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Story Number: NNS040326-01 Release Date: 3/26/2004 8:51:00 AM Special release from the U.S. Department of Defense WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England announced March 25 that under the authority of Title 10 United States Code Section 7306, the historic tugboat Hoga will be donated to the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM), a qualified non-profit organization located in North Little Rock, Ark. Before its opening to the public later this year in Arkansas, AIMM plans to perform work necessary to display the tugboat as a Navy memorial. "I'm pleased this historic vessel will be preserved as a...

The Navy secretary backs Arkansas as the Hoga's new home Arkansas, not Hawaii, will be the home of one of the last survivors of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the tugboat USS Hoga, Navy Secretary Gordon England has decided. The Navy said a nonprofit organization in North Little Rock, Ark., wants to display the Hoga as a Navy memorial. More than $400,000 has been pledged by the project, which has the backing of the city of North Little Rock. The decision by the Naval Seas Systems Command dashes the hopes of a local group that has been...