USS Enterprise retiring

[Butcher]

Based on what?

Here's a list of carriers since 1977 put into commission, if anything the Enterprise will share the same downgrade as the others do - Ticonderoga class cruiser.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
(CVN 69)   18 Oct 1977 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS Carl Vinson
(CVN 70)   13 Mar 1982 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS Theodore Roosevelt
(CVN 71)   25 Oct 1986 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS Abraham Lincoln
(CVN 72)   11 Nov 1989 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS George Washington
(CVN 73)   4 July 1992 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS John C. Stennis
(CVN 74)   9 Dec 1995 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS Harry S. Truman
(CVN 75)   25 July 1998 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS Ronald Reagan
(CVN 76)   12 July 2003 /
--   Active -- see Fact File

USS George H.W. Bush
(CVN 77)   -- /
--   Active -- see Fact File

PCU Gerald R. Ford(CVN 78)   under construction /
--   Active -- see Fact File

PCU John F. Kennedy(CVN 79)   under construction /
--   Active -- see Fa

[AKP]

PCU John F. Kennedy(CVN 79)   under construction /

Its nice to see my old ship's name being carried on.  4 years I spent on the "Big John".  She is in the Philly Yards right now undergoing preservation, and it looks like she will be going to New England (either Maine or Rhode Island) to be a museum.

Anyway... as for Enterprise... there are several petitions out there to get the name on one of the new Ford class carriers.  There are 10 planned, and with a name like Enterprise... that has meant so much in American Naval history... I think the odds are good that it will happen.

[PR3D4TOR]

So the name will continue, just not on a carrier? That doesn't surprise me; there have been eight ships named Enterprise and only two were carriers.

[AKKuya]

Aside from Gene Roddenberry choosing Enterprise over Lexington for Star Trek, the single greatest reason for a new carrier to be named Enterprise is this.

The Big E was the only carrier of the original 4 to survive the entire war.  She was damaged and put in for a quick repair but for a short time it was "The Big E against the entire Japanese Navy".

Of course, the new Enterprise served for 50 years with distinction.

[smoe]

Aside from Gene Roddenberry choosing Enterprise over Lexington for Star Trek, the single greatest reason for a new carrier to be named Enterprise is this.

The Big E was the only carrier of the original 4 to survive the entire war.  She was damaged and put in for a quick repair but for a short time it was "The Big E against the entire Japanese Navy".

Of course, the new Enterprise served for 50 years with distinction.

The interesting thing about CVN-6 is:

On three separate occasions during the Pacific War, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)

[Butcher]

I was always partial to the U.S.S. Yorktown, one of the earliest books I ever read was rendezvous at midway - a book about the Yorktown during Coral Sea and Midway engagement.

Interesting note I believe if the Japanese Submarine didn't spot the Yorktown, she very well might of survived two bombs and torpedoes at Midway, this includes the damage already taken at Coral sea.
(If ya don't know she was patched up in record time at Pearl by three crews working over time) to prepare for the Midway battle.

[Slate]

I was always partial to the U.S.S. Yorktown, one of the earliest books I ever read was rendezvous at midway - a book about the Yorktown during Coral Sea and Midway engagement.

Interesting note I believe if the Japanese Submarine didn't spot the Yorktown, she very well might of survived two bombs and torpedoes at Midway, this includes the damage already taken at Coral sea.
(If ya don't know she was patched up in record time at Pearl by three crews working over time) to prepare for the Midway battle.

  Midway was the quintisential CV battle. (I saw the Movie with my father as a teenager) Was there ever another ship named Yorktown? It was fortunate circumstances that we came out on top as well as bringing the Yorktown back into the fight so quickly. It gave the Japanese another target to focus on and I believed they were suprised by it's appearance in the fight.

[Butcher]

  Midway was the quintisential CV battle. (I saw the Movie with my father as a teenager) Was there ever another ship named Yorktown? It was fortunate circumstances that we came out on top as well as bringing the Yorktown back into the fight so quickly. It gave the Japanese another target to focus on and I believed they were suprised by it's appearance in the fight.

Interesting they named the next ship Yorktown II, and we do have a Ticadaroga class Cruiser named Yorktown (I believe its being sold off for scrap now)