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Mediterranean in 1995 - 1996. Port visits included La Maddalena, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal. In September 1996, Sunfish departed Norfolk for the final time. After a transit through the Panama Canal, the crew became "shellbacks" by crossing the Equator (at a classified
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