I served aboard USS John F Kennedy (CVA 67) from March 24th 1972 until August 1st 1973 when I was transferred to USS Midway(CVA 41)..long before most of those reading this were born.
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The hulk of John F. Kennedy on Jan. 16, 2025. Photo by Bryan J. Dickerson for USNI News
The remains of the Navy’s last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier
John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is on its way from the Navy’s Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility to Brownsville, Texas for dismantling.
Shortly before 9 a.m., tugs maneuvered the hulk down the Delaware River and was attached via a tow line to the ship
Laney Chouest and both headed to the Atlantic.
The first ship named for the former president was decommissioned in 2007 at Mayport, Fla., and has been in Philadelphia ever since.
At the carrier’s Mayport decommissioning ceremony, Adm. John Nathman, then Fleet Forces commander, hailed “Big John,” its nickname, as “an icon of American might and freedom.”
, built at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., was commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968. The ship was christened the year before by the president’s daughter Caroline, then 9. Her mother, Jacqueline designed the carrier’s in-port cabin. A Navy spokesman at the time of the decommissioning said, “it is the only room on a Navy ship with wood paneling.”
Tis a sad day for an old salt like me...
I made two MED cruises on this ship. We went hit so many ports..as follows;
Rhodes Greece..twice
Athens Greece..three times
Izmir Turkey
Genoa Italy
Gaeta, Italy
La Maddalena, Italy
Cannes, France..twice
Barcelona, Spain..twice
Malaga, Spain
Palma De Mallorca, Spain..eight times.
More than 50 years ago..damn..I'm 71 years young...
