Nose replacement surgery for USS San Francisco

Damaged submarine to get a new nose

BREMERTON, Wash. — Workers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard are preparing to transplant the nose of a soon-to-be-retired submarine, the USS Honolulu, onto the USS San Francisco, which ran into an undersea mountain in 2005.

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