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ORIGINAL USS ARCADIA AD 42 SOLID BRASS SHIPS PLAQUE

$ 33.79

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    Description

    This is an original Arcadia AD42 ships plaque.
    This plaque is solid brass or bronze, 1/2 " thick and weighs 3 #.
    USS
    Acadia
    (AD-42)
    was a
    Yellowstone
    -class
    destroyer tender
    in the service of the
    United States Navy
    , named after
    Acadia National Park
    . She was inactive and in reserve after her 1994 decommissioning at
    Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
    (NISMF),
    Pearl Harbor
    , Hawaii, under maintenance category B, until sunk off Guam during a live-fire training exercise (
    Valiant Shield
    ) on 20 September 2010. She was the first ship to house a wartime mixed-sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed "The Love Boat" in the 1991
    Persian Gulf War
    after 36 women (10% of women in the crew) became pregnant during deployment.
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