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Seaman Richard Burton, assigned to Deck Department, fakes down mooring lines on the fantail aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), after getting underway from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 17, 2007) Seaman Richard Burton, assigned to Deck Department, fakes down mooring lines on the fantail aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), after getting underway from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. Lincoln departed NAS North Island after unloading equipment and personnel attached to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 following successful completion of a composite training unit exercise off the coast of Southern California. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class James R. Evans File# 071117-N-7981E-054
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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