VIDEO: Minesweeper to be rebuilt by Stockton students

Central Valley Business Times

VIDEO: Minesweeper to be rebuilt by Stockton students 

STOCKTON 
March 15, 2012 9:00pm

    

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Back in the day, Stockton in the Central Valley was a busy boat building port, at one point employing some 30,000 workers building everything from rowboats to yachts to military craft, including minesweepers.

Now, a minesweeper launched in the early 1950s that is the same design as those once made in Stockton, is being restored by students at the Stockton Building Futures Academy, part of the San Joaquin County Superintendent of Schools Office.

Once it’s shipshape, it will become a tourist destination as a museum ship on Stockton’s downtown waterfront, says David Rajkovich, co-founder and executive director of the Stockton Historical Maritime Museum.

He provides the rest of the story in this video:

The USS Lucid was actually constructed in Louisiana but it’s the same as three minesweepers built for the U.S. Navy in Stockton at the Colberg Boat Works in the early 1950s.