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Show Floating Museum of Naval Junk I Swings at Its Final Mooring j I ONTX)X. Sept. ny f.-.e Asso-i L elated Press.) A specter fleet of . more than 100 warships, a nondescript non-descript misceilany of iare and i small craft. sonv; v.orn out thro'.:K'n lrmp yca-rs of prosaic patrol duty, others prematurely aei by encounter with enemy submarines or participation in suh enfraement.s as Jutland or the 1 arua:.ei;e. Is touay anchored In the Rier :.ied.va: This jci.'-am of the war. a floating muse.: mu-se.: :n of naval junk, rwlr.gs at it last I mooriri.' a in rdonci. unwanted. Snip.4; I that were heroes amid ships that nevr j did anything bur "do? work" r;d- the tidal river currents :de by side milr-.s or i for.orn. rusty ,-,os's. Some were built in fevri.-:h r.st ' meet c m e r?e :icie z d ri :i g t h e war ; ro:n c ' ! I were cor. r true ted in peace-time leisure, ' but now they are all superfluous. I There is The Sappho, whose ma"hinery ! balked and cheated her of a KlorioiiH vjc-I vjc-I lory alongside the Vindict 1 ve, sunk a h a submarine barrier at ;he Zeeorujrm.- mole; there are ''blistered" cruisers, satn- pies of Jrit!sh naval constructors' in-I in-I ncnuity, built to stay afloat and In fight- j j In,' trim desnite torpedoes and mini-s: J ; battleships, ir.atles, Kunier-s, uscb--5. j shorn of l.-'.'-ir f".r.ns for service as Eolation Eo-lation hospital; the Inflexible. which I : fought at the Kalkia nd;;, was mined at the j Iiardar.e'.'es and survived the battle of; j Juthind. ThU specter fleet, slated for ihe salae I heap, s',!U rlderi salt "flhiiPK" v. airr, but Its days of blue water are pas;. An ehbi:. t!:e of war has left it as a. marker in a graveyard of t he sea. |