Olympia had first been placed into service in 1895 and is now the oldest steel warship still afloat in the world. She has resided in Philadelphia since 1922, became a museum ship in 1957 and is now part of the Independence Seaport Museum.

She has been docked alongside the World War II-era submarine Becuna at the museum in Penn’s Landing since 1976.

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