After paying personal tributes, guests depart a memorial service for retired Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

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After paying personal tributes, guests depart a memorial service for retired Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

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San Diego (Jul. 16, 2005) After paying personal tributes, guests depart a memorial service for retired Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Hundreds of friends, family members and shipmates gathered to remember the former prisoner of war and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient who died July 5 in Coronado, Calif. U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 3rd Class Konstandinos Goumenidis File# 050716-N-8213G-373

Carriers

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.