OT: RIP USS Clamagore SS-343

[timmyg00]

excerpt from an email received from my USSVI shipmates:

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the USS CLAMAGORE SS 343, the last FRAM 3 GUPPY, will be removed from Patriot Point and sold for
> scrap metal.
>
> The Point has not received any of the federal funds they were promised, and so to cut costs, the Destroyer USS LAFFEY, which recently underwent 9.2
> million dollars in repairs will be sold to another city, and the Clamagore, which requires 3 million dollars in repairs will be sold for junk.

The news does not appear to have made it onto the website yet: http://www.patriotspoint.org/exhibit...clamagore.html

RIP, 343...

TG