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Marcel B. Surdo
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Sorry for the bad quality, it is a scan from my old slide. It became a bit grainy over the years. The photo was taken at Nassau, Bahamas in December 1975.
Until I could identify the following picture
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=375429
as being of MARCEL B. SURDO I had no idea of the real name of the ship in my picture. Unluckily I had not made a note of her name while I was in Nassau. At home from faint memory I labelled the pictures as BONHOMME RICHARD. My pictures don’t show any name.
Since I lost trace of her since January 1976 my pictures prove that she was still around at that time. Maybe it helps digging out infos on her fate.
Also see:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6629&forum=1
Regards,
Werner
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Ken B. wrote:
Dear Werner,
Since you know her earlier career as a movie ship, I will not go into it. After
you saw her in the Bahamas, she was towed to Tampa, Florida in July, 1980. There were plans to restore her as the Bonhomme Richard by the Tampa Bay Maritime Museum. She was in the movie "John Paul Jones" with Robert Stack but I believe she played the Bonhomme Richard's enemy in the movie, the frigate Serapis. Not much work was done before the ship sank at her berth in Tampa in October, 1981. The wreck was considered a danger to navigation by the U. S. Coast Guard and was dragged off and broken up. There was one report that the wreck was blown up while on the bottom. In any case, she no longer exists.
Regards,
Ken
Thanks to Ken, another mystery is solved.
Regards,
Werner
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