“That’s great,” she said, regretting the redundancy. She sounded like a giddy schoolgirl. While hustling past a World War II submarine and a Spanish-American War cruiser, Anna became incapable of small talk. Two historic sea vessels comprise the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing. The submarine is USS Becuna. Soon after being launched in 1944, the US Navy submarine operated war patrols during World War II and is credited with sinking several Japanese vessels. She was decommissioned in 1969 and became a museum ship in 1976. Beside her since the bicentennial is the USS Olympia. The steel cruiser served the US Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898 and remained in service until 1922.
