USS Olympia status

[M4SHERMAN]

I remember reading a couple years ago that funding for keeping the USS Olympia was drying up and there was subsequent talk of her being sunk as a artificial reef. Whats the true status of this ship right now? I would consider it a travesty to loose this ship in such a way.

[Bearmon]

still in Philly, and will be for while I think

 

http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia

[Dr_rambow]

As a Volunteer on Olympia, I can confirm that she is not going to be turned into a reef.

 

The Museum was interested in finding new owners for the ship until recently but, since no one had a viable plan to take her, she will stay in Philadelphia. As a result, fundraising is underway for long term restoration and dry-docking.

 

There is a lot of exciting work being done, one of which is a cofferdam project to work on the hull without going to dry-dock. An interesting video can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/CruiserOlympia/videos/1026929907366410/

 

A lot of updates are posted on the facebook page, so I encourage you to take a look if you are interested in seeing how she is doing!

https://www.facebook.com/CruiserOlympia/?fref=ts

 

 

 

 

[patches]

Thanks for update rambow

[Teamski]

Good to see work being done on the USS Olympia. Work has been going on for the last couple years to keep the ship afloat. Here is a really cool video on how they used a cofferdam system to work on the waterline. Pretty slick. Now, this system will be needed to save the USS Texas sooner or later. The USS Alabama had a full cofferdam system installed to be able to drain the area around the entire hull to work on it. No doubt, this sort of system will need to be used to preserve a good number of ships, whether it is spot repairs or isolating the entire hull.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZp2AtGUas

 

 

-Ski

[67Rally]

It is far short of a dry-dock and hull service, but it is something. That is a lengthy process to do that to her.

[Garandomatic]

Wow...