Latest update on the USS Razorback Project 29 Jan 2004

Since 01-10-04

From: L, D. Remily [ldremily@jobe.net ]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:57 PM

The lateist; DD

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From: Don Cole
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Fw: Razorback

Taken off Rontini's Submarine BBS. For your info. :) Geo.
 
Posted by Greg Zonner on Fri - Jan 9 - 8:22am:

1-09-2004
Latest update on the USS Razorback Project.

The Turkish Government is almost done with the transfer documentation and they have informed us they would be here around the 16 of January for us to sign and send back. We have contracted John Adams (USN Retired) to stay in Turkey and oversee the shipyard work and preparing her for tow to the US. John has been helping us for the last year but he was due to come back to the US the end of 2003. The plans now are to move her from the Navy Base in Gölcük Turkey to the Shipyards in Tuzla (Istanbul) the second week of February. She will be there about 30 days before she starts her trip across the Atlantic to New Orleans.

This should put her in New Orleans around the 29th of April (Give or take a few days) and in North Little Rock the second week of May 2004.

North Little Rock has hired an engineering firm to design a mooring facility for the Razorback at it’s location at the base of the I-30 bridge.

The Arkansas Seabees Reserves are going to do a lot of the work to keep cost down. The mooring facility should be done long before the boat gets here. When we get exact dates I’ll get them posted.

This has been a long process (almost 2 years to the date we started) but it looks like this part is done and now we can move to the next phase of getting her ready for people to see.

Z