“There she is.”
On Halloween morning after a 15-hour 120-mile trip across Lake Michigan from a dry dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a pair of tugboats nudged the USS Silversides up against her berth in the Muskegon Channel.
“It was so naked without her.”
Silversides museum social media director Nicole Hayden live streamed the homecoming on Facebook.
“A very smooth docking. It was a very smooth sail through the night.”
The USS Silversides sank or damaged at least two dozen Japanese ships during World War Two. She moved from the Chicago Navy Pier to Muskegon in 1987 where she anchors the USS Silversides Submarine Museum.
“One of the most successful submarines from World War Two.”
On the Muskegon Rising podcast museum director Veronica Campbell said the ship went to dry dock for much needed exterior improvements.
“A brand-new paint job resembling how she would have returned after World War Two. Removal of mussels, you could smell her a mile away. Testing the hull, replacing of steel.”
The trip to Sturgeon Bay was the first time in dry dock for the USS Silversides in 72 years.
“It is so good to see her back. What a happy Halloween.”
