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Anchor from world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier, former USS Enterprise, finds new life
WTKR ^ | 11 September 2019 | Todd Corillo

Posted on 09/11/2019 2:56:19 PM PDT by csvset

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A piece of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will serve another 25 years in the Navy.

The former Enterprise carrier (CVN 65) was decommissioned in 2017 after several years of inactivation work was completed at Newport News Shipbuilding.

Now one of the anchors from the Enterprise has been installed on another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington.

That ship just reached the midway point of its midlife Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding.

During the overhaul process, shipbuilders inspecting the Washington found that one anchor on the carrier needed to be replaced. Enter the anchor from the Enterprise.

As the ship underwent the inactivation process at Newport News, where it was originally built, the anchors were preserved and stored.

The 32-ton starboard side anchor was built in 1957 and stayed on Enterprise throughout the ship’s naval service. It was refurbished and installed on the Washington.

This is not the first time an anchor from the Enterprise has seen continued life.

The port side anchor from Enterprise was installed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2014 as the Lincoln underwent RCOH in Newport News.

The Enterprise served the Navy for 51 years from 1961 to 2012. The name will live on with CVN-80, which will also be built by Newport News Shipbuilding.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: anchor; enterprise; navy; reutilize; washington
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To: Howie66

At 32 tons, those anchors aweigh a helluva lot!


21 posted on 09/11/2019 3:50:49 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: csvset; mylife; rlmorel

When you install used parts, doesn’t that void the warranty?


22 posted on 09/11/2019 3:58:30 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: immadashell

I like that!
“Here...catch!”


23 posted on 09/11/2019 3:59:50 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: wastoute

Who would have thought that a huge hunk of steel like an aircraft carrier anchor would need to be replaced? What are they using for metal?


24 posted on 09/11/2019 4:08:24 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: FXRP

I made 2 1/2 tours on the Gulf of Tonkin aboard the USS Enterprise. I was part of the airwing VF-96.


25 posted on 09/11/2019 4:19:32 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: wastoute

I was in the Navy we operated with her on several cruises after she was commissioned. Does that make me old? On second thought, don’t answer that.


26 posted on 09/11/2019 4:24:43 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: KrisKrinkle

Chinese anchors don’t last as long as the older American made anchors.


27 posted on 09/11/2019 4:33:39 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: immadashell
Those viscous Somalian pirates are everywhere...


28 posted on 09/11/2019 4:36:53 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: csvset

Was on the Enterprise from 1999-2000


29 posted on 09/11/2019 4:46:46 PM PDT by Snook79
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To: wastoute

Yes frequently...CVN can’t pull into a lot of ports and will anchor in the harbor...on my deployment on Roosevelt we were never pierside during the deployment.


30 posted on 09/11/2019 4:50:34 PM PDT by The Klingon
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In my four years in, I served on the USS Peleliu. We dropped the anchor twice.
You train for these things, but you're never really prepared for the incredibly loud noise and immense power of that thing dropping and the chain flying right by you.
Quite the experience.
31 posted on 09/11/2019 4:55:45 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Parley Baer
Two West-Pacs 81-85 here.
My dad was also on her in the early 70s, a Vought company rep working with the A-7s. Don't remember the airwing designation.
32 posted on 09/11/2019 5:12:38 PM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister deplorable)
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To: csvset

Oh look, its glowing an strange gold color because its radioactive....


33 posted on 09/11/2019 5:29:56 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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To: Parley Baer

There were a couple of fast attack boats slinking around under you.


34 posted on 09/11/2019 5:33:17 PM PDT by FXRP (Cogito, ergo Spam!)
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To: csvset

Spent three years under #3 cat water brake, on the 03 level.

The next-to-last shot of chain for the anchor is painted yellow; the last shot is red. SOP was to run if you saw yellow and the brake wasn’t engaged.


35 posted on 09/11/2019 5:41:22 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Larry Lucido

Hahahahaha....

We lost an anchor and a large amount of chain on the JFK near...Signoella, I think. (It has been a while)

They went through a huge effort to recover it, so...it must have been worth something.


36 posted on 09/11/2019 5:52:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: KingLudd

37 posted on 09/11/2019 5:55:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: csvset
Where do they stow it?


38 posted on 09/11/2019 6:04:56 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Liberals - anathema to a free thinking society.)
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To: antidemoncrat
I was in the Navy we operated with her on several cruises after she was commissioned. Does that make me old? On second thought, don’t answer that.

Not an answer, just a question... How many masts and how many yards of sail did she have? {:-)

39 posted on 09/11/2019 7:42:44 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Fresh Wind

No kidding!


40 posted on 09/12/2019 5:08:27 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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