MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
USS Constellation carrier towed to the scrapyard along the coast of South America
The United States aircraft carrier Constellation, which spent most of its nearly 42 years of service operating out of San Diego Bay is being towed along the South American Atlantic coast on its way to be scrapped in Texas. This week it was sighted in the extreme south of Chile, Punta Arenas as it crossed to the Atlantic. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDo I hear the scweem: 'militarising the South Atlantic'?
Nov 08th, 2014 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0And unlike the “navy” of TDC, this still floats and is undergoing a 'voyage' longer than possible by any existing argie rust bucket.
.... and still poses a greater military threat than the entire Argentine Navy.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's always worth remembering that the UK and US scrap their warships when no longer of use. For whatever reason. Argieland goes for filling the holes with chewing gum and hoping for the best!
Nov 08th, 2014 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 What Argentine Navy? By what I've read their ships are sinking at docks!
Nov 08th, 2014 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guess this is why they scream “militarising the South Atlantic” because some countries actually have a military LOL
The thing sat in washington for 11 years before being scrapped??
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Soon as they are decommissioned they should be send to be melted.
Amazing they can't cut it up on the west coast to save the cost.
I remember visiting Bremerton 20 years ago. The mothballed aircraft carriers were all in a long line, and many smaller vessels, too.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the 80's, the USS Ranger was in port in Vancouver. There was a small protest at the time. Vancouver had been declared a “Nuclear-free Zone”, but most people were happy to have it there. In fact, the public were encouraged to come aboard, and I did. I was amazed at the size of the hanger deck.
“Big Mo”, the Missouri, was anchored just off of Stanley Park. Many of us stopped to get a look at her and take pictures.
She was on the last leg of her final journey to Puget Sound to be de-commissioned. At that time, I don't know if anyone had decided what would become of her. We expected her to be scrapped.
Probably going to be nationalized the second it enters Argentinian waters.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Nov 08th, 2014 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yep, that was kinda my point really.
:)
OR, it could be turned over to the Argentine Navy for safekeeping, care, maintenance, custody, and control.
Nov 08th, 2014 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Same outcome as in Texas, unless it too turned turtle and sank at mooring.
3 Conqueror
Nov 08th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argieland goes for filling the holes with chewing gum and hoping for the best!”
Much Lolz
They don't have a “surface fleet” anymore do they? Just submarines!!
@ 5 Klingon (#)
Nov 08th, 2014 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Amazing they can't cut it up on the west coast to save the cost.”
Umm... I guess it just wasn't economically viable, this is not an old car or bus you can chop up with a couple of guys and some basic welding torches. As the article states, “... it is too big to slip through the Panama Canal.”
I don't think there are that many specialist centres in the world that could handle the job, and obviously there isn't one in San Diego Bay or Bremerton, Washington.
The whole reason for this exercise is to SAVE costs.
ref. article above;
“The US Navy is in the process of releasing some of its largest decommissioned ships for scrap to save on the cost of maintaining the vessels.”
Also the private contractor ISL is PAYING the for the trip, (not the US Gov.), in order to profit from the resulting scrap metal. It is also creating 400 jobs. I guess you don't really have this sort of private enterprise in Argentina anymore?
Your posts are a lot better when you stick with subjects that you know something about.
Good Luck with the next one!
;-)
Well I suppose they could have towed it to the mouth of argentines naval port
Nov 08th, 2014 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and sunk it,
it would certainly confuse CFK if nothing else..
Nope, the Argentine Navy is to busy with their own schedule of sinking their own ships through neglect. They really don't have the space!
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