North Shore Scenic Railroad moves anchor from <i>USS Duluth</i>

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North Shore Scenic Railroad moves anchor from USS Duluth

I believe that is the New York Shipyard of Camden, New Jersey.
They built many ships for many years before closing down thirty odd years ago.

This is great. But I am a little unsure by reading the article as to whether it traveled from San Diego by rail or what?

I doubt it was scrapped in San Diego. Decommissioning there makes sense since it’s a major naval base but most scrapping is done overseas or along the gulf coast.

The Duluth was decommissioned in San Diego and towed to Hawaii to lay up. Last fall it was towed to Brownsville, TX to be scrapped. The anchor was trucked to Duluth.

Mr. Schreiber: New York Shipbuilding in Camden, NJ did build many USN ships, but the USS Duluth, LPD-6, was constructed at the New York Naval Shipyard, commonly called the Brooklyn Navy yard.

I made a “WESTPAC” deployment aboard her in the late seventies. I was assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Twelve (HM-12). LPD’s were often used for AMCM (Airborne Mine Counter Measures) missions due to the well deck being able to launch the MK-105 Magnetic Minesweeping Sled, that was towed by the Sikorsky RH-53D used at that time. The Navy figured out how to cram 6 helos on the flight deck. I was a Plane captain, and several times I couldn’t inspect the rear of the helo because the tail was out over the water!