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Looks like a helo or aircraft carrier.
Can you make out the number on the tower?
Can you make out the number on the tower?
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Thats Bobs new boat. he wanted one that would make the trip to Block Island...
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Is it the USS Hornet?
Aha - its the USS Tripoli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_TRIPOLI_SAN_DIEGO_BAY.JPG
She has been docked Pier 80 in SF. Might be headed back to Hawaii
From wiki:
"She was decommissioned in 1995 and as of 2004, she was on loan to the Army, but remained laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. In December 2006, the ship was towed to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where it now has a high-tech role as a launch platform with the nation's developing ballistic missile defense program. Three times the ship was towed some 100 miles off shore and used to launch small ballistic missiles, which are then intercepted by Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missiles, test-fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility. The last test in the series was performed 26 October, when the ship fired a "Scud-like" missile, which was successfully intercepted. The ship will be towed back to the San Francisco Bay Area for the winter. Kaua'i lacks a suitable land-based launch site, and the costs of building one would far exceed the approximately $600,000 per year it costs to use the old warship, so the vessel returned to Pearl Harbor for a second series of tests in late spring 2008.[1] As of June 16, 2012 she berthed at Pier 80 in San Francisco, CA."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_TRIPOLI_SAN_DIEGO_BAY.JPG
She has been docked Pier 80 in SF. Might be headed back to Hawaii
From wiki:
"She was decommissioned in 1995 and as of 2004, she was on loan to the Army, but remained laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. In December 2006, the ship was towed to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where it now has a high-tech role as a launch platform with the nation's developing ballistic missile defense program. Three times the ship was towed some 100 miles off shore and used to launch small ballistic missiles, which are then intercepted by Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missiles, test-fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility. The last test in the series was performed 26 October, when the ship fired a "Scud-like" missile, which was successfully intercepted. The ship will be towed back to the San Francisco Bay Area for the winter. Kaua'i lacks a suitable land-based launch site, and the costs of building one would far exceed the approximately $600,000 per year it costs to use the old warship, so the vessel returned to Pearl Harbor for a second series of tests in late spring 2008.[1] As of June 16, 2012 she berthed at Pier 80 in San Francisco, CA."
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I flew Helos off of her during Desert Storm. One afternoon 15 minutes after we launched on a sortie is when she hit the mine.