{"id":121955,"date":"2022-01-18T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121955"},"modified":"2022-01-18T17:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:54:29","slug":"uss-kitty-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121955","title":{"rendered":"USS Kitty Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUSS Kitty Hawk CV-63<\/em><\/p>\n

Several of our usual suspects send us the news that the former USS Kitty Hawk is scheduled for the breaker\u2019s yard. She had departed the mothballs of Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton for a dry dock to remove marine growth, and is now on the way to Texas to be reduced to scrap.<\/p>\n

Being a conventionally powered carrier was an important capability when dealing with the sensibilities of several of our Pacific allies. What lurked in her magazines was never officially stated.<\/p>\n

USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)<\/h3>\n

USS KITTY HAWK was the lead ship of the Navy\u2019s second class of “super carriers” and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Initially commissioned as attack aircraft carrier CVA 63, she was redesignated as multi-purpose aircraft carrier CV 63 April 29, 1973.<\/p>\n

Since August 1998, KITTY HAWK was homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, where she relieved the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) as the only forward deployed aircraft carrier in the Navy. The KITTY HAWK left Japan for the last time in mid-2008. After participation in RIMPAC 2008, the carrier continued to San Diego, Calif., to meet the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) for turn-over. The GEORGE WASHINGTON replaced the KITTY HAWK in Japan.<\/p>\n

Decommissioned on May 12, 2009, the KITTY HAWK is now laid up at Bremerton, Wash., and is scheduled to be scrapped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Navy.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

A last-of-its-kind US Navy aircraft carrier is headed to the scrapyard after being sold for a cent<\/h3>\n

Julie Coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Navy warship USS Kitty Hawk, the last commissioned conventional-powered aircraft carrier, embarked on its final voyage on Saturday, leaving Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington, to be turned into scrap metal by a shipbreaking company in Brownsville, Texas, the Navy said.<\/p>\n

The Navy decommissioned the first-in-class ship in 2009 after 48 years of service, putting the ship in mothballs for over a decade before selling the carrier and the USS John F. Kennedy to International Shipbreaking Limited for just one cent each in October, Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n

Because the Kitty Hawk is much too large, at over 280 feet wide and more than 1,000 feet long, to traverse the Panama Canal, the “Battle Cat” will make its final journey to Texas via the Strait of Magellan, a natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, The Kitsap Sun reported.<\/p>\n

The journey around South America could take it across roughly 16,000 miles and over 130 days to complete, The War Zone reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

A more fitting end could be as an artificial reef, but they neglected to ask my opinion. Fair winds and following seas, Battle Cat.<\/p>\n

Thanks, gentlemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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