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Posts Tagged ‘SS Red Oak Victory Ship’

Richmond’s SS Red Oak Victory hosts World War II reenactment

By Grace Oyenubi | October 13, 2016
The 455-foot SS Red Oak Victory, docked off of Canal Boulevard, is the last surviving of 747 ships built in the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards during World War II. Now a museum, the ship was the site of Saturday’s WWII Shipyard Reenactment, held in celebration of Fleet Week. Photo by Grace Oyenubi.

On Saturday, a World War II shipyard reenactment was held on the SS Red Oak Victory docked off of Richmond’s Canal Boulevard.

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Richmond Museum Association President Lois Boyle steps down after 30 years

By Jennifer Baires | January 17, 2013 | 4
Lois Boyle in her "office" on board the SS Red Oak.

After 30 years as the President of the Richmond Museum Association, Lois Boyle is retiring—sort of. “I’ll be 80 this year,” Boyle said, eyes shining as she reclined back in a felt chair in her office. Her office these days is a small, bare room on a historic battleship—the SS Red Oak Victory Ship. To get…

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