After two decades of effort, a memorial constructed from the remains of a Navy submarine named for the Queen City is ready for its christening. The USS Cincinnati Cold War Memorial Peace Pavilion will be dedicated this weekend.
The Cold War-era memorial in West Chester’s Voice of America MetroPark features the conning tower, or sail, from the former USS Cincinnati submarine, along with the sub’s rudder, which is about 17-feet tall and 13-feet wide, and the back-up diesel engine, which was painted red and referred to as the “Big Red Machine” in homage to the Reds’ baseball team lineup in the ’70s.
The design is 360-feet long and meant to resemble a full-scale submarine in dry dock through which visitors can walk. It cost $9.5 million…