Fate
Returning to the U.S. West Coast in April 1983, she immediately commenced inactivation preparations. USS Hull decommissioned 11 July 1983, stricken 15 October 1983. During a weapon and tactics test, she was sunk on 7 April 1998. The test was designed around a Harpoon missile fired from a S-3B Viking, but many different weapons were used throughout the exercise. Her final resting place is 32° 35'00.9" N, 120° 32'00.3" W, 2,096 fathoms deep.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“‘Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
That fate is thine—no distant date;
Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
Shall be thy doom.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)