LEGEND OF A WISCONSIN WHALEBOAT
The city of Mentor, OH in 2011, sold this 26-foot whaleboat to Nauticus The National Maritime Center, located on the Elizabeth River waterfront of Downtown Norfolk, VA. USS Wisconsin BB-64 lies in her birth at Nauticus.
This whaleboat has been reunited with the ship she served on during the Persian Gulf War. As of April 26, 2012 Nauticus started using the whaleboat for a 30 minute narrated tour of the Battleship Wisconsin to see and learn interesting facts about the ship and her home port of Norfolk.
FINDING HISTORY OF USS WISCONSIN BB-9
It’s funny how things happen. In May, 2002, I noted an entry in the guest log of our world-famous website from a woman in Ishpeming, a small city in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Her name was Judy Conrad and it seems that she had purchased some items at an estate sale in the nearby city of Marquette. One of the items was a sterling silver pitcher inscribed: “From The Ward Room Mess – USS Wisconsin”.