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Enterprise

Terry

Terry

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With his money he could have saved for for a museum piece. :bump:





[h=5]William Shatner
[/h][h=5]My thoughts and well wishes go out as the USS Enterprise is decommissioned today. I had hoped to attend but a schedule snafu prevented it.
I salute all who sailed on her and worked to make this country safe. For that I thank you. My very best to Enterprise, Bill
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For those interested the Inactivation Ceremony is today at 1300 et. You can watch it streaming HERE
 
During the ceremony the Secretary of the Navy announced that CVN-80 will be the next USS Enterprise. :applause:
 
Seriously?
Good news indeed.
So tired of having CVs and other ships named after political types.
 
N2056 said:
During the ceremony the Secretary of the Navy announced that CVN-80 will be the next USS Enterprise. :applause:
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Outstanding!!! :applause: Hopefully no more ships named after presidents (successful or failed) or other politicians.
 
Yes, CVN-80 will be the next "Enterprise". I, too, wish they would stop naming these ships after politicians.

I fail to see why they cannot continue with honoring past famous ships like Lexington, Yorktown, Saratoga, Hornet, Wasp, etc.
 
N2056 said:
During the ceremony the Secretary of the Navy announced that CVN-80 will be the next USS Enterprise. :applause:
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Woo Hoo!! Now we need a new Lexington. The last one commissioned in 1943.

Wasp was used on a helo carrier, LHA-1 I think.
 
LHD-1 USS-Wasp, current and last known activity Duty assistance related Hurricane Sandy off New York.
 
You'd think that as a gator freighter sailor, I'd have known the Wasp is a LHD, not a LHA.
 
USS Enterprise

Good news that!

Just before reading this thread I said to the wife, "There has been an Enterprise aircraft carrier on active duty since 1938. Doesn't seem right for there not to be an Enterprise on duty."

And yes, I agree that it's time to stop naming men of war after politicians, unless they happen to have been a military hero.
 
I would love to see the Enterprise turned into a museum! I really think the ship and her crew deserves it.
 
I would also like to see Enterprise preserved as a museum but I don't think that's likely to happen. After the ship's reactors are defueled I imagine there will be residual radiation issues and other environmental concerns from the various hazardous materials retained throughout the ship. I am not a nuke sailor so I don't know all the details of dismantling a nuclear-powered ship. She will probably sit around for a few years like deactivated carriers usually do.
 
Shhhh! Don't spread it around. Rumour has it that the Royal Navy is going to lease it until HMS QE is commissioned. But as we can't afford the F-35 just yet we're going to use the Spitfires they dig up in Burma. It will be renamed HMS Skylark. Under yer 'at eh?
 
TARPSBird said:
I would also like to see Enterprise preserved as a museum but I don't think that's likely to happen. After the ship's reactors are defueled I imagine there will be residual radiation issues and other environmental concerns from the various hazardous materials retained throughout the ship. I am not a nuke sailor so I don't know all the details of dismantling a nuclear-powered ship. She will probably sit around for a few years like deactivated carriers usually do.
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I'm more familiar with the process as it pertains to subs. With those they cut the reactor room section out and weld the two ends back together.
 
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard does all the "recycling" of Navy ships that were nuclear powered. In the end the only part of the ship that remains is the reactor compartment, which gets totally sealed up and ends up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. All of the remaining ship gets cut up and the steel is sold to the highest bidder. I have seen instances where the reactor compartment was sectioned out and the rest of the boat was welded back together, but that was only so that the remaining hull could be floated again to clear the drydock for priority work. In the end that spliced together hull ends up as scrap metal.

This is a pretty generic explanation of the process. There's more to it, but I am limited in what I can say.

Here's where they all end up...

HanfordSubRxCompPics.jpg
 
The Big E should be back around 2023 or so. First is the Gerald Ford (CVN-78), then the John Kennedy (CVN-79), then the Enterprise (CVN-80). It takes about 5 years to finish one. Ford is out in 2013/2014. I saw the Ford back in March, and it was coming along. They were just under the flightdeck level at the time.

Don
 
I drive by the Bremerton Navy Ship Yard now and then and have watched many of the old men of war cycle through there. I guess we'll be seeing the Big E soon enough if this is the only place that they decommission nuclear subs and ships.

I think that the current Enterprise has something like eight reactors on board (compared to the two on later CVNs) so they should be pretty busy wrapping those up. The Hanford reservation is just over the Cascades so at least they don't have to ship the reactors cross country. As the above photos show, they can just barge the reactors up the Columbia River to Hanford. Perhaps that's why they deactivate the nuclear ships here and not on the east coast.
 
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