Fireworks – 4th of July Celebration
14th Annual Battleship Blast
Sunday July 4th 2010
5:00pm-9:30pm

The Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, Time Warner Cable, Sunny 104.5 and Pepsi present the 10th Annual Fabulous Fantail Film Festival. Come enjoy an evening with the family aboard the Battleship as a different film will play every Friday night in May. This years” line up includes favorites such as Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Indiana Jones at heart and The Wizard of Oz for those who feel like those no place like home.

Visitors to the coast this summer can mix arts and heritage along with sun and sand at “2nd Saturdays: History, Heritage, Arts & Fun” events organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resource. The fun will place at all 37 museums and Historic Sites around the state on June 12, July 10 and August 14, including the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA in Wilmington.

Cape Fear Area Attractions (CFAA) started their 2010 season off with a boom as Civil War reenactors at Fort Fisher State Historic Site fired a reproduction 12 lb Napoleon cannon from the hill side!
Over five years ago, several local attractions came together as an initiative to promote tourism amongst the various sites in the Cape Fear Region. From this group a program emerged called the Cape Fear Explorer Passport. The program’s intent is to have your “Passport” stamped by at least six of …

The Easter Bunny has returned and is hiding eggs all over Battleship Park for the 3rd annual Eater Egg Hunt on April 2, 2010 at 9:30 am, 11:30 am and 2:00 pm at the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA. Children, ages 2 – 9, will have an eggscelent time scurrying around the park trying to find as many Easter Eggs as they can!
“We”ve talked with the Easter Bunny,” says Programs Director, Danielle Wallace,“and he told us that this year he will also be hiding Golden Eggs. There is something extra special in …

The Azalea Coast Amateur Radio Club will operate from the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA during the North Carolina QSO Party on Sunday, February 28, 2010. The event runs from Noon until 8:00PM local time. The purpose of this annual “HAM RADIO” event, sponsored by the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club, is to allow amateur radio operators worldwide to contact as many of North Carolina’s 100 counties as possible.

By Ed Fore
The Carolina Sports Medicine Battleship NC Half Marathon & Bay Six Battleship 5K was a huge success. We had participants from 27 states with 1,227 in the Carolina Sports Medicine Half Marathon and 537 registered in the Bay Six 5K which were both records. We had 69 Walkers in the half marathon and are very proud of that fact.

Saturday, March 13th, join us for a unique, behind-the-scenes tour of un-restored areas of the Battleship. The four-hour tour consists of small groups with guides. Guests explore the bow (officers’ country and boatswain locker), third deck (Radio II, brig, after gyro, storage rooms, ammunition handling, Engineer’s office, torpedo area), engine room #3, the cold storage compartments, and up inside the fire control tower to the top of the ship. The Azalea Coast Radio Club will be in Radio II to explain their work on the ship’s radio transmitters.

It’s a new year and you don’t want to spend the first day hanging around your house. What is there to do on New Year”s Day that is fun and inexpensive and the whole family can enjoy? Well, the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA is a great place to visit for the first time or even your second or third time. Opening at 8:00 am until 5:00 pm on January 1st she welcomes you aboard! Admission is only $12 for adults 12 and over, $10 for seniors (65 and older) and retired …

Come have fun aboard the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA for the 1st annual Batty Battleship’s Halloween Bash. Carnival festivities will invite trick-or-treaters of all ages on Tuesday, October 27 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
Bring your family in their best Halloween Costumes for games, candy and more! Inflatable bouncer, fishing for ducks it’s all a part of the fun! Also, don’t miss a ride on a pony or a llama. There will face painting, story telling even a mini haunted house, the festivities continue on.