Instead, just five years later the U.S. Navy moved forward with the more conventionally figured USS Forrestal-class. As nuclear weapons shrank in size it was also determined that a massive warship ...

October 28, 2013: The U.S. Navy recently sold a decommissioned (in 1993) aircraft carrier (USS Forrestal) for scrap. The ship yard that will take the Forrestal apart (All Star Metals of Texas) paid ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy developed and commissioned some of the most cutting-edge aircraft carriers of its time. The Forrestal-class ships, first built in the 1950’s, were no exception.