Today’s mystery photo is a full masted ship. Tell us about it and send your idea to ebrack2@gmail.com. Be sure to note where you live.
Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C., identified the recent Mystery: “It is the World War II Home Front Museum, located in the historic St. Simons Coast Guard Station in Georgia, which was opened to the public in 2018. The Coast Guard Station was constructed as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration projects in 1936.” The photo was sent to us by Tim Keith of Sugar Hill.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas offered more: “The building served as an active U.S. Coast Guard station from 1936 until 1995. During World War II, the station played a critical role in local defense, including saving the crews of two merchant ships, the SS Oklahoma and the SS Esso Baton Rouge, after they were torpedoed by a German U-boat (U-123) off the coast on April 8, 1942. After the station was decommissioned in 1995, it was transferred to Glynn County, and the Coastal Landmark Preservation Society was formed to protect the site and pursue its restoration as a museum, first opening as the Maritime Center at the Historic Coast Guard Station, featuring exhibits on natural history and Coast Guard service, and then reimagined in December 2018 as the World War II Home Front Museum to chronicle the region’s wartime activities.”
Also sending in the correct answers were George Graf of Palmyra, Va., Cindy Hall of Canton; and Stewart Ogilvie of Rehobeth, Ala.
- Share a Mystery Photo: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Click here to send an email and please mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
