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US sells two former aircraft carriers to shipbreaker for 1 cent each
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WASHINGTON, 07 October 2021, (TON): Naval Sea Systems Command said “the US Navy has sold two former aircraft carriers, USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F Kennedy, to a Texas shipbreaking company for one cent each.”
Alan Baribeau, a spokesman for the Naval Sea Systems Command said “the contract values reflect that the contracted company will benefit from the subsequent sale of scrap steel, iron, and non-ferrous metal ores.”
Both warships are aging and defunct. For the Kitty Hawk, that likely means a tug boat tow from Bremerton, Washington, around the tip of South America; for the John F Kennedy, a sailing from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, according to a media report.
The contract with International Shipbreaking Limited in Brownsville, Texas, for the tow, remediation, dismantling and recycling of the storied warships makes imminent their departures from the Navy’s mothball fleet, said the report.
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