Down here in South Texas the ships are called the “Columbus shipwrecks.” The city of Corpus Christi has totally mismanaged these ships to the point of ruin. As far as making them an attraction, they hid them under a bridge and enclosed them with a high screen so that visitors and tourists could not get a FREE look at them.
They should have been visible to the public as they entered the waterfront area so that they could be the centerpiece of the downtown shoreline. Did they do that? Nooooooooo.
Just another example of how political management of Corpus Christi embarrasses us all.
When I saw them they were at the waterfront area, not in the center, but I don’t remember them being under a bridge.