The U.S.S. Washington being escorted across the Upper New York Bay to the Naval Supply depot at Bayonne where she will be decommissioned. A veteran of action in the Atlantic and Pacific, the Washington will join the “operation mothball” fleet in reserve, with her guns and engines greased and webbed ready for an emergency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5
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54The U.S.S. Washington being escorted across the Upper New York Bay to the Naval Supply depot at Bayonne where she will be decommissioned. A veteran of action in the Atlantic and Pacific, the Washington will join the “operation mothball” fleet in reserve, with her guns and engines greased and webbed ready for an emergency. Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5
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