Texas Clipper To Be Scuttled Friday
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Texas Clipper To Be Scuttled Friday
The old floating classroom dubbed the Texas Clipper will be scuttled Friday.
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(November 16, 2007)--The expected arrival of a cold front prompted a one-day postponement in the scuttling of the old Texas Clipper oceangoing classroom ship, but the plan is to sink the ship on Friday, weather permitting.

Officials want to use the 60-year-old-plus former maritime training vessel as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico off South Padre Island.

The 473-foot ship for years ferried students from Texas A&M University at Galveston around the world.

From 1965 until 1994, the Texas Clipper was used as a floating classroom for maritime science, oceanography and marine biology students at A&M's Galveston campus.

During World War II the ship was the USS Queens and carried troops and wounded from the battlefield.
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