Pat Flannery wrote:
Invid Fan wrote:
wrote:

Look at the plight of the USS Olympia as an example of what can happen
to private museums saddled with old, expensive to maintain, priceless
artifacts.

Olympia is one of the few remaining pre-Dreadnought battleships. A
classic.

You made me look up the ship on Wiki. Damn... I've been on her twice,
once as a kid and again a couple years ago when I was in Philadelphia
for the sci fi Worldcon, and the idea of the Olympia being sold for
scrap... I wonder if there's any way to get her to Buffalo's Naval Park.

The place she should go is Washington state; I assume she's named after
Olympia, Washington.

The advantage of Buffalo is they have a very active naval museum with a
good maintenance program. If it went to Bremerton not too far from
Olympia it would have a large Navy base to help out with maintenance. I
figure that the small port at Olympia would end up having it languish.