Spiegel Grove was commissioned in the year 1956 and was decommissioned in 1989. The ship helped enforce America’s strategy of containment for the Cold War. After being decommissioned, it sat in a “mothball fleet” in James River, Virginia, before it was acquired by Monroe County in June 2001. After the ship was cleansed intensely in Virginia, it was sent off to Key Largo in … [Read more...]