Midway sighting - Oakland

[mmorgan1]

Just wanted to let you guys know that the Midway was dragged into Oakland on Tuesday 10/07 and is now moored about 500 yards from the edge of Jack London square, next to Roosevelt's old yacht Potomac. I took the ferry from oakland to SF two nights ago primarily to get a good look at her. It was getting dark and this made the view even more sad - there were no visible lights at all, not even at the masthead, no people, nothing on the flight deck, nothing. Still she was clean at the waterline - no visible fouling, and while showing a lot of weathering and lack of care, still has the regal look. Wasn't hard to imagine the excitement of flight operations, even while looking at the silent ship. Best - M

[Ojive]

I was reading this and now she is in SD. I remember watching a Dirty Harry movie when he and Hutch(David Soul) we dooking it out on those old carriers in SF. I thought about the flight deck and it's once active life it had. May the ghost never leave our lady of the Pacific.

[TBATES]

Saw that film just last night"Magnum Force".Always wonderered where those "Jeep" carriers were.A note, also several years ago I saw in "Metro",
an Eddie Murphy flick they shot on a closed down MARE ISLAND NAVAL SHIP YARD or as we called it,"MINSY".

[Ojive]

I used to get gun qualed at Mare Island w/ the Marines. Going up to Marin county over the San Rapheal bridge there were a lot of old moths floating. No Carriers as I recall, but that was 16 years ago???