In a May 20, 2016 photo, battleship staff Leslie Watson unpacks items from the Tiffany & Co. silver service given to the Battleship New Jersey for the captain’s quarters by the state of New Jersey. (Camden Courier-Post via AP)
CAMDEN, N.J. — Some of the silverware once used for special occasions aboard the historic Battleship New Jersey has been returned to the ship.
Nearly half of the 105-piece Tiffany & Co. set was returned to the ship docked in Camden last week after a 15-year effort to have the set moved from the New Jersey governor’s mansion at Drumthwacket.
The Courier-Post reported that some of the set owned by the U.S. Navy dates to 1906 and has been on loan to the Drumthwacket Foundation since 1991, when the ship was decommissioned for the last time before it became a floating museum on …
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