USS Enterprise enters dry dock

Deactivation of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) continues. The carrier was moved Saturday from Pier 2 at the Newport News Shipbuilding to her original birthplace, Dry Dock 11. Newport News employees will continue the defueling process in the dry dock under the current inactivation contract.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

I ate dinner aboard this vessel when I was 13 years old. That was in about 1968, when she was docked at Norfolk for refueling and such. My uncle was galley officer aboard the Enterprise. Back then, it was "CVAN-65", I presume under an old designation system. At that time it was the largest ship in the world. I still am disappointed that none of the photos from my mother's old P.O.S. camera were usable. I have a patch from the Enterprise reminding me that it was "CVAN-65" before it was "CVN-65". Hard to believe that men could build a moving object that large.

[@thomasblasczak7344]

Live long and prosper, Enterprise.

[@amtrak713productions8]

Dang scrapped like the one from ww2 what a shame

[@lorddaro7771]

They realy should had painted a constituion class starship on their hull.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Should have.painted the Federation pennant on both sides of the hull.( That stripe on the secondary hull on the starship.Enterprise.)

[@straitjacket8689]

For the first time in over 100 years there has not been a USS ENTERPRISE.Sad now we name our ships after bureaucrats and Presidents .

[@peterson7082]

?

[@michaelt9443]

Strait Jacket well CVN-80 with carry the name Enterprise

[@dundonrl]

CVN-80 was named Enterprise when the deactivation ceremony was being done for the USS Enterprise CVN-65.

[@elwin38]

The Nimitz will be the next carrier to be deactivated(and decommed) as soon as the "NEW" Kennedy is commissioned.

[@danieleborsari6394]

The sound...isnt't

[@ericpham7871]

Good idea to combine 4 - 6 aircraft carriers to build one moving island as big as 4 km square but must convert first onto hydraulic air water prime mover as power and propulsion generator it is cheapest way to use resources

[@dwightk.schrute6743]

That is not the Enterprise. It doesn't even have narceles.

[@michaelt9443]

Dwight K. Schrute yet has Enterprise's number of 65

[@angryspoidah9607]

Slowed to quarter impulse?

[@buangako4077]

BIG E!!

[@victorsforza3392]

Scotty I need warp speed now or we're all dead.. btw in star trek IV The voyage home chekov left a Klingon phaser & communicator on board there by potentially altering the future.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Unknown to the security officer who questioned Chekov, Chekov , himself was also the security officer of the starship Enterprise. So it was one Enterprise security officer after another. Made the scene rather funny. Star Trek 4, The voyage home, 1986.

[@johnbockelie3899]

" We are looking for nuclear wessles ."

[@ergibson2]

Wow

[@jacobirvine704]

Sad to see that beautiful ship in such a forlorn condition...

[@turnupbri]

Look how they massacred my boy

[@fardream1226]

Azurlane

[@NVRAMboi]

The pisser (to me) is that the original Enterprise (CV-6) was allowed to be scrapped. 20 battle stars and the entire WWII history of the USN in the Pacific just flushed down the toilet. Shameful really.

[@jimmyhuban3513]

It is a shame. My father served on the Enterprise during the war in his late teens. He went on to have a full 30 year career, serving on many carriers during the 60's with Fleet Work Study Group. Yet of all the super carriers he served on, including CVN 65, you knew his pride was with CV 6. We confirmed this when we found his scrap book years after his death.

[@spongehead1354]

Yes at one time she was all we had against Japan, it was the Enterprise against Japan and she won! Total disgrace scrapping her when at the end of the war we had 79 carriers!

[@CaesarInVa]

Agreed. The most decorated ship in the history of the US Navy, scrapped. It's beyond shameful. She should have been designated a museum ship and permanently berthed at Annapolis or some such place.

[@NVRAMboi]

@@CaesarInVa I don't know how we let that happen. It seems unthinkable.

[@HaddaClu]

Hell, when even Halsey couldnt get her saved you know something was wrong.

[@ImtiazRiadi]

and then she would be re-activated as CVN-80. Of the Gerald R Ford Class! Long live Big E

[@theread3480]

I was taking a tour of the USS-Wisconsin at Norfolk Virginia and new port news is right in there and i noticed a very big carrier in the distance so i saw 2 naval legends on June 24 2015 the Wisconsin and the enterprise wow

[@moremoneyfordreadnoughts1100]

The failure to save the WW2 Enterprise is so sad. You can't save 'em all but we as a country should not cast off our sacred icons so easily, forget the sacrifices so easily, or lose our heritage so easily. Save the SS United States. A jobs program with a higher calling.

