[Boatanchors] Mothball Fleet at Suisin Bay

[Anthony Quinn]

Now that's a post worth reading.  Thanks Tom

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From: Boatanchors [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Tom B
Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 8:52 PM
To: boatanchors at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Mothball Fleet at Suisin Bay

Hello All,

Speaking as a pinhead who works for the agency that owns those ships...  
I suspect that the photos are quite old and those ships are long gone. 
The ships are sold for scrap and most are moved to the Brownsville Texas
area for recycling.  By law, we may not sell them overseas.  Many of the
ships are stripped of items that are of historic interest, but I don't think
they have kept any radio equipment I know of.  Sometimes small articles are
sold through GSA auction.  If you really want to know more about the ships
and the scrapping program you can see the following:

Here is the vessel inventory that shows what ships are where and their
status. https://www.marad.dot.gov/wp-content/uploads/pdf/i170331.pdf

Here is a  description of the ship disposal program: 
https://www.marad.dot.gov/ships-and-shipping/ship-disposal/

Here is the annual report for the ship disposal program: 
https://www.marad.dot.gov/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2016-Program-Annual-Report.
pdf

If you want to know the history of a particular ship see: 
https://www.marad.dot.gov/sh/ShipHistory/ShipList?pageNumber=1&matchFromStar
t=True

Tom Bryan
N3AJA



On 6/1/2017 7:55 PM, john wrote:
> I'm sure the usual Federal pinheads will doom these to the briny depths.
>
> We need to get Dick Dillman and his posse to mount a night time raid, 
> and free these rigs from their government-mandated fate. Loose the 
> Greenkeys warriors!
>
> John K5MO :-)
>

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