Photo: Frank Mullin

Battleship Cove puts the FUN in fundraising! Far from your typical stuffy fundraisers, the museum's special events combine exciting locations, fine dining, and a brass swing band. Most important, all proceeds support the museum's "preservation for education" mandate.

Whom might you meet at Battleship Cove special events? The names read like a Who's Who list of American leaders in the arts and sciences. Past headliners include:

  • Dom DiMaggio, former Red Sox slugger
  • Walter Cronkite, legendary journalist
  • Sam Waterston (above, at the wheel of a 12-meter yacht), star of NBC's award-winning crime drama, "Law & Order"
  • Cliff Robertson, Academy-Award-winning Hollywood icon
  • General Alexander Haig, Jr., President Reagan's Secretary of State and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
  • Jesse Ventura, former MN Governor and Navy SEAL
  • Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of Titanic, Bismarck, & PT109
  • Perry King, star of "Rip Tide" and "Melrose Place"
  • Hon. Anthony Principi, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • RADM Rodney Rempt, Superintendent of the US Naval Academy

Contact Battleship Cove to learn how you can get involved in our next event!

 

VICTORY AT SEA: Emily and Dominic DiMaggio want you to enlist in Battleship Cove's major summer fundraiser, Victory at Sea. This blockbuster weekend combines yacht racing in America's Cup thoroughbreds with a gala dinner on the USS Massachusetts fantail and an elegant Bon Voyage reception at Harbour Court, the palatial Newport clubhouse of the New York Yacht Club.

2004 Guests of Honor
General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Former MN Gov. Jesse Ventura

2003 Guests of Honor
"Law & Order" star Sam Waterston

2002 Guests of Honor
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi, Actor Perry King, Heinz Endowments Executive Director Maxwell King, & America's Cup champion William Koch

2001 Guest of Honor
Actor Perry King

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UNCOMMON VALOR WITH CLIFF ROBERTSON: As filmgoers, we have known him for years as the charismatic hero of movies like PT 109, Midway, and The Naked and the Dead, but at last the friends of Battleship Cove have had the opportunity to meet Academy Award-winning actor Cliff Robertson in person during Uncommon Valor: A Tribute to the Medal of Honor, sponsored by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.

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STARS & STRIPES: Join the elite ranks of the Stars & Stripes Commission and claim your handsome half-model of USS Massachusetts! Battleship Cove's most prestigious level of annual giving, Stars & Stripes enlists an exclusive group of...Ctd.
Teak deck on BB59: Restoring the teak deck on BB59 is a major project that requires your help.
Paint the T-28: Retired naval aviator W. Lincoln Mossop wouldn't let his T-28 look sloppy; this generous corporate member volunteered to fund the entire painting project!
Restore the Quonset Hut: This classic structure is home to PT 796, a National Historic Landmark, but she is rusting at the seams. Please help us give this building the TLC it so desperately needs.
 

 

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