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Description The U.S. Navy Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Sphinx (ARL-24) moored to a pier at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), during the ship's recommissioning ceremony. The decommissioned destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD-951) is visible to the right.
On 30 September 1971, Sphinx had been placed in reserve, out of commission, at Puget Sound. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 April 1977. Sphinx was reacquired by the U.S. Navy in 1985 and commissioned on 26 July 1985. In 1985, the ship went through a $25 million overhaul to become an intelligence-collection platform. It conducted patrols off the Pacific coast of El Salvador monitoring the actions of the communist guerrilla forces. The ship was decommissioned for the last time on 16 June 1989 at Norfolk and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Sphinx was finally scrapped in 2008.
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