The State - News from Sept. 18, 1989
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise has left Alameda, its home port for the last 23 years. The Enterprise, commissioned in 1961, sailed from the Alameda Naval Air Station for a six-month worldwide deployment, which will end at its new home--Norfolk, Va. The carrier, with its crew of 5,000, was said to have brought $2.8 billion to the Bay Area’s economy. The Enterprise will be replaced at the air station by a new carrier, the Abraham Lincoln, next year.
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