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2 × 5 in (127 mm)/54, 1 × ASROC launcher. 2 × triple 13 in Mk 32 torpedo tubes. USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman -class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and ...
Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.
Speed. 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) Complement. 791 (684 cadets, 107 officers/crew) Time to activate. 10 days. USTS Empire State VI (T-AP-1001), callsign KKFW, IMO number 5264510, was a troop ship of the United States Navy and training vessel of the United States Maritime Service.
Aliaga Ship Breaking Yard. Coordinates: 38°49′43″N 26°55′51″E. Aliağa Ship Breaking Yard is the world's fourth largest ship breaking yard located across a 10 km (6.2 mi) long beachfront at Aliaga, Turkey. The yard consists of 132 ship-breaking plots.
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. She was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers ' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk -class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.
Ex-Constellation was scrapped at Brownsville, Texas, starting in early 2015. She was towed around Cape Horn on her final voyage. [33] NASA's Operation IceBridge captured a photo south of Punta Arenas, Chile, of the ship being towed to the scrap yard. [34] The carrier arrived at her final resting place in Brownsville on 16 January 2015. [35]
Retired and assigned to the Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet, 1989. Sold for scrap and towed to Brownsville, TX, 11 October 2005. USS Waccamaw (AO-109) was a Cimarron -class replenishment oiler in the United States Navy. She was named after Waccamaw River.
In October 2013, it was announced ex-Forrestal would be scrapped by All Star Metals in Brownsville, Texas, at a cost of 1 cent. [20] [26] She left the Philadelphia Naval Yard via a team of tugboats at 5:00AM on 4 February 2014. [27] She arrived at All Star Metals in Brownsville on 18 February 2014 for final scrapping. [28]