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Stamford all the way to the parade, as May 25 was gray, cold, and blustery, with a fair spread of froth around the bay. After the parade up the river to mid-Manhattan, three ships - a guided- missile cruiser, guided-missile frigate, and an oiler - went back across the harbor for Stapleton, some practically in a dead-ship state as the tugs guided them through the breeze. The Pakistani oiler Maowin, higher and broader than most of the sleek warships, took the attention of the Beth

McAllister, Brian A. McAllister, and Stamford.

Also kept busy as the week progressed were the

Bruce A. McAllister, Charles D. McAllister,

Joan McAllister, and Iona McAllister.

Among this armada of McAllister and sub- contracting tugs were all sorts of variants on a shipdocking theme, from the classic design of the Stamford to the Beth's Z-drive modernity. A textbook could have been written, citing the

Bruce's elevating wheelhouse and the Charles' flanking rudders. For anyone interested in a spectrum of maritime architecture, there was range aplenty among the floating weapons and the floating tools of Fleet Week '05. The stars of the show were, of course, the warships, with the carrier John F. Kennedy by far the most impos- ing - and perhaps the most sentimental, as word got around that this would probably be her last visit to New York. But guided-missile destroyers and frigates and cruisers - U.S.S. Porter, U.S.S.

Carr, and U.S.S. Cape St. George - were also on- hand, sharp, sleek, formidably graceful.

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