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1955 to 1993 CV-59 USS Forrestal
---Filter--- Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: scrapped Port Visit Deployment Homeport Trials 1951-jul-12 Ordered Ordered 1952-jul-14 Laid down Laid down 1954-dec-11 Launched Launched as CVA-59 1955-oct-01 Commissioned Commissioned NS Norfolk and based at Norfolk, VA 1956-oct Deployment Deployment operating in Mediterranean with escort USS Des Moines (CA-134) while shadowing the British and French Musketeer operations 1957-oct Port Visit Port Visit visit to Southampton, UK 1962-aug Deployment Deployment operating off Portugal with HMS Centaur , HMS Hermes and USS Enterprise during, Exercise RipTide II . 1963-oct-30 Trials Trials conducted 1st set of deck landing trials with USMC KC-130F 798 off Jacksonville, FL 1963-nov-08 Trials Trials conducted 2nd set of deck landing trials with USMC KC-130F 798, 90nm E of Boston. Findings led to C-2 Greyhound COD programme. 1967-jul-25 Deployment Deployment Yankee Station Departed Norfolk VA with her air wing (including a detachment from HS-2 ) on 6 Jun 1967, for Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam, arrived 25 Jul. On 29 Jul a weapons release accident caused a huge fire on deck amongst an armed and fuelled strike force. 135 lost their lives bringing the blaze under control. Steamed to Subic Bay for temporary repairs and returned to Norfolk on 15 Sep. 1974-jul Deployment Deployment Partition of Cyprus detached from US 6th Fleet in Mediterannean and ordered off Cyprus to support and if neccesary evacuate US Nationals in aftermath of Turkish invasion of the island. Operated with support of USS Inchon , HS-3 embarked. 1975-jul Homeport Homeport Mayport designation changed to CV-59 and moved to Mayport Naval Station, FL 1982 1992-feb-04 Homeport Homeport NAS Pensacola / Forrest Sherman Field designation changed to AVT-59 and moved to Pensacola Naval Station, FL 1993-sep-11 Decommissioned Decommissioned 2014-feb-04 Fate: scrapped Fate: scrapped towed from Philadelphia Naval Yard to Texas for scrapping, completed by Dec 2014.
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