Description: Zippo Lighter from the USS Thomas S Gates CG-51 High Polished Chrome Finish Date Coded to Sep 1999. This was a Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser and no longer in Service Due to Hurricane Katrina, her last deployment was cut short. The crew was given leave to take care of their families and other personal business. The Navy decommissioned Thomas S. Gates on 15 December 2005,[2] four months earlier than the planned March 2006 date, and after serving only 18 years in the active fleet. She was stricken the same date and was berthed at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, PA as of 2014. As of 2008, she was slated to be dismantled in the next five years along with her sisters Vincennes and Yorktown.[5] As of July 2014, NAVSEA planned to place ex-Thomas S. Gates and ex-Ticonderoga up for bid to scrappers via the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).[6] DLA awarded a contract to scrap ex-Thomas S. Gates to ESCO Marine, 15 December 2014.[7] She was towed to New Orleans, LA., for scrapping in July 2017.[8
Price: 45 USD
Location: Cantonment, Florida
End Time: 2024-12-02T17:49:05.000Z
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Brand: Zippo
Theme: Military
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
