5 U.S. Navy Ships Named After American Presidents
The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...
Map Shows US and Chinese Aircraft Carriers in Pacific This Week
The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...
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U.S. Navy’s Names Next Two Aircraft Carriers After Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
The White House announced that the Navy chose to name the fifth and sixth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers as USS ...
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Navy Aircraft Carrier
While not the first aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) has the distinction of being the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier. Converted in 1920 from the ...
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How An Aircraft Carrier Cancellation Almost Led to Mutiny
In the aftermath of the Second World War, leaders of the United States Navy, such as Admiral Marc Mitscher, dreamed up a new ...
The one-of-a-kind ex-USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier is heading to the scrapyard, but a new JFK flattop is coming
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
Massive Navy aircraft carrier heading to Texas to be destroyed
The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the ...
A decommissioned Naval aircraft carrier will pass through the Delaware Bay Thursday
The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its ...
Decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is slated to leave Philadelphia on Thursday
The 1,052-foot-long ship, which has been housed at the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility since 2008, is making ...
Ex-USS John F Kennedy aircraft carrier departs Philly for final journey
"Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally ...
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A decommissioned Naval aircraft carrier will pass through the Delaware Bay Thursday
Kennedy, commissioned in 1968, was the first to be named for the 35th President of the United States and the last "conventionally powered" aircraft carrier built by the Navy, a Naval Sea Systems ...