2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:22:28 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] SHIPS: Mothballed U.S.S. Horne to be sunk
 
A warship built at Hunters Point is to be sunk

Jim Doyle
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
June 26, 2008

A once powerful guided-missile cruiser that was built at San Francisco's Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, fought in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, and was then mothballed in Suisun Bay, is scheduled to be towed to sea today to be strafed, torpedoed and sunk by allied forces in the Pacific.

The Horne (CG-30) was named for a Navy admiral who began his career on sailing ships at the turn of the 20th century, and will be remembered by legions of former crew members who served on the ship during its quarter-century of service. The ship's passing echoes a bygone era when San Francisco Bay was ringed with naval bases and warships were often seen.

Capt. Tim Lockwood of the fleet ocean tug Navajo said he plans to tow the Horne beneath the Golden Gate this afternoon on its final voyage toward Hawaii, where a multinational exercise is scheduled to use the cruiser's steel hull and superstructure for target practice.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/25/BAHK11EO4T.DTL

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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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