Rebuilt Bowfin museum showcases ‘silent service’ story

A $20 million, 12,000-square-foot USS Bowfin submarine museum opened Monday with a new name and striking look that charts the course of Navy undersea duty, from the loss of the USS F-4’s 21 hands off Honolulu in 1915 up through the newest $6.5 billion Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.

Constructors Hawaii (CHI) was part of the design and construction team of the newly built Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum.

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A formal ceremony will be held next week for the reopening of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum.

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Chuck Merkel, executive director, with a submarine torpedo.