USS Drum
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USS Drum is an attraction in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Stony Hill stands 68 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is PB MK3 Swift Boat, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Alabama's Coastal Connection passes 6.5 miles off.
The story
USS Drum (SS-228) is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. Drum was the twelfth of the Gato class but was the first completed and the first to enter combat in World War II. She is the oldest of her class still in existence.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q1331366, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1941
What to expect
- Operated by
- Battleship Memorial Park
How to reach it
- 6.5 mi off the Alabama's Coastal Connection, National
Named places within 25 miles
- USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
- Cooper Riverside Park: 1.4 mi
- Mardi Gras Park: 1.5 mi
- Bienville Square: 1.7 mi
- Seals Park: 1.7 mi
- PB MK3 Swift Boat: 0.0 mi
- Missile: 0.1 mi
- Piasecki H-21: 0.1 mi
- CG-41364: 0.1 mi
- Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard: 0.1 mi
- The Fallen Guardians Monument: 0.1 mi
- Lower Alabama Vietnam veterans memorial: 0.1 mi
- Vietnam Veterans of America: 0.2 mi
- Army: 0.2 mi
- Navy: 0.2 mi
- Restoration Area: 0.0 mi
- National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico: 1.3 mi
- Condé-Charlotte Museum House: 1.5 mi
- Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center: 1.5 mi
- Phoenix Fire Museum: 1.6 mi
- Portal: 1.4 mi
- Joe Cain: 1.5 mi
- Louis Armstrong: 1.5 mi
- Queen: 1.5 mi
- Holy Cross: 1.7 mi
- Red Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Twentyone Mile Bluff: 16.7 mi
- Twenty Four Mile Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Twentyseven Mile Bluff: 19.8 mi
- Thirty One Mile Bluff: 22.9 mi
- Cornerstone Gardens: 2.6 mi
- Central Presbyterian Church Community Garden: 2.9 mi
- Canterbury Place Garden: 9.8 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 11.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 11.7 mi
- Tensaw Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 8.5 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 8.5 mi
- Bayfront Park: 23.2 mi
- Blakeley: 6.9 mi
- Beaver Mills: 23.8 mi
- Stony Hill: 11.4 mi
- Weeks Bay Pitcher Plant Bog: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of USS Drum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NE 47° | 68 m | 11.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:51 | 19:23 | 19:59 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:46 | 16:19 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 62 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 80 | 71 | 61 | 55 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mobile Dwtn AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 86000086OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — USS DRUM (submarine), reference 86000086, listed 01/14/86.
OpenStreetMap element way/165619280
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