The first Fighting Seabee statue shown above in Port Hueneme is located inside the Seabee Museum. It was built sometime between the 1960s and early 1980s. It was originally installed outside.

The second Fighting Seabee statue in Port Hueneme is located in front of the Seabee Museum. It was built for the museum in 2011. [map]

The third Fighting Seabee statue shown above in Port Hueneme is located inside the Seabee Museum. It was built of painted wood in 1942 for the Naval Base in Port Hueneme. It was restored in 1959. It became part of the museum collection in the 1970s. It was restored again in 2009 for a special exhibit and then put on permanent display at the museum.

The museum has four other Seabee statues in storage. This statue is a replica of the Seabee created in the early 1950s for the Seabee Camp at the US Navy base located at Cubi Point, the Philippines. When the current museum was built in 2011, the statue was moved to another location on the base.

There are hundreds of other Fighting Seabee statues in the country and around the world including these in Gulfport, MS, North Tonawanda, NY, and Coronado, CA. Most of them are located on base properties which means you need a military pass to see them.

The Seabee motto is "we build, we fight." The name is derived from the acronym "CB" which stands for "Construction Battalion"