What Happens to Mothballed Ships #shorts

When a Navy ship is mothballed, it is typically placed in a specialized storage facility where it can be kept in a state of readiness. These facilities are designed to protect the ships from the elements and maintain critical systems such as engines, pumps, and generators. The Navy periodically inspects the ships to ensure they are still in good condition and can be reactivated if needed.

If a mothballed ship is no longer needed, it may be sold for scrap or used for target practice. However, some ships are preserved as museums or monuments. For example, the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, is now a national monument that attracts thousands of visitors each year.

[junbafiles]

Never hurts to have a spare fleet tucked away for a rainy day

[alienclay]

Mothballed, until it's time to use them as target practice.

[randallgschwind]

Mothball Zumwalt until it is ready to defend itself and Destroy our Enemies!!!

[bobgreene]

Not a clear distinctionm between mothball program and inactive. You present the inactive status as a way to save money, and mothball status as preservation. Both programs are designed to maintain ships for later use, thereby saving money.

[joatmonb]

Mothballed = Ready Reserve

Many of the ships in the reserve fleet are poorly maintained and are waiting to be scrapped.

[TheDovensian]

Me: *Wants to Buy a deactivated Aircraft Carrier*

[Will-dndq]

Tell truth its cause film battleship!😂😂 cant have a non tech filled gun to kill aliens without one around! 😂😂

[TrainmanProduction]

I remember when USS Iowa was in the mothball fleet. Thank god she was saved from there, otherwise she may have fell victim to the cutters torch.

[craigbonin]

Some ships when they are freshly decommissioned look like they could still fight. That seemed to be the case with Cowpens when she was towed from San Diego to Hawaii on August and hopefully they gave Antietem a fresh paint job before it was decommissioned a month after the Cow was.

[downingT]

I don't know why they don't set up a Navy sea experience. I'm assuming they don't have something like the following... Pick a few ships, get a light crew and charge people to go out on the boats and maybe even the subs (the wouldn't necessarily need to dive or certainly not deep. If they did it the could drop just below the surface) to experience what it's like to be a part of the Navy out on the seas. Almost like an interactive museum tour that lasts a few days. Do the costs so it makes an amount of money and instead of having all these ships sitting there needing maintenance or waiting to be blown up you'd have some actually funding some or possibly even all of the maintenance for the lot of them. I'm sure it wouldn't be the simplest thing to put together but I'd think there would be enough people interested to make it feasible 🤷🏻‍♂️

[johnwayne]

Just asking but are their any battleships in the mothball fleet or are they all gone

[stephenstanley]

The question is so we have the munitions to arm it if needed

[dinsdalemontypiranha]

The last I heard there was a "Mothball Fleet" of around fifty ships in or near the northeast corner of San Francisco Bay.

[whatever]

just fifty‽ I would have assumed thousands. Welp, these soup cans are sturdy …

[leehessey]

You wonna be saving as many as ya can, gunna need them when it kicks off with china 😮😢

[mariano]

Friendly "allies" "agreed" to "voluntarily" buy such multimillion items "partiality functional"

[castleanthrax]

How come the US brags about how great their military is, yet they treat their former serviceman/women like crap?

[sengtingchaleun]

Most of the money is spent on military armaments, and the basic life of the people is ignored. In the world's largest and richest country, the people don't even have the most basic welfare!

[sengtingchaleun]

No healthcare system like Canada and most of European countries ! What a shame.