The ship will be towed from the Navy’s inactive ships maintenance facility in Bremerton, Washington, to International Shipbreaking Ltd.’s ship dismantling facility in Brownsville, Texas for complete dismantling and recycling. $0.01 is the lowest price the Navy could possibly have paid the contractor for towing and dismantling the ship. This is not a sales contract, it is a procurement contract. The price reflects the net price proposed by International Shipbreaking, which considered the estimated proceeds from the sale of the scrap metal to be generated from dismantling. Under the contract, the company will be paid $0.01. WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Navy awarded a contract for the towing and dismantling of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Ranger (CV 61) to International Shipbreaking Ltd. Navy Awards Contract for Ranger Dismantlingįrom: Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate Communication The ship served extensively in the Vietnam War and later in Operation Desert Storm. Ranger is one of four 60,000-ton Forestall-class carriers, known as the first so-called super carriers, and was in commission from 1957 to 1993. After covering the cost of transportation, International Shipbreaking retains the profits from selling the scrap. The $0.01 fee pays for the transportation and dismantling of Ranger by the company. NAVSEA took pains to explain the financial arrangement with the company to USNI News on Monday. The ship will depart Bremerton in January or February and travel around the tip of South America.
to International Shipbreaking’s dismantling facility in Brownsville, Texas. The hull will now be towed from the Navy’s inactive ships maintenance facility in Bremerton, Wash. The Navy cannot donate a vessel unless the application fully meets the Navy’s minimum requirements for donation, and cannot retain inactive ships indefinitely.” “While there are many veterans with strong desires that the Navy not scrap the ship they served on, there were no states, municipalities or non-profit organizations with a viable plan seeking to save the ship. “After eight years on donation hold, the USS Ranger Foundation was unable to raise the necessary funds to convert the ship into a museum or to overcome the physical obstacles of transporting her up the Columbia River to Fairfview, Oregon,” read the statement from NAVSEA.
The foundation had planned to moor the ship in Oregon on the Columbia River near Portland and create a museum. The letting of the contract follows an October decision from the Navy to not donate the ship to the USS Ranger Foundation. The Navy has paid a Texas ship breaker $0.01 to transport and dismantle the third American super carrier - Ranger (CV-61), according to a Monday statement from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
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