As might be expected, with a drop in ticket prices to their 1961 amounts, fifty cents adult and 25 cents child (from $12 and $6) and with all the hoopla about the 50th anniversary of the ship arriving in Wilmington, the USS North Carolina set an- all-time attendance record when 5,232 paid to board the ship Sunday.
Some more items of interest about the ship:
** Its sister ship, the USS Washington was the only US battleship ever to engage an enemy battleship in battle and sink it.
** The USS Washington was not saved by its state and ended up scrapped. Bet they wish they'd saved it now.
** The North Carolina was the first newly designed US battleship constructed in twenty years. (Washington Naval Treaty)
** First new construction US battleship to enter service during World War II.
More to Come. --Cooter
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