Steve jahn Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 If you could decide what could be done with the USS Enterprise after being retired, what would you do with it? Just thought it would be interesting to see all the ideas that you can come up with. My idea would be a floating emergency facility for natural disaster. Less all the nuclear power plants of course. It would have to be moved by other ships but it would have plenty of room for emergency supplies. Could carry plenty of fuel for on board power plants to supply power to communites that would need it. Whats your ideas? Steve Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cameron Lynch Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 If you could decide what could be done with the USS Enterprise after being retired, what would you do with it? Just thought it would be interesting to see all the ideas that you can come up with. My idea would be a floating emergency facility for natural disaster. Less all the nuclear power plants of course. It would have to be moved by other ships but it would have plenty of room for emergency supplies. Could carry plenty of fuel for on board power plants to supply power to communites that would need it. Whats your ideas? Steve Sink it in 250' of water off of someplace tropical and turn it into the biggest wreck dive on the planet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strikeeagle801 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 There's going to be nothing but an empty shell by the time they are done. There are 8 reactors in the Enterprise (which will all end up about 50 miles southeast of where I live) that have to be ripped out of that thing. By the time they get done with that, the only thing the remains will be good for is scrap. Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve N Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 ..and I understand that cutting out the reactors and removing any contaminated parts will leave the ship so structurally compromised she won't even be able to be towed..leaving scrapping the only really viable option. It would be nice if maybe the island could be saved, but where would you put it? It would have to end up on outdoor display somewhere (with ocean accsess..unless you could somehow break it down into pieces small enough to move overland and then reassemble it on site) and then you'd need some organization and funding to maintain it, or the weather would reduce it to junk in just a few years. SN Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neo Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 sell it to Canada we like to buy old stuff people dont want anymore ...... cough cough English Diesel subs... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) Take off the island and put it at the entrance to Norfolk. Make a light house out of it. Still on military property so no one will screw around with it. Scrap 99% of the hull. Turn 1% into small strips. Sell them or give them as souvenirs giving the proceeds to the childrens last wish charity. Edited January 27, 2013 by phantom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DutyCat Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Maybe use the steel to make the new USS Enterprise? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Horrido Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Using ancient Egyptian obelisk-raising techniques, I would find a place near shore to stand it upright on its stern and convert it into... the world's largest hobby shop/community workbench! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scooby Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Give it to me so I can use it as my private yacht. Enough said. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scooby Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) Double post, although it is worth saying twice. Edited January 27, 2013 by Scooby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Horrido Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Why did you post an image of a Tomcat in an Enterprise thread? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darren Roberts Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Tow it to a nearby port and let it provide the power for the surrounding area. Kind of a floating nuke power plant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strikeeagle801 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Tow it to a nearby port and let it provide the power for the surrounding area. Kind of a floating nuke power plant. I'll have to ask which one, but my father in law remembers when they stuck a carrier (non-nuclear) in Commencement Bay and it powered the whole city of Tacoma, WA for a month. Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Melt what is left down once the reactors are pulled out and keep the metal ingots around for when we build the first starship named Enterprise. ;) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crazydon Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Tow it to a nearby port and let it provide the power for the surrounding area. Kind of a floating nuke power plant. You wouldn't want the contamination. Those reactors on the Enterprise are OLD and past the end of their service life....1-2 have been shut down for years from what I gather since there were few spare parts to begin with. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Horrido Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I'll have to ask which one, but my father in law remembers when they stuck a carrier (non-nuclear) in Commencement Bay and it powered the whole city of Tacoma, WA for a month. Aaron USS Lexington CV-2. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom ordie Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 It is history. It should be saved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hacker Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 sell it to Canada we like to buy old stuff people dont want anymore ...... cough cough English Diesel subs... OOOO nice shot :P sounds like a no win situation. A lack of foresight did in the original Enterprise from WW2 real shame as it was as decorated as her nuclear name sake. Sometimes as much as you want to save a historic piece of history it just not work out. She should be remembered somehow but just what is a head scratchier Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy Snap Captain Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Sell it in small pieces as commemorative gifts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PNW_Modeler Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Heck....I'm still waiting for them to figure out how to turn old battleships into invincible space battleships to combat the growing Gamilon threat of Iscandar ....maybe the Enterprise could be the prototype Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yuri61 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 As a Nuc Engineer I can tell you it cannot be saved. The hull will be torn apart in many sections to remove the 8 reactors. There is no possible way it can be saved for a museum piece. The same happened to the USS Long Beach, though her hull remains and waits for scrapping. I do not think you will ever see a Nuc carrier become an exhibit. It would be great if the island could be saved and placed in a museum someplace such as the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. I would have thought the USS JFK would have been a good museum candidate but the cost of up keeping a large carrier would be huge. Sorry to say the old girl will not be saved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bushpounder Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I would like to see the island saved. The problem is it weighs well over 500 tons and is hard to move after removal very easily. It would be a nice tribute. Don Quote Link to post Share on other sites
-Neu- Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Defuel it, sink it at the deepest part of the ocean and wait until an alien race hits us with radioactive meteorite bombs that destroy the surface of the earth. Then we can use its hulk to create an ultra modern space carrier to undertake a desperate mission to the magellanic cloud to obtain the Cosmo Cleaner. ... just sayin' we should be prepared for anything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Defuel it, sink it at the deepest part of the ocean and wait until an alien race hits us with radioactive meteorite bombs that destroy the surface of the earth. Then we can use its hulk to create an ultra modern space carrier to undertake a desperate mission to the magellanic cloud to obtain the Cosmo Cleaner. ... just sayin' we should be prepared for anything. PNW_Modeler already beat you to the punch with the Space Battleship Yamato reference. ;) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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