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Command Master Chief Chris Engles and the Honorable Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy explain the significance of a hand-stitched memento given to the Sailors of the Great White Fleet.
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 12, 2007) Command Master Chief Chris Engles and the Honorable Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy explain the significance of a hand-stitched memento given to the Sailors of the Great White Fleet in the captain's inport cabin aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). President Theodore Roosevelt sent 16 battleships and 14,000 Sailors on an around-the-world cruise to demonstrate the nation's emergence as a world power, Dec. 15, 1907. The ceremony was the first in a series of events to mark the landmark achievement. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Sheldon Rowley File# 071215-N-5248R-001
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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