Sailors in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4)
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Apr. 28, 2013) Sailors in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4). Nimitz and Carrier Air Wing 11 left San Diego for a western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Raul Moreno Jr.) File# 130428-N-LP801-036
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.