USS Sunbird - Wikipedia The ship was another of the lucky few early aircraft carriers to survive World War II. This led to fights between white and Black sailors "fueled by the racial tension endemic throughout the armed forces" over two days in October 1972. A common line is that the ship was sold for 1 cent. The Navy reported between 47 and 60 men had been injured in the violence. Unlike other carriers in the Midway class, Franklin Roosevelt was never fully upgraded, and instead was decommissioned in 1977 due to its poor material condition. Sunk, Scrapped or Saved: The Fate of Americas Aircraft Carriers, Member Services call 800-233-8764 or 410-268-6110, Patriots Point Development Authority in South Carolina, opened as the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City in 1982, as a museum at the Navy Pier in San Diego. The ship was decommissioned in 1998. The ship successfully rescued the crew of the vessel, then headed toward the Middle East, where she became the first U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call in Al Aqabah, Jordan, in the process playing host to the King of Jordan, before taking up station in support of Operation Southern Watch. Like her predecessors in the Essex line of carriers. [29], In November 2009, the Navy placed John F. Kennedy on donation hold for use as a museum and memorial. Naval Sea Systems Command, a US Navy suborganization, said it had agreed to sell the USS Kitty Hawk and the USS John F. Kennedy to International Shipbreaking Limited, which is based in Brownsville, Texas, USA Today reported. The former John F. Kennedy, which is laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a shorter voyage ahead of it. National Archives photograph, USN 1172896. When the ship returned to San Diego that November, newspapers at the time reported that 27 sailors, all of them Black, were arrested; 21 requested a court-martial. Lieutenant Mark Lange, pilot, was killed and Lieutenant Robert Goodman, bombardier-navigator, was taken prisoner (Goodman was held for 30 days before release). Intgration de sites Web During the deployment, John F .Kennedy participated in multiple exercises with Italian and French naval forces that were geared to counter the Soviet Union threat. Uss John F Kennedy To Be Scrapped. On 4 January 1982, John F. Kennedy, with Carrier Air Wing Three (AC), sailed as the flagship for Carrier Group Four (CCG-4) from Norfolk, Va. on her ninth deployment, and her first visit to the Indian Ocean after port visits to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Malaga, Spain, and transiting the Suez Canal. In January 1942, she fought in the Marshall-Gilberts raids, which were the first American offensive of World War II, but in June that year she was done in by Japanese torpedoes at the Battle of Midway, with a loss of 141 sailors.