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A U.S. navy file photo of Catherine Nimitz Lay, daughter of Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, breaking a bottle of champagne to christen the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).

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WASHINGTON (Jun. 22, 2018) A U.S. navy file photo of Catherine Nimitz Lay, daughter of Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, breaking a bottle of champagne to christen the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), May 13, 1972. (U.S. Navy photo provided by USS Nimitz photo archives) File# 180622-N-N0101-1001

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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