On closer examination, it appears to be a flat-bellied barge with a Butler-type building perched on it. Navy designator YRBM-1 is painted on the hull -- or is it a wall?

Actually, it's exactly what it appears to be; a floating building. Since we're on the subject of historic ships today, swing by the waterfront near Aloha Tower and take a quick look at YRBM-1, the lead ship in the "Yard Repair, Berthing and Maintenance" class of humble U.S. Navy yardcraft. It will soon be history itself, as the Navy has sold it for scrap to American Work Boats of Honolulu, who will raze the superstructure and keep the barge hull.

YRBM-1 was built in Pearl Harbor in 1955 and is more than a hundred feet long. Others followed in the class, which became famous as the "Delta Hiltons" of the Mobile Riverine Force in the Vietnam conflict. The YRBMs were home base for the fleets of small patrol craft that prowled the delta of south Vietnam, and are fondly remembered by veterans. One YRBM was the target of a Vietcong sapper assault that resulted in several American casualties.

The U.S. Navy, as usual clueless when it comes to historic preservation and naval history, are disposing of the remaining YRBMs -- including this historic first ship -- when an example could have been earmarked as a floating museum of the "Brown Water Navy." But the Vietnam-war era is something the Navy would just as soon we forget about, apparently. YRBM-20, the most famous of the Vietnam "Hiltons," is now berthed in San Diego.

Maybe in 200 years, like the Endeavour, someone will have to build a replica of a YRBM because none were saved.

Miller visited the set of the NBC TV series "Third Watch" and interviewed Hawaii actor, Anthony Ruivivar, who stars in the drama. That interview will be featured in a segment for "The Hawaiian Moving Company" on KGMB.

Highlights of the trip:

A cover-photo session with Gym, a national magazine;

Interviews on the "Fox and Friends Morning Show" and "FOX News Now" on Fox;

Meetings with editors of TV Guide, Teen, YM, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, and Cosmopolitan.

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