Comments on: The Big E’s final mission https://habitablezone.com/2012/03/11/the-big-es-final-mission/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/03/11/the-big-es-final-mission/#comment-12413 bowser Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:20:07 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=10821#comment-12413 Didn't mean to discount her. "Reliable workhorse" is very high praise in my book. About as high as it gets, to me. Didn’t mean to discount her. “Reliable workhorse” is very high praise in my book. About as high as it gets, to me.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/03/11/the-big-es-final-mission/#comment-12408 ER Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:46:13 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=10821#comment-12408 Not just a reliable workhorse. Read her history sometime. That ship was in action almost continuously, and she kicked ass. Not just a reliable workhorse. Read her history sometime. That ship was in action almost continuously, and she kicked ass.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/03/11/the-big-es-final-mission/#comment-12405 bowser Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:00:20 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=10821#comment-12405 The Enterprise CV-6, 1938 to 1958 was not too shabby, either. She was a reliable workhorse of WWII in the Pacific. I would pay a lot of money to read selected transcripts from her bridge. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/cv6.htm The Enterprise CV-6, 1938 to 1958 was not too shabby, either. She was a reliable workhorse of WWII in the Pacific. I would pay a lot of money to read selected transcripts from her bridge. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-e/cv6.htm

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/03/11/the-big-es-final-mission/#comment-12366 TB Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:49:54 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=10821#comment-12366 <p>"The only ship of her class, Enterprise is the second-oldest vessel in commission in the United States Navy, after the wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate USS Constitution."</p> "She was originally scheduled for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford. But the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement for 2013, when she will have served for 51 consecutive years, the longest of any U.S. aircraft carrier." - From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> “The only ship of her class, Enterprise is the second-oldest vessel in commission in the United States Navy, after the wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate USS Constitution.”

“She was originally scheduled for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford. But the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship’s retirement for 2013, when she will have served for 51 consecutive years, the longest of any U.S. aircraft carrier.”

- From Wikipedia

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