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Skip to comments.Storied carrier, 'the Big E,' makes final voyage
Posted on 03/10/2012 3:53:50 PM PST by DemforBush
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) When the makers of "Top Gun" were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship's otherwise drab interior.
A quarter-century later, the dice will still be dangling inside the tower of "the Big E" as the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sets sail on its final voyage Sunday...
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Rest easy now Big E. You have served freedom well and honorably.
Sad. I landed on her twice in a US-3A Viking in 1986 while she was in the Indian Ocean. While there, they had the Ambassador to Oman on board so they did a fast cruise. That is when I found out it was the fastest ship in the fleet because of her excess steam capacity.
In the 1960's, the "Big E" made port at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco - where my Dad was stationed.
We got a tour of the ship - incredibly massive and it made a huge impression on me ...
There was a fascinating series on TV about the WWII Enterprise a while back.
That ship was clearly the center of the Pacific war. At one time she was the only carrier we had left in the Pacific. Probably should have been sunk several times but the crew was always somehow able to save her.
I feel for the sailors of the Enterprize. I know how I felt when my ship was decommissioned and then served our country as target practice for the Navy. A ship become part of you if you have served on her.
She deserves better than the scrap heap - would be better if she was serving as a floating museum ...
I've shared this story before but with Big E's retirement thought y'all might enjoy this true story...
In 1966 I was attending Second Class Diving School in Subic Bay, PI.
We had a work order from the Enterprise which involved packing one of the rudder posts. As divers, we had pack a "dam" around the rudder post while the ship's snipes installed the new packing on that rudder post.
The process took a few hours. We had the diving barge tied up to the stern of Big E.
One of our guys took a chipping hammer and began chipping paint just above the waterline. He chipped out his name, HUEY, on the stern.
High up on the stern near the flight deck was ENTERPRISE. Guess The Big E had two names after that diving job.
Don't know how long it lasted before it was painted over.
My Dad was Chief Engineering Officer/XO on the USS Boxer ...
Strange, but it is true, isn't it?
And the next carrier will not be named Enterprise, but named after that philandering JFK.
The LHD or the Carrier?
"and scrapped"?
I'm amazed that some sea coast city doesn't want it as a tourist attraction?
Oh that's right, since zero took office all our cities are doing fine.
She established...the prima facie example of America's absolute dominance of the seas worldwide. Especially blue ocean.
Her reactors and generators, even today, could power a city of 50,000 without shortage.
She could destroy AT LEAST 125 of the 161 countries in the world.
Good chow too:)
The WW II Enterprise was scrapped. It would be sad if the same happened.
50 knots easy.
She can move at freeway speeds and no other capital ship in the world can keep up with her.
Might be worthy some prayer . . .
there's some noise on the net about expectations that the Big E will be attacked and sunk when festivities with Iran begin.
I hate globalists and their satanic ruthless treacherousness.
Brother, thank you for your testimony. Amen.
I'm shocked obama hasn't sold it to China. Or maybe even given it to them.
I served on the Enterprise 1983-1986. I was reenlisted by Vice President Bush on her. Lots of memories.
Both of the prettiest ships ever built.
Well, along with the Benjamin Stoddert with the fantail but 8ft above the waterline.
Carrier - [CV/CVA/CVS-21, LPH-4] ...
Essex Class carrier that was commissioned to late for service in WWII.
In 1948, she was the first carrier platform to launch a jet. Saw service in the Korean War.
The navy began experimenting with the concept of a carrier operating entirely with attack helicopters, and Boxer was used to test the concept.
Later became part of a new amphibious assault squadron with four Landing Ship Tank vessels equipped with helicopter platforms. The experimental concept would allow for rapid deployment of US Marine Corps personnel and helicopter squadrons. She was reclassified LPH-4, denoting a "Landing Platform Helicopter".
I only asked because you posted the LHD, not CV-21
Amen to that.
Or the LPH?
Longer ago than I'll admit, MY Navy named aircraft carriers after FAMOUS ships (ie. Boxer, Wasp, Ranger etc) or historic naval battles, such as MIDWAY. Many of the CVE's (jeep carriers) were name to honor even land battles, such as St. Lo and others.
