The 1967 fire on the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier was one of the most devastating naval disasters in U.S. history. It occurred on July 29, 1967, while the aircraft carrier was stationed in the ...

The U.S. Navy's first "supercarrier" is being sold for just 1 cent to a ship breaker. The USS Forrestal, launched in 1954 and decommissioned in 1993, is the first of three conventional (non ...

Peter Booth couldn't help but think of the past nearly every day of the two years he commanded the USS Forrestal from 1977 to 1979. That's because 10 years earlier on July 29, 1967, a fire broke ...