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TIL - After the USS White Sands was decommissioned in 1974, a company then bought it and had to move the ship with an 81' beam through the 80'-wide Ballard Locks. It was done by weighing down one side of the ship and then transiting the locks while tilted 38 degrees, at high tide.

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