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To: Non-Sequitur
Pennsacola, no. Charleston closed down years ago.

How long ago? In the 70's Charelston wasn't a carrier port but Mayport FLA is and at one time I think Brooklyn, NY was a homeport maybe up till the 1960's. I know Brooklyn once had a carrier building yard there. Charleston IIRC was too shallow for a deep draft CV. A Forestall nor KITTY HAWK would have fit in there. Possibly Lexington might have or an LPH.

63 posted on 01/23/2008 5:05:12 AM PST by cva66snipe (Proud Partisan Constitution Supporting Conservative to which I make no apologies for nor back down)
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To: cva66snipe
How long ago?

Mid-nineties. During the big fleet drawdown.

In the 70's Charelston wasn't a carrier port but Mayport FLA is and at one time I think Brooklyn, NY was a homeport maybe up till the 1960's.

Mayport was home to the Kennedy until they decommissioned her. It wouldn't surprise me if the next east coast carrier that goes into Newport News for major overhaul is homeported in Mayport once the work is done.

As for Brooklyn I don't know of any carriers being stationed there, maybe back in the 1950's. They used to homeport a couple of the CVS's in Newport, Rhode Island back in the 1960's. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

70 posted on 01/23/2008 5:52:21 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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