Film was taken by Irving W. Bieler. His son sent me the following, along with the film:
It's August 1965 and three (visible) tugs are bringing the battleship up the Taunton River. Most of the pleasure boats that have come out to welcome the ship are from the local Power Squadron, where my dad was the commander, even though he didn't own a boat, which I always thought was a neat trick.
We schoolchildren of Mass. contributed our change to buy the ship from the Navy.
The ship's radar was removed so it could fit underneath the Braga Bridge, which had either just opened or was about to.
There's a Coast Guard cutter and a Navy escort in the convoy. You can see the cutter's hull number so I'll let you google her yourself. I can't figure out what the other ship is.
The part where the camera swings wildly was caused by somebody's wake. I remember that my sandwich fell overboard.
The two little boys are my best friend and my little brother. Odd to think that we're all past 50 now.
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