Forrestal and Saratoga in Newport, R.I.

Its still Newport ,for some reason I had Providence in my head as that's were we flew into. They say the docks are deterioating and only have about 8 years left. The Navy let a $8 million contract to clean up Forrestal for sinking and Saratoga is still on museum hold but I don't think anybody can get it. Its just too big of an expense to do the museum thing and I know with Forrestal, when it was trying for the museum in Baltimore they said there would be $10 mil. worth of work just to get started and that was using alot of volunteer labor etc. I think Sara will be sold for scrap - the Navy wouldn't lose $ the way they did by leaving Forrestal on museum hold since '93. Its a shame - it would be nice to have a modern carrier somewhere as a museum. The Intrepid and Lex are O.K. but I'd sure like to walk around the Forrestal for memories !!

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Kim Brockhoff February 21, 2010 at 3:07pm

Its still Newport ,for some reason I had Providence in my head as that's were we flew into. They say the docks are deterioating and only have about 8 years left. The Navy let a $8 million contract to clean up Forrestal for sinking and Saratoga is still on museum hold but I don't think anybody can get it. Its just too big of an expense to do the museum thing and I know with Forrestal, when it was trying for the museum in Baltimore they said there would be $10 mil. worth of work just to get started and that was using alot of volunteer labor etc. I think Sara will be sold for scrap - the Navy wouldn't lose $ the way they did by leaving Forrestal on museum hold since '93. Its a shame - it would be nice to have a modern carrier somewhere as a museum. The Intrepid and Lex are O.K. but I'd sure like to walk around the Forrestal for memories !!
hugh g. whiting February 21, 2010 at 10:33am

i remember them being tied up in newport a few years back. the iowa was with them then, it made a numerical sequence, 59, 60, and 61, iowa

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