The final voyage of the USS Enterprise...

The carrier that is.  I've been watching this carrier and following it since I was a kid.  Hard to believe she's being retired.   

They had better not scrap her like they said.  That ship is a national icon...

Wing Nut wrote on Mar 10^th, 2012 at 7:09pm:


I have heard from the Battle 360 show that some veterans from the WW2 era USS Enterprise that having the ship be scrapped was better than becoming a museum. I can understand that, as a museum the Enterprise would slowly rot away, which is just a horrible way for her to go. If she is scrapped, it is like taking off the life support, not pretty but necessary. She is a proud warship, she should go as one. Not rot away as a play pen for kids to stick gum all over or birds to crap on. They are taking out her heart, so she might as well die.

Anyways, just my thoughts on it.

Her legacy lies in the name. There WILL be another Enterprise and the next one will carry the legacy of THIS Enterprise and all others before her. She is a warship, a damn good one to boot. As such she will live on, re-incarnated in the next Enterprise, ready to kick the ass of anyone that dares to cross the United States and doubt her reach.

Smooth sailing Enterprise!

Wing Nut wrote on Mar 10^th, 2012 at 7:09pm:


Unfortunately that's exactly what they're going to do. In order to remove and safe her reactors, so much of Enterprise's structure will have to be cut away that by the time it's all said and done, there won't be anything left of her.

There will undoubtedly be another carrier with the name Enterprise... it's a much better name than naming them after recent Presidents! 

I hope the new Enterprise insignia honors her previous incarnations in some way... battle stars for CV-6, and perhaps the unique shape of CVN-65's first island fitting, with the Phased Radar Array.

Reminded of a poem about another warship...
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  1830

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar;--
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.

Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee;--
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!

Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!