Thus our ships were born with a proud legacy.
It will not be the same Navy without an ENTERPRISE.
How's this?
50 knots easy.
She can move at freeway speeds and no other capital ship in the world can keep up with her.
Holy smokes!
From looking up her stats the flight deck is about the size of some mid-town Manhattan city blocks. Don't know how high above the water line the deck is but the image that comes to my mind (NYC escapee) is;
A whole friggin' block of NYC buildings passing me in the left lane of the NY Thruway!
And being swept away to hell and gone by the bow wave!
On 22 February 1982, Benjamin Stoddert departed Hawaii for her ninth western Pacific cruise. After a brief stop at Guam on 6 March, she proceeded on to the Philippines. While enroute to Subic Bay, the warship conducted both antisubmarine and antiair warfare exercises, an underway routine she would continue throughout this deployment. Following a week in Subic Bay, the guided-missile destroyer steamed to Korea and, between 28 and 30 March, participated in amphibious Exercise "Team Spirit 82." She then sailed between Hong Kong, Subic Bay, and Yokosuka before anchoring in Shimoda-ko, Japan, on 15 May. In the latter port, she took part in the Black Ship Festival, commemorating Commodore Matthew C. Perry's opening of Japan to foreign trade in 1854. Benjamin Stoddert returned to Subic Bay on the 24th.
Leaving the Philippines on 2 June, the guided-missile destroyer sailed to Sattahip, Thailand, anchoring there on the 6th. That same day, tension between the Soviet Union and the West increased after Israel invaded Lebanon. International friction notwithstanding, the warship joined the previously scheduled exercise "Cobra Gold 82" in the Gulf of Thailand on the 7th. Her participation included naval gunfire support for an amphibious landing exercise and ASW operations with three Royal Thai Navy warships. Still, heightened Cold War tension intruded when, just before midnight on 8 June, Aneroid a Soviet intelligence gathering trawler fired an illumination flare over Thai ship HTMS Khirirat.
Departing Pattaya, Thailand, on 19 June, Benjamin Stoddert, guided-missile cruiser Sterett (CG-31), and two other destroyers passed into the South China Sea on their way to Subic Bay. The next evening, Soviet aircraft presumably from bases in Vietnam began shadowing the American warships. At around 22:00, a Soviet aircraft dropped 16 flares over Turner Joy (DD-951). A few minutes later, Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) received .30-caliber machinegun fire from an unidentified ship in the vicinity. The warship responded in kind, deliberately aiming high; and the foreign ship ceased fire. Although tension remained high the rest of the night, no other incidents occurred; and the warships arrived at Subic Bay on 23 June. After that, however, Stoddert passed her remaining five weeks in the western Pacific without incident; and, following two "war-at-sea" exercises in the waters off Japan, she steamed for home on 6 August.
Mooring at Pearl Harbor on 12 August, the warship spent the rest of the year doing maintenance work on her boilers and standing several regular safety and readiness inspections.
This wikipedia article is not accurate. Two ships were hit, the the McCormick and the Turner Joy. Both took .50cal and .30 cal fire.
They were hit by Vietnamese "fishing trawler/patrol boats.
But then ONLY after we had cruised btween the mainland and some island about 30 miles off shore...no less than 20 times. Back and forth.
We finally pissed 'em off.
After they fired and we fired back, off to Sasebo! The Black Ship Festival is a truly unusual and rare experience.
There have been a bunch of ships named Enterprise.
I always thought it interesting that the series "Star Trek" used that name too.
My big brother flew A6 Intruders off her during his tours of Viet Nam.
Tarwara sailor speaks:)
That is it! Thanks for posting that.
That ship leaves a wake you can see the next morning.
W Div WEPS, 83-86. We must have met a time or two.
There will be another Enterprise.
Who else but the USN has the balls to name their ships Enterprise.
Naming a ship after our spirit. Hell, several of 'em.
We also have Endeavor as a Name.
Only the British have done as well in the naming category.
My father (CMC) served on the Long Beach and years later I was TAD to a picket ship to the Enterprise BG on Yankee Station. Told a story about the Big E that got pulled. Maybe I can tell it again now.
