Talk:Rivet City
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[edit] Why USS Oriskany image is used
Because it is well known and recognisable:
- While berthed at Mare Island in rusted and decrepit condition, ex-Oriskany was used as a setting for the Robin Williams film, What Dreams May Come (1998) as part of the representation of Hell.
- The 2006 Discovery Channel feature Sinking of an Aircraft Carrier documented the environmental preparation and sinking of the Oriskany (for artificial reef purposes, EPA consulted).
CV/CVA-34, an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Following twenty-five years of service, Oriskany was decommissioned 30 September 1976 and laid up for long-term storage in Bremerton, Washington. The ship was maintained as a mobilization asset, for possible future reactivation through the 1980s during the Reagan administration's naval force build-up. At the end of the Cold War and the subsequent reduction of the U.S. Navy's active force, Oriskany was recognized as being obsolete and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1989. Her hull was stripped of all equipment that could be reused or recycled.
General characteristics:
- Displacement: As built: 30,800 tons
- Length: As built: 904 feet (275.5 m) overall
- Beam: As built: 129 feet (39.3 m) overall
- Draught: As built: 30 feet six inches (9.3 m) maximum
- Propulsion: As designed: 8 × boilers (565 psi., 850ºF), 4 × Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 × shafts, 150,000 shp
- Speed: 33 knots
- Range: 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
- Complement: As built: 2,600 officers and enlisted
- Armour: As built: 2.5 to 4 inch belt, 1.5 inch hangar and protectice decks, 4 inch bulkheads, 1.5 inch STS top and sides of pilot house, 2.5 inch top of steering gear
- Aircraft carried: As built: 90–100 aircraft
- 1 × deck-edge elevator, 2 × centerline elevators
[edit] The last Essex-class aircraft carrier
USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT-16) was decommissioned 8 November 1991. On 15 June 1992, the ship was donated as a museum and now operates as the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay at 27.815° -97.389, 2914 North Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas. A MEGAtheater (similar to IMAX) was added in the forward aircraft elevator space. Lexington was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. The ship is carefully maintained and areas of the ship previously off-limits are becoming open to the public every few years. One of the most recent examples is the catapult room.
The Sci-Fi Channel's original series, Ghost Hunters did an investigation of the USS Lexington after several reports of strange activity aboard the ship. TAPS concluded that the ship had some paranormal activity, but not enough to determine it haunted.
--dotz 04:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)