Come Board the Olympia
We welcome you to plan your next get away with us. We have fully renovated the Olympia. Schedule your next weekend get away, annievesary, birthday or special occasion with us. We will provide you with a fully restored vintage room, all inclusive experience. Learn firsthand what it was like being on the Olympia in 1892.
Olympia
From the moment of her launching in 1892, Olympia was a rare treasure in the U.S. naval fleet, as no sister ships were ever built. She is the world's oldest floating steel warship and the sole surviving naval ship of the Spanish-American War. Olympia served as Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay, which marked the U.S.'s emergence as a world naval power. Olympia's last official naval mission was to carry the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to the United States in 1921. In addition to being a National Historic Landmark, Olympia is also a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and part of the Save America's Treasures program. Beuna Launched in 1944, the Becuna (SS-319) completed five wartime patrols in the Pacific Ocean. Becuna is similar to many submarines built in Philadelphia for the U.S. Navy. Becuna is a BALAO-class submarine built in New London, CT. During World War II, "Becky" prowled the Pacific Ocean for Japanese ships, and is credited with sinking 3.5 Japanese merchant ships. Converted in 1951 to a Guppy 1A type with sophisticated radar and torpedo equipment including nuclear warheads, she is the only Guppy 1-A submarine on display. Becuna's Cold War missions often found her in the Atlantic, trailing Soviet submarines with eavesdropping equipment aboard. She served in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and ended her long and distinguished career as a training submarine. Becuna was decommissioned in 1969 and has been part of Independence Seaport Museum's Historic Ship
Zone since 1996. Becuna is a National Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. In
2001, Becuna received the American Welding Society's Historical Welded Structure Award is an official project
of Save America's Treasures.
