be specific
2006-09-10 11:51:41 · 8 answers · asked by rocky y 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
CV-62 was decommisioned in1998 and held in reserve at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard until 2004.
It's still at Bremerton, but was stricken in 2004 and is awaiting disposal.
A new Independence LCS 2 is under construction. Littoral Combat Ship.
2006-09-10 12:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CVL-22
Independence (CVL 22) was expended as an atomic bomb target ship at Bikini in 1946,
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cv-22.htm
This is what I found out about CV 62
After a long and prestigious career, INDEPENDENCE was decommissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash., on September 30, 1998.
http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cv62.htm
2006-09-10 19:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h88000/h88416.jpg
USS Independence was sunk as a target off the California coast in January 1951.
2006-09-10 18:56:28 · answer #3 · answered by planksheer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bobbing about in some ocean, I'm not the Amazing Kreskin, thats as close as I can get.
2006-09-11 00:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by Sgt. VietnamVet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in sept of 1998 she was decommissioned and put in mothballs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
2006-09-10 19:10:20 · answer #5 · answered by Robert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was sold for scrap metal in 1999
2006-09-10 18:53:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Protecting and Defending the Constitution of the US -- that is where it is!
2006-09-10 18:52:47 · answer #7 · answered by sglmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which one? There are six of them.
2006-09-10 18:52:50 · answer #8 · answered by Izzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