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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
USS Constellation takes final voyage to scrappers
The aircraft carrier Constellation, which saw service from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, paused along the California coast here while being towed on a final voyage to the scrap yard.
The supercarrier, affectionately nicknamed "Connie" by her crews over the decades, spent a night off the coast near Los Angeles before tow was resumed on the way from the mothball fleet in Bremerton, Wash., to the ship breakers near Brownsville, Texas.
The ship will make a 16,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn — Constellation is too large to fit through the Panama Canal — on a trip that could take until December, the Brownsville Herald reports. The distinctive "64" on the carrier's "island," or superstructure," that identified Constellation is now painted out.
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