I spent a moment last night watching the USS Elliot DD-967 Decommissioning Video that Ens. Jeff Underwood (now of MissionMediaUSA) was selling at the ceremony in December 2003. The video doesn’t show the decommissioning but it does show some of the ship and interviews from the last crew. Jeff gave me permission to post a copy of it, so I put it here. Its an MPEG4 file shrunk to … um, 160 megabytes, so start the download and go take a nap while it completes. You’ll probably only want to watch this if you served on the Elliot, truth be told.
I also went hunting and think I found a photograph from Elliot’s last day. A midshipman there for summer training posted pictures from the SINKEX that day. I originally thought the ship in the middle of this picture might be Elliot under tow, but its more likely another ship lining up to take a shot at Elliot.