{"id":23265,"date":"2017-06-06T18:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/06\/06\/navsea-boss-mothballed-ships-not-a-major-factor-in-fleet-buildup\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:11:42","slug":"navsea-boss-mothballed-ships-not-a-major-factor-in-fleet-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/06\/06\/navsea-boss-mothballed-ships-not-a-major-factor-in-fleet-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"NAVSEA boss: Mothballed ships not a major factor in fleet buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a compelling image in 1982: The president of the United States standing in the shadow of the battleship New Jersey&#8217;s enormous 16-inch guns, recommissioning the World War II behemoth for a final run in the fleet\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the centerpiece of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s famed goal of a 600-ship Navy.<br\/><br\/>Navy leaders say there probably won&#8217;t be a similar ceremony for President Trump on the decks of the now-mothballed cruisers and destroyers sitting on the banks of the Delaware River in Philadelphia. In a recent interview, the admiral in charge of building and maintaining the Navy&#8217;s fleet <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/defaeroreport.com\/2017\/06\/04\/navsea-commander-moore-ford-carrier-columbia-class-subs-fy18-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: null\">told Defense &amp; Aerospace Report<\/a> that the mothballed fleet at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was probably not going to be a vital factor in getting the Navy to its goal of 355 ships\u00a0\u2014\u00a0up from its current 275.<br\/><br\/>Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, head of Naval Sea Systems Command, told Defense &#038; Aerospace Report&#8217;s Vago Muradian that most of the ships in the inactive fleet are too far gone to make a major revival worth it. Some analysts have floated the idea of revitalizing the CG-47-class cruisers Ticonderoga, Yorktown and Thomas S. 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