Kitty Hawk arrives at its final port

[308Mike]

Navy Times:

Kitty Hawk arrives at its final port

The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Sep 4, 2008 11:23:36 EDT

BREMERTON, Wash. — The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk has arrived in Puget Sound on its final voyage before decommissioning at Bremerton.

A Naval Base Kitsap spokesman, Tom Danaher, said the carrier was on schedule to tie up at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The 47-year-old ship is the Navy’s last carrier powered by diesel fuel.

The Kitty Hawk was stationed the past 10 years in Japan and traveled this summer to San Diego.

It’s arriving with a crew of 1,600 that will be drawn down to about 400 by October to prepare the ship for decommissioning early next year.

[mekender]

There has been a lot of talk about getting it to be a museum here in NC. The problem is, they couldn't get it under the bridge to moor it next to the USS North Carolina. So perhaps they will move the North Carolina to a better location.

We here in NC are hoping.

[The Quiet Man]

All three of the ships I served on have been decomissioned...years ago. It is a sad day when a ship that you served on is put out to pasture. I'm sure that 99% of sailors will agree.

[mekender]

My uncle got to take his boat out in the Gulf and watch the Ex-Oriskany get sunk a couple of years back... He said it was one of the saddest things he has ever seen.

[HTRN]

There has been a lot of talk about getting it to be a museum here in NC. The problem is, they couldn't get it under the bridge to moor it next to the USS North Carolina. So perhaps they will move the North Carolina to a better location.

We here in NC are hoping.

I guess the rumors that India was only faking interest in the "Shitty Kitty" in order to squeeze a better deal out of the Russian is true. It's a shame they didn't go through with the deal.


HTRN

[cageym]

All three of the ships I served on have been decomissioned...years ago. It is a sad day when a ship that you served on is put out to pasture. I'm sure that 99% of sailors will agree.

Years before I joined the AF I was Navy, my first ship was the USS Coral Sea(CV-43). When they sent her to be cut up they had all kinds of problems. Fires chasing the cutters off, stuff like that. In additon to legal battles about environmental issues, companies running out of money and even an attempt by the Chinese to buy her for scrapping it took 7 years for the job to be done. I always knew that mean bitch would not be an easy kill.