San Diegans can celebrate the 240th anniversary of the United States Navy this weekend by touring the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup docked downtown.
The Shoup, an Arleigh Burke-class vessel named for a former commandant of the Marine Corps, tied up at Broadway Pier on Friday.
Public tours of the ship are scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Tuesday, Oct. 13, marked the 240th anniversary of the date the Continental Congress commissioned the U.S. Navy prior to the Declaration of Independence and the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
