The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, September 16, 1994             TAG: 9409160578
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   18 lines

CLOSING DOWN THE HUNLEY

ILLUSTRATION: IAN MARTIN/Staff

Sailors on the submarine tender Hunley wait for their commanding

officer to arrive at the ship's decommissioning ceremony at Norfolk

Naval Station on Thursday. The 32-year-old ship was one of the

Navy's first to get female crew members, and almost 40 percent of

the crew are women.

by CNB