was:Re: [AT] Christmas Trees and Ships Plank Project nowLibertyShips

[Al Jones]

Charlie, speaking of the USS NC, have you looked at their website
lately?  They restored the original teak deck a couple years back, and
there are plans in the works to actually move the ship to Norfolk to a
drydock for hull repair/restoration and then return it to Wilmington.  I
>>WILL<< be in Wilmington to watch it leave and come back!

Al

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Mike I suspect the ones in Wilmington were protected that way too.  That

area is tidal, brackish water and the creek they were in was lined with
salt 
marsh.

Charlie
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> Up until the mid 1960s, there were about 50 Liberty ships lined up on
the 
> Hudson River in the Haverstraw NY area. They were not only tied up
side by 
> side but had massive cables connecting them with a powerful DC current

> passing through the hulls. This was the same electrolytic process that

> some of us use for de-rusting and served to keep the steel from
corroding 
> in the brackish Hudson River water (the river is tidal). For part of
that 
> time the ships were used to store surplus grain that the US government
had 
> purchased under one of the farm support programs. I suspect that the
grain 
> was eventually "donated" to some foreign country with starving
citizens, 
> and the ships were all scrapped.
>
> Mike
>
> DAVID BRUCE wrote:
>> Charlie:
>> I remember the mothballed ships when my family made a trip to
Wilmington
>> and to the USS North Carolina.  It must have been in the mid to late 
>> 60's.
>> Quite a sight for this sheltered country boy.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>>
>
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