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Photographer:
Chris Howell [ View profile ]
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Jun 11, 2011
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Auckland NZ
1981

Built 1940 as Delorleans for Delta Lines
1941 to USN and converted to Attack Transport renamed USS Crescent City.
1948-1971 laid up San Francisco.
In May 1971, she was loaned by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) to the California Maritime Academy who renamed her TS Golden Bear. She sailed on 28 major ocean cruises over 24 years. In 1995 she was returned to MARAD and the Reserve Fleet.
In August 1999, custody was transferred once again by MARAD, to the Artship Foundation of Oakland, California who renamed her Artship as part of a failed art colony project. Artship was sold in 2004 to be scrapped in Texas, but dismantling was halted due to high PCB levels and because she was considered too historic. She is now laid up, and an eventual sale for scrap is possible. People in the city of Berkeley possess interest in saving her.[1]. The ship is currently docked at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard as of September 2008.

She visited NZ as USS Crescent City in 1942,1943 and 1944
and as Golden Bear in 1973,1976 and 1981.

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