What You Need to Know: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Commissioned in 1961, it revolutionized ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier. She was much smaller than its successors, weighing in at only 32,000 tons under a full load. She was 908 feet long and housed over ...

NORFOLK, Va. – The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was retired from active service on Saturday, temporarily reducing the number of carriers in the U.S. fleet to 10 until 2015. The ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was retired from active service on Saturday, temporarily reducing the number of carriers in the U.S. fleet to 10 until 2015.

Instead, the next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, CVN-80, would also be named the USS Enterprise. The forthcoming Enterprise's construction began in August 2017, and it was meant to enter ...

Enterprise was commissioned in November 1961. It was 1,123 feet long, the longest aircraft carrier ever built, and displaced 93,284 tons fully loaded. Its eight A2W reactors, a development of the ...

A small boat passes in front of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as it is anchored of the coast of Faliro, near Athens, Greece, on March 29, 2012. File photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP.

Enterprise was the longest-serving aircraft carrier in the history of the U.S. Navy, serving from 1961 to 2012—a total of 51 years, beating out the previous longest-serving carrier, USS Midway ...

It’s a new feeling for 26-year old pipefitter Brett Denson. He learned his trade as an apprentice while helping to build the aircraft carriers USS Gerald R. Ford and USS John F. Kennedy in Ne… ...

FDR was the first commander in chief to have a carrier named after him and also the inspiration of one of the most unusual of names for an aircraft carrier. USS Shangri-La (CV 38) took her name ...