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Thursday, June 15, 2006

US Navy sinks retired destroyers Compte de Grasse and Stump

USS Stump

The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000 feet below.

The guided missile destroyers Compte de Grasse and Stump, both 28 years old and once based in Norfolk, were felled on June 7, the Navy acknowledged this week.

Part of the death knell for the Compte de Grasse was brought by a near relic of its own, a flight of the last remaining F-14 Tomcat fighters, due to retire in September. Navy S-3 Vikings dropped ordnance as well.

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  1. Anonymous24/9/06 13:28

    hard to believe the Count is resting on the bottom now. Remember visits to Malorca, Cannes various others. Swept out the hanger and waxed passage way floors a hundred times. Glad a tomcat took her out. So long DD-974, no more fair winds and following seas for you.

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