Final Deposition
Honolulu was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 November 2007. Ex-Honolulu entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington.
The forward section of ex-Honolulu was transferred to USS San Francisco (SSN-711), repairing extensive damage caused by a severe grounding San Francisco experienced in 2005. The "challenging, one-of-a-kind project" was completed on 20 October 2008.
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
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