USS Yorktown CG-48 (decommissioned) under tow 09/16/2022

[@johnfoster3895]

USS Yorktown on her last journey. You served your country and crew with pride and integrity. Thank You for your service. I served onboard 1995-1998. ET1 (SW) Foster USN (Ret.)

[@patrickmccrann991]

Hello shipmate. OSCS(SW) USN RET'D 1978-2002 Yorktown 4/96 to 5/99.

[@kboo74]

Scales, K.L. 1994-1998 BM

[@rayh53]

I was on the commissioning crew in 1984.

[@karlgillette634]

A great ship. I was a plankowner as FCO. Really sad to see this great ship go.

[@map3384]

I saw the Yorktown in New York Harbor July 4, 1986. Her bow was pointed towards the Statue of Liberty. Her flag flowing from her stern. I took the picture using my Canon AE1P. For an amateur photo it came out perfect. Sad to see she’s gone. President Reagan’s Navy. Better times in a better America.

[@robertf3479]

During my first Mediterranian deployment in USS Caron (DD 970) we often found ourselves paired with Yorktown for various operations including two trips up into the Black Sea. The first was fairly quiet but the second in FEB 86 triggered a reaction by the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, Naval Air Force and the KGB Border Guard (Coast Guard.) Nothing violent, just lots of radio warnings as we sailed along well outside of the 3 mile territorial water limit (still close enough to photograph some of the hills of the Crimean Penninsula) and low level overflights by Air Force planes including Tu-22M Backfires and various Sukhoi ground attack aircraft, most of which were armed. Both Caron and Yorktown were rammed by Soviet frigates during a Black Sea cruise a little over a year later. I had been transferred off Caron to another assignment only a month before that little adventure. Neither ship received more than cosmetic damage (despite Soviet claims of heavy damage to both,) easily repaired with light welding to railing and a paint brush. No one injured.

[@edercosta93]

Thank you for your services 🤝 I miss you a great admirer of the US Navy here in Brazil

[@robertf3479]

@@edercosta93 I was honored to be able to serve.

[@kboo74]

This was my first command when I joined the Navy. She was the reason I stayed in and chose the BM rating. Miss her dearly and sad to see her get scrapped. I wish Yorktown, Va would have taken her as a museum ship. RIP CG-48.😢. My time was 1994-1998.

[@nighthawk784]

Thank you for your service.

[@jasonneal6461]

I did not get to untie this one. I believe the Kennedy is next to go, I will not miss that one. I enjoy your videos, thank you

[@markcrandall2794]

Why won’t you miss the Kennedy? Is it a problematic ship?

[@jasonneal6461]

@@markcrandall2794 Sorry for the confusion, I meant I will not miss untying the Kennedy when she leaves.

[@markcrandall2794]

@@jasonneal6461 Ok, that makes sense. What do you do at the facility? Do you go aboard the decommissioned ships often? Do the ships have electrical power running to them?

[@jasonneal6461]

@@markcrandall2794 I work for a line running company. We tie and untie ships up and down the river. Only onboard them when they do these moves, outside of the work we are never onboard. Out of the 7 I have done, all have had shore power that gets disconnected before the tugs hook up.

[@markcrandall2794]

@@jasonneal6461 That’s cool. I figured they would have the electric shoretie cable connecting them to power. From the pictures I have seen, it looks like the Navy covers the bridge windows on the ships with something. Do you happen to know why and what they use to do this? I’m a retired Coast Guard officer and I have never seen any of our ships have the bridge windows covered when we decommission them and store them in mothballs.

[@chuck9380]

I was on the decommissioning crew in 2004 Pascagoula Ms.

[@harleybodden1938]

I was over on the Groves in Goula. What a dump

[@ashleyholley7307]

They should take her to Charleston and let her be loved next her older sister.

[@patrickmccrann991]

Stationed on her from April 1996 to May 1999. Moved her from Norfolk, VA to Pascagoula, MS homeport change. There for her conversation to Navy "Smartship" to test automation and reduced manning. Completed two Counter Drug deployments in 97 and 98, NATO exercise in Canadian waters June 1998. Good ship, a shame they never upgraded to Block Is, to costly $400 million per ship. Fairwell, old girl.

[@kboo74]

I was there for that conversion also 1994-1998.

[@carol7311]

Stopped by Philadelphia Naval Yard back in August to go see the old girl, no I'm not a crew member, I'm just a guy who loves these old girls Sad to see her go considering I visited back in 2018 when Ticonderoga and Charles F Adams were with her. Sleep well USS Yorktown CG-48, we'll miss you

[@johnsmadgarage3362]

I did the radar upgrade sps-64, sps-48 , the good old SPY-1A slick 32 and the yuc-21 GE LM-2500 mod in the late 1980s

[@patrickmccrann991]

SPS-49 I think you mean. These ships don't have SPS-48 and never will.

[@daleferber2096]

Was a Plankopowner as an ET2 and retired off her in 01 as an ETC We invented the term Aegis Class Cruiser, First Aegis cruiser, Tico was just a prototype Mike Boorda's flagship Sadly Captain Andersen never got forgiven for the ping pong balls

[@kempmt1]

I once believed the first five Ticonderoga-class were to have their Mk26 launchers replaced by Mk41 VLS

[@patrickmccrann991]

They did a study on the cost in the 90s. Approx $400 million for each ship. Due to the force reduction and reduced budget, it was decided it would be too expensive. It involved more than just the Mk 41 VLS, upgraded computers, FCS mods, etc.

[@merlemorrison482]

Getting scrapped?

[@nighthawk784]

Correct

[@robertf3479]

Yup. There's a lot of good steel in the hull that can be recycled along with about 1,000 to 1,200 tons of Aluminum in the superstructure.

[@t-dogg-kilrroy5943]

A Sad Day

[@arturojimenez2477]

Class Arleigh Burke

[@stanstenson8168]

Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

[@davidpearson3304]

Nope. The Burke’s are DDG’s this was a CG

[@patrickmccrann991]

Wrong. Ticonderoga class Guided Missile Cruiser CG-47 to CG-73. The Arleigh Burke is a Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-51 to ...... They are still being built.

[@digitalshackonthelane]

Here is the new reel of this ship from the day before it was commissioned officially: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3bGppubqrWimrM

[@markallan3842]

What class is it ?

[@b1-battledroid927]

Ticonderoga-class cruiser

[@daleferber2096]

Aegis class, damm it, Aegis Class We put that in every pub. inst. and training manual we could find Ticonderoga class, bite your tongue, bite it until it bleeds

[@patrickmccrann991]

​@@daleferber2096 Hate to break the news to you, but it is the Ticonderoga class. Aegis weapon system!

[@daleferber2096]

@@patrickmccrann991 NO NO NO , You could never get a Yorktown sailor to EVER say those three words We didn't have lube oil fire in the uptake We hit everything we shot at !! To this day thanks to US you routinely hear the term "AEGIS Class Cruiser or AEGIS Cruiser And AEGIS DDG Mike Boorda HATED the Ticonderoga, Could not shift his flag off that POS to us quick enough, loved to come down for a day out running flank and then some off the VA coast

[@patrickmccrann991]

@@daleferber2096 Funny, served on the Yorktown for 3 years and always referred to Ticonderoga class. OSCS(SW) USN RET'D 1978-2002 Yorktown April 96 to May 99. My last ship of five.

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