Posted 11 years ago
MattyG
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This post card features United States Navy Protected Cruiser "Olympia" and was in service from 1895 to 1922. She is the sole floating survivor of the US Navy's Spanish-American War fleet, now a museum ship docked at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia and is re-painted. somewhere I have a photo of me on this ship.
additional information on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Olympia_(C-6)
Is this really the oldest floating warship today or meaning U.S. ship. Don't know jack-"s" about it but is the Constitution a reproduction & the HMS Victory(II)? Just interested.
I don't know jack either, wrote it wrong, should have said, "She is the sole floating survivor of the US Navy's Spanish-American War fleet"
Thanks AR8Jason, blunderbuss2, petey, pw-collector, Bellin68, packrat-place, mustangtony, miKKoChristmas11, and Phil.
Very cool and very glad this ship was preserved. Excellent also that the postcard was preserved.