Posted on 05/17/2006 4:54:52 AM PDT by fredhead
I'll be planning a trip to see her in her new home, and her new residents.
At that shallow of depth, you will be able to see her on the bottom from the air. Cool.
Line up for the Red Snapper, do old goats get priority?
Much better than the beach yard in Pakistan.
Your welcome, I was looking for a few answers, like how was she named, and found it and more. Didn't realize she was as old as she was.
I understand the sadness for Navy veterans when an old ship dies--but how does sinking it make any better use of the ship that sending it to a yard where the steel can be recovered and put into another ship?
Call it a 'heart transplant' into the new ship.
It's more of a process than outcome sort of thing, but your point is completely valid.
http://www.ussoriskany.com/index.html
When sunk in 225 feet of water, supposedly the height of the tower will only be 65 feet below the surface. I'm surprised that shallow of a depth would be allowed.
It is planned to take about 5 hrs. to sink once the charges are set off.
Tremendous amount of history on that wonderful ship.
They had video at CNN.com
I never sailed on her, but spent time on the Kennedy, Nimitz, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Lexington.
I got a lump in my throat watching her settle, keeping her bow out of the water to the end.
God. I never sailed on her, and some would say She is a piece of metal. If that is the case, why does watching her go down affect me so?
BTTT
Looks like the Navy was off by just a little bit - per their website, it took right at 37 minutes. I figured I'd come back to the thread to see if anyone had posted anything else about the Oriskany being sunk, and actually got a question answered. I was looking at the Navy's pictures of the sinking, and wondered why there was what looked like a whale boat with a cargo box on the deck. Turns out it was a float off boat carrying the support equipment for the sinking.
I too never sailed on her. I was too young. She was decommisioned in 1976 when I was a junior in high school. But in my 20 year Naval career, I served on Nimitz, Kennedy, and Eisenhower, and sailed on Enterprise as a contractor right after retiring.
Fair winds O-Boat.
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