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Storekeeper Seaman Buckingham chats with her Tiger, while she and other Sailors from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails during Lincoln's departure from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jul. 29, 2006) Storekeeper Seaman Buckingham chats with her Tiger, while she and other Sailors from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) man the rails during Lincoln's departure from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are currently underway on a Tiger cruise, during which families and friends of the crew are given the opportunity to experience life at sea by embarking aboard the ship for a week. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman James R. Evans File# 060729-N-7981E-063
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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