Currents: The Potomac Blog
Grounded at Shangri-La
In the fall of 1941 after five years of maritime service including on ocean waters, a panel of Coast Guard inspectors suddenly announced that the USS Potomac was unseaworthy. The cause given was that she was “top heavy” with a new deck added when...
FDR’s Run for a Third Term as Planned on the USS Potomac
George Washington set the precedent, reinforced by Thomas Jefferson, of a two-term limit for United States presidents. It was challenged 141 years later by Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had won two terms by landslides in 1932 and 1936. No president...
Historic USS Potomac Launches a Maritime Workforce Development Project with West Oakland Job Resource Center, thanks to $430,000 in Grant Funding
New collaboration marks increased economicefforts to support the local maritime industry, in the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt OAKLAND, August 31, 2024 - With the help of a $430,000 combined grant from the state of California, the USS Potomac Association, which owns...