When visitors step onto the ship, it will look like the crew just left,” said Parks Stephenson, Executive Director of the USS KIDD Veterans Museum. “We will manage the ship like a museum exhibit.

The Fletcher destroyer, the USS Kidd, has been missing from Baton Rouge for a year. It is being repaired and restored in dry dock in Houma. Repairs are explained here.

The Kidd, a 370-foot Fletcher-class destroyer, saw major action in WWII, was later deployed in the Korean War, ... There is not a whole lot of money out there for a non-profit museum ship.

The walk through the museum begins in Africa in the hull of a slave ship. “When you come into this space, it’s usually pitch dark,” says Fletcher.

The Kidd, a 370-foot Fletcher-class destroyer, saw major action in WWII, was later deployed in the Korean War, ... There is not a whole lot of money out there for a non-profit museum ship.

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19 ... Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. ... vice president for education and access at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19 ... Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. ... vice president for education and access at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.