The given photo shows the “Hope” on a Sunday morning taking its final voyage to a scrapping yard in the Port of Brownville. The Brownsville Times was on site when the photo was taken on a Wednesday, March 4, 1975. The picture was taken by Patti Patane.The dawn was beautiful, and the Gulf of Mexico was relatively calm as it welcomed this decorated vessel. The waters of the Gulf subsided its choppy tone as making its movement a smoother one.The SS Hope originally was commissioned as a naval hospital ship U.S.S Consolation, recommissioned in 1960 as the world’s first peacetime ...