Comments on: Help needed. The Museum Ship, SS John W. Brown needs a new home. https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:22:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4800 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:21:54 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4800 Good News! She is to get her own purpose-built dock at her birthplace, the former Bethlehem Steel Works. https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/world-war-ii-liberty-ship-to-arrive-at-temporary-baltimore-home/

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4285 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:10:50 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4285 In reply to Brian Patronie.

‘cept Patriots Point are struggling with their own budgets. They’ve given up on Clamagore so they can focus their resources on Laffey & Yorktown. And there’s no link with Charleston.

SS John W. Brown was born in Baltimore. She has strong connections with New York too, which I guess could be another option, but prob even more expensive than Baltimore.

Her best bet must be to find a generous benefactor who can secure her base in Baltimore.

]]> By: Brian Patronie https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4284 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:46:46 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4284 Has anyone approached the Patriots Point people? Seems like a natural fit…

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4281 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:16:48 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4281 BTW, Andrea, when you say “we will need to pay”… are you involved with Liberty Ship Project?

I’m sure you/they know that Jacksonville, FL has some downtown waterfront civic real estate that they want to develop, and the focal point for that project was to be a museum ship. They had set their sights (and hearts) on the destroyer USS Adams (which had a local connection) and had spent four years trying to persuade the US Navy to donate her. Last fall the Navy finally said ‘No’. I don’t know where they are at now, and I know the LSP wants to stay in Baltimore, but I guess they could be interested in a Liberty ship…?

]]> By: Alastair https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4280 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:47:00 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4280 In reply to Andrea.

Oh, right. Thanks for that, Andrea. Fox 5 News Baltimore were reporting today that it had been extended.

]]> By: Andrea https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/help-needed-the-museum-ship-ss-john-w-brown-needs-a-new-home/#comment-4279 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:24:42 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5493#comment-4279 Only one thing to add. The lease was not extended. After 12/31/19 we will need to pay.

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