Accession NumberP823Title (extended title only)USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54DescriptionWooden plaque with raised motif of USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54 – gold inscription plate which reads; ‘To the City of Fremantle on the occasion of our visit 11 April 1997 From the Officers, Men and Women of USS Curtis Wilbur DDG-54’Date11th April 1997ProvenanceUSS Curtis Wilbur visited Fremantle in April 1997. USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight I) Aegis guided missile destroyer. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, forty-third Secretary of the Navy, who served under President Calvin Coolidge. In 2016, she was based at Yokosuka, Japan, as part of Destroyer Squadron 15. Built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, she was commissioned in Long Beach, California, on 19 March 1994. Relevance to the CityVisits by ships of the US Navy were common in Fremantle from World War Two onwards – Helps show the relationship between Fremantle and the US Navy. This plaque was given to the City by the Ship's CO, Cer CT Nichols
