re: #203 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Navy ship museums are generally operated by private foundations/charitable groups.

Here in NYC, the Intrepid is a private foundation, and had to raise a ton of money to repaint and renovate spaces a few years back (they had to pull the ship out of the muck in the Hudson River so that they could bring her to drydock for doing the repairs, but the first attempt failed so they had to get assistance to dredge the water around the hull).

Other ships around the nation face similar issues - the need to raise funds to maintain the ships and keep exhibits current. Never ending tasks.

But that’s better than sending these historic ships to the scrappers. And more than a few have ended up there - most recently the USS Ranger since there was no one with the financial backing to take it off the Navy’s hands.