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Sailors paint the port side exterior of USS Abraham Lincoln.
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NORFOLK (Sep. 11, 2012) Seaman Marvin Epps and Seaman Hakeem Black paint the port side exterior of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is preparing for an upcoming four-year refueling complex overhaul in Newport News, Va. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Phylicia A. Sorenson) File# 120911-N-HB951-066
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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