http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:17:00 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1390 The senior ship on the United States Navy list and the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world last visited New York in August 1931. Her arrival was reminiscent of J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire: the square-rigged wooden man-of-war being nudged along by the minesweeper USS Grebe. Freshly]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390/feed 0