{"id":216836,"date":"2026-04-03T00:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:41:03","slug":"governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-designating-s-s-american-victory-as-floridas-state-flagship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216836\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ron DeSantis signs legislation designating S.S. American Victory as Florida\u2019s State Flagship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alachuachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unnamed-41.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unnamed-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101311\"  \/><\/a>Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis<\/p>\n<p>Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 249, redesignating Florida\u2019s official state flagship as the S.S. American Victory, replacing the schooner Western Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was proud to sign HB 249 to designate Florida\u2019s new state flagship, the S.S. American Victory,\u201d\u00a0said Governor Ron DeSantis. \u201cThis historic steamship is one of just a few surviving Victory Class ships built during World War II. As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of our nation\u2019s founding this year, it\u2019s a great time to visit our new state flagship in Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The S.S. American Victory, built in 1945, delivered supplies to U.S. forces in World War II and continued service through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Today, it is permanently docked in Tampa as a museum and memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-216836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}