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Mallard in command. Toward the end of the shakedown period she served as flagship for Admiral Jonas Ingram, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, during his South American tour of inspection.

On 7 November she sailed to Guantanamo Bay for further training She then proceeded to Pearl Harbor, enroute for duty in the 7th Fleet. She participated in type training and made one reserve training cruise off the west coast before placed out of commission in reserve at San Francisco 9 April Bremerton was recommissioned 23 November After refresher training she joined the 7th Fleet for her first cruise of the Korean war zone.

The venerated vessel, which turns 40 on Sunday, will live on through the 1, crew members that served on board, Lindberg said. There's also a chance that a piece of the venerated submarine — its sail — could become a landmark in the city for which the boat is named. The Bremerton-Olympic Peninsula Council Navy League , a booster organization, has expressed interest in keeping the sail to be placed at a park in town.

Bremerton Mayor Greg Wheeler said that while the financial effort to save the sail will have to "be community-driven," he wants to see if there's a way the city can help. Wheeler has a new spot for the sail he believes would give it visibility and help an underutilized park.

He likes the idea of placing it in the ground at the city's World's Fair-created Roto Vista Park , just off of the Warren Avenue Bridge's southeast corner. Wheeler noted that planned pedestrian improvements on the nearby bridge could pair well.

It was then towed for three days to the open ocean for sinking. This effort was the unified command's second attempt to dispose of the 6,ton hulk, which had broken free from another tow a week earlier, only to return ashore along the central Oregon coast.

An estimated , gallons of thick crude oil remained in the ship's fuel tanks after Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, from Whidbey Island, WA, torched more than half of the hazardous material February As intended, the resulting punctures allowed trapped air to ventilate.