Machinery Repairman Fireman Norris May fabricates pipe reducers in the machinery repair shop aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
Summary
CORONADO, Calif. (Jan. 07, 2013) Machinery Repairman Fireman Norris May fabricates pipe reducers in the machinery repair shop aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is pierside at Naval Air Station North Island undergoing planned incremental availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Iain L. Stratton) File# 130107-N-EH921-078
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.