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2013-06-20 -Obits-

USS Enterprise heads out on final voyage

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-06-20 11:55|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Same fate as all the Enterprises. But the fate of CV-6 rankles the most, arguably the finest fighting ship in US Naval history, in a league only with Constitution, it was scrapped in New Jersey after plans fell thru to make it a museum ship in NY. Even saving the tripod mast for the Naval Academy failed..... piss poor performance. But it was so soon after the war it was inevitable.

Sadly nuclear powered ships will never (well not anytime soon) be allowed to be museum ship.

Posted by Shipman 2013-06-20 12:58|| 2013-06-20 12:58|| Front Page Top

#2 I know that the first nuclear powered commercial ship is a floating museum: there's a block of concrete where the reactor was...

Posted by Ptah 2013-06-20 14:52|| 2013-06-20 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 By goodness you are right as usual Ptah, the Savannah.... I wonder if it used a less enriched core?

Anyone?

Posted by Shipman 2013-06-20 14:59|| 2013-06-20 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Was told many years ago by one of the docents aboard USS Yorktown at Patriot's Point, SC (he was a veteran of USS Bon Homme Richard in WWII)and we got to talking about the fate of CV-6. He pointed out that not even Bull Halsey had enough pull to save her, and nobody could figure out why until it finally occurred to them: CV-6 would have been preserved and cared for, and politicians would look at it and say, "Why, this ship looks just fine! You admirals don't need any more new carriers, just keep using the old ones!"

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-06-20 18:10|| 2013-06-20 18:10|| Front Page Top

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