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USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned [12] United States Navy aircraft carrierIn 1958, she became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, and the world, as well as the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name.
The United States Navy evaluated the efficiency of the Enterprise bridge's style and layout, [170] and the USS Independence's bridge and USS Zumwalt's Ship's Mission Center have been compared to the Enterprise bridge. [171] [172] An Enterprise bridge replica created for a Star Trek fan series was later opened as a public exhibit. [173]
USS Enterprise (CV-6) photography collection Archived 16 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (Naval History and Heritage Command) USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier photo archive (NavSource.org) Newsreel coverage of Enterprise being taken to scrapyard (begins at 0:53 mark) A film of the attacks on Enterprise on 24 August 1942. The film was ...
By late 1943 when the first new construction carriers of the Essex-class fleet carriers and the Independence-class light carriers with many associated fleet vessels had reinforced the refitted USS Enterprise and the USS Saratoga, the U.S. Navy was prepared to take the offensive and began evolving CIC procedures and operational doctrine for a ...
On 1 December 2012, during the presentation of a pre-recorded speech at the inactivation ceremony for USS Enterprise (CVN-65), then-Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that CVN-80 would be named Enterprise. [11] She will be the ninth ship and the third aircraft carrier in the history of the United States Navy to bear the name. [9]
Enterprise (left) and Yorktown under construction at Newport News, c. 1936 Plans initially called for a flush deck with no island. However, the Royal Navy had constructed several flush-deck carriers, and the problems encountered in those designs were known to the US Navy; the US naval attaché in Britain, J.C. Hunsacker, reported that HMS ...
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A starboard view of the island of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) with the island of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71) in the background. The ENTERPRISE is preparing to enter a 44-month Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Date