Re: [MV] USS America scrap option - I volunteer to take the next one off the Governments hands...free of charge!

From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 17:37:35 PDT

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An ex-Navy Engineering Officer told me that many of the spaces in older warships
were sprayed with Asbestos. The cost or removal and disposal of that stuff, at
least stateside, might far exceed the scrap value of the steel.

FWIW,
-John

MV wrote:

> Since I'm an extra nice guy, I've decided that with the next aircraft
> carrier or destroyer that the US Goverment wants to get rid of..... I
> will volunteer to take off their hands and I won't even charge them
> anything! [snip]

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