[MasterGunner01]

That is incorrect. USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) is fully complete and intact and on display at the Submarine Force Museum at Groton, CT.

The Cold War Memorial at Patriot's Point, Charleston, SC has the sail and rudder of the USS LEWIS AND CLARK (SSBN-644) on display. You may be thinking of this memorial.

[Tallguy]

I stand corrected! Thanks Gunner. I’ve been by Groton and seen the sail. Wonder what the circumstances were that they have an “extra” sail? One on the sub, one on separate display? Maybe they installed a re-inforced sail for the polar mission?

Dunno?

Anyway, the point I made about Nuke vessels generally holds true. ENTERPRISE will likely be scrapped out. After they get done removing 8 nuclear reactors and associated piping & machinery from below decks — there isn’t going to be much left undisturbed.

[tanknetter]

That is incorrect. USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) is fully complete and intact and on display at the Submarine Force Museum at Groton, CT.

IIRC, she was cut in half, her reactor and related radiated pieces (pumps, pipes) removed, and then welded back together again. Even tho, the Navy keeps very tight control of her - when I toured her years ago there were current-generation radiological meters visible in every compartment.