# What ship is this in Bremerton, WA?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ship-is-this-in-bremerton-wa/427069 "2007-11-19T19:50:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ship-is-this-in-bremerton-wa/427069/41 "2007-11-22T00:49:24Z")

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[QUOTE=What Exit]  
I remember reading about her 3 day refit following the Battle of the Coral Sea and how she steamed towards Midway with repairs still being completed. As I recall, they had staggered blackouts around Oahu to ensure they had enough power to make the deck repairs working around the clock. The Japanese had actually thought she was sunk.  
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A quibble (because someone’s going to point it out): the ship that underwent a three-day repair job between Coral Sea and Midway was the _Yorktown_. The _Enterprise_ and _Hornet_ missed the battle by a couple of days.\*

You’re right about the rolling blackouts, though. And IIRC, she sailed with yardworkers still aboard patching things together.

\*Another one of those pesky “what-ifs” — what if Halsey had made it to the Coral Sea in time? Possibly disaster for the Japanese; or, Halsey being Halsey, perhaps a too-aggressive pursuit that led to the loss of his own carriers.

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**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ship-is-this-in-bremerton-wa/427069/42 "2007-11-22T02:33:37Z")

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[QUOTE=mlees]  
Right. I think **Survey1215** just had a brain fart. The page he/she linked properly calls CV-6 the USS _Enterprise_.  
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Yup, brain fart. I meant Enterprise, of course.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ship-is-this-in-bremerton-wa/427069/43 "2007-11-22T03:20:43Z")

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[QUOTE=OttoDaFe]  
A quibble (because someone’s going to point it out): the ship that underwent a three-day repair job between Coral Sea and Midway was the _Yorktown_. The _Enterprise_ and _Hornet_ missed the battle by a couple of days.\*

You’re right about the rolling blackouts, though. And IIRC, she sailed with yardworkers still aboard patching things together.

\*Another one of those pesky “what-ifs” — what if Halsey had made it to the Coral Sea in time? Possibly disaster for the Japanese; or, Halsey being Halsey, perhaps a too-aggressive pursuit that led to the loss of his own carriers.  
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Ack, my own brain fart. Good catch.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ship-is-this-in-bremerton-wa/427069/44 "2007-11-26T15:49:21Z")

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I just IDed another ship in the Fort Eustis mothball fleet.

It’s the [N/V _Savannah_](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=37.138972+-76.64355&t=h&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=37.139096,-76.643414&spn=0.001959,0.003986&z=18). The US’ only nuclear powered civilian vessel, a combined cargo passenger vessel.

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