Ship leaves SC maritime museum for Florida


CHARLESTON, S.C. — The day after a World War II destroyer left a South Carolina maritime museum for repairs, a second vessel left for good.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the Coast Guard cutter Ingham was towed Thursday from the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum on Charleston Harbor.

The vessel is en route to a new home at the Miami-Dade Historical Maritime in Florida.

The Ingham needs about $3 million in repairs. Patriots Point officials didn't have that money after spending more than $9 million to repair the World War II destroyer Laffey.

The Laffey was towed from Patriots Point on Wednesday and taken up the Cooper River to dry dock. After repairs to its hull, the destroyer will return to Patriots Point.

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August 21, 2009 - 9:05 a.m. EDT

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Jack

FRAM the Ingham and the Taney and they should be good for another 50 years......

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Originally posted by Ex_CG_GM:
FRAM the Ingham and the Taney and they should be good for another 50 years......

Sure, all you'd have to do is cut them in half and add 13 feet

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Sure, all you'd have to do is cut them in half and add 13 feet

You lost me......

EDIT...OK, got it. The 110 to 123 wasn't a FRAM though.....it was a Cluster F...

Went aboard INGHAM in June. The interior spaces that you could get to were in nice shape and an interesting history tour. Did catch some errors in the uniforms displayed, but overall very nice.

Exterior was showing serious signs of age and deterioration. As all hands know, maintaining the ships exterior is a full time job with a dedicated work force to the task.

My own thoughts to maintaining the old hulls as museum ships is to turn them into buildings. Where the location permits, haul them ashore, create a cradle arrangement, backfill around them. Don't worry about them sinking, care and feeding might be a helluva lot easier. Maintaining a ship is a big task, a building has to be a bit easier. Either way good luck and fair seas.

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My own thoughts to maintaining the old hulls as museum ships is to turn them into buildings. Where the location permits, haul them ashore, create a cradle arrangement, backfill around them. Don't worry about them sinking, care and feeding might be a helluva lot easier. Maintaining a ship is a big task, a building has to be a bit easier. Either way good luck and fair seas.

Totally agree. Leaving museum ships floating is an unnecessary and exponential expense - especially if the ships can never steam on their own again anyway. Seems like there are "big" ideas for many CGC museum ships, but no real plans nor wherewithall.

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Originally posted by Mastersmate:
My own thoughts to maintaining the old hulls as museum ships is to turn them into buildings. Where the location permits, haul them ashore, create a cradle arrangement, backfill around them. Don't worry about them sinking, care and feeding might be a helluva lot easier. Maintaining a ship is a big task, a building has to be a bit easier. Either way good luck and fair seas.

BOSN, Surface Force happened to be in Whitehorse, Yukon Terroritory sometime before and noticed that was exactly how they preserved the former SS KLONDIKE. Seemed to work very well if I may add.

<http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/yt/ssklondike/index.aspx>

Respectfully,
Surface Force

Surface Force has been low key. On the road spending the Kings travel funds frugally, I hope Good Summer so far. Out with the co worker the other night, drasgged home about a 25 lb King salmon. Will be guest of honor on the grill in about 2 hours from now.

There's a Lightship, I think in Norfolk, that they did the same thing to. It is a nice waterfront attraction. And the U 505 in Chicago is one display I will have to get to long before passage to Fiddlers Green

Surface Force has indeed been low key the past few months. Will be traveling to at least two undisclosed overseas locations in the next month to outbrief a project he has been working on of mutual interest and concern to the USN and USCG.

As I recall, the Lightship Huron in Port Huron, MI is "permanently moored" on shore.

The RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA is too.

It would be too bad to lose them, but, those preservation organizations need deep pockets to keep those ships in a safe floating condition, and cover what HAZMAT may still be aboard. Permanent moorage seems like the best option, otherwise the'll end up as artificial reefs somewhere.

The Macinaw is in the upper pensula of MI

The submarine Drum was lifted out of the water years ago in Mobile. I think the battleship Alabama has a fresh water moat around it.

The ice breaker Mackinaw is in Mackinaw city Michigan the tourists get taken on a tour of the Mackinaw

Ah the Mighty "I"! I served on it from 84-86, she was a smooth rider in heavy seas. I'll have to make the trip down to Florida to see how she looks. I left a pair of boonedockers tied to my rack when I departed, wonder if they're still there?

That explains the "atomsphere" in the berthing area exhibit.