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The Navy will tow the
Bonhomme Richard s
The U.S. Navy officially released a fire-ravaged warship from duty last week.
Navy officials decommissioned USS
Bonhomme Richard the victim of a catastrophic fire that burned for 4 straight days last summer in a small ceremony in San Diego on April 14. The Navy decided the estimated $2.5 billion cost to repair the
Bonhomme Richard and return her to service was too great for the aging vessel. Now, the Navy is opting to scrap her instead.
Bonhomme Richard, named for a warship that John Paul Jones commanded during the Revolutionary War, was a
Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. The 844-foot-long vessel could carry nearly 2,000 U.S. Marines, plus the helicopters, tiltrotors, landing craft, and hovercraft required to land them on foreign shores.