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The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) transits Sinclair Inlet after departing Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (Jan. 31, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) transits Sinclair Inlet after departing Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Nimitz is underway conducting the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), which is a periodic inspection to ensure the ship meets Navy standards. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Vaughan Dill) File# 170131-N-SH284-037
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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