When the hull was brought out of the river in the 1960s, it was cut into three sections.
The Blake Moving Company of Greensboro was hired to move the CSS Neuse and they were hired by Group III Management of Kinston which is overseeing all aspects of the move. D.S. Simmons, Inc. of Goldsboro is general contractor for the new museum construction.
A steel frame latticework will be built around each section of hull and supports. Wheels will be attached to the latticework and hitched to a heavy-duty truck and moved to the museum.
It is expected that the move will take three hours and another two hours will be spent getting it into the museum and installed on its permanent supports.
The museum is expected to be fully operating by late summer or early fall 2013.
Go, Neuse!! --Old B-Runner
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