Jacksonville’s museum warship USS ORLECK (DD 886) will celebrate its third anniversary in Jacksonville on Wednesday March 26th.

The Downtown Development Review Board has approved plans to build a temporary welcome center and office space for USS Orleck DD-886 Naval Museum proposed for the city-owned Shipyards property ...

USS Orleck DD-886 arrives in Port Arthur Lieutenant Orleck, who had received numerous other medals during his life was honored with the rare naming of a ship, a United States Destroyer, after him.

Leaders say that your donation will support establishing the USS ORLECK DD-886 as the centerpiece of the Jacksonville Naval Museum. CLICK HERE to donate.

Donations to keep the ORLECK a Naval Museum Ship can be sent HERE. In November, the Jacksonville Downtown Development Review Board approved plans to build a temporary welcome center and office space ...

Near the USS Orleck’s new home is the fire museum which was moved there last year but it’s not yet opened. Eventually, the Museum of Science and History (MOSH) will move to the area as well.

Last week the Downtown Development Review Board (DDRB) approved the design plans for a temporary welcome center and office space for USS Orleck DD-886 Naval Museum, according to a report from The ...

The Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association intends to have the USS Orleck DD-886 as its main attraction for museum-goers and ship enthusiasts everywhere.

The USS Orleck Naval Museum (USSONM) will celebrate the 68th anniversary of the 15 September 1945 Commissioning of the USS ORLECK DD 886 by the U.S. Navy on Sunday.

The destroyer Orleck (DD-886) adds 5-inch gunfire support to an attack on a Vietcong stronghold near Vong Tau, a city at the mouth of the Saigon River in South Vietnam, March 1966. (Photographer's ...

The USS Orleck has made its home in Lake Charles for the past decade but will soon make a 16-hour trip to Port Arthur, Texas, then trek for a week to Jacksonville, Florida, to join the Jacksonville ...