On Memorial Day : Last Mission of the USS Olympia — Carrying the Unknown Soldier Home

On Memorial Day, an updated repost about the last mission of the USS Olympia in 1921, when she carried an American unknown soldier killed during World War I  from a cemetery in France back to Washington to be entombed at … Continue reading

Group Campaigning to Move the USS Olympia to San Francisco

A group of former workers at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the San Francisco Bay Area has launched a campaign to bring the USS Olympia to San Pablo Bay.  The Olympia, Commodore George Dewey’s flagship at the Battle of … Continue reading