New lease on life for ex-Navy ships From: Sea Power | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright Navy League of the United States Dec 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The former Knox-class frigate Aylwin, commissioned in 1971 and stricken from active U.S. Navy service in 1992, is prepared for transfer to Taiwan as the Ning Yang at Detyens Shipyard, Charleston, S.C. (formerly the Charleston Naval Shipyard). Now in the fourth year of its contract to manage the shiptransfer program for the U.S. Navy, VSE Corp. has guided 19 ships through the reactivation process at domestic U.S. shipyards.

The U.S. Navy's post-Cold War decision to rapidly reduce the size of its active fleet has created both problems and opportunities. One of the problems is the need to ...

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