Sunday, July 4, 2010

USS Silversides

While in Michigan for the movie, we decided to take BigJ and LittleJ out for a change of scenery.  Someone mentioned to us that Muskegon had a submarine you could tour, so we set out looking for it.

We found it on the Muskegon Channel near Pere Marquette Park at the

This is the USS Silversides, America's most famous surviving submarine from WWII.

 Here we are in the forward torpedo room.
The success of her crew included sinking 23 Japenese vessels and damaging 14 others as represented by the flags painted on the side. 

We also toured the US Coast Guard boat McLane.  Built during prohibition to intercept "rum runners", it was sent to the Bering Sea during the war.  She is credited with sinking a Japanese submarine. 

Here is LittleJ enjoying the best seat in the house!

He also loved turning the "big wheel".  I enjoyed looking at the old instruments and the captains quarters.

  We didn't go through the indoor museum exhibits, but I'm sure they would be very nice as well.  Also, outside on the museum grounds, they had an old conning tower from another sub;  this one we were able to climb on and look through the periscope.  Very fun!!  We had an enjoyable afternoon.

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