Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) use a forklift to spray water onto the carrier vessel crash crane during a flight deck wash down.
Summary
U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 10, 2012) Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) use a forklift to spray water onto the carrier vessel crash crane during a flight deck wash down. Dwight D. Eisenhower is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ryan D. McLearnon) File# 121110-N-GC639-003
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.