Digital Photos - September 27, 1999 - Day
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Sea Victory's Chief Engineer Andy
Cleland enjoys the tug's "steel beach" while reading a biography of Admiral Lord
Horatio Nelson, whom he calls Britain's greatest naval hero.
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USS New Jersey glistens in the
tropical morning sunlight, as she makes her way to the tip of Baja California Monday, on
her way to the Panama Canal, some 2,200 miles Southeast.
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Chief Engineer Andy Cleland in Sea
Victory's wheelhouse during a briefing session with Captain Ogaard about the tug's engine
room ins-and-outs one recent morning.
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The Sea Victory, a 150-foot, 7,200
horsepower, twin-screw ocean towing tug is performing as advertised on her USS New Jersey
homecoming voyage, shown here in Crowley Marine Services Inc. literature.
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Large oceanic cargo ships pass by the
USS New Jersey more regularly now, as did this one this morning. She is a little
closer to the North-South traffic lanes of international shipping into and out of the
Panama Canal.
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The first visible sunset with USS New
Jersey in several days was seen this evening, with its companion, the cooler evening air,
notifying everyone that the Tropics have been reached.
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