Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails as the ship prepares to cross under the Golden Gate Bridge.
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San Francisco (Nov. 11, 2005) Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails as the ship prepares to cross under the Golden Gate Bridge prior to a port call in San Francisco. Lincoln is currently conducting quarterly surge sustainment training with embarked Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) off the coast of Northern California. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Justin R. Blake File# 051111-N-5384B-042
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.
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