Preservation Efforts
The non-profit Mare Island Park Historic Foundation is raising money to return Drum to Vallejo as a floating museum ship. In Fiscal Year 1997, the United States Congress authorized the transfer of Drum to Vallejo at "no cost to the U.S. Government". If enough money were to be raised to cover the cost of that transfer, Drum would be transferred to Vallejo after removal of her nuclear reactor and decontamination of her hull.
These efforts were unsuccessful.
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