Hope still for Ranger

摘要

Hopes of preserving the aircraft carrier Ranger to become a floating museum appear to be going right to the wire. Attempts by The USS Ranger Foundation to raise $35 million to convert the Forrestal class aircraft carrier raised just $100,000, as a result of which the US Navy sold the vessel to International Shipbreaking in December 2014 for a nominal sum of one penny. However, before Ranger could be towed from Bremerton to the breakers yard in Texas, a new group, Top Gun Super Carrier of Long Beach Inc, asked Naval Sea Systems Command for a stay of execution to allow time to work out a move to Long Beach, California, and claim various companies have pledged $14 million towards the project.