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![]() The image above is a rendering of the current proposal, showing USS CHARLES F ADAMS (DDG-2)
NEWS UPDATE JANUARY 3, 2009 The USS BERKELEY (DDG-15) Association has made a $1,000.00 donation to the ACVA ! We received a check for $1000 from Alvin W. Meier and Gerald K. Hansen of the Association. We want to send out a major THANK YOU to all our shipmates in the BERKELEY Association - this donation will help us immensely!
NEWS UPDATE NOVEMBER 15, 2008
An article on the effort to establish the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Museum, utilizing the former USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG-2), appeared in the just released NOV/DEC 2008 issue of "The Navigator", the bi-monthly newsletter publication of the Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), Branch/Unit/Club 91 (the local Jacksonville area Branch of the FRA). Click on the following link, FRA_Article, to see the article. The effort to berth the USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG-2) as a Naval Ship Museum as a part of the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Museum project received nation-wide news coverage in the October edition of SEAPOWER, the monthly magazine of the Navy League of the United States. NEWS UPDATE OCTOBER 30, 2008 The beginnings of Navy Birthday Celebration started on Thursday morning when ACVA Treasurer Craig Bernat picked up Bert Watson in Fairfax, VA. Craig’s truck was full of guided missile destroyer shipboard equipment that was being transported to Jacksonville to be put on display for the Navy celebration at The Jacksonville Landing.
On Sunday the crowds were very enthusiastic and the long lines for the GROVES tours were long, with several thousand people being turned away. The Jax River Taxi manager is very supportive of the museum plans and would like to land his craft at the mooring pier once the museum is opened. Towards the end of the weekend, one of the coordinators of the NAVY Birthday Celebration came by the JHNSA booth and expressed that the JHNSA booth was the most popular booth there of the four booths(Naval Order, Navy League, USO and JHNSA). NEWS UPDATE - OCTOBER 15, 2008 The USS SELLERS (DDG-11) Association recently conducted their bi-annual Reunion in Baltimore, MD in early September. During their Business Meeting, SELLERSmen voted unanimously to donate $2,000 to the ACVA for the effort to berth the USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG-2) in Jacksonville, FL as a Naval Ship Museum that will honor all 23 ADAMS class DDGs. If the Museum is in place in Jax in 2010, the SELLERS Association will be having their next Reunion there! ![]() In early September, the USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) Association concluded their reunion in Annapolis, Maryland with a presentation by ACVA President Bob Branco updating the latest progress by ACVA in the effort to have ex-USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG-2) donated by the Navy to become the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Museum. After the presentation, Goldsborough Association President Pat Taylor presided over a unanimous Business Meeting vote to donate $2,500 to ACVA supporting the project. The ACVA and JHNSA send out their special thanks to the SELLERS and GOLDSBOROUGH Associations for their generous contributions supporting the establishment of a naval ship museum to honor all 23 ships of the Adams class and their Navy veterans. NEWS UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 15, 2008 THE JACKSONVILLE HISTORIC NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM Capt. Dave Tungett (NAVSEA PMS 333) & Tom Schodowski (JHNSA) JAX VISIT. On August 11, 2008, Captain Dave Tungett, Program Manager for the Navy's Inactive Ships Program met with Bert Watson, Jim Aldrich, and Tom Schodowski in Jacksonville to view the planned site for ex-USS CHARLES F. ADAMS DDG-2 on the St. Johns River. In addition to presentations from the ACVA/JHNSA leadership, Capt. Tungett met with representatives from the Mayor of Jacksonville’s office, local hotels, and Duval County Schools who highlighted the positive benefits of the ship museum to the community in Jacksonville. PHILLY SHIP VISIT. On August 28th ACVA/JHNSA leaders visited to CHARLES F. ADAMS in Philadelphia to update Donation Application planning ideas before their meeting with NAVSEA PMS 333. Bob Branco, Bert Watson, Jim Aldrich, Pete Mansel, Craig Bernat, and Steve Weber completed another good survey of the Adams and a tour of ex-USS EDSON to develop some new display ideas about about preparing ADAMS as a museum. NAVSEA MEETING. Our meeting on Friday August 29th with Capt Dave Tungett and Glen Clark lasted over 4 hours and the discussion created a good path for providing answers to the questions on the Donation Application. Later in the meeting we discussed Curatorial Plan questions with the Naval Historical Center Curator, Mark Wertheimer. We also obtained lists of Naval Historical Center artifacts from all of the ships in the DDG-2 class that are available to develop excellent displays to memorialize all 23 ships in the museum. The revised Donation Application is due to NAVSEA at the end of January 2009. NEWS UPDATE - JULY 28, 2008 ![]() (L-R) Jim Aldrich, CNO Admiral Gary Roughead, Bert Watson CNO ENDORSES THE ADAMS CLASS SHIP MUSEUM
THE “NEW CHARLIE DEUCE” ![]() NEWS UPDATE - JULY 11, 2008 NAVSEA RESPONSE TO DONATION APPLICATION The deadline for responding to NAVSEA PMS 333 Donation Application questions is January 30, 2009 Introduction The Adams Class Veterans Association is an IRS registered 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization. Our Mission
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