USS Drum (SS-228) (Mobile, Alabama)

 Second World War 1939-1945, submarine, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, submarine museum, U.S. National Historic Landmark

2703 Battleship Pkwy.
Mobile, AL

Gato Class Submarine:
Laid down: 11 September 1940, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME
Launched: 12 May 1941
Commissioned: USS Drum (SS-228), 1 November 1941
Decommissioned: 16 February 1946
Placed in service: 18 March 1947, as a Naval Reserve Training Vessel in the Potomac River Naval Command
Reclassified Auxiliary Research Submarine, (AGSS-228) 1 December 1962
Placed out of service in 1962
Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, New London
Struck from the Naval Register: 30 June 1968
Final Disposition: sold to become a floating memorial at Mobile, AL, 14 April 1969.
Drum received 12 battle stars for World War II service.

www.navsource.org/archives/08/08228.htm

Beginning in the early summer of 2001, the Drum was moved from the muddy Gulf of Mexico waters beside the USS Alabama battleship and placed on dry land on a permanent fixture beside the newly constructed aircraft pavilion. Volkert & Associates, Inc., an engineering design firm, handled the move. www.volkert.com/Awards/USS_drum.htm
This was done by digging a small canal, flooding the canal, floating the boat into the canal with the help of tugboats, and then draining the canal. Then she was placed upon and chained to large, concrete cradles. The approximate cost of this move was $1.4 million. The feat earned numerous awards for engineering.
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