Submarine’S Sail Lands At Museum Site

Sat., May 13, 2000

Residents cheered and clapped as the 22-foot sail of the USS Hawkbill submarine reached its final destination at the site where a science museum will be built.

Schoolchildren and business owners lined the streets Thursday as police and the local Veterans of Foreign Wars color guard escorted the sail, which is the part of the submarine that is visible when it surfaces, through town. Residents later gathered at a dedication ceremony where the sail, which arrived in three pieces, touched the ground.

A committee has worked for years to acquire the Hawkbill sail as part of a science museum that members hope to build to commemorate the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and its history.

Town leaders wanted a piece of the Hawkbill because it ties into the laboratory.

Sailors in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program used to train at reactors in the Arco Desert before shipping out.

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