NEWSTALK 860 » texas seaport museum http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:46:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Tall Ship Elissa in Dry Dock for Repairs http://ksfa860.com/tall-ship-elissa-in-dry-dock-for-repairs/ http://ksfa860.com/tall-ship-elissa-in-dry-dock-for-repairs/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:35:26 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=89429 The "Official Tall Ship of Texas", the Elissa, has been pulled into a shipyard dry dock in Texas City to get a much needed overhaul - stem to stern, as they say.  Let's just say that at the ripe old age of 135, Elissa's mileage is showing.

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