Jeff gets a flat-top no-prize for bringing us this article detailing how the USS Midway is being transformed into the country's largest naval aviation museum.

Jeff has a book on carriers that deal with them as ships, instead of floating airstrips, and it had these things to say about the Midway class*:

• There were three of them, Midway, Franklin Roosevelt, and Coral Sea.
• They were the supercarriers of their day, created as the absolute answer to Pacific aggression.
• They had two large design flaws. One, over-compartmentalization, meant hundreds of tiny rooms that made them difficult to live in and fight with. They were also top-heavy, and only got heavier as time went on, making them comparatively unseaworthy.
• FDR ran aground in the mid 60s, damaging her so badly she was decomissioned and scrapped. As noted in the article, both Midway and Coral Sea continued to serve for a very long time.
• Coral Sea was scrapped in Baltimore during the '90s, not far from the inner harbor. Jeff, our familial navy nut, was pontificating how Baltimore harbor was interesting but had no real military ships when I first moved out here in '96. "Oh, you mean like that carrier over there?" I pointed out as we exited the I-895 harbor tunnel. Swear to God, you could almost hear the cartoon BOING!!! as he nearly got us in an accident trying to figure out what it was.
• Midway is, as noted, getting turned into a museum. All the other carrier museums are Essex-class, a smaller WWII design. It'll be the largest until some organization manages to snag a Forrestal class or Enterprise when it is finally retired.

Now if I can just figure out how to get out there some day.