Posted on 08/21/2022 2:18:44 PM PDT by DFG
BREMERTON — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is too busy maintaining the active Navy fleet to scrap the former Enterprise aircraft carrier, Navy officials announced Friday.
Instead, the "Big E," the Navy's first nuclear-powered flattop, will head for a private scrapyard somewhere in the American South for disposal, under plans outlined in a draft environmental impact statement.
Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun Fri, August 19, 2022 at 6:23 PM BREMERTON — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is too busy maintaining the active Navy fleet to scrap the former Enterprise aircraft carrier, Navy officials announced Friday.
Instead, the "Big E," the Navy's first nuclear-powered flattop, will head for a private scrapyard somewhere in the American South for disposal, under plans outlined in a draft environmental impact statement.
More: The Navy wants to demolish Puget Sound Naval Shipyard's iconic shipyard crane. Here's why.
It's a decision that pivots hundreds of millions of dollars of work away from the Pacific Northwest. But the Navy's rationale is that Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is stretched too thin to take on the Enterprise job.
"Leveraging options to perform ex-Enterprise disposal at commercial facilities is advantageous to the Navy and allows (the shipyard) to prioritize the limited public shipyard infrastructure and workforce for active fleet maintenance," the Navy wrote in the document, released Friday.
In recent years, the Navy's submarine and aircraft carrier fleets have been pushed by Navy leaders in the face of global conflict, from the War on Terror to disputes in the South China Sea over a rising Chinese Navy presence. Add to that, shortages of skilled workers have led to delayed maintenance.
The Navy is "under tremendous pressure to execute their primary mission of maintaining the operational fleet," officials said.
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“Navy plans to scrap ex-carrier Enterprise”
Take that, Putin!!!
You'll be able to see your tax dollars burning in a giant money bonfire from space...
PSNS already removed the 8 reactors?
“She’s dead, Jim!”
This will aggravate Putin’s 16 different terminal cancers, and his Parkinson’s & steroid abuse.
Ping.
I would think so. I believe there are only a couple of yards certified to fuel or decommission reactors.
“Excuse me.. I’m looking for the nuclear wessels” - Checkov
Thought so myself but was just asking given I think they are still consider ‘secret’/’top secret’? Been a decade or so since I worked a carrier (was at NNS, worked carriers only flight deck and above).
I was stationed at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1968...
I was on the Commissioning Crew of the (you guessed it) USS Puget Sound...
Although, I think he changed his name to Dugin.
$750M~$1.5B to scrap her.
Sad to see the Big E scrapped.
Many ships that are now in mothballs should be refurbished and sent back to sea to help counter the ChiCom threat.
That was my ship from about 1981 to 1983.
She was based in Alameda, Ca.
I did my reserve at the Oakland Naval Base.
The Oakland Naval Base is no more. Was sold during peacetime.
just like Treasure Island (SF) is not owned by the Govt. anymore either.
Why not just make it into a museum? Set some decommissioned fighter planes on the deck and charge people to go see it.
Apparently you haven’t seen the USN’s plan to decommission 33 ships & subs in the next 12 months. Includes a bunch of LCS (Little Crappy Ships) that are just a few years old and many Cruisers.
sell it to Taiwan or Japan for 1000$
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