Florida Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/florida/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:25:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Jacksonville Naval Museum dreams may finally come true with the arrival of USS Orleck https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/jacksonville-naval-museum-dreams-may-finally-come-true-with-the-arrival-of-uss-orleck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/jacksonville-naval-museum-dreams-may-finally-come-true-with-the-arrival-of-uss-orleck/#respond Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:05:23 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7001 The Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association (JHNSA) has been trying to secure a warship to be the centrepiece of the city’s huge downtown waterfront regeneration programme, and the first warship museum in Florida, for almost 12 years. By 2018 they had settled on the former cold-war guided-missile destroyer, USS Charles F. Adams, which was lying […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/jacksonville-naval-museum-dreams-may-finally-come-true-with-the-arrival-of-uss-orleck/feed/ 0 USS Adams Warship Museum moving slowly from a dream to reality https://mechtraveller.com/2018/07/uss-adams-warship-museum-moving-slowly-from-a-dream-to-reality/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/07/uss-adams-warship-museum-moving-slowly-from-a-dream-to-reality/#respond Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:02:21 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3539 The city of Jacksonville on the NE Florida coast has been working for almost 10 years on a project to bring the former cold-war guided-missile destroyer, USS Charles F. Adams to the city’s waterfront as a museum ship attraction, and the finishing line is almost in sight. The USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), normally shortened […]

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