TRAFFIC ALERT: The Jacksonville Fire Museum will also be making a move, so part of Bay Street will be closed from 6 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. Monday.
“It says, finally, the Navy town, the third-largest Navy town in the U.S., finally gets a museum ship, and we were the only ones without one,” said Craig Bernat, with the Jacksonville Naval Museum. “And the ship even though it wasn’t the Adams, this is the second most historic ship that the Navy has, so that says a lot right there the history of the ship.
There are some who are concerned that the permanent site is not ready ahead of the ship’s arrival. But Lori Boyer, head of the Downtown Investment Authority, said it should all work out. The Jacksonville Naval Museum said that it is planning on the Orleck to arrive outside the St. Johns River channel early Saturday morning and that the goal is to start the transit at 7:30 a.m.From there, it could take four to six hours, so the old destroyer could arrive downtown anytime between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., according to the Jacksonville Naval Museum.
“The work on the inside -- we have some cosmetic things to do and clean out and get the exhibit set back up,” Weakland said.Joining the USS Orleck on the Northbank will be the Jacksonville Fire Museum.
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