Seawolf Park

Congress mandated it after World War II: every state would build a memorial to a submarine lost in the war. Texas chose Pelican Island, just north of Galveston, on a site that once processed immigrants. The park takes its name from USS Seawolf, a submarine mistakenly sunk by U.S. Navy forces in 1944. What stands here now is a working museum — submarine USS Cavalla, destroyer escort USS Stewart, the visible remains of WWI concrete tanker SS Selma — plus a fishing pier open to the public.