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Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
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Author:  emperor_andreas [ August 31st, 2014, 5:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
The U.S. Navy has said its final goodbyes to two more of its old aircraft carriers. On 8 August 2014, the former U.S.S. Constellation (CV-64) departed Bremerton, WA for a 16,000-mile trip around the tip of South America to the scrapyard at Brownsville, TX. Thirteen days later, on 21 August, the former U.S.S. Saratoga (CV-60) departed Philadelphia, bound for the same place. The two ships will join their ex-fleetmate, the former U.S.S. Forrestal (CV-59) (which departed Philadelphia to meet her fate on 4 February 2014) at the American version of Alang.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /14296479/
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=82875

With these three gone, it leaves four conventional-powered carriers left awaiting their fates:

Bremerton, WA
ex-U.S.S. Ranger (CV-61)
ex-U.S.S. Independence (CV-62)
ex-U.S.S. Kitty Hawk (CV-63) (in Reserve status until 2015)

Philadelphia, PA
ex-U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (currently on Donation Hold)
Author:  Gollevainen [ August 31st, 2014, 6:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
Time marches on.
Nevertheless, its always sad to see great ships gone. It would be great homage to them all if someone would actually drawn them into the bucket.
Author:  KHT [ August 31st, 2014, 6:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
Gollevainen wrote:
Time marches on.
Nevertheless, its always sad to see great ships gone. It would be great homage to them all if someone would actually drawn them into the bucket.
"Hint, hint?"
Author:  heuhen [ August 31st, 2014, 6:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
KHT wrote:
Gollevainen wrote:
Time marches on.
Nevertheless, its always sad to see great ships gone. It would be great homage to them all if someone would actually drawn them into the bucket.
"Hint, hint?"
we have an team working on them (A dropbox team), but it have gone a bit slow lately. And I am just one that come in from time to time, with ideas and suggestions...
Author:  darthpanda [ September 18th, 2014, 1:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
My Saratoga CV-60 is almost 40%
Author:  Thiel [ September 18th, 2014, 3:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and say they're all going to end up being scrapped unless some of the museums decide to replace one of their existing ships.
Author:  TimothyC [ September 18th, 2014, 8:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
Thiel wrote:
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and say they're all going to end up being scrapped unless some of the museums decide to replace one of their existing ships.
The only carrier as a museum that is in good shape is Midway. She's got a good combination of being in a Navy town with a long history to draw a lot of volunteers. The rest of the museum ship 'carrier fleet' needs to be culled to maintain at least some level of sustainable funding for the survivors.

Any new ships are not plausible at this time.
Author:  emperor_andreas [ September 20th, 2014, 5:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
To my knowledge, the four other carriers that are museums are doing fairly well.
Author:  TimothyC [ September 20th, 2014, 8:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
emperor_andreas wrote:
To my knowledge, the four other carriers that are museums are doing fairly well.
I don't have any knowledge of Hornet or Lexington, but I've seen interior shots of Intrepid*, and she's in very bad shape. The news from Patriot's Point is that the crew association for the Yorktown has exerted such pull that the rest of the ships are in danger of sinking at their moorings. Hence my statement that the fleet should be culled.

*The Intrepid Museum ordered the images pulled down, but I saved them first, but now I can't find them.
Author:  ailgin [ September 20th, 2014, 9:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Farewell to Two More USN Veterans.
TimothyC wrote:
emperor_andreas wrote:
To my knowledge, the four other carriers that are museums are doing fairly well.
I don't have any knowledge of Hornet or Lexington, but I've seen interior shots of Intrepid*, and she's in very bad shape. The news from Patriot's Point is that the crew association for the Yorktown has exerted such pull that the rest of the ships are in danger of sinking at their moorings. Hence my statement that the fleet should be culled.

*The Intrepid Museum ordered the images pulled down, but I saved them first, but now I can't find them.
Sabotage? :shock: In all seriousness, the Intrepid Museum is very cool, but the last time I went must have been 5 years ago. I think that she should take some precedence since she also has a Concorde, a sub, and a space shuttle.
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