The USS Forrestal set off under tow on Tuesday morning for its final voyage from Philadelphia to a scrapping facility in Texas. Pulled by the Foss Marine Towing boat Lauren Foss, the Forrestal was ...

Key Points and Summary – In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal. -As part of a Super COD trial, Lt. Jim ...

The USS Forrestal, the United States Navy’s first supercarrier, has been sold for 1 cent to a scrap yard. The Navy announced on Tuesday that it sold the USS Forrestal to the Texas-based port recycling ...

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The Navy’s Farrier Fire Fighting School Learning Site (FFSLS) in Norfolk, hosted the 45th annual memorial ceremony of the disaster aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA 59) July 20, held by ...

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The U.S. Navy’s first “supercarrier” is being sold for just 1 cent to a ship breaker. The USS Forrestal, launched in 1954 and decommissioned in 1993, is the first of three conventional (non-nuclear) ...

F4 Phantom jets sat armed and fueled ready to participate in air raids during the Vietnam War. Pilots sat in their planes on the carrier USS Forrestal when the unthinkable happened when a Zuni rocket ...

Royal Australian Navy will commission the first of three new destroyers today (On 23 September). In continuing our reflective stories of previous ships that have carried the name HMAS Hobart, this is ...

On July 29, 1967, the accidental firing of a rocket caused the death of 134 sailors aboard a U.S. Navy carrier. The USS Forrestal was stationed off the coast of North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. It ...