Pulled the 1970's dirty Harry flick Magnum Force off the shelf. At the
end they have a chase on a couple of mothballed aircraft carriers. I'd
say escort carriers since they have a small island and maybe 1 elevator.

IMDB has nothing in the trivia section and google isn't giving results
right away. Anyone know what carriers?

Thanks in advance.

MAH

mah wrote:

> Pulled the 1970's dirty Harry flick Magnum Force off the shelf. At the
> end they have a chase on a couple of mothballed aircraft carriers. I'd
> say escort carriers since they have a small island and maybe 1 elevator.
>
> IMDB has nothing in the trivia section and google isn't giving results
> right away. Anyone know what carriers?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Back in the early '70s a couple of CVE's were being scrapped at the east end
of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on San Francisco Bay. They were
moored/docked side by side (see motorcycle jump from one to the other in the
movie). I remember seeing them when my Scout troop was returning from a
backpacking trip to Point Reyes in either December 1973 or the following
June, as we took trips there both months. FWIW, one of our assistant
scoutmasters, who happened to be driving the van, identified one of them as
the Siboney, CVE 112 (he'd served on her). No idea which the other one was,
but Siboney was a Commencement Bay class, so if it was her (see below)
there's a good chance it was a sister ship.

Checking Haze Gray, it says that Siboney was sold and scrapped in 1971.
Checking her sisters from CVE 105 to 123 on the site, it could have been any
of them except 106, 107, 110, 113, 115, 118, 120 or 122. It's also possible
it was a Bogue, as some of them hung around long enough. All the Sangamons
and Casablancas seem to have been scrapped well before1970, usually
overseas.

Unfortunately, Haze Gray and presumably DANFS doesn't give where they were
scrapped if in the US, and by whom. I found another site which states
Siboney was mothballed in Philadelphia since 1956 and sold for scrap to a
New York company. It seems a bit odd that they would tow her all the way to
California to scrap her, but stranger things have happened, and maybe she
was sold on. Whichever they were, I'm sure their use in the film was purely
a matter of "hey, that would make a good location".

Guy

Thanks for the info. Thought someone out here would know.