Our Visitor Center
Monday – Saturday 1000 -1730 (10 AM – 5:30 PM)
Sunday – 1200 – 1700 (12 Noon – 5 PM)
The Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association proudly operates the ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center which is located at The Jacksonville Landing, on the main floor, just a bit to the east of (or turn left as you enter) the Main Entrance.The ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center has an incredibly large selection of military caps, insignia, golf shirts, jackets, military-related apparel for men, women, and youth. Items on sale include various memorabilia, plus T-shirts and ball caps. Also on sale are ADAMS Class Museum clothing items and memorabilia. These items all come from Eagle Crest, Inc., a local Jacksonville producer of military goods. The Visitor Center also displays ADAMS class ships’ equipment, a lifeboat, a satellite antenna, radar repeaters, cruise books, videos, flags, and photos of the numerous ships of the class.The address for the ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center is:
ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center
The Jacksonville Landing
2 Independent Drive
Suite 144
Jacksonville, FL 32202
The telephone number is : 904-647-5177
Email: visitorcenter@adamsclassmuseum.org
Go to our PHOTOS page to see updated pictures of the Visitor Center
Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms
Jeff Zahratka, EMCM(SW) Retired, who’s first ship was the USS Lawrence (DDG-4), has written a book about his career in the Navy, entitled Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms. This book is now available at the JHNSA Visitors Center and Jeff has volunteered to donate all profits, made from the sale of his book through or at the JHNSA Visitors Center, to our project. If you wish to purchase this book, visit the Visitors Center or call/write the Visitors Center via:
ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center
The Jacksonville Landing
2 Independent Drive
Suite 144
Jacksonville, FL 32202
The telephone number is : 904-647-5177
Email: visitorcenter@adamsclassmuseum.org
Display Donations to the ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center
The ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center Needs Plaques from Several of the ADAMS Class Ships to be Displayed!!
Attention former sailors of the Adams Class Guided Missile Destroyers! The Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association (JHNSA) has been collecting donations or loans of the ship’s plaques of the entire class. Currently we need the donation or loan of plaques from the following ADAMS Class Ships – DDG-3, 6, 7, 9, 12,13,15,17,18, and 24. If you do not have a plaque but know a shipmate who does, please let him know of this project. Please contact Pat Stroud, the Manager of the ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center at The Jacksonville Landing by email (visitorcenter@adamsclassmuseum.org) or phone at 904-647-5177 if you can help us collect the “missing” plaques. Pat will keep track of the offers so we receive just one plaque from each ship. The plaques are being placed directly over each ship’s framed photo which hang along upper portion the walls of the Visitor Center.
Additional Items that are on Display
Richard Marek (our ADAMS Class Museum Australian Liaison) and his brother John have recently donated the following items to be displayed at the ADAMS Class Museum Visitor Center:
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A copy of Jane’s Fighting Ships, dated 1967-1968
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Two (2) photographs of HMAS PERTH
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HMAS BRISBANE Cruise Book, dated 1981
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HMAS PERTH chocolate tin
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A copy of the book, “Australian Navy in Viet Nam”
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Decommissioning Book, HMAS PERTH (Blue)
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Decommissioning Book, HMAS BRISBANE (Blue)
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Decommissioning Book, HMAS HOBART
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HMAS HOBART Plaque (Badge No 25) (Blue)
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Australian Navy Flag Pin
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Australian Naval Book
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Australian Navy 75th Anniversary Book
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Three First Day Covers
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Royal Australian Navy Book
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A USS NEBRASKA Warship postcard (1915)
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Also donated from our Australian friends are two ship models, a Dragon Model (1/700) of USS CHARLES F. ADAMS, and a Dragon Model (1/700) of HMAS PERTH.
Thanks so much to our Australian shipmates for letting us display these items!