Key West's budding Floating Ships Museum has a new member: the US Coast Guard Cutter Ingham. It arrived just a few days before Thanksgiving this year and is now settled permanently at the East Quay Wall at Truman Waterfront.The Ingham was launched in 1936 and served during World War II, The Korean War, and the Vietnam War. During World War II, she escorted supply ships across the Atlantic. She was decommisioned in 1988 and this week brought to Key West to become a permanent installment in the Floating Ships Museum at Truman Waterfront. She joing the USS Mohawk, another highly decorated war ship.
She's not only part of this museum, but also a memorial to Coast Guardsmen killed in action during World War II and Vietnam. A total of 912 casualties are memorialized on a plaque at the quarterdeck area of the ship. She's also a National Historic Landmark.
To get to the Floating Ships Museum, drive west on Southard (it's a one way street) all the way to the end and park on the gravel near the fenced waterfront area.
