The USS Orleck sailed into Jacksonville this morning, stopping at its temporary home on the Northbank. 🚢
, leaving organizers to find another ship, and the USS Orleck fit the bill.
The Orleck is the most decorated post World War II ship as it fought in the Korean, Vietnam and Cold War periods. Converting it to a museum and moving it from Texas to Jacksonville cost a little more than $2 million. “It says, finally, the Navy town, the third-largest Navy town in the U.S., finally gets a museum ship, and we were the only ones without one,” said Craig Bernat, with the Jacksonville Naval Museum. “And the ship even though it wasn’t the Adams, this is the second most historic ship that the Navy has, so that says a lot right there the history of the ship.”There are some who are concerned that the permanent site is not ready ahead of the ship’s arrival.
“Not all of the conditions of docking at Pier One have been satisfied, but that’s not to say we think there is any problem with their ability to satisfy them. I think they will do that,” Boyer said.
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