USS Forrestal to be sunk

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:29 pm

I dont think this has been posted here before. The effort to bring the USS Forrestal to Maryland as a floating museum has failed. The navy is going to sink the carrier to form an artifical reef. I have not heard any time table for the sinking but within the last year the carrier America and the carrier Oriskany have also gone to Davy Jones' locker.

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:47 pm

Several carriers are allready preserved and the cost to make them visitor save are enormous. So I can understand the Navy

chico · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:03 pm

Fouga23 wrote:

Several carriers are allready preserved and the cost to make them visitor save are enormous. So I can understand the Navy

Very, very sad, but true. You can't save them all.

jamesintucson · **Joined:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:42 am **Posts:** 546

I don't really think there is any reason to try to save any more carriers until they retire Enterprise and Nimitz.

James

Shay · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:51 pm

The USS Saratoga(maybe), USS Constellation, and USS Independence are also slated to be sunk.

The USS Ranger is set to be a museum ship

Shay
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sabredriver · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:14 pm

what they cant sink forrie she WAS the lead ship of the whole generation we have surely sane heqads MUST prevail, sink the indy or the ranger but save forrie!!!

Rogue · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:07 pm

sabredriver wrote:

what they cant sink forrie she WAS the lead ship of the whole generation we have surely sane heqads MUST prevail, sink the indy or the ranger but save forrie!!!

They scrapped the USS Enterprise CV-6, A museum carrier if ther ever was one.
and the USS Cabot CVE-28, the only straight deck jeep carrier left.

So there are no, and have never been sane heads.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:27 pm

all cost prohibitive to save. sad but true. paint, cleaning of the hulls, swishing the potties for visitors.... oshi safe,& that's just the beginning to maintain a huge flat top. it all adds up to the common symbol $$$$$$, people just don't have the bucks for donations like they used too, because $$$$ goes no where, people are strapped just to make ends meet in this inflated crapped out economy. 25 bucks to fill my 2005 civic 2 door 5 speed?? come on!!!! add groceries, bills etc, people just don't have the expendable income to donate to worthy historic causes anymore, so the cause gets trashed as a monetary liability. people's hearts are for history, but their wallets can't assist.

Robbo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:36 pm

25 bucks? Tom, you should try filling it up in the UK at over £4 per UK gallon.

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:54 pm

Sad, cause out of the last of the old carriers mentioned. Forrestal has the most history.

the memory of the 134 that were lost in the fire of July 1967.

I am sure that many of her shipmates including one senator will write there discust in the Navys decision to send her to the bottom.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:30 pm

robbo, what is the gas price in the u.k. in u.s. greenbacks?? my car's gas tank holds 13 gallons, & gets 38 miles to the gallon. sorry most of us yanks flunked the metric system, me at the top of the flunky list.

needle · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:31 am

Tom,

At the current exchange rate, and converting Imperial to US it works out at about $6.50 per US gallon. :shock:

Julian

sabredriver · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:37 am

Can someone stop the USN from sinking history - literally?

valdez25 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:38 am

How about recycling them? Gotta be a lot of good iron there!

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:31 am

Was wonderin, why doesent the Navy save a carrier as a Annex to the Naval Air Museum in Fla????? Or dock one next to the Mighty Mo.

Think the Forrestal would be a good one.

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