[@GESSO217]

I watched a documentary on the WW2 Era Enterprise. If I remember correctly Some vets who served on The WW2 Era Enterprise still carry bits of the ship as Shrapnel that was never surgically removed.

[@chickenhashemite37]

I wish she was a museum instead of being scraped😔

[@Lumotaku]

***** She cannot be made into a museum because of her nuclear reactors they have to be removed and that requires cutting extensive parts of the ship away.

[@Lumotaku]

There is talk of saving her conning tower

[@Lumotaku]

One fo the coolest things about an aircraft carrier is that if it's nuclear you just pull up to a dock and plug into the power grid and provide power for disasters.

[@whidbeyhiker4364]

Original Lexington did that for Tacoma.

[@dundonrl]

Not so much, since the majority of the power a nuclear powered aircraft carrier makes is used to propel the ship, very little of the steam goes to generate electricity.

[@andydavid988]

They used to keep enough money in the defense budget to keep ships painted, you never used to see the amount of rust that is common now. Looks like neglect.

[@GregsVlog]

I'm getting teary-eyed watching this...

[@jerrymccrae7202]

When big E was commissioned, her first capt was a pilot on the old cv6. He kept a porthole from the ship on board in his sea cabin. I wish that were possible with the new Enterprise. So sad.

[@jerrymccrae7202]

I seem to remember reading where her anchors are to be re installed on the new big E. I read that to about her first skipper.

[@dundonrl]

@@jerrymccrae7202 I think the USS Abraham Lincoln has one of her old anchors and the USS George Washington has the other. The new USS Enterprise CVN-80 will have completely different types of anchors.

[@jerrymccrae7202]

@@dundonrl thank you very much for the info! Glad to know her spirit is living on. Have a great safe week!

[@markosteinberger]

Pity it has to be scrapped. I loved its unique look. Especially the island

[@GhostTrueCapitalist]

Now... to create CVN-80 with both CV-6 and CVN-65's metals and continue carryin' the name and serve its country.

[@geraldscott7441]

A sad day for the U.S. Navy. The U.S.S. Enterprise CVN 65 was commissioned in 1961, several years ahead of Star Trek TOS. The Star Trek Enterprise was likely named after it.

[@kennethhigdon1159]

Gerald Scott In the main conference room aboard every version of the enterprise There’s a silhouette model of every USS Enterprise. Sometimes it’s also in the captains quarters

[@brucel399]

The original Starship in Star Trek was to be named the Yorktown. Jeffery Hunter who played Captain Chris Pike in the pilot, insisted the name be changed to Enterprise or he would walk off the set. Gene Roddenberry agreed and the rest is history.....

[@dundonrl]

The space shuttle Enterprise was named after the Star Trek USS Enterprise!

[@carol7311]

who is James kirk and what does he want with the enterprise swfc 1867

[@dundonrl]

Go watch the original Star Trek series..

[@richardgates7479]

What does a God need with a ship?

[@BrandBazaarBDshop]

big and very big .......................... like it

[@williamc.1198]

To be scrapped; the same as her predecessor!

[@alexrebmann1253]

Name Enterprise will continue on Gerald Ford class.

[@catshavesouls]

Breathtaking!

[@DenzelLN936]

Looks rubbish

[@mikegallant811]

Approach Control, this is Enterprise, ready for docking maneuvers. Enterprise is clear to dock. Lock on. Systems locked. Spacedock (or in this case NNS)you have control Affirmative Enterprise, enjoy the ride, and welcome home! Enterprise confirms.

[@michaelharris8228]

I served on her when they cut the dome off in 1980. Let's just say my time onboard was hell on earth. We left sooo many crew members behind in legal trouble, had to be at least half. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the worlds anus!!!

[@jinmatwha264]

Wow!! Handsome ship💪🇺🇸

[@nestorsquinozio3002]

El enterprise no es casi nuevo ?

[@allgood6760]

Thanks for this 👍

[@TheLenaweeTrekker]

😢

[@dmed312]

How do they move so fast?

[@Kuro_2712]

Nuclear reactors.

[@ТажутдинСадыков]

Надеюсь увидеть тот день когда его за топят