U.S. Carrier, Enterprise, Headed to Scrapyard

psiameese · November 2012

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/01/uss-enterprise-sailing-off-to-historys-scrap-heap/

So the ship, all 90,000 tons of it will be cut up and the metal sold for scrap.

But that doesn't mean the name Enterprise will fade from U.S. Navy history. There have been seven other warships to bear that name and there is already a petition to name a yet-to-be-built carrier the ninth USS Enterprise.

rrincy · November 2012

Always a shame to see great ships go

guess they cant preserve everything as a museum ship

lordmalak1 · November 2012

Aloha old friend, had many good memories aboard her as well as tragedy. The ship may be disappearing, but the name will live on forever.

<SALUTE>

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centersolace · November 2012

Awwww.... tis sad news indeed. Farewell old friend.

khayuung · November 2012

*salutes*

No matter happened, she always brought her crew home.

Bon Voyage, Enterprise. We'll miss you, and hope the next Enterprise will be just as memorable.

fencer8 · November 2012

So the big E is to retire due to metal fatigue, or is it an other reason?

khayuung · November 2012

I think it was something to do with the reactors' lifespan. 50 years is a long time for a nuclear reactor built in the 1950s.

Maybe the next one will have a warp core instead.

eldarion79 · November 2012

The Enterprise was extremely expensive to operate and the reactors were not as efficient in comparison to the Nimitz-class. Hopefully, the CVN-80 will be named as the new Enterprise or one of the new America-class LHAs.

maxvitor · November 2012

She was an old ship, radiation does strange things to metal alloys and after a time its just too dangerous to operate.
I'm surprised though, being the worlds first nuclear aircraft carrier should entitle her to a better fate than the scrap heap, time will tell but it would surprise me if no effort is made to save her that fate. It wouldn't be the first time that the Navy tried to scrap a ship only to have it saved by public and private sector efforts.

hfmudd · November 2012

That's just it, though - CVN-65 was the first of her kind, and they were making up a lot of it as they went along. It's a floating prototype for a whole new kind of carrier. That sort of thing does not lend itself to graceful disassembly and preservation after the fact. I guarantee that during her construction, the eventual decommissioning was the last thing on anyone's mind.

marverius · November 2012

The process of removing the eight reactors will leave the Big E an empty shell. Rumor says the flight deck would be barely recognizable. Thus cost of restoring her to museum status after the removal is almost the cost of rebuilding her from scratch.

The best hope is that they take some sections off her for a museum at some location. She served her time very well.

altechachan · November 2012

It is a shame that the process of decommissioning a unique vessel such as the CVN-65 Enterprise wouldn't allow it to become a museum ship. Just like Marverius, I hope there are sections of her that can be transported to some museum as a memorandum to the ship.

I salute yet another Enterprise who have served her country well and hope that the next Enterprise will live up to her lineage.

dbxxx · November 2012

Sad to see legends go,

First our HMS Ark Royal, now the US's Enterprise

eldarion79 · November 2012

Hopefully, they will at least save the island.

psycoticvulcan · November 2012

Maybe the next one will be CVN-65-A.

altechachan · November 2012

psycoticvulcan wrote: »

Maybe the next one will be CVN-65-A.

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mastergenera1 · November 2012

from what ive read the reason why the E is getting scrapped is cause in the wake of 9/11(2001) she was recalled from the indian ocean of to a point in the persian gulf,her and her entire task force went flank speed all the way there.but those 8 reactors pushed out enough energy for the E for her to reach the 50-60 knot range all the way there beating her task force by days and damaging her keel in the process.it is sad they wont just repair the damage instead of scrapping her.

lordmalak1 · November 2012

mastergenera1 wrote: »

from what ive read the reason why the E is getting scrapped is cause in the wake of 9/11(2001) she was recalled from the indian ocean of to a point in the persian gulf,her and her entire task force went flank speed all the way there.but those 8 reactors pushed out enough energy for the E for her to reach the 50-60 knot range all the way there beating her task force by days and damaging her keel in the process.it is sad they wont just repair the damage instead of scrapping her.

