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> Towing and ship-breaking is a costly process, and the Navy has previously paid ISL large sums of money to recycle its ships
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Article is from 2021 (this information should be in the title).
👤ahofmann🕑2y🔼0🗨️0
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I spent a couple of years aboard the kitty Hawk in the early 1980s..rode her from California to Hawaii to Arabia and back, with many stops along the way
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They should be auctioning it off to the highest bidders. Hard to believe the one cents offers were the highest.
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The US Navy sold 2 obsolete carriers
In the world of 2023, ALL carriers are obsolete. The way as all battleships were obsolete in 1941.
Aircraft carriers = slow, expensive targets.
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Assuming you need to do everything responsibly and above board, you may get paid for the scrap, but you need to pay to remove and dispose of pipe lagging, fuel and lubricant residue, separate and recycle various materials and W.H.Y.
I don't know about the US Navy but if they have to account for the proper disposal of everything in those ships, that's a gigantic task and selling them for a penny may well be an excellent deal.
A tangential thing:
Where I am, on the BC coast, I'm told the old way to dispose of old vessels (including commercial) was to scuttle them somewhere quiet.
There was a startup out here that was offering, for a fee, to responsibly dismantle boats and sort through everything and responsibly recycle or dispose of everything. What the owner would get is a paper trail, especially weigh-bills, showing their ship disappeared in a legal way. I believe it failed because of the cost.