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E 3 ,, .. fr Philadelphia lnquirof I WILLIAM- F. STEINMET2 - The Forrestal brings its crew up the Delaware River so that the aircraft carrier can undergo a 28-month overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard A tired Forrestal arrives e e for a rest By Robert R. Frump Inquirer Staff Writer V The USS Forrestal passed by its trimly tailored, newly painted sister ship, the USS Saratoga, about 12:30 p.m. yesterday, looking a bit tattered and down at the heels, but stunningly attractive to the shipyard workers who wel- comed the big aircraft carrier. ' The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, now finished with the S526 million Saratoga project, formally began the 28- month, S544 million overhaul of the Forrestal yesterday when the big vessel, with the crew, their families and cars all on board, tied up at pier 4 of the yard at 1:20 p.m. Yea, Philly! one Forrestal sailor yelled as the big lines cracked out from the ship. And the hundreds of seamen lining the decks in formation let loose with a short cheer at about the same time that 5,000 balloons were turned loose. - The Forrestal left Mayport, Fla., bound for Philadelphia on Tuesday with a crew of 1,450, and 400 family members who will live in the Philadelphia region while the ship undergoes the massive Service Life Extension Program CSLEPJ overhaul. Two years is a long time, so they sailed with their cars. Eleven thousand jobs at the yard depend on the carrier and a few smaller projects. The two floating cities, each more than 1,000 feet long, will be tied up within a few hundred yards of each other for the next 12 days. The Saratoga is scheduled to leave the yard to return to active duty Feb. 2, following a two-year modernization that saw almost every system on the ship strengthened, renewed or replaced. The Navy was pleased with the yard's work. Everyone wants to take credit for the success of this program, Mayor Green told the crew of the Forrestal in an afternoon welcoming speech. The truth of it is that the crew and the employees of the Philadelphia Naval Ship- yard got the job done, did lt well, and got it out on time. Civilian shipyard workers gathered in small groups, bundled in parkas and caps with snug earstraps, to watch their next job float by, turn and dock. Dennis McGuire, 36, of Lester, Pa., who worked on the engine room of the fSee FORRESTAL on 14-Cl tired orrestal ll TIDES FORRESTAL, from 10-C Saratoga, watched the Forrestal in- tently. She'll pay the mortgage for a cou- ple of years, he said, steam puffing out into the cold with each word. We did a helluva job on the Sarato- 88, and we'l1 do a better job on this one. Just keep 'em comin', he added. Other scenes were played out against the soundtrack of a Navy band and the stamp of feet against the cold. Karen Crispo of Kulpsville, Pa., wearing bright-red leg warmers and 251 furry white vest, clasped the re- straining lines of a thousand helium- filled balloons in one hand and in the other hand, a single balloon that Said, P.D. Love forever and always, kc. j Do you see him?'? she asked a friend, who also was scanning the decks of the Forrestal shortly before it docked. I Ms. Crispo was holding down the balloons for a company, Balloons Magnifiques, that released 5,000 of them to honor the Forrestal. She was carrying the other one for Lt. Perry Driver of the Forrestal, whom she inet a year ago in Philadelphia. - lt's been quite a romance, mostly by letter and phone call, ,she said. I am real happy to see this ship come 111.77 I Even as the welcoming celebration Continues into next week at city- sponsored receptions for the officers and crew members, questions about the carrier program beyond 1987 are intensifying. The Navy definitely will send a third carrier, the Independence, to the Philadelphia yard in 1985. How- ever, the Ranger, thought to have been due in for an overhaul here in 1987, definitely will not be here then. Charts released by the Navy yester- day showed that it would not be SLEPped until 1989, at the earliest. The Navyplans to have the Kitty Hawk, another class of carrier, over- hauled under the Service Life Exten- sion Program in 1987. But a yard has not been picked for the work on that carrier or three others in its class. Overhauls of those four ships could keep Philadelphia Naval Shipyard busy through the end of this centu- ry. Washington sources familiar with naval affairs believe Philadelphia has a shot at all those carriers. But the changes in the Ranger schedule also could mean that the yard would 'lose all carrier work beyond 1987, the sources have warned. The initial thought, they said, was that the Ranger simply would follow on the lndependence's wake into Philadel- phia. , ' U.S. Sen. John Heinz CR., Pa.l, con- sidered the point man on carrier work for the congressional delega- tions of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, pledged yesterday in a news release that he would immedi- ately start work with other lawmak- ers to obtain the USS Ranger and the four Kitty Hawk-class carriers. However, Heinz' office earlier seemed unaware, until news stories were published, of the danger that Philadelphia could lose the Ranger job. The danger is posed by a con- tract awarded to a West Coast yard to study the possibility of a smaller overhaul, which would supplant the SLEP work. And his statement yester- day said the Ranger was scheduled for an overhaul in 1987 - not 1989, as the Navy now says.
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