unusual method of mothballing a WWII warship

During the early 1970s the US Navy tried out a unique experimental new method of preserving warships in reserve, aboard the decommissioned USS Betelgeuse (AK-260). (photo from May 1972 issue of The Naval Reservist magazine) WWII and service before the experiment USS Betelgeuse did not start off as a commissioned WWII warship but rather as […]