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To: stayout
Aye. 205 feet.

I advise you to please go HERE, click on "The Ship", then click on "Statistics". CVN-65 has a height of 250 feet.

I'd say the bridge has to be moved if it were to dock here.

234 posted on 11/01/2001 2:09:59 PM PST by MetalliDragon
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To: MetalliDragon; A Navy Vet
CVN-65 has a height of 250 feet.

Ah, but you forget that the last 50 feet are detachable radar masts. Moreover, the large carriers (such as the U.S.S. Enterprise you cite) do not moor at 32nd Street Naval Station. They moor at North Island N.A.S, before you get to the Coronado Bridge. Besides, San Diego wasn't even the homebase to any nuclear carriers until just a few years ago, the largest was U.S.S. Ranger (CV-61 or CV-62, I believe). The reason was draft, the channel was too shallow and they wanted to dredge as little as possible to accomodate the larger carriers. Hence, the decision to moor at North Island N.A.S.

269 posted on 11/01/2001 2:19:26 PM PST by stayout
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To: MetalliDragon
I was on the USS Peleliu (the next biggest sized ship to the carriers) and we docked on the other side of the Coronado bridge. My ship is 40 stories tall and three football fields long (I had to paint it often...YEECH!). The carriers will not fit not just because of their height, but their keel is too low; they stay on the north side of the bridge.
On a side note, sailors traditionally throw their white caps out of the sterngate of the Peleliu on the last underway period of the very last day aboard ship. We write in permanent marker the names and years of all the countries we've been to in our service onboard.
My white cap said, Thailand, Australia, Phillipines, Kenya, Singapore, Somalia, Hong Kong, Korea, Dubai, Oman and Kuwait.
303 posted on 11/01/2001 2:31:18 PM PST by RandallFlagg
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