Personnel at Puget Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility remove a rudder from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
Summary
BREMERTON, Wash. (Oct. 04, 2013) Personnel at Puget Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility remove a rudder from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is undergoing a docking planned incremental availability maintenance at the shipyard. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jose Hernandez/ Released) File# 131004-N-KD696-103
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.