Recent Years
Seattle accompanied the John F. Kennedy carrier battle group on deployment to the Persian Gulf in June 2004. On August 12, 2004, Seattle rescued twelve crew of the Indonesian flagged cargo ship Edha II - delivering the survivors to Umm Qasr Port, Iraq. On December 14, 2004, she returned to Norfolk.
Seattle decommissioned on March 15, 2005.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago with men and women long since dead.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“till seven years were gane and past,
True Thomas on earth was never seen.”
—Unknown. Thomas the Rhymer (l. 79–80)