Ex-USS Ranger Has Seen Better Days – Drone Video

gCaptain ^ | On April 14, 2015 | Mike Schuler

[artichokegrower]

An aerial drone has captured some up-close footage of the ex-USS Ranger, one of the U.S. Navy’s first-ever ‘supercarriers’ and the ship used in Top Gun, on its final voyage to a Gulf Coast scrapyard.

[artichokegrower]

Kinda of sad

[gaijin]

Later

[colorado tanker]

Yep. She wasn't exactly kept ship shape.

On the other hand, USS Midway has been made into a terrific museum. She's on the downtown pier in San Diego.

[Blood of Tyrants]

She is old and worn. But it’s too bad she couldn’t be turned into a museum.

[SkyPilot]

We don't need no military! Gibsmedat EBT!!

[cripplecreek]

I've never been on a naval vessel aside from the enemy sub at the museum in Chicago. I may go check out the USS Edson on the Saginaw river in Michigan though.

[henkster]

We sometimes take vacations just to tour a museum ship. Mrs. Henkster is a saint. You should do that sometime.

[Leaning Right]

She is old and worn. But it’s too bad she couldn’t be turned into a museum.

Oddly enough, the same thing has been said about Hillary Clinton.

[cripplecreek]

I'd kinda like to go see this new one off next summer.

New warship USS Detroit to be commissioned in ceremony along Detroit River

[nascarnation]

Well said!
In a just world, she’d still be living on the taxpayer’s dime, but it would be in a federal penitentiary.

[cripplecreek]

Most recent incarnation of the USS Detroit.

[doc1019]

Please do, it will give you some appreciation of the living and working conditions a sailor lives through on a daily basis. Looking back on my time aboard several Navy ships, I wonder how we survived. LOL!

[ansel12]

There is always the Battleship Texas to visit, just outside of Houston.

http://archive.hnsa.org/ships/texas.htm

[cripplecreek]

Her (USS Edson) exceptionally meritorious service in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin was recognized with the first of three Navy Unit Commendations. During the following years she was shelled by North Vietnamese land forces, and apparently received friendly fire from the US Air Force.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Hah! No museum would have that old bag.

[null and void]

Ripley’s maybe?

Or any number of occult museums?

[doc1019]

Not the only ship this happened to. The USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16 (my second ship), was mistaken for a truck convoy (at night off the coast of VN) and had several bombs dropped in her general direction ... luckily they missed.

[wetgundog]

Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club ping,

Used to cruise in big circles with Ranger in the hot Tonkin Gulf sun.

VAW-116 aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43

[cripplecreek]

There was a Twilight zone episode filmed on the Edson and her sister ship.

[wetgundog]

USS Silversides and an LST in Muskegon, MI