What's Happening in Stockton, CA…

A United States Navy Minesweeping ship from 1953 is set to be permanently docked at the Stockton Maritime Museum along the waterfront.

President of the museum, David Rajkovich, expressed his excitement that the museum will get a great deal of visibility once this ship opens to the public as a museum ship. Announcements of such openings can be made known to the public through banner printing.

The ship, the USS Lucid is 172 feet long and was built in 1953 in New Orleans as part of the World War II Emergency Shipbuilding Program of the United States. In 2011, it was donated to the museum and is the last ship of its kind built during World War II that still exists in this country.

CEO of Visit Stockton, Wes Thea, said that the move of the ship to downtown Stockton has been something that the community has been waiting for for a long time. Rhea said that the ship always needed to be in the downtown and this move is significant in that the city has not had anything to celebrate in the shipbuilding or maritime history of the downtown.

The museum is also working on adding installations and land structures to support the display of the ship. Rajkovich said that as some fencing and landscaping needs to be done, it may be a year and half before the ship is opened to the public.