Supercarrier USS Forrestal on final journey to scrap heap

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Associated Press

Published: February 5, 2014


PHILADELPHIA — The Navy's first post-World War II supercarrier has left Philadelphia on a final trip to a scrapping facility in Texas.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says the massive aircraft carrier USS Forrestal left under tow early Tuesday to begin its 17- or 18-day trip.
The 60-year-old ship is being taken to a Brownsville, Texas, recycling facility owned by All Star Metals, which was paid 1 cent to haul away and dismantle it.
The USS Forrestal was decommissioned in September 1993, after more than 38 years of service.
It's best known for a 1967 fire on its flight deck that killed 132 crewmen and injured 62 others.
The Navy made the USS Forrestal available for donation as a museum or memorial but says it received no feasible applications for reuse.

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[FoxtrotOscar]

Sold to the scrap yard for $00.01... Yep, a penny...

Politicians sure know how to make a buck...

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Sorry , but the politicians paid the scrap yard to take it . They really know how to make $$$ .
She was a fine ship ,may she RIP.
Semper/Fi .

[Rocky C]

That's a shame no one took it for a museum.
There are a lot in Massachusetts.
It's nice to tour them.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal_%28CV-59%29

USS Forrestal (CV-59)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The USS Forrestal (CV-59), formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59, is a supercarrier that was named after former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers. The other carriers of her class were the USS Saratoga, USS Ranger and USS Independence. She superseded Japanese carrier Shinano of World War II vintage as the largest aircraft carrier ever built by full load displacement and was the first to specifically support jet aircraft. The ship was affectionately called "The FID", because James Forrestal was the first ever Secretary of Defense, FID standing for "First In Defense". This is also the slogan on the ship's insignia and patch. She was also informally known in the fleet as the "USS Zippo" and "Forest Fire" or "Firestal" because of a number of highly publicized fires on board, most notably a 1967 incident in which 134 sailors died and an additional 161 were injured.


Forrestal was launched 11 December 1954 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Josephine Forrestal, widow of Secretary Forrestal; and commissioned 1 October 1955, Captain R. L. Johnson in command. The construction cost of the Forrestal just before commissioning was estimated to be $218 million.


Forrestal was the first American aircraft carrier to be constructed with an angled flight deck, steam catapult, and an optical landing system, as opposed to having them installed after launching.^[4]


I was thinking she was nuclear powered , but TAINT' so'
leaves out the EXTRA COST that would have been included
IF it were...

Paid a Penny to scrap it ????
sweet deal for the scrapper'