Sad news for the...

[Talyn]

last conventionally-powered Super-Carrier CV off to the breakers.

Didn't make to a museum role.

The Famed Ex-USS John F. Kennedy Casts Off On Its Final Voyage (Updated)

The Kitty Hawk class carrier was sold for one cent to scrappers after attempts at making it a museum ship failed.

www.twz.com

 

[NMEDGE]

I remember my mom taking me to the open house it had in Boston when I was young. Never forgot that. I guess everything has an end.

 

[last2brake]

Last conventional-powered could be sold for recycling.
I'm not sure disposing of a nuclear-powered carrier will be so easy.

 

[rcurtner]

last conventionally-powered Super-Carrier CV off to the breakers.

Didn't make to a museum role.

The Famed Ex-USS John F. Kennedy Casts Off On Its Final Voyage (Updated)

The Kitty Hawk class carrier was sold for one cent to scrappers after attempts at making it a museum ship failed.

www.twz.com

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Kinda sad.

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

That ship would've made a great museum. The USS Iowa in Long Beach and USS Midway in San Diego are terrific places to visit.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[Tinyman]

Hi,

That ship would've made a great museum. The USS Iowa in Long Beach and USS Midway in San Diego are terrific places to visit.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

Sad yes, but it costs lots of bucks to prep and display one that size.

 

[Shibadog]

Does seem a terrible waste. And as always, Unc made a great deal selling 60,000 tons of steel for 1 cent. Let me see here, a junk CAR will bring $200 for scrap…….you do the math (and yes I know it’s got to be moved and cut up, but still, a Penny?

 

[HansGruber]

Does seem a terrible waste. And as always, Unc made a great deal selling 60,000 tons of steel for 1 cent. Let me see here, a junk CAR will bring $200 for scrap…….you do the math (and yes I know it’s got to be moved and cut up, but still, a Penny?

Read the article; to scrap Enterprise, it’s going to run over $1B.

Yes, the scrapping company will make money on the deal…but probably not a killing.

 

[az4783054]

Was that deal negotiated by the #46 administration? Like selling off border wall panels for pennies.

 

[Talyn]

Was that deal negotiated by the #46 administration? Like selling off border wall panels for pennies.

Both the Kitty Hawk and JFK were sold for a penny each 4 yrs. ago.

The Navy's Last Conventionally Powered Aircraft Carriers Have Been Sold For Literal Pennies

The divestment of the former USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy marks the final end of a historic era for the U.S. Navy.

www.twz.com

 

[powerboatr]

ouch
i sailed on Kennedy during a hurricane evac of mayport
we only took 3 birds and 30 people,
ship was jsut us and the ships company
it was a blast for 2 weeks in the southern atlantic
when i was at mayport and kennedy arrived from refit it had a reputation as a floating brothel


any whooo
it takes big dollars to make one a museum and keep them safe for visitors

what strikes the heart of us sailors is seeing them empty, shackled to a pier awaiting thier fate
i pulled into Rhode Island and my former ship saratoga was shackled to a pier and she looked liked she was weeping and sad
kennedy looks the same, very sad...
lost of the crew, after so many years of service , the ghost of crew is all that remains
and yes they are haunted
saratoga had a lively bunch of ghosts and things

 

[Talyn]

Read the article; to scrap Enterprise, it’s going to run over $1B.

Yes, the scrapping company will make money on the deal…but probably not a killing.

Nuclear reactors are expensive to decom.

 

[Shibadog]

Nuclear reactors are expensive to decom.

Kennedy is NOT a nuke ship…

 

[HansGruber]

Kennedy is NOT a nuke ship…

So, even if it costs 10% of what a nuke ship costs to scrap, it’s gonna be over $100m.

That’s why it gets sold for a penny; otherwise .gov has to pay that $100m to get it scrapped.

 

[Talyn]

Shibadog,

Did you read the post that I replied too?

And that I said the JFK was conventionally powered in the first post?

 

[Shibadog]

Shibadog,

Did you read the post that I replied too?

And that I said the JFK was conventionally powered in the first post?

Gotcha-my bad-I was reading it that the scrap cost was high Because it was Nuke. I hate getting old.

 

[Belt Fed]

I hate getting old.

Me too but it's better than the alternative.

 

[Phoenex]

Ticonderogoa CV 14, Great ship great history. She served in WWII, and after being severely damaged returned to duty at the end of the war. She brought my father home from Okinawa at the end of the war sailing in San Francisco to a huge victory celebration. Converted to CVA 14 she completed 5 WesPacs during Vietnam. I was there for the 1969 cruise. Converted to a CVS 14 in Long Beach, CA 1970 and recovered 2 space capsuls before being scrapped. Sailors have a relationship with the ships they sail on and there is a sadness when they are scrapped. Kitty Hawk was my last ship and now gone with the rest.

 

[Phoenex]

For you old navy guys! Still use some of those terms.