Posted on 10/23/2013 1:04:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Heres a penny for your thoughts: One red cent couldve landed you the Navys first supercarrier, the decommissioned Forrestal.
The U.S. Navy sold the 1,067-foot behemoth to a Texas company, All Star Metals, to be dismantled, scrapped and recycled, Navy officials announced. It's an inauspicious fate for a ship with a colorful and tragic history. It's perhaps best known for a 1967 incident in which stray voltage triggered an accidental explosion that struck a plane on the flight deck whose cockpit was occupied by a young John McCain. A chain reaction of blasts and fires ultimately killed 134 men and injured more than 300.
But its rich past and nearly four decades of service are not enough to spare it. The Navy tried to donate the historic ship for use as a memorial or a museum, but no viable applications were received.
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Scrap? A more enterprising investor would have bought it and turned it into an off shore, tax free, gambling resort of some sort complete with deck covered sea sand and trees, trap shooting, golf driving range.....etc.....
I don’t know. Warships are made for fit young men with narrow passages, steep ladders and cramped bathroom. Not to mention the knee-knockers (hatchways). And the only elevators are for bringing up bombs from the magazine and moving planes between the hangar deck and flight deck. It would take $100 million to make it anywhere near ready for civilian guests. A better use would be to make it into a floating museum.
IIRC, McCain did graduate at the bottom of his Annapolis class. Loser, all the way around.
RR, yes, graduated at the bottom of his Annapolis class.
I recall reading McCain was hot-dogging under the influence of alcohol the day of his completely avoidable “accident”. The incident was mostly covered up (as well as they could) because of Dad’s influence.
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