Posted on 12/26/2008 7:11:28 PM PST by buccaneer81
Sunken Soviet sub needs buyer -- or it's scrapped
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A former Soviet cruise missile submarine that was once featured in a Hollywood film and sank in the Providence River during a storm last year will be converted to scrap metal if no one agrees to buy it, the president of the foundation that owns it said Wednesday.
The 282-foot submarine, also known as Juliett 484, began serving as a floating educational museum in 2002, until it went down during a powerful nor'easter in April 2007.
Army and Navy dive crews raised the sub in a training exercise last July, and inspections showed the vessel had deteriorated and corroded during its 15 months underwater.
Restoring it to an operational museum would have cost more than $1 million, said Frank Lennon, director of the Russian Sub Museum and president of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, a private, nonprofit group.
"Based on the input we received from experts, the cost of restoring it was beyond our capabilities," Lennon said.
A local company, Rhode Island Metals Recycling, LLC, has agreed to move the sub downriver and eventually dismantle it for scrap metal if no one offers to buy it intact by the end of January.
"We remain hopeful that someone will step forward who might be interested in taking over the stewardship of this very interesting Cold War relic," Lennon said.
The sub, alternatively designated as K-77, was launched in 1965 as part of the Soviet Northern Fleet. The Juliett class was initially planned as a nuclear missile platform for strikes against the United States and later tracked U.S. aircraft carriers.
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I CALL WEPS! DIBS ON WEPS!
$50,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars?What does that equal in US dollars.I’d guess about 4 cents.
Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill - but it won’t even buy you a hamburger in Harare
I knew that, would "register" the Ancient Star Trek reference :) 
As a broke college student, I can only offer a pile of old homework and papers of varying quality, the opportunity to play my Wii, any free event-specific t-shirts I might acquire between now and whenever, and whatever loose change I can find in my couch =P
Very well, WEPS! Prepare to open outer tube doors. LOL!
With 200,000 registered posters, if each FReeper contibutes $5.00, I’d say we would be well on our way. Your couch should yield that much ;-)
But it's expired!
Gotta LOVE cash that expires! I guess that's one way to keep consumers spending their money... "Use it or lose it!"
Mark
Crew last seen traveling through Gloucester announcing ‘Emergency. Everyone to get from street!’
Is that duct tape on the bow?
Nah. Head on out to Long Beach and go through the Foxtrot they have parked there.
It certainly looks like duct tape. Submarine grade.
Did you put wheels on it, and enter the soap box derby?
I always wante to see an a picture of one of these assembled. Brings back alot of memories.
I am all for turning Russian weapons into plowshares. Someone bright once said: “Those who turn their weapons into plowshares end up plowing for those who didn’t.”
It sure looked like it to me but it would seem useless, even for duct tape, the universal “fixer upper”.
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