Two more ''Ghost Fleet'' ships will be scrapped

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This thing is an environmental disaster in the lurking. Thank God they're getting these things out of the James R.

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NEWPORT NEWS -- Two more obsolete Ghost Fleet ships on the James River will be scrapped, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced today.

Bay Bridge Enterprises of Chesapeake will dispose of the Shirley Lykes for $860,000, Deputy Maritime Administrator John Jamian said during a news conference near the fleet, anchored off Fort Eustis.

Another ship, the Neosho, will go to International Shipbreaking Ltd. of Brownsville, Texas. That contract is for $1, since higher steel prices and better ship conditions make the ship less costly for the scrapping yard to dismantle.