Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Step onto the Fletcher-class destroyer USS KIDD (DD-661) and experience her three-day voyage as this 82-year-old museum ship is towed from her home in Baton Rouge, LA, USA, to Thoma-Sea Shipyard in Houma, LA, USA. Departing down the Mississippi River on April 30, 2024, she traveled to the mouth of the river, across the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Houma Navigation Canal to her destination. There, she will spend the next several months undergoing hull repairs and other restoration / preservation efforts.

00:00 - Intro
03:20 - Day 1 - Baton Rouge departure
05:19 - Speed Record
07:04 - Sunshine Bridge
08:12 - New Orleans
09:08 - Day 2 - Head of Passes
10:50 - Gulf of Mexico
15:49 - Day 3 - Barrier Islands
21:59 - Arrival at Thoma-Sea
28:45 - Outro

The USS KIDD Veterans Museum is a non-funded state agency that receives no regular state or federal funding.

To support this drydocking effort:
usskidd.com/support-our-mission/membership/donate-to-uss-kidd

Music credits:
Acoustic Guitar 1 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0