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Rusting in the Mud: With No Way Out and No One Coming for the USS Ling

photo courtesy of Naval Nostalgia

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Hackensack NJ, Ground in the thick mud of New Jersey’s Hackensack River, listing heavily along the bank, sits the USS Ling (SS-297). Once the pride of the New Jersey Naval Museum, the historic World War II Balao-class submarine now faces an existential crisis—rusted clean through at the bow and stern, stranded in shallow waters with no funded restoration plan, no date for rescue, and no clear path out.