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To whom was the USS Enterprise (CV-6) sold to?

Some scrapping company, dunno who exactly. Usually takes a couple years to take apart a carrier completely. Stan 01:28, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

According to Steven Ewing in his 1982 book "USS Enterprise (CV-6), the Most Decorated Ship of World War II", she was sold to Lipsett for scrap and dismantled in 1958. The location was Kearny, New Jersy on the Hackensack River.

Such a sad end to a true fighting ship. Its shame that she was scrapped rather then preserved. Alyeska

I agree. Ships like that ought to be preserved for future generations. TomStar81 21:53, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

1 NPOV
2 Cleanup tag?
3 Rah Rah
4 A very good piece of film of the August 24, 1942 attacks

[edit] NPOV

Smashing? hurling? OMG, this article needs a less boosterish, more NPOV rewrite. Cheers, :) MikeReichold 16:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

see response below in #Rah Rah.--J Clear 22:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup tag?

Just wondering, is there any particular cleanup that is needed? Or is it just a general overhaul of "resectioning" and stuff? --Havocrazy 04:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rah Rah

I agree with MikeReichold, the language describing some of Enterprise's battles is less than neutral in tone, more suited for 1940's newsreels than wiki. The ship's battle honours speak for themselves, they don't need hyperbole. I have removed the rather informal "Big E" label in most sections, replacing it with Enterprise (leaving it where it belongs as the ships nickname and in one heading where it seemed appropriate). IMO what is needed now is a moderate rewwrite to remove some of the overly emotive language and perhaps a revision of some of the sectioning. This later task is probably not a huge one, with a few minor divisons: e.g. seperate "After Pearl Habor" into "After Pearl", "Wake Island" and "Doolittle Raid" and maybe one or two other similar subsectionings. There is also a crying need for much of the information to have citations. Jaxsonjo 05:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is the reason for both your observations. The public domain DANFS ship article is often copied to start a wikipedia ship article and the tone comes from there. DANFS is then cited as a reference for the whole article.--J Clear 22:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

This legendary ship was sold for scrap? Boosterism aside, what a bad idea! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.15 (talk) 18:24, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A very good piece of film of the August 24, 1942 attacks

I have just added a YouTube link to a film of the attacks on the Enterprise on August 24, 1942. It matches so well Image:USS enterprise-bomb hit-Bat eastern Solomons.jpg that I wonder whether the picture could just be a frame from the film. Anyway, it is an extraordinary piece of history. Bradipus 11:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I had been astonished by the resemblance between hhe pic used in the "South Pacific operations" (Image:USS enterprise-bomb hit-Bat eastern Solomons.jpg) section and the images in the film, especially around 03:05. Reading cautiously what this site exactly says, I discover that "Marion Riley (PhoM 2/c) manned a motion picture camera from the aft end of the ship's island, above the flight deck. (...) The bomb exploding in the photo was the third to hit the ship, and was photographed from above the flight deck. (...) the photo is Marion Riley's. Riley's camera was damaged by the explosion, but the film survived. A dramatic sequence of stills from the film was published in Life Magazine months after the battle."

I will slightly edit the article to indicate this, as well as the relevant Commons pages. Bradipus 09:53, 8 September 2007 (UTC)