PICTURES - Scrapping

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Sep 1, 1997 - Aerial starboard bow view of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) moored at the Lambert Point facility of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company. The ship is in the late stages of being scrapped out.

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Sep 1, 1997 - Aerial view from the port side of a section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) from amidships to aft of the old island location. CV 43 is in the late stages of being scrapped out at the Lambert Point facility of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company.

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Sep 1, 1997 - Aerial view from the port side of the bow section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) in the late stages of being scrapped out at the Lambert Point facility of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company.

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Sep 1, 1997 - Aerial starboard bow view of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) in the late stages of being scrapped out at the Fairfield Terminal of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company. The PMS Co. took over operations from the bankrupt Seawitch Salvage Company.

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Sep 1, 1997 - Close-in aerial view, from the port side, of a section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) aft of the former island section during the late stages of the ship being scrapped out at the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company

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Sep 1, 1997 - Aerial view from the port side of the fore section of the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA (CV 43) being scrapped out at the Lambert Point facility of the new Patapsco Marine Salvage Company.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - The bow is ballasted down to raise the stern to make it easier to remove the rudders and after sections of the ship.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Another shot of her rudders.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - One of her anchors. This one was sold in August 2000 to a dredging outfit in Texas. The other one was sent to Australia a few years back. An older anchor from 1971 is on display at the Citidal.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Looking down from the edge of the hangar deck.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Bow exposed.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Looking aft from the hangar deck.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Pieces of the propeller shafts.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Propeller shaft exposed.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1998 - Overhead view of scrapyard.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Bow on of the hulk.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Open to lower spaces.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Open to lower spaces.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Commodes looking aft.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Looking down at lower spaces.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - 6" Class B armor surrounding a magazine.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1998 - Hatches open all the way down.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1999 - Overhead shot of ship scrapped down to the waterline.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1999 - Sitting up on her rudders.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1999 - Below the water line.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1999 - A small chunk of rudder is hoisted out of the water.

[Image Source - Kerry Ellis Collection]

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1999 - Stern view, not much left.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - Forward half ot the hulk.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - Amidships.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - Bow and not much else

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - SAS sign for protected ammo space.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - Ordinance elevator doors.

[Image Source - Earl Neall]

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1999 - Looking at an exposed main engine, probably #3 Engine room.

[Image Source - Jack Lawler Jr.]

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1999 - One of the turbines exposed.

[Image Source - Jack Lawler Jr.]

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1999 - Down to the engineering spaces.

[Image Source - Jack Lawler Jr.]

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1999 - Engineering space in ruin.

[Image Source - Jack Lawler Jr.]

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1999 - Control panels.

[Image Source - Jack Lawler Jr.]

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1999 - Bow and not much else.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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Apr 30, 2000 - Here is a sketch to help you get an idea of what your looking at in the following pictures.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Tony Benicewicz, honorary crew member, with last of the hulk in the background.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Steve Turner, Chief Snipe of the Midway Class carriers. Looking at the starboard side, the aft most part of the ship is now at frame 130. The aft bulkhead in the center is the after bulkhead of number one generator room. The deck is the top of the double bottom tanks. You can see the starboard bilge keel.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Looking straight at the stern.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - You can see the bilge keel projecting out at the forward end.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - The very tip of the bow. Kerry Ellis saved this eight foot section. This piece was at the foot of the stem. The rusted flat surface was parallel to the surface-horizontal. The leading edge is surprisingly blunt-flat-at this point.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - The forced draft blower ducts (below where the blowers were) of 1A fireroom are in the lower left corner.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Number two generator room, looking aft.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - A former AVGAS tank (later JP-5) and its surrounding void, which was kept filled with CO2 in the days of gasoline airplane engines. The tank is directly below a bomb magazine, the deck of which is cut away. This is in the forward part of the ship.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Looking aft over the voids and fuel tanks on the starboard side. There were five layers of tanks and voids on each side, for most of the entire length of the ship, for torpedo protection. It would have taken many torpedo hits to get into the vital spaces.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Looking aft. Number three generator room is in the center foreground. Three A fireroom is in the lower corner.

[Image Source - Bob Dorais]

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May 2000 - Looking at the port side. A section of fuel tanks and voids is being lifted out.