Washington Examiner

Former shipmates fight to save USS Forrestal

Jack Lawler Jr. wants to park a 52-year-old aircraft carrier next to Fort McHenry in Baltimore City?s harbor. The USS Forrestal, commissioned in 1955 and considered the first super carrier, could ...
The National Interest

USS Forrestal: How A Navy Aircraft Carrier Was Nearly Destroyed by Fire

The USS Forrestal Fire, Explained: Aircraft carriers can be dangerous places to work. These ships are literally floating airports, and if proper safety measures aren’t carried out, things can turn ...
Washington Examiner

Vets acknowledge defeat, sink dream of bringing USS Forrestal carrier to Baltimore

A group of veterans who served on the nation?s first supercarrier are abandoning ship ? literally. After a decade of fighting to bring the nation?s first supercarrier to Baltimore as a floating museum ...
The National Interest

Step Aboard the USS Forrestal: America’s First ‘Super’ Aircraft Carrier

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The nightmarish accident, combined with two other cataclysmic carrier fires, forced the Navy to implement major reforms of its safety culture—but the Forrestal ...
The Washington Post

Remembering USS Forrestal's 'Valor Under Fire'

A bell rang 134 times Monday on the east knoll of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, each peal in memory of a sailor who died aboard the USS Forrestal 35 years ago. The aircraft carrier was in the Gulf of ...