A National Historic Landmark docked in Wilmington was in the running for the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards as best museum ship. Here's the results. Battleship North Carolina was one of 20 ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built ...

The ship was decommissioned in 1947 and was going to be sent for scrap metal but North Carolinians petitioned for the ship to be preserved as a museum ... Charters in Wilmington (141 reviews ...

Here are the best museums to visit in Wilmington NC with kids. Across the Cape Fear River from Downtown Wilmington sits the USS North Carolina Battleship. The World War II combat ship is now a ...

Here are the others: As climate challenges grow, Battleship NC works to solve chronic ... leaders who raised funds to bring it to Wilmington as a museum. It was dedicated on April 29, 1962 ...