DID YOU KNOW? By Leah Davis Witherow, Curator of History Story of Us: USS Colorado At 12:35 p.m. on March 22, 1921, Mrs. Ruth Melville of Denver, daughter of Colorado Senator S.D. Nicholson, smashed a bottle of muddy Colorado River water against the USS Colorado BB-45 to officially launch the $27,000,000 battleship into the water at Camden, New Jersey. This was the third namesake ship for the state of Colorado, and it was from this ship that in 1961 the spare helm and an accompanying plaque were presented on “Navy Day” to the City of Colorado Springs by Rear Admiral J.F. Jelley Jr., and Rear Admiral G.R. Luker. Both men served aboard the USS Colorado BB-45. The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is deeply proud to preserve and share these important pieces of American History on permanent display in our Story of Us exhibit. EMERGENCY STEERING STATION USS COLORADO APRIL 4, 1944
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