The real USS Enterprise is not NCC-1701, NCC-1701A, CVN-65, or even CVN-80.
The real Big E is USS Enterprise CV-6.
Posted on 02/03/2017 7:51:10 PM PST by markomalley
The U.S. Navy has officially decommissioned the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
During Friday's ceremony at a Newport News shipyard, the USS Enterprise was described as a "legendary" vessel that helped shape history. It served more than 50 years, playing a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It was featured in the Henry Fonda/Lucille Ball film “Yours, Mine and Ours” which was not exactly filmed last week.
big burble behind boxy boat
I read someplace I think here on FR that some kid said how cool they named it after the ship in Star Trek
They’ll eventually convert the ship which will use warp drive..
I can’t believe we’ve had a nuclear powered carrier for 50 years and I still can’t find a nuclear powered pickup truck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-80)
“Enterprise (CVN-80) will be the third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier to be built for the United States Navy.[2][3] She will be the ninth United States naval vessel to bear the name, and is scheduled to be constructed and in operation by 2027.”
DoD News Release:
http://archive.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=15708
The Enterprise was the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the US Navy
... after the wooden-hulled USS Constitution and USS Pueblo.
The truly important Enterprise was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)
The most important historically to me
My college buddy worked on the Big E as a nuke engineer and I got to take a tour back in the early 80s when it was docked in Alameda.
That Enterprise changed the course of WWII in the Pacific.
It’s a good trvia question. “In what branch of the military did Captain Kirk serve?”. You’ll be surprised how many people don’t know.
Also, I believe there was a picture of the original Enterprise in the first Star Trek movie.
Finally, my book camp “cruise” book has a pic of the Enterprise. Time has passed us both by.
I was stationed on this for almost a year in 1999, when I was 20 years old.
I served on her back in the late 80’s. She was already showing her age back then. But it’s still sad to see her like this.
The real USS Enterprise is not NCC-1701, NCC-1701A, CVN-65, or even CVN-80.
The real Big E is USS Enterprise CV-6.
“Navy” - sort of. (There’s lots of discussion online.)
BTW, the “real” Enterprise was prominently featured in Star Trek IV. Chekov & Uhura steal a little energy from the reactor, and Chekov falls nearly to his death, setting up a hilarious hospital scene. :-)
[He pauses, looks at Uhura, and tries again]
Chekov: *Nuclear wessels*.
I knew a fella who claims to have the deepest secrets of the Big E, that its highest emergency flank speed is still....
Top secret.
He said she could do 70 knots and faster but at the risk of stoving in the bow, it was massively overbuilt for power.
Thats max speed,and other sources claim 60 knots by satellite imagery.
"Decommish", as Rachel Ray would say...
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