By Ben Tsujimoto
Special to The News
In 2018, Buffalo Naval Park officials and marine engineers considered a plan to tow the USS The Sullivans, the decommissioned destroyer now in crisis in Buffalo's Inner Harbor, across Lake Erie to Erie, Pa., to be docked on land so lasting repairs to the ship's hull could be completed.
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Ben Tsujimoto can be reached at btsujimoto@buffnews.com, at (716) 849-6927 or on Twitter at @Tsuj10.
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