Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-31957047-20170508204143/@comment-31957047-20170510103701

From the research I have been able to do, the 26th would have been on or near the day she got underway, if she weighed anchor prior to 0800 local on the 26th, she would have been far enough away to survive the attack (I ran some simulations with several 1.3mt Detonation over Hong Kong). Her existance is plausable in the timeline. Since the only other Nimitz not in port was the Ike, and she was in the Eastern Med and likely would have been destroyed by Russian Subs and ASuW missiles. The only other carrier at sea in September 1983 was the USS Ranger a conventionally powered carrier, and thus would have likely ran out of fuel before being able to make it.