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Show Still in Service I f " " ,k" K- 5 -rr V-" -3 ST PETERSBURG, Fla. . . . Pictured here recently Is the famous oia Joseph Conrad, last of the Square Riggers, still in service after more than a half century of visiting the four corners of the world Seiving as a training ship for future merchantmen seamen and United Mates Coast guardsmen, she was the first and only school conducted In America by the United States Maritime Commission. When the sauare rigger Is Anally decommissioned and brought home permanently perma-nently she is destined to become a ship museum. But sailors wno know, say she still has many years of usefulness left in her rugged old hull. |