Coral Maru's last hurrah
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Uploaded by saulpaulus on Nov 29, 2007
This is apparently of the Coral Sea in 1989 not long before it was decommissioned. I served on her from 1975-1978.
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va 27, west pac '81. never do it again but wouldn't trade.
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@bluejeeplab Well any of these ships could have been kept in commission indefinitely. As I say, most carriers had shorter commissioned lives and I think the Navy really wanted to have an all Nimitz class carrier fleet. The Coral Sea was never going to be a match for the Nimitz class super carriers.
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@saulpaulus - She still had life left in her. She passed INSURV just prior to the cruise and all of her systems were in good shape. I spent 3 years on America before my tour on CV43 and had to poop in trash bags for a week because the waste systems failed. Politics played the biggest role in her retirement.
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@bluejeeplab Nice sentiment, but 43 years (appropriate) is a pretty good service life. Of her two sister ships, Midway was in commission a few years longer, but the FDR was in commission for a far shorter span. Most other I looked at for comparison had shorter commissioned lives.
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I was part of the Decom crew for the Coral Maru. A great ship retired too soon...
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Med Cruise '87-'88!
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I served my entire enlistment on this Ole gal and I was sorry to here how this great war ship met her untimely end. I became a member of ship's crew in Nov of 1968 ended my time on her in AUG of 1972, was in V-3 divsion and worked on the hanger bay, doing 3 tours of duty in Viet Nam. She was a great ship.
kartvines 1 month ago
@kartvines Thank you for your comment and service.
saulpaulus 1 month ago
I served from 84-88, at the time I was clueless as to how those years changed my life. Toady I have fond memories of the ship, the ports and the friendships made. There is a Coral sea page on facebook if you are trying tp find old friends.
LenConnor 1 year ago
@LenConnor Thanks for the comment and info. I can understand them decommissioning the Maru when they did. Too bad that SF, for example, didn't have her preserved and made into a tourist attraction as NYC did with the Intrepid. When I served aboard her, she was known as "San Francisco's Own" although the ship was actually homeported at NAS Alameda--now also defunct I understand.
saulpaulus 1 year ago