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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Japanese bomb explodes off the port side of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 26, 1942. US Navy 2018-09-24T22:02:52Z ...

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.

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 and follow-on ship the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) were bought as part of a block-buy strategy estimated to be valued at $24 billion, as part of a 2019 deal with HII. Miller is ...

The crew of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise disembark during the inactivation ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 in Norfolk, Va.