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| Description | The decommissioned U.S. Navy fleet oiler USS Ashtabula (AO-51) as a taget ship off California (USA), on 14 October 2000. She had been sold for scrapping in 1995. The shipbreaker, however, entered into default and Ashtabula, approximately 20% scrapped and missing her forward bow, part of the main deck forward, most of her forward superstructure and all masts and kingposts, was returned to the U.S. Navy on 27 September 1999. In October 2000, she was finally sunk as a target ship. Ashtabula was subjected to eight RGM-84 Harpoon missiles, two RIM-66 Standard SAMs fired in the surface-to-surface mode, three helicopter-launched Sea Skua missiles, four Mk82 227 kg bombs, and nearly one hundred rounds of 76 mm 100 mm, and 127 mm gunfire from an armada consisting of one French, three British and three United States warships. Two Harpoon missiles and one Sea Skua missile found their marks, but Ashtabula remained afloat. She was ultimately sunk the next day after being fitted with demolition charges. |
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