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Forrestal – Kennedy
June 21st, 2011
A Merchant Mariner, Elliott Kolner, had just recently finished 30 days aboard the SS Regulus, which is moored one pier over from Forrestal and ex-USS John F. Kennedy, when he snapped this picture.
The former USS Forrestal (CV-59) and USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) await their fates in the Philadelphia shipyard. (photo: Elliot Kolner)
Both the Forrestal and the Kennedy are awaiting their next set of orders – Forrestal is set to be sunk as an artificial reef – the Kennedy is on hold, as the Forrestal once was, to become a floating museum.
The Forrestal was decommissioned all the way back in 1993, and she looks just as presentable as one of our newer ships in the fleet, it’s a shame.
Looking closer at the photograph, the barge in the foreground is named “The Recycler”, it should be used to turn the LCS into beer cans while it still has some usable aluminum left.
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