USS Sturgis Ready for the Scrap Yard

I worked on the project performing MARSAME surveys on the USS Sturgis for the past several months.  This bit of history from WW-II and then the late 1960s to mid-1970s was an amazing vessel.  She was modified in the late 1960s and it is told that as a teenager, Jimmy Buffett worked on the conversion of the ship.  It was used in the Panama Canal Zone as a floating 10 MW power plant until 1977 and was towed back to the shipyard in Virginia.  The decontamination work was done in the Port of Galveston beginning in the spring of 2015 and was finished in August of this year.