James Allison III, 22, came from the University of Texas at Austin to volunteer on the U.S.S. Orleck. Volunteers sealed parts of the ship and did some welding to get the ship ready to be towed to Lake Charles, La. The ship, which was built in 1944 in Orange, has been in Orange since 2000 after a local group acquired it from the Turkish Navy. 
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