Court: ‘K-19: The Widowmaker’ sub must be removed from river

By: The Associated Press

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River.          

The hull of the submarine, known as Juliett 484, rests mere feet from shore in the city.              

State environmental officials sued to get it, and several other vessels, removed.              

A Superior Court judge ordered Rhode Island Recycled Metals LLC in December to begin removing vessels from the river, adjacent to the scrapyard.              

The permitting process is underway now.              

After the Cold War, the sub was sold and used as a restaurant and vodka bar and as a set for “K-19: The Widowmaker” before being turned into a floating museum.     

It sank during a nor’easter in 2007 and was sold for scrap.

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