The
U.S. Navy announced Tuesday that the former aircraft carrier USS
Forrestal had been sold for scrap for one penny. The ship will be towed
from its berth in Philadelphia to Brownsville, Texas, for dismantling.
The Forrestal, named after former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal,
was decommissioned in 1993. Here, it is is guided into Coddington Cove
in Middletown, Rhode Island, in September 1998.
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