USS Foresstal sold for scrap!

[A. F Medic]

Went for one penny! That is the ship were a errant rocket killed and injured all those sailors!

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[gsimmons]

I saw the training film of the incident in AO "A" school in 1983. It's a shame she couldn't have been saved for a memorial or museum ship.

[Bruce McAskill]

She was semi mothballed at Newport R.I. beside the Saratoga. The Navy took the Forrestal to the west coast I think and the Saratoga is waiting for a group to raise the funds to turn her into a museum. But their time is running out and if they don't raise the funds they need soon, she too will go to the boneyard. But while both carriers were there along with the battleship Iowa it was an impressive sight.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

That is the ship were a errant rocket killed and injured all those sailors!

If memory serves me correctly said missle came off John McCains aircraft.
1 Cent? Another example of tax $ well spent. Could they not have gotten market value for the scrap?

Check that I think the rocket hit his aircraft.

[Aragorn243]

You're actually asking why the government that just spent $500/gallon for gasoline in Afghanistan would not try to get market value for the scrap? It's going to cost them $6 BILLION in paperwork to put that penny in the bank.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

You're actually asking why the government that just spent $500/gallon for gasoline in Afghanistan would not try to get market value for the scrap? It's going to cost them $6 BILLION in paperwork to put that penny in the bank.

While I am sure that is tonge in cheek at some level it is probably closer to the truth than either of us could imagine.

[browningautorifle]

I had a chance to see the Iowa tied up in Long Beach and a Victory ship also about two months ago.. Wish more of these could be saved for the future.

[Aragorn243]

They actually did pay $500 a gallon for gasoline. The rest is tongue in cheek.

I slept on the New Jersey a few years ago. Had breakfast in the mess hall. Very interesting.

[Gil Boyd]

On my travels saw a host of these, parked alongside in Philadelphia, can't tell you their names, but it was sad to see.
One day when they have been scrapped people will once again say, "I wish we could put our old aircraft carriers alongside these Chinese Giants just to show them, that big doesn't mean MIGHT

[WarPig1976]

I've done the New Jersey self tour a couple of times myself. My favorite part is climbing up into the fire control room of the #2 turret and looking down to the loading room.
My uncle was a Marine mortarman in Vietnam and one of the things he shared with me was the first time he heard the Jersey's shells freight training overhead, he said it scared the hell out of the guys, they all hit the deck, funny...


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