Portal:Philadelphia/Selected picture/May 2008

credit: Jan's Cat

The USS Olympia is located at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Olympia was a protected cruiser in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Olympia was laid down June 17. 1891 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California and launched on November 5, 1892. Today a museum at Penn's Landing, the Olympia is the sole floating survivor of the U.S. Navy's Spanish-American War fleet.