Ronald Reagan once
called it "America's Flagship," and now the U.S.S. Constellation
Aircraft Carrier has been sold to a scrap company.
As weather.com's
Matt Sampson explains in the video above, the Constellation was commissioned in
1961 and served in battles from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
The aircraft
carrier was decommissioned in 2003 and has been at a facility in Washington
State ever since.
The Kitsap Sun
reports the ship will be towed this summer from the Pacific Northwest to
International Shipbreaking Limited (ISL) in Brownsville, Texas, where the
private company will scrap the long-serving ship.
The Navy will pay
ISL $3 million, plus the proceeds from recycling, according to the Associated
Press.
Source:
weather.com. 25 June 2014
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