Mariners' Museum dedicates entrance wall with propeller

Posted to: Newport News News

Local Attractions Guide: Mariners' Museum

Associated Press
© November 11, 2008

NEWPORT NEWS

In honor of Veterans Day, The Mariners' Museum in Newport News is dedicating its new entrance wall.

Designed by the architectural firm Carlton Abbot & Partners of Williamsburg, the $1.3 million wall incorporates a 34-ton propeller from the SS United States.

The SS United States was a record-setting trans-Atlantic passenger liner built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in the late 1940s.

The 34-ton, five-bladed propeller rests upon one of the ship's original 63-foot-long propeller shafts at the entrance to the Mariners' Museum Park and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center.

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