SCOOP tours the USS Orleck, 11.8.23 

Join SCOOP as we tour the USS Orleck on November 8, 2023. The cost of the event is $50, which includes a bus downtown and the tour of the Orleck.

The bus will depart Orange Park at 10:30 and we will arrive at the Orleck at 11am.  The bus will return to Orange Park by 230pm.

USS Orleck (DD-886), is a Gearing-class destroyer that was in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1982. In October 1982 she was sold to Turkey and renamed Yücetepe (D 345). After her final decommissioning the Turkish government transferred Yücetepe to the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation at Orange, Texas, where she was berthed as a museum ship. The Orleck Foundation then decided to move the ship to the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles, Louisiana. On 26 March 2022, she arrived in Jacksonville, FL, where she will serve as a Naval Museum on the downtown riverfront.