Make another from her bones and steel.
It’s being toad?
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Really sad that the west coast of the United States has no capability to scrap her
‘Qualified OOD on the Indy in ‘94. Still have my gold cap. She was a good command good command for me.
Not sure how much this scrapping will cost.
My First ship! She ALWAYS was On-Time!
Give it ti Israel!
I wish they close all the water tight doors and use her for target practice and show all of these anti carrier yahoos how hard it is to actually sink an air craft carrier.
The USS Enterprise cannot be too far behind.
It would be great to see them strike a commemorative coin and sell 'em at around $10 a pop, and rake in the dough.
Years back, I bought one made from the propellers of the USS Olympia (Span Am War) and feel I have a nice piece of history.
With all this global warming they should have used the NW passage instead of going south as it is shorter.
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea.
Park it in a harbor and turn it into condos. Keep the reactor going to power the ship, and to power whatever city it’s at.
Did two deployments on the Indy, ‘83 and ‘84. At the time never would imagined that she wouldn’t go on sailing forever. I am getting so old...
A link to a post I made concerning the Indy a long time ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1006322/posts?page=259#259
I’m wondering if any FReepers might know how much ship breaking companies pay for vessels. Obviously it’d be priced by the ton and have numerous offsets for hazardous material disposal and stuff like that, but it’s got me curious, because...
Years ago I went with a buddy down to San Diego with the thought of purchasing a long-line tuna trawler for scrap. If memory serves me, she was a little over 170 feet long and was in a state of disrepair that would not permit any realistic future use. Plus, she had the unfortunate distinction of having been the vessel caught by the Coast Guard with over 13 tons of pure cocaine hidden inside her years earlier. But I had the opportunity to pick her up for a price tag in the low-$40,000s range and figured that she’d be worth significantly more than that in scrap value. We toured the boat from bow to stern, saw the living quarters (cramped and basic, to describe it generously), checked out the holds for the fish, looked in the engine room but didn’t bother walking around, then told the owner we’d get him an answer by the following Friday since he needed to get it moved from its location as quickly as possible.
I checked and checked for a place on the west coast that might be interested in it, but as was posted in a reply above, shipbreaking seems to not be done in California, Oregon or Washington. So the deal fell through and I’ve always wondered what kind of profit could have been made if only there was a shipbreaking company within reasonable towing distance.