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General
Hoyt S. Vandenberg was built as a transport ship for US
Navy in 1943, and transported troops to the Pacific under
world war two. She was stricken in the US Navy lists in
1958 and transferred to US Air force as a rocket and
instrumentation ship in 1963. She did service in the air
force until 1983. After many years laid up and out of
service she was scuttled 1,5 nautical miles south of Key
West in Florida 27.May 2009 as an artificial reef. The
wreck rest on a depth of 15 to 43 meter.
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| 24° 27' N 81° 44' W ( Source: Navy Memoryshop )  Picture: General Hoyt S Vandenberg Wikimedia, Public domain 
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