Museum Ship Musings: Dry Docking, Off-Season, and Beyond!

[@jeffgrier8488]

Thanks for the presentation and the great news, i'm glad to hear it! I would love to come up for one of your winter tours too. Since it's almost Thanksgiving, i've got to tell you that a short time ago, my uncle gave me a box of stuff that was my grandfather's that passed back in 1998. He was a LST sailor in WW2, and i was looking through his Bluejackets manual and found a Thanksgiving menu from the USS NEW ORLEANS, pretty cool!

[@pedenharley6266]

Thank you for this presentation! I enjoy learning about the behind the scenes side of things!

[@BuffaloNavalPark]

You're welcome as always, Peden!! Appreciate your continued support.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Cool updates! Hope the winter tours go well, I’m especially interested in the ship archeology one, as you know that’s a particular interest of mine lol. Maybe I’ll be able to make it up for one. Making the booklet of general plans available is pretty cool. One idea that I thought might be cool is making a poster out of some of them to sell, or putting images from it on shirts and such. I was actually wanting to ask you at some point if you had any plans to collaborate with Haida. In addition to being too far from Buffalo, both her and The Sullivans entered service in the same year and were decommissioned within a few years of each other. It’s a really nice apples to apples comparison of American versus Royal Navy design doctrines imo, so I’m happy to see you guys have plans.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours

[@BuffaloNavalPark]

Thank you, Kirk! I hope you had a good and fulling Thanksgiving and a safe holiday and Xmas season.

[@cammiller5516]

Hello from Jamestown

[@BuffaloNavalPark]

Hello - I'm sure you're a winter wonderland, Cam! Still green up at the ships! Not one flake! Stay well and don't get stuck anywhere.

[@cammiller5516]

@BuffaloNavalPark we don't have any

[@panachevitz]

Father Thomas Conway is the same Father Conway that the park is named after in South Buffalo.

[@BuffaloNavalPark]

That is correct! Don't know if that was a question or statement, but true either way! Thanks!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

That record is a 78 RPM record, it is a real treasure the 45 didn't come out until the early 50s and the LP in the late 40s.

[@gregoryspring1303]

Can a replica be made? Of Plaque

[@kirkmorrison6131]

It sounds like an interesting tour group, but I can't travel from SC, to NY without freezing to death.

[@jackstevens6263]

That looks like a 78 rpm. Not 45

[@Rlsummers041]

I have an out-of-the-box suggestion. Instead of spending millions of dollars dry docking the Sullivan. Why not dispose of the Sullivan and get the Oliver Perry class destroyer that is being held for museum ship the group that was trying for it as given up.

[@BuffaloNavalPark]

Thanks for your comment. 1) The Oliver Hazard Perry Shipyard, which put in the application for USS Halyburton was rejected. They completed the application, and the Navy denied the plan - The organization didn't give up, just a clarification. 2) It will cost $4 million to scrap USS The Sullivans, so instead we're going to use that money to pay for her ship's maintenance.

[@Rlsummers041]

@BuffaloNavalPark That's my point. It would be an opportunity for you

[@Rlsummers041]

@BuffaloNavalPark would it be possible instead of scrapping you could take her someplace in the Great lakes and sink hr in an area that could be used for recreational diving. Probably cheaper