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  • Navy's In Port For Carnival (Mardi Gras)

    02/20/2004 4:13:40 PM PST · by blam · 6 replies · 646+ views
    Mobile Register ^ | 2-20-2004 | George Werneth
    Navy's in port for Carnival Crews of two vessels will be among downtown's happy crowds through Fat Tuesday 02/20/04 By GEORGE WERNETH Staff Reporter About 400 sailors on two Navy warships arrived at Mobile on Thursday to submerge themselves in the last riotous six days of Mardi Gras. The commanding officer of the Norfolk, Va.-based USS Stout, Cmdr. George Bonsall, said he put in the request to bring his vessel to Mobile this year for Carnival. The Stout, a 505-foot-long guided missile destroyer with some 350 officers and crew, is the official 2004 Mardi Gras ship. "I had the pleasure...