From the June 28, 2016, Port City (Wilmington, N.C.) "Battleship latest Wilmington landmark to earn national acclaim" by Hilary Snow.
The USA Today's Top 20 Best Museum Ships voting contest which is part of 10 Best Reader's Choice Awards series.The USS North Carolina ranked first in early voting, but is now in 4th place.
The USS North Carolina was the first of America's ten fast battleships in World War II and was decommissioned in 1947 and put into mothballs. It barely escaped scrapping in the 1960s before being bought by its namesake state.
First ship in the voting is the USS Midway in San Diego, 2nd is the USS Texas in LaPorte, Texas and third is the USS Iowa in Los Angeles.
The contest continues and right now we're still in 4th.
Get Out and Vote for the Showboat!! --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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