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For Immediate Release
Two Flag Officers Join Friends of the Cruiser Olympia Advisory Board, November 28, 2011
Friends of the Cruiser Olympia Move Forward on Ownership Request, November 11, 2011
Friends of the Cruiser Olympia Adds New Board Member, November 11, 2011
Cruiser Olympia Congressional Commemorative Coin Bill, October 18, 2011
Friends Host Reception and Dinner on Capitol Hill, June 14, 2011
Olympia in the News
Philadelphia’s ‘Titanic’ Progenitor, April 12, 2012, Michelle Durham, CBS
Historic Ships Struggle to Stay Afloat, April 2, 2012, Yowei Shaw, All Things Considered
Preservation Row: Olympia suitors are narrowed to four, November 28, 2011, Alan Jaffe, PlanPhilly
U.S.S. Cruiser Olympia Silver Commemorative Coins Proposed, October 24, 2011, by Darrin Lee Unser, Silver Coins Today
Six groups, two of them local, want to take over Dewey’s ship Olympia, September 10, 2011, by Edward Colimore, Philadelphia Inquirer
OLYMPIA Update, September 2011, Excerpted from the Independence Seaport Museum newsletter The Masthead
Candidates Step Up to Care for Olympia, April 13, 2011, By Alan Jaffe, PlanPhilly
Last call for the region’s most endangered sites?, December 28, 2010, Alan Jaffe, PlanPhilly
The USS Olympia, Rusting Symbol of America’s Age of Empire, November 28, 2010, Chris Manteuffel and Rachel Manteuffel, Washington Post
Spanish-American Warship Spared, at Least for Now, November 18, 2010, Edward Colimore, Philadelphia Inquirer
USS Olympia under Attack by Economy, November 13, 2010, Christopher Eger, Suite101.com
USS Olympia, One-of-a-kind Steel Cruiser, Battles for Survival, September 7, 2010, Joann Loviglio, Associated Press in Christian Science Monitor
The Olympia may be Headed to a Watery Grave, August 22, 2010, John F. Lehman, Philadelphia Inquirer
Efforts in Philadelphia to Save Showpiece Ships, August 18, 2010, Bill Marsh, New York Times
Nobody Asked Me, But. . .The Olympia Needs Our Help, July, 2010, Craig Hooper, US Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine, Vol. 136