Shhhhhh ! Nobody's supposed to even suspect that the Big E is the fastest carrier afloat.

hevach · November 2012

mastergenera1 wrote: »

from what ive read the reason why the E is getting scrapped is cause in the wake of 9/11(2001) she was recalled from the indian ocean of to a point in the persian gulf,her and her entire task force went flank speed all the way there.but those 8 reactors pushed out enough energy for the E for her to reach the 50-60 knot range all the way there beating her task force by days and damaging her keel in the process.it is sad they wont just repair the damage instead of scrapping her.

http://www.uscarriers.net/cvn65history.htm

Not true. She was only one day out from the Strait of Hormuz on 9/11. She was redirected at flank speed, did beat her escorts, but didn't need to maintain that speed for long (certainly nowhere near the ship's own records) and no damage to the ship from the following combat operations was made public. They don't keep a ship in active duty for eleven years with an irreparable keel.

She's being retired because she's the oldest active duty ship in the US navy, the oldest nuclear ship in the world, the smallest carrier left in the US Navy, a member of a discontinued class who's successor class is now also up for replacement.

davidwford · November 2012

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/04/world-first-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-uss-enterprise-finishes-final/?test=latestnews

That is the article I have read about the Big E's retirement. I am sure there will be another. Picard's line at the end of Generations comes to mind for me.

In memory, could the Dev's have a special ship sale or such, to include account wide unlocks of the non-combat pets(so I don't have to buy them individually), and the ship modules used to aquire the fleet refits?

lordmalak1 · November 2012

hevach wrote: »

http://www.uscarriers.net/cvn65history.htm

March 21 1983, USS Enterprise arrived in Sasebo, Japan, for a five-day port visit, the first since 1968. The carrier returned to San Francisco Bay April 28. During the final leg of the inbound channel, approximately half a mile from the pier, USS Enterprise run aground and was delayed for five hours until the incoming tide and tugs freed her. While deployed the Air Wing flew approximately 29,000 hours and recorded over 11,000 traps.

An interesting little tidbit that was never reported to the general public, Enterprise ran aground because she lost a TRIBBLE in the harbor and control was immediately lost because of the imbalance in propulsion. The prop was loose for months and was likely due to work done during the overhaul at Bremerton. I departed the ship in Sasebo so I wasn't onboard at the time of the incident, but shipmates told me the story a few years later. Word was Capt. R. J. Kelly lost his command because of the incident.

supernal42 · November 2012

There's always hope that Nasa could name the next Enterprise. But I agree, it will be sad to see the Big-E sold for scrap. My father served on her during the Vietnam War.. Even so, my Great Uncle served on the original Big-E, during WW2. Let us hope that the Navy will give us an Enterprise. [We have China to worry about, soon enough.]

doubleohnine · November 2012

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a Naval Aviator after Top Gun's Maverick. But then in 10th or 11th grade I started to need glasses and it killed that dream. Though now I could have got corrective surgery (were it available then) since Im only a -1.0 Rx to this day. Being a Star Trek fan then too watching TNG, I let go of the aviator dream and decided I wanted to be Captain of the Enterprise. My ASVAB scores were high and the Navy was telling me I could have an job in the Navy I wanted. I seriously considered it, but in the end, I knew I valued wanting a family more and didnt want a career that had me away from my family for 6+ months at a time.

Now in hindsight, Im still comfortable with that decision as Im only going to be 35 next month and likely never would have advanced into the Big chair of the Big E in enough time before she was decommissioned regardless of how smart I am. I also dont regret it now that I see the US military are nothing but chess pieces for the world's shadow elite running things behind the curtain. I wouldnt have wanted to lose men over the TRIBBLE they have us engaged in right now, pretending to fight against CIA backed Al qaeda and the like, trying to control nations for their resources.

I seriously hope they save her island at least. I want a chance to go sit in that chair someday if its only in a museum.

U.S. Carrier, Enterprise, Headed to Scrapyard

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