Seattle's Foss Maritime tug tows famed USS Constellation aircraft carrier to scrapyard (w/tracking)

Puget Sound Business Journal ^ | 8/8/2014 | Steve Wilhelm

[Drago]

The famed aircraft carrier USS Constellation set forth on its last voyage Friday, but this time towed by the ocean-going tugboat Corbin Foss. The 1,008-foot Constellation’s 16,000-mile journey from Bremerton will take the carrier around the southern tip of South America to Brownsville, Texas, where it is set to be scrapped.

[Drago]

A stop is scheduled in Long Beach, CA for tug refueling, then South around Cape Horn (Connie too big for the Panama Canal) to Brownsville, TX for scrapping. There is a link in the story for following along with the voyage, it is: http://www.foss.com/uss-blog/uss-constellation-departure-bremerton/

[Bobalu]

This is so sad :-(

I wish there were funds to create a floating museum out of this noble vessel.

[RhoTheta]

Unfortunately, none of the Kitty Hawk class of carriers has been adopted to be a museum. We are fortunate to live near enough to Alameda, CA, to enjoy the USS Hornet, CV-12, museum ship. Here is a Wiki list of all the carriers in the US Navy inventory, past and present.

[DaveA37]

Anyone ever wonder where that scrap will be sold and to what country it will be shipped? My guess China would gobble that steel up quickly.

[virgil283]

.....underway replenishment;

[jack308]

What is that destroyer in the photo?

As near as I can make out, the hull number is DD-744 or DD-754. That would be respectively, the USS Blue or Frank E. Evans. It is a Sumner class in any event.

[tillacum]

I remember my uncle, an ole Sarge, wondering the same thing before WWII. Then we found out the scrap metal we had been sending to Japan, came back to our troops.