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USS John F. Kennedy Leaving Philadelphia's Navy Yard To Be Dismantled In Texas
The carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia.
The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia.
The retired Navy carrier is set to depart from South Philadelphia's Navy Yard around 9 a.m., and will travel to Brownsville, Texas where it'll be taken apart. The USS JFK's departure was originally scheduled for Jan. 15, but was postponed because of high winds.
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Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, the USS JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed president and "last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the U.S. Navy," according to Naval Sea Systems Public Affairs.
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