Buffalo’s WWII-era battle cruiser getting new deck
The USS Little Rock moored in Buffalo, N.Y. The 610-foot-long cruiser was commissioned in June 1945. Image by Tim Gerland. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
The Buffalo News reports that workers recently began replacing the USS Little Rock’s wooden deck. The crews are tearing up the pressure-treated lumber covering the 70-year-old warship’s deck and replacing it with a long-lasting vinyl-type covering.
The Little Rock is part of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park, which also includes two other World War II Navy vessels: the USS The Sullivans, a destroyer, and the USS Croaker, a submarine.
The decommissioned Little Rock’s wood-planked deck has been exposed to Buffalo harsh winter weather since it arrived in the late 1970s.
So far, $275,000 in donations and grants are secured for the half-million-dollar project.
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Information from: The Buffalo News, http://www.buffalonews.com
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The USS Little Rock moored in Buffalo, N.Y. The 610-foot-long cruiser was commissioned in June 1945. Image by Tim Gerland. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
