The YELLOW SQUARE link to details - The BLUE SQUARES link to aerial photos
| USS NEOSHO AO-143
April 2005 USS MISSISSINEWA AO-144 February 2007 USS MISSION SANTA YNEZ AO-134 May 2010 USS GENERAL JOHN POPE AP-110 June 2010 USS RECLAIMER ARS-42 June 2010 SS SAGAMORE June 2010 USS TALUGA AO-62 July 2010 USS SAVANNA AOR-4 2010 SS AMERICAN RELIANCE December 2010 SS AMERICAN RACER December 2010 .................................................. |
A few - Ships Recycled at Brownsville |
USS H.H. HESS AGS-38 February 2011 SS PRESIDENT TYLER May 2011 USS PIGEON ASR-21 February 2012 USS CRESENT CITY APA-21 February 2012 USS MISPILLION AO-105 March 2012 SS CAPE AMBASSADOR May 2012 USS GLACIER WABG-4 June 2012 USS NEREUS AS-17 September 2012 USS CIMARRON AO-177 December 2012 USS WABASH AOR-5 January 2013 USS ROANOKE AOR-7 February 2013 USS VANCOUVER LPD-2 April 2013 USS WICHITA AOR-1 April 2013 SS GREAT LAND Hull 673 April 2013 |
Recycling - is a natural / humane process that
keeps our economy and environment in check!
| Some
of the firms operating in the Port of Brownsville over the years have
included All Star Metals,
Inc ; International Shipbreakers Ltd.; Marine Metals; ESCO Marine
Salvage; and
Andy International. It is NOT logical to save ships for museums because we served on them. It's the FUNCTION of the ships that needs to be memorialized. War ships have guns that need to be viewed and studied. Ships that transported persons to battle need to be viewed and studied. Support ships are ships that have parts designed to complete the SUPPORT mission efficiently where the parts need to memorialized; and that can be achieved well through MODELS, or SALVAGED parts such as those on the The 'BIG E'; to be studied in museums. View: MODELING PROPOSAL. A possible location for a Model museum could be at the Historic Naval Air Station in Seattle Washinton; Bldg. 18 or Bldg. 30 or RIGHT HERE! Click on BLUE SQUARE at Port Isabel. DO click the other blue squares. Below is a view of Esco Marine's system where the dismantled ship parts are shredded into ferrous scrap and placed aboard barges and transported to DOMESTIC STEEL MILLS in Beaumont, New Orleans or Mobile. Keep track of the Number One Recycled Material at Steel Recycling Institute. |
View: OTHER Dismantling PHOTOS