There is a movement that the CVN-80 will be named the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. CVN-78 will be the U.S.S. FORD, CVN-79 will be the next JFK.
Roger that, Captain. I was the XO of the Marine Detachment on the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in the early 70s. A great ship with a proud history.
In the mid 90s I was driving thru Baltimore and glanced out the window to see the 43 once again. She was being cut up for scrap. Even though I wasn't a sailor, I still felt a twinge of regret about her circumstances.
Semper Fi,
"My big brother flew A6 Intruders off her during his tours of Viet Nam."
I did a couple of tours with the Enterprise in 1967 and 1968. I was with VF-96 at the time. I was also on board during the "Pueblo" incident off North Korea.
There she is, Miss Piggy!
There she is, Miss Piggy!
My grandfather served on the Hancock, which was in the same strike group as the wwii Enterprise.
Ironically there is a legend out there that Admiral Rickover used the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE's speed to help him convince congress that we need a faster submarine. The Big E was leaving San Franciso Bay and a Russian submarine was shadowing it, all with the knowledge of the U.S. Navy. They kept ordering the Big E to go faster to find out how fast the Russian boat could go to keep up with the Big E as it headed to Pearl Harbor. Eventually it was determined that the Russian boats have the ability to outrun any of current boats, and he was able to win the LOS ANGELES Class submarines. http://www.ehow.com/about_5393742_history-nuclear-submarine.html
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When a 64 bit system isn't really 64 bit
Posted 13 December 2013 - 06:09 AM
I determined the drive was bad, so I ordered a replacement, as well as more memory as the system didn't have much. Because there wasn't that much of a price difference, I ordered 8gb.
The bios sees 8gb and Windows sees 8gb but half of it is listed as available. Are there 64 bit systems that cannot use more than 4gb? It is a few years old. Yes, I did install 64 bit Windows 7. It's home Premium, but even Basic has an 8gb limit. Premium is 16.
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Posted 13 December 2013 - 08:18 AM
Hardware limitation? I have an older Dell XPS desktop that will only take 4 GB even running 64 bit Windows 7.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 08:49 AM
Something like that, just wondering why...though I hadn't actually tried to install more memory on a 32 bit system to see how memory over 4gb showed up.
I did update the BIOS, just to see if that made a difference, it didn't. I was still running Windows Updates last night (500 meg even with SP1 already included) but can't imagine there would be anything there. Also was working on various drivers.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 08:54 AM
I haven't used my PC in quite a while... in Mac world now... but I seem to remember something about PCs reserving RAM equivalent to your video card RAM unless you disable something... so, for example if you had a 2GB ram video card installed and 8GB system ram, it would actually only show 6GB of usable system ram because it would match-reserve the same amount as you had on your video card.
I think if this is the case that there was a way to turn that off... don't remember if it was video "mirroring" or what, different BIOS showed different names for similar config settings... but you might want to poke around in the BIOS and see what it shows for video card RAM and if there is a setting that also might be reserving additional matching system ram.
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Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:11 AM
Google "pc not recognizing all memory", especially any "Tom's Hardware" links,
Been there, done that, but I can't even remember what my problem was.
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Posted 18 December 2013 - 08:11 PM
Its probably using the rest of the RAM for shared video memory.....reducing the amount used for actual RAM...instead using it for video RAM. Very common practice in laptops. If you install over 4 GB on a 32-bit OS and it is recognized by the BIOS, it will only have up to about 3 1/2 GB available to the OS no matter how much you put in. If the BIOS is recognizing all 8GB then the system isnt limited to less than that.
Edited by CCarncross, 18 December 2013 - 08:11 PM.
Posted 18 December 2013 - 09:58 PM
To me, kind of sounds like a device that only supports video over HDMI and not audio, and I think we did have ones like that early on.
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Posted 10 January 2014 - 12:52 PM
Old thread, but: No, Windows is caching stuff for you to use. I have 16 GB of RAM. I'm currently at a total of 16314 MB, 9389 Cached, 9921 Available, 586 Free. Or thereabouts. in general you're never going to have all of your memory "free".
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Nope, it wasn't caching. It truly was that the system cannot address more than 3gb of RAM. In my research, I found that there were some Intel chipsets that were the same way.


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