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Tarn Stephanos
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Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 1756
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 8:03 pm: | 
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Forgive me if I mispelled her name- but where is the current wherabouts of the US aircraft carrier Bonn Homme Richard? I believe she was decommisioned in 1971. Anyone know details of her history?
One interesting tidbit- one of her commanders was George Steven Morrison- father of the late Jim Morrison, the singer of the rock band the Doors. Curious when Jim Morrison was the biggest rock star in America, his dad became one of the youngest Rear Admirals in US Naval history-talk about contrast!
I think around the same time (late 1960s) there was another famous rock and roller whose father was a high ranking Army General....
Steve Morrison presided at the decommisioning ceremony of the BonnHomme Richard on July 3 1971- the day his son Jim died in Paris.....
regards
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Mark Baber
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Username: mab
Post Number: 1860
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 10:36 pm: |
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The U.S. Navy says this ship was sold for scrap in 1992.
MAB
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OceanicSteamNavigationCo/
http://www.greatships.net/
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Michael H. Standart
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Username: mstandart
Post Number: 11246
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 4:50 am: |
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See also http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/31.htm
The last time I saw this ship, she was laid up in the Inactive Ships facility as the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Rather a haunting sight, too. She was stricken from the Naval Vessels Register on 20 Sept 1989 and scrapped at San Pedro starting in 1992.
See also
http://www.geocities.com/~bhr31/index2.html
http://www.geocities.com/~bhr31/HISTORY.htm
http://www.geocities.com/~bhr31/finalboarding.htm
and http://www.geocities.com/~bhr31/lastdays.htm
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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