[Ingtar]

Did the radioactivity finally die off enough?

[artichokegrower]

Notice 3 screws on the ship? Very much European.

[Calvin Locke]

In August 1979, one of the ship's screw propellers was retrieved and placed in the Laboe Naval Memorial in Germany

Been for a while, apparently.

The US had trouble maintaining the boilers after the German transfer crew flew back to Germany, so the decision was made to use it as a target vessel, towing it from Boston/Philly, through the Panama Canal, to the target area.