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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 ...
MaritimeQuest US Aircraft Carrier Index; The Lost American Aircraft Carriers; Museum ships USS Hornet (CV-12) - USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA; USS Intrepid (CV-11) - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY; USS Lexington (CV-16) - USS Lexington Museum On the Bay, Corpus Christi, TX; USS Midway (CV-41) - USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA
The flight deck armour also reduced the length of the flight deck, reducing the maximum aircraft capacity of the armoured flight deck carrier, but the largest part of the disparity between RN and USN carriers in aircraft capacity was due to the use of a permanent deck park on USN carriers. [17] [18]
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Ship's Cook Third Class William Pinckney, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. ENTERPRISE (CV-6), in action against the enemy during the operations of the U.S. Naval Forces ...
John F. Kennedy is similar to the earlier units in flight deck arrangement and propulsion, but has enough differences that she is placed in her own class. Propulsion consisted of four Westinghouse geared turbines, 280,000 shaft horsepower (210,000 kW), four shafts with eight 1,200 pounds per square inch (8,300 kPa) Foster Wheeler boilers.
The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy.
New photos show the damage to a US Navy aircraft carrier sustained in a collision with a merchant ship last week. The warship USS Harry S. Truman docked at a US naval facility in Souda Bay, Greece ...
In the end, the Navy chose instead to build two 19,000-ton carriers that could fulfill the design vision; though smaller in displacement than the USS Lexington class and a nominal 27,000-ton limit design, the ships retained high-powered machinery, hull volume and flight deck area that allowed for a fast and capacious design, but also improved ...