PHILADELPHIA Weather permitting, the USS Forrestal will leave the Navy Yard on Tuesday on its last voyage - to a scrap facility in Texas.
The Navy has paid one cent under a contract to have the 60-year-old vessel dismantled by All Star Metals in the Gulf port of Brownsville.
The Forrestal, the first of the post-World War II supercarriers, already has been stripped to the steel and will make its way to Texas under tow instead of its own power.
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Always sad to see a ship you served on scrapped. I was aboard 1969-1972. She was the first of her class, Saratoga was the next "Forrestal" class ship.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your service, sir.
DeleteMark Knopfler wrote a fine tribute to ships that end up in the breaker's yard:
ReplyDeleteSo Far From the Clyde.
That's good indeed, Bob. Thanks. I'll probably be playing that a few times today.
DeleteIt is a shame to she her end up as scrap
ReplyDeleteSad.
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