[Blood of Tyrants]

The first super carrier goes to the scrapper.

[Little Ray]

At least they didn’t sink it.
I hope the scrappers make some good money off it.

[US Navy Vet]

The USS Forrestal’s Anchors live on on USS Truman(I think). My First Ship(USS Independence CV-62) Anchors are on the Stennis(I think).

[US Navy Vet]

People have NO Idea how HUGE these things are!

[Pearls Before Swine]

The scrapper will make a lot on this, I think.

[smoothsailing]

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.

They should have kept the Forrestal and scrapped McCain.

[DickBrannigan]

Will the steel be headed to our friends in China?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Built a wonderful, and BIG, plastic model of it, back in the Fifties.

[mad_as_he$$]

Saw the Forrestal when my offspring graduated from Officers school in Providence. They were still using her for night abandon ship training.

[ro_dreaming]

t’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.

Huh, I’ve heard he was hot dogging on the flight deck, but never heard the ‘stray voltage’ comment. Of course, everything needs to be grounded - period - aboard ship.

USN, CTT3, 1988-1992

[US Navy Vet]

Referred to as the “FID(First in Defense)” named after the first SecDef James Forrestal.

[South40]

It was a grand ship. I toured it in Pearl Harbor in 1985. It was an experience I will always remember.

[Elderberry]

When I was on the Lexington(74-78), I can’t tell you how many times we had to watch the safety film showing the Forrestal fire.

[WayneS]

I think it would be cool to keep one of these old carriers running as an amusement park. I’d like to be able to buy an old aircraft carrier, refit/restore it, and run it as a “fantasy” cruise ship, complete with daily flights in restored F4s, A4s, etc.

It would be difficult to run such a project at a profit, but it would certainly be fun, and I bet there are quite a few people out there who would pay a premium to experience real catapult launches, exciting rides in fighter jets, and arresting cable landings.

Hmmm. Maybe I should buy the Saratoga...

[SkyDancer]

But then it’ll probably cost a bazillion dollars to move it to the scrapper’s yard.

[pallis]

A lot of people will go to work scrapping that puppy.

[central_va]

[count-your-change]

Scrapping a big ship is no easy task nor is it cheap. Thus the ship breakers in places like India tend to work under the very crudest of conditions in order to turn a profit.

Alang, India would be one example.

[ez]

A good friend of mine lost her brother in that 1967 incident on the Forrestal, John Lilla. The local American Legion is named for him...the Manning Lilla Post in Ovid, NY. I didn’t know that many men were killed....what a tragedy.

[ez]

Here’s my friend’s brother who died on the Forrestal, June 29,1967.

http://www.virtualwall.org/dl/LillaJT01a.htm

[DannyTN]