# Question about the USS Pueblo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 30, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208 "2008-07-30T05:24:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/1 "2008-07-30T05:24:34Z")
The US Navy still keeps the USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in commission following its capture by the North Koreans in 1968. It is my understanding that a ship in commission has a Captain.
While it may be entirely ceremonial, who is the current Captain of the Pueblo, and who have the Captains been since Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher in 1968?
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### Author:  [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/2 "2008-07-30T11:58:24Z")
Is [this site](http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/association/associaframe.html) of any use?
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### Author:  [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/3 "2008-07-30T12:32:22Z")
There are several tags which are greyed out–home port, maint cycle, etc. They’re simply N/A, just like the skipper. I believe it’s only considered a commissioned ship due to politics, so I’m guessing Big Navy has long since forgotten about her (and rightly so).
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### Author:  [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/4 "2008-07-30T17:04:07Z")
Pueblo isn’t in commission. It’s included in the Naval Vessel Register, meaning it’s owned by the USN, but it’s not comissioned. I should not that while the NVR has the ship listed as “Active, in Comission” here at OPNAV, it’s not listed as comissioned.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/5 "2008-07-30T17:45:49Z")
And that, I think, settles that.
Got to love the Dope.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-uss-pueblo/458208/6 "2008-07-30T19:34:51Z")
FWIW, _Pueblo_ is still afloat as a museum in North Korea.