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AP News : Floating relic of Cold War rhetoric dumped in Delta without a home

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Monday, July 20, 2009 1:15:26 PM GMT Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:42:14 PM GMT

SAN FRANCISCO – Half a century ago, six men with no sailing experience climbed aboard an aging Chinese junk in Taiwan and survived a typhoon that nearly wrecked the little ship. But after sailing nearly 7,000 miles across the Pacific, they were greeted by cheering crowds as they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Now that turn-of-the-century junk, which experts say may be the last salvageable vessel of its type, could be destroyed if it does not find a permanent home by the end of December. With it w...

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