Seattle's Foss Maritime tug tows famed USS Constellation aircraft carrier to scrapyard

The famed aircraft carrier USS Constellation set forth on its last voyage Friday, but this time towed by the ocean-going tugboat Corbin Foss.

The 1,008-foot Constellation’s 16,000-mile journey from Bremerton will take the carrier around the southern tip of South America to Brownsville, Texas, where it is set to be scrapped. The Corbin Foss tug is owned and operated by Seattle-based Foss Maritime.

The Foss tug will take the long route to Texas around the bottom of South American and around what is called “Cape Horn” by mariners, and not through the Panama Canal, because the aircraft carrier is too large to fit through the canal's locks. Here's a site where you can track the voyage.

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