The US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70), (center) joins the Enterprise Class Aircraft Carrier USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) (left) and an unidentified Nimitz Class aircraft carrier (right) undergoing refurbishment at the Alameda shipyard. Next to the unidentified carrier is an unidentified Virginia Class Guided Missile Cruiser docked bow to bow with the USN Kilauea Class Ammunition ship USS SHASTA (AE 33)
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Base: Alameda
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Ochoa, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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