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A 1951 photo of the Seabee chapel at Quonset, where Seabee veterans hopes to build a new museum.

PROVIDENCE -- The Seabee Museum and Memorial Park at the Quonset Business Park announced a $50,000 donation today that will help pay for a new museum celebrating the history of the Seabees.

The New Boston Fund, the Boston developers who are building the Quonset Gateway project at the state-owned park, are giving the money.

"We have come to know the Seabees," Jerry Pucillo, a senior vice president at New Boston, said today at a press conference at the State House, where he called the Seabees "our heroic engineers."

The new museum is being incorporated in the Quonset Gateway development.

In all, the Seabees hope to raise $250,000 for the new museum by the end of next year.

The Seabees were "naval construction battalions that speedily built docks, housing, and airstrips in combat zones during World War II," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Known by their slogan, “We Build, We Fight,” the Seabees' primary mission has been to handle critical construction projects in war zones.

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