USS Kennedy goes into mothballs at Philly

March 19, 2008 · Filed Under Government, History, Military, and Philadelphia · Comment 

John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) anchored off Corfu, Greece, on 6 July 1969, with CVW-1, (tail code AB), arrayed on deck: A-4Cs of VA-81, VA-83, and VA-95, RA-5Cs from RVAH-14, E-1Bs of VAW-121 Detachment 67, F-4Bs of VF-14 and VF-32, and KA-3Bs from VAH 10, Detachment 67. (USN Photo by Photographer’s Mate 2d Class G. G. Cottrill) The deactivated US Navy aircraft carrier, the , is on the final leg of its journey to storage. Well, to a storage yard, anyway.

It seems the Navy, using a tugboat to tow the decommissioned boat along the East Coast. Weather issues, though, which don’t seem to impede active duty ships (fortunately!), have slowed the ship’s journey to Philly. It should arrive, according to the Navy, on Saturday, being pulled up the Delaware Bay and into the Delaware River this Friday afternoon.

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