The USS Silversides Museum — a Muskegon mainstay known to Michigan youth as the place where they once spent the night on a World War II submarine — parted this week with one of its prized exhibits, a former old Coast Guard cutter.

The USCGC McLane metaphorically sailed off into the sunset.

"The McLane had been a symbol of service and strength for decades," museum Executive Director Veronica Campbell said in prepared remarks released on social media, adding that it "was difficult to say goodbye."

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