Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility are the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft carrier HORNET (CVS 12), the aircraft carrier ORISKANY (CV 34) and the ASW aircraft carrier BENNINGTON (CVS 20). In the background at left is the attack aircraft carrier BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA 31)
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Base: Bremerton Naval Shipyard
State: Washington (WA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 (Aw) Dale Brown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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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