Navy to scuttle a retired carrier USS America

Boston Globe ^ | March 6, 2005 | John J. Lumpkin, AP

[Dilbert56]

We could obtain the same test data by sinking France's carrier.

[COEXERJ145]

Better for the ex-America to die this way than by the cutter's torch. She can go down serving her country one last time.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not really. It is already trying to surrender by sinking itself.

[Ramius]

While I do wonder about the value of the scrap steel, which is probably considerable, there is much to be learned from a real time test of explosives.

There's also something elegant about not letting a good ship be cut up for scrap, but put her to rest where she belongs... forever on patrol.

[snif] it's the romantic in me.