps another monument for the Naval Academy or Pearl Harbor, etc. The OLYMPIA symbolizes Amer's rise from CONTINENTALISM [settling the West] to INTERNATIONAL POWER STATUS via the 1898 War agz Spain + future "Teddy-ism" [POTUS Theodore "Can Do/Amer Built the Panama Canal Just Becuz It Can" Roosevelt]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-09-07 18:37 |
| #2 Laurence of the Rats and I visited that ship when we went to Philly way back when. I thought it was a grand ship, built with style and elegance. It'd be a shame for it to be allowed to rot away. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2010-09-07 15:48 |
| #1 That class of ship is one of the very first steps in the construction of the modern warship. Can't they declare it to be a historic monument or some thing? I don't know it's battle history, but if any thing, I would think, despite its size, the Smithsonian would be interested in it. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-09-07 15:48 |