JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The sail of the USS Jacksonville nuclear submarine, the only US Naval ship to be named after the city, is officially back home in its namesake city. <\/p>\n
Its arrival Wednesday marked the end of its six-day journey from Seattle to a marina on Jacksonville\u2019s Eastside.<\/p>\n
Local Navy veterans gathered to watch as each piece was offloaded and placed in their temporary home.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Among them, Stephen Jorgensen, who once sailed on the USS Jacksonville and has spent a decade working to bring the sail back to the sub\u2019s namesake city.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I reported aboard, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be where I am now here, you know, 40-plus years later,\u201d said Jorgensen.<\/p>\n Action News Jax was first to tell you in July<\/a> when the US Navy officially released the sail structure to Jorgensen\u2019s group Bring the Sail 2 Jax<\/a>.<\/p>\n Councilmember Will Lahnen (R-District 3), a former submariner himself, just got involved in the project last year.<\/p>\n He said the sail\u2019s return marks a major milestone in the effort.<\/p>\n \u201cHaving the only warship named after Jacksonville to now have a significant part of its structure here, that means a lot to me. It means a lot to our overall veteran community as well,\u201d said Lahnen.<\/p>\n Jorgensen explained local volunteers will spend the next year working to refurbish and reassemble the sail and the ship\u2019s rudder.<\/p>\n When it\u2019s done, his plan is for the sail to be permanently displayed near the USS Orleck, honoring local Navy vets and also standing to educate the next generation.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not only just the military side, it\u2019s the engineering aspect. Having the MOSH right next door to that, you know, think about it. You have designed a basically piece of steel that\u2019s designed to sink on purpose and come back up!\u201d said Jorgensen.<\/p>\n The project up to this point has been completely funded through private donations, meaning no tax dollars were expended to make the move happen.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The sail of the USS Jacksonville nuclear submarine, the only US Naval ship to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,160008,55102,160010,160007,969,116,118,117,160011,65767,125169,634,635,10485,142856,628,649,142853,160006,160009,136063,150588],"class_list":["post-402478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-bring_the_sail_to_jack","tag-casey","tag-east_jacksonville","tag-fairwater","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jake_staufan","tag-jake_stuffan","tag-jorgensen","tag-local","tag-navy","tag-seattle","tag-steven_jorgensen","tag-us","tag-us_navy","tag-uss_jacksonville","tag-uss_jacksonville_nuclear_submarine","tag-uss_orlech","tag-uss_orlich","tag-will_lanen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402478","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=402478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}