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By David Foster and David Foster,CONTRIBUTING WRITER | November 22, 1999
After six years of organizing, a Baltimore group is set to take on Tampa, Fla., in an effort to land the retired aircraft carrier USS Forrestal as a museum in the city's Inner Harbor.Chaired by former crewman Frank J. Eurice of Abingdon, the USS Forrestal Museum Inc. will submit its bid to the Navy Sea Systems Command in Washington on Wednesday, the final day of the submission period."Our clock would start at that point, for anyone else to get in," Eurice said. Under the Navy's Ship Donation Program, once a party submits an application, others have six months to file competing bids.
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By Anne Haddad and Anne Haddad,SUN STAFF | December 24, 1997
The eighth-graders in Team 7 at North Carroll Middle School aren't getting graded on most of the work they do tracking the course of the USS Nimitz and corresponding through e-mail and regular mail with their "crew pals" on the aircraft carrier as it monitors the Persian Gulf.And that might be why they love it so much."It's fun learning this way," said Tracey Redmond, 13, of Hampstead. "This [project] has people you can talk to and understand it better."And it has improved their grades, said she and classmate Jessica Robertson.
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By Tony Perry and Tony Perry,LOS ANGELES TIMES | September 13, 2003
SAN DIEGO - After 41 years, 21 overseas deployments and eight combat tours, the aircraft carrier Constellation left San Diego Bay yesterday for the final time for a long, slow journey into retirement. For sailors who had served aboard the giant ship known as "Connie," it was a sorrowful occasion. "Connie is my girl," said Chief Petty Officer Efren Ponce, one of a group of sailors who sang "Anchors Aweigh" as the ship departed. "She's where I learned how to be a sailor. I'll miss her." Tugboats pushed the 1,069-foot-long, 80,000-ton ship away from the dock at North Island Naval Air Station.
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By Fred Tannenbaum and Tom Fredrickson and Fred Tannenbaum and Tom Fredrickson,KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE | November 9, 2000
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The motion alarms on Newport News Shipbuilding's huge gantry crane began blaring their familiar "BEE-OOOH, BEE-OOOH" warning as it set about another chore. Dangling from the crane's tentacles of thick steel cables was another piece of the shipyard's 29th aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, named for the former president. It was a preassembled rectangular section of the flight deck, with a V-shaped channel called a "cat trough." The German-made gantry, fittingly called Goliath and one of the world's largest, gingerly carried the section to another part where helmeted workers waited to apply finishing touches before it was to be added to the ship.
NEWS
July 16, 1993
A good ship if there ever was one, the U.S.S. Coral Sea recently was tugged up the Chesapeake Bay to be scrapped here in Baltimore by Kurt Iron and Metal.The huge aircraft carrier was authorized during World War II, joined the active fleet in 1950 and saw action in Vietnam, where its planes flew the first and last sorties of that conflict. It also took part in many other missions.It was named for one of the most epic naval battles ever fought. Here is Martin Gilbert's thumbnail account of the Battle of the Coral Sea:"On May 2 [1942]
NEWS
August 18, 1991
* Marine Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Elliott, son of Shirley T. Elliott of Mount Airy, recently reported for duty with Marine Tactical ElectronicWarfare Squadron-Two, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point, N.C.He joined the Marine Corps in July 1988.* Navy Seaman Recruit Jason W. Vogel recently returned from deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Storm while serving aboard the destroyer USS Caron, homeported in Norfolk, Va.The son of John K. and Marsha D. Vogel of Westminster, he joined the Navy in December 1989.