https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:33:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:17:00 +0000 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]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1390/feed 